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Palestinians displaced from their homes in northern Gaza began returning to the area early Monday, the territory’s interior ministry said, after the first major crisis in the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Qatar, the mediator, said the two sides had reached an agreement for the release of Erbil Yehud, an Israeli hostage, who is to be released along with two other hostages before Friday. The deal meant that on Monday, Israeli authorities allowed Palestinians to return to northern Gaza.
Social media showed thousands of people walking along sandy streets surrounded by the utter devastation of more than a year of Israeli attacks. Displaced families rejoiced after learning they could start moving north on Monday. “No sleep, I have everything and am ready to go with the first light of day,” Ghada, a mother of five, told Reuters.
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What did Donald Trump say about Gaza? In comments strongly rejected by the Palestinians, Egypt and Jordan, who fear that Israel will not allow the refugees to return, have said that the people of Gaza should be resettled elsewhere, at least temporarily. Should go.
Adam Schiff says Trump’s firing of government watchdogs ‘clear violation of law’
US Senator Adam Schiff has said Donald Trump has “flagrantly violated the law” by firing more than a dozen independent federal government inspectors, railing against the president’s sweeping actions in his first week. Joining the voice.
“Yes, he broke the law,” the California Democrat said Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press. “And not just any law — but a law meant to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse.”
Trump immediately fired inspectors general for agencies including the Departments of State, Defense and Transportation in an email late Friday. But federal law requires the president to give both the House and Senate the reasons for the dismissal and 30 days’ notice.
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What have others said about the firing? Republican Senator Lindsey Graham struck down their illegality. He acknowledged that Trump violated the law (telling Meet the Press that “technically yes,” he did), adding: “I’m not losing any sleep over those personnel changes. wants.”
Immigration raids begin in Chicago as Trump directs ice to increase arrest rate to reach 1,500 daily quota
Authorities have begun deportation raids in Chicago, a statement from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed Sunday. The “border czar”, Tom Homan, claimed officials were “rethinking” the raids after details emerged.
Trump administration officials have said the city, home to many of the state’s estimated 400,000 undocumented people, will be the focus of immigration enforcement efforts.
After that raids were carried out. The Washington Post reported. that the Trump administration has directed Ice to increase its daily arrests from a few hundred to 1,200 to 1,500. Citing four people close to the process, the outlet reported that Trump is unhappy with the pace of deportations so far, and wants Icefield offices to make 75 arrests a day. Ice managers will be held accountable for quota targets, he reported.
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What new powers does Snow have? Trump last week issued an executive order allowing immigration enforcement to take place in places like schools and churches, where it had previously been blocked.
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How are undocumented people responding? Many are believed to have stayed at home to avoid possible interactions with federal law enforcement.
In other news…
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Colombia, which blocked two repatriation flights from the US from landing, has since agreed to accept planes carrying deported migrants. After Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on the country.
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Bulgarian authorities are accused of obstructing efforts to save three Egyptian teenagers who later froze to death. Near the Bulgarian-Turkish border in late December.
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Syrian fighters linked to its new leaders have executed 35 people in three days, mostly Assad-era officers. According to combat surveillance.
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Blake Lively’s legal dispute shows that consultants are necessary for some scenes, Intimacy Coordinators said. Comparable to the role involved in stunt coordination.
Case of the day: 46 percent of French 18- to 29-year-olds say they haven’t heard of the Holocaust, survey finds
A recent eight-country survey of the US, UK, France, Austria, Germany, Poland, Hungary and Romania found that a significant proportion of 18- to 29-year-olds said they hadn’t heard, or didn’t think so. That they have heard, of the Holocaust. This number was close to half – 46% among young adults in France. The survey also found that 48 percent of Americans could not name a single concentration camp.
Don’t miss it: 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, three survivors tell their stories
On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Albrecht Weinberg, Mundo Hornik, and Eva Clark explore the devastation of being Jewish in Europe before Adolf Hitler came to power, the death of loved ones, surviving the concentration camp, and its liberation. sharing their memories of witnessing . “I asked when we were going to see my mom,” Hornick recalls. “We were told by other prisoners: ‘You will never see your mother again.'”
Last thing: tax havens and playing your guilty favorites on Spotify
What do offshore tax havens and playing criminal favorites on Spotify’s private mode have in common? According to Edith Pritchett’s cartoon this week, both are “embarrassingly hiding the truth of the situation”. And that’s why billionaires are acting like desperate cat owners…
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