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Ministerul Sănătății din Gaza a raportat 93 de morți și 278 de răniți în ultimele 24 de ore, în timp ce discuțiile privind un armistițiu rămân blocate.
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În timp ce atacurile aeriene israeliene continuă, un val de căldură sufocant a cuprins Fâșia Gaza, punând presiune suplimentară asupra a peste 1,7 milioane de palestinieni strămutați care se confruntă deja cu lipsuri critice de bunuri esențiale și îngrijire medicală.
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UE amână măsurile împotriva Israelului în Gaza, în ciuda presiunilor de a acționa
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, center, talks with Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, left, and Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Xavier Bettel, right, – Copyright AP Photo- APCopyright AP Photo By Maïa de La Baume
The EU’s 27 foreign ministers agreed to “keep a close watch” on Israel’s compliance with a recent agreement to improve humanitarian aid access into Gaza. They also delayed agreeing on a list of 10 options to respond to Israel's action in Gaza during a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council.
The EU will not “punish” Israel for its actions in Gaza and will “keep a close watch” on the country’s implementation of a recent agreement to improve the flow of aid in the strip, the bloc’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas said in a press conference following a meeting of the EU’s 27 ministers in Brussels.
The ministers were in Brussels to discuss an EU-Israel agreement brokered last week to increase the number of trucks and distribution of food entering Gaza as well as the opening of several other crossing points. They also examined an exhaustive list of 10 options, including the suspension of visa-free travel and the blocking of imports from the Jewish settlements, in response to Israel’s breach of the EU-Israel Association Agreement.
“Israel needs to take more concrete steps to improve the humanitarian situation on the ground,” Kallas told reporters, adding that Israel had already improved access and supplies of aid to Gaza. “The EU will keep a close watch on how Israel implements this common understanding and the pledges.”
“The aim is not to punish Israel, the aim is to improve the situation in Gaza,” Kallas added.
The bloc’s ambassadors will be tasked to update Israel’s compliance of the agreement every two weeks, Kallas said, and the EU would keep the 10 options “on the table” and “stand ready to act if Israel does not live up to its pledges”.
Last week, the Israeli military admitted a “technical error” following a strike that reportedly killed 10 people, including six children, near a Gaza water distribution point.
Some ministers expressed frustration at the lack of action against Israel. Following Tuesday’s meeting, Slovenian foreign minister Tanja Fajon wrote on X that she regretted there hadn’t been “any consensus” during the meeting to follow up on the review of the EU-Israel Association Agreement.
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She added that an “agreement in principle” on improving humanitarian aid “can’t be used as an excuse to inaction”.
“We all have a responsibility to protect civilians,” she added.
Prior to the meeting on Tuesday, some ministers had also sent clear signs that they wanted to take concrete measures against Israel. Spain’s foreign affairs minister José Manuel Albares told reporters that in accordance with EU and international norms, his country would push for a suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, an arms embargo to Israel and the ban of products from the Jewish settlements. “This war needs to end, and the Israeli army needs to withdraw,” Albares said.
His French counterpart, Jean-Noël Barrot also said France would be ready to take sanctions targeted at “individuals and entities that are responsible for the extremist and violent colonisation” in the West Bank and to “stop any direct and indirect financial support to the colonisation”.
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Doi bărbați care au doborât emblematicul copac Sycamore Gap de pe Zidul Roman din Marea Britanie, condamnați la patru ani de închisoare
The felled Sycamore Gap tree is seen on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, 29 September, 2023 – Copyright AP Photo Copyright AP Photo By Gavin Blackburn
Sarah Dodd, a lawyer specialising in tree law, said it was the first time in the UK that someone had been sentenced to prison for illegally felling a tree.
Vandals who cut down England’s beloved Sycamore Gap tree were sentenced on Tuesday to more than four years in prison for damaging the country’s natural heritage and for the widespread outrage and distress it caused.
Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers set out on the night of 28 September 2023 to carry out what a prosecutor called a “moronic mission,” and toppled the iconic sycamore onto Hadrian’s Wall.
Graham, 39, and Carruthers, 32, were each convicted of two counts of criminal damage, one for destroying the tree, the other for damaging the Roman wall that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Justice Christina Lambert sentenced the pair in Newcastle Crown Court to four years and three months in prison because there was a high degree of premeditation and planning to destroy the tree and because the act had angered and saddened so many people.
Lambert concluded the two had largely done it for the “sheer bravado.”
“Felling the tree in the middle of the night and in the middle of a storm gave you some sort of thrill,” she said.
“You revelled in the coverage, taking evident pride in what you had done, knowing that you were responsible for the crime which so many were talking about.”
Sarah Dodd, a lawyer specialising in tree law, said it was the first time in the UK that someone had been sentenced to prison for illegally felling a tree.
“Today felt profoundly sad. There are no winners,” Dodd said. “The Sycamore Gap tree wasn’t just wood and leaves. It was a marker of memory, history, belonging.”
The tree, perched in a saddle between two hills, had been known to locals for its scenic setting, but became famous after a cameo in Kevin Costner’s 1991 film “Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves.”
It drew tourists, lovers, landscape photographers and those who spread the ashes of loved ones. In 2016, it was voted England’s “Tree of the Year”.
Some of the mystery behind the crime evaporated during the hearing.
At trial, the two men testified they were at their respective homes on the night in question and had nothing to do with destroying the tree.
But faced with spending up to 10 years behind bars, they changed their testimonies when interviewed by a probation officer in advance of sentencing, though they sought to minimise their culpability, the judge said.
Carruthers said he drank a bottle of whisky after a rough day and everything was a blur, Lambert said.
While Graham admitted he had joined Carruthers on the journey, he said he was shocked that his former friend had actually cut the tree down.
“Although there may be grains of truth in what you have each said, I do not accept that your explanations to the probation officers are wholly honest or the whole story,” Lambert said.
The illegal felling in Northumberland National Park caused fury and condemnation as news quickly spread beyond the ancient wall built by Emperor Hadrian in AD 122 to protect the northwest frontier of the Roman Empire.
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“This iconic tree can never be replaced,” Andrew Poad, general manager of the heritage and nature conservation charity National Trust, said in a statement read by a prosecutor.
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“It belonged to the people. It was a totemic symbol for many; a destination to visit whilst walking Hadrian’s Wall, a place to make memories, take photos in all seasons; but it was also a place of sanctuary.”
Despite the denials by the defendants, jurors quickly convicted them in May after prosecutors presented a case that relied heavily on digital evidence.
Graham’s Range Rover was tracked to a location near the tree around the time it fell.
Grainy video of the felling was found on his phone, with metadata showing that it was shot at the location of the tree.
As digital data showed Graham’s vehicle on its way back to where the two lived about 40 minutes away, Carruthers got a text from his girlfriend with footage of their 12-day-old son.
“I’ve got a better video than that,” Carruthers replied.
The black and white video showed a single figure next to the tree’s prominent silhouette as the wind blew and a chainsaw sparked to life. The person leaned into the trunk and in less than three minutes the tree that had stood for about 150 years teetered and crashed to the ground.
Prosecutors couldn’t say at trial who cut down the tree and who filmed the act, but said both were equally culpable.
Lambert agreed that both shared equal responsibility. But she said that the recent admissions of both men made it clear that Carruthers wielded the saw while Graham shot the video.
Graham had sent the video to Carruthers.
Carruthers will have to carry the burden for his actions like a “form of personal penance,” defence lawyer Andrew Gurney said.
“Unfortunately, it is no more than drunken stupidity,” Gurney said. “He felled that tree and it is something he will regret for the rest of his life. There’s no better explanation than that.”
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