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🇺🇸❌🇮🇱❗️ — 📰 Axios: U.S. expected to sanction IDF unit for human rights violations in West Bank

➡️ U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to within days announce sanctions against the Israel Defense Forces "Netzah Yehuda" battalion for human rights violations in the occupied West Bank, three U.S. sources with knowledge of the issue told Axios.

➡️ Why it matters: It would be the first time the U.S. imposed sanctions on an Israeli military unit.

➡️ On Thursday, ProPublica reported that a special State Department panel that investigated alleged violations of human rights based on the Leahy law recommended months ago that Blinken disqualify multiple Israeli military and police units that operate in the West Bank from receiving U.S. aid.

➡️ At a press conference in Italy on Friday, Blinken was asked about the recommendation and said he had made determinations based on the panel investigation.

🔴 "You can expect to see them in the days ahead," Blinken said.

➡️ A U.S. official said Blinken's determination about the Netzah Yehuda unit is based on incidents that occurred before the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and all took place in the West Bank.

🇮🇱 Flashback: The Netzah Yehuda battalion was formed as a special unit for ultra-orthodox soldiers. All of its members are men.

🇮🇱 Over the years, the unit stationed in the West Bank became a destination for many "Hilltop Youth" — young radical right wing settlers who weren't accepted into any other combat unit in the IDF.

❗️ The U.S. State Department started investigating the Netzah Yehuda battalion in late 2022 after its soldiers were involved in several incidents of violence against Palestinian civilians, Haaretz reported at the time.

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🇬🇷❌🇽🇰 — 📰 Kos_Data: Greece won't back Kosovo's bid to join the Council of Europe, the Greek foreign minister announced.

Greece will abstain from voting in the Committee of Ministers.

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🇵🇱☢️🇺🇸 Polish president, Andrzej Duda: Poland is ready to host US nuclear weapons

"Russia is increasingly militarizing the Kaliningrad region. It recently placed its nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus. If our allies decide to deploy nuclear weapons as part of the joint use of nuclear weapons also on our territory to strengthen the security of NATO's eastern flank, we are ready for it," Andrzej Duda told Fakt.

According to him, the deployment of US nuclear weapons in Poland "has been a topic of negotiations" with the United States for some time now.

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🇩🇪 Minister-president of Bavaria, Markus Söder (CSU) called for the EU to abandon its goal to ban combustion engines by 2035.

Söder has made a policy U-turn on the issue. In 2007, he called for a ban on combustion engines from 2020, saying: "Green engines create new jobs."

A recent poll has shown 61% of German opposed to the 2035 ban with just 24% in favour.

EU member states and the European Parliament passed the measure banning CO2 emissions from new cars from 2035 a year ago.

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