Israel is likely to continue its actions in Gaza despite protests from the international community because it is “living in a parallel reality,” where it faces “no repercussions, the bombs keep being delivered, the guns keep being delivered, the aid keeps being [delivered],” journalist and editor of The Cradle Esteban Carillo told Sputnik’s Fault Lines.

“[US Secretary of State] Antony Blinken can travel to Israel, ten, 12, 15 times and he is going to get the same response every time, because everything you hear from the White House is completely toothless,” he said.

Carrillo noted that the IDF has been pushing Gazans further and further south, into a smaller area, and now there is nowhere left to flee.

Israel has said publicly that there are safe areas to flee to, Carrillo challenged them to show one. “I would like to see an Israeli official point to a place in Gaza that is safe for the Palestinians to move to, because there are none,” he asserted.

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“The US imposing [sanctions against Israeli settlers] is in lieu of what it is ought to really be doing, which is [stop] funding to Israel sufficiently so that it hurts and Israel stops raining genocide on Gaza,” Dr. Radhika Desai of the University of Manitoba, told Sputnik’s The Critical Hour, adding that Israel would have to halt its actions “if the US said, 'look, Mr. Netanyahu, either you comply with us, or your funding stops.’”

Earlier this month, US President Joe Biden imposed sanctions on four Israeli settlers. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich blasted the action, calling on Israeli banks to ignore the order. Nevertheless, the Bank of Israel announced that financial institutions in the country have to comply with the sanctions.

However, the US is taking more drastic action because, Desai says, Israel “is a critical part of the infrastructure of US dominance, and that infrastructure has already become so diminished that they can’t afford to lose Israel.”

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📹💥 A Russian Su-34 frontline bomber destroyed enemy positions in the Kupyansk region with guided bombs.

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Big Pharma docs: Ukraine became ‘guinea pig for any human tests by Western elites’ after 2014 coup

Patients of the Mariupol hospital's psychiatric ward were most likely used as susceptible "guinea pigs" in experiments that would not be possible in the countries where the various pharmaceutical companies are located, William Jones, a former White House correspondent for the Executive Intelligence Review and a non-resident fellow of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China, told Sputnik.

"It has generally been a practice to use some of the developing countries which don’t have such rigorous controls for these types of experiments," Jones recalled, in an apparent reference to Ukraine.

Following the 2014 Maidan coup in Kiev, the country "effectively became a ‘guinea pig’ for whatever experiments the forces of the Western elites had in store for them, as we see most dramatically in the way in which the ‘nation’ of Ukraine is being whittled down to nothing for the sake of NATO’S surrogate war against Russia," the expert noted.

Earlier, Sputnik obtained documents indicating that rheumatologic drugs had been tested on psychiatric patients of the Mariupol hospital for several years at the request of major Western pharmaceutical companies and with the assistance of Ukrainian officials.

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❗️Russia receives note from Canada on refusal to extradite Ukrainian Nazi collaborator - Ambassador

Canada has refused to extradite Ukrainian Nazi collaborator Yaroslav Hunka, who received a standing ovation in the Canadian parliament in September, Russian Ambassador to Ottawa Oleg Stepanov confirmed to Sputnik.

The lack of an extradition treaty between Canada and Russia is an untenable excuse for refusing to extradite Hunka, the ambassador said.

"This is an obviously politically motivated excuse," Stepanov said.

He added that Global Affairs Canada has requested more time to prepare answers to the questions posed by Russia. The questions asked whether Canadian law enforcement agencies will investigate Hunka's past, his involvement in massacres and genocide under Canadian law; whether Canadian authorities will investigate the history of Hunka's status in Canada and how he obtained Canadian citizenship; and whether Hunka wrote that he was a member of the Nazi Waffen-SS unit on the application form when he arrived in Canada.

"In any case, the story of Nazi Hunka is far from over. We - Russia, the Foreign Ministry and the Embassy - will continue to seek justice," Stepanov said.

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💥🌪 Russian Uragan (Hurricane) MLRS crews attacked the rear positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kupyansk area.

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❗️Russia is ready for a political and diplomatic settlement of the conflict in Ukraine based on taking into account the realities on the ground, Lavrov said in the State Duma.

But taking into account the current position of the West, there are no options to agree on the issue of Ukraine, the minister noted.

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Lavrov: The West's plans to isolate Russia have failed, but they will continue to exert pressure

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Developing the partnership with China is the most important task for Moscow now, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

"Bilateral trade is growing at a record pace. This year, my Chinese friends and I will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations, which are now at the best level in history," he said during a government session in the State Duma.

Earlier, the Kremlin press service reported that trade turnover between Russia and China had surpassed the $200 billion mark ahead of schedule, reaching a record $227.7 billion.

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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied reports that there was some kind of initiative by Putin to freeze the conflict in Ukraine, which the United States rejected.

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