A pro-Palestinian demonstration took place in Oslo before kick-off, with protestors then marching to the Ullevaal stadium. Many want to see Israel banned from international football – something the head of the Norwegian football association, Lise Klaveness, recently called for. Such calls gained momentum once a United Nations commission of inquiry said last month that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza – a claim Israel rejected. The Norwegian FA had also said it would donate proceeds from ticket sales for the game to aid group Doctors Without Borders. Everyone knows (apart from Sucky)
It’s Genevieve and Harvey who will bravely have to walk around Salisbury town centre with flags again I feel for most.
I think it's fair to say that if you had an army back in those days, you were probably a bit of a ****. And Muslims v Christians seems to have been a bit hazy on the borders, when there was a bit of land to be grabbed from a ruling neigbour who followed your religion, but you needed a bit of help from the other side to get it.
At least 27 people have been killed in fierce clashes between Hamas security forces and armed members of the Dughmush family in Gaza City, in one of the most violent internal confrontations since the end of major Israeli operations in the enclave. Masked Hamas gunmen exchanged fire with clan fighters near the city's Jordanian hospital, witnesses said. A senior official in the Hamas-run interior ministry said security units surrounded them and engaged in heavy fighting to detain them. The ministry said eight its members were killed in "an armed assault by a militia". Medical sources said 19 Dughmush clan members and eight Hamas fighters had been killed since fighting began on Saturday. Eyewitnesses said the clashes erupted in the Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood in southern Gaza City after a Hamas force of more than 300 fighters moved to storm a residential block where Dughmush gunmen were entrenched. Residents described scenes of panic as dozens of families fled their homes under heavy gunfire, many of them displaced multiple times during the war. "This time people weren't fleeing Israeli attacks," one resident said. "They were running from their own people."
That's what's known as an 'internal conflict' mate ... just putting it out there, coz there are some that get a bit confused
This is now a grave concern: Anger against Hamas is enormous and with the latter weaker than ever before, there is every chance the entire region will descend into something out of Lord of the Flies. This is of course where you'd hope and expect to see the UN, with its $3.7billion annual budget, step up and actually do something useful like sending peacekeepers to the area to prevent this from happening. But no, they'd much prefer spending that money distributing anti-Semitic textbooks to local schools.
*Entirely Irrelevant Man Arrives in Egypt Ahead of Summit on Gaza Peace Plan I can only assume he's been invited because they're short on waitering staff to serve the canapes.
