So…. If Trump’s patience with Putin is running out what with the “bullshit” etc….how limitless is his patience with Netanyahu?.

RT @SaraAfshar: This is a really good piece from @alextomo on #C4News because it puts international law front & centre. Why can't other med….

One for all the nonsense about Net Zero being unaffordable. From the OBR itself

Israel defence minister plans to move Gaza’s Palestinians to Rafah camp via @alextomo.

“They will get heaven.” An Israeli far-right MP tells ⁦@Channel4News⁩ what 600,000 Gazans can expect when held in a camp there and not allowed to leave

MPs at Israel’s parliament get panned by released hostages and relatives of those still missing ⁦@Channel4News⁩ tonight

Knesset security and foreign affairs committee welcomes delegation of hostage families and former hostages pressing their case to free all hostages and bodies of hostages.

And we are at the Israeli parliament as its Defence Min announces plan to move 600,000 Gazans into an area near Rafah from which they would not be allowed to leave.

Today family and friends of Israel’s hostages descend on.The Knesset (parliament) demanding their release in a peace deal . We will be there @Channel4News.

“allegedly responsible for the war crimes of starvation as a method of warfare and of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts from at least 8 October 2023 ….”.

Man wanted for war crimes proposes war-ally for Nobel Peace Prize. One of the few things we actually know about this week’s secretive Netanyahu/Trump meeting in Washington. Int’l Criminal Court says BN is wanted for….

RT @israel63: Israel: Hostage families rally as Trump meets Netanyahu via @alextomo.

Israel: Hostage families rally as Trump meets Netanyahu via @alextomo.

Gaza - Summing it all up right now everything rather points towards a possible, maybe, perhaps ceasefire but nothing approaching a peace deal.

Why do radio traffic reports in UK talk about the M3 northbound and southbound when it runs eastbound and westbound ??.

Two key questions bugging me today. Why do they keep talking about “toxic mushrooms” at the Aussie trial - the word is toadstools surely ? And….

Morning from Tel Aviv. First round of indirect talks between Israelis and Hamas ends without any breakthrough. Egyptian and Qatari mediators are there. Netanyahu’s in DC meeting Trump though quite why is not very clear .

Tellingly Netanyahu is t talking about imminent lasting peace at all. Merely this : he thinks his meeting with US president tomorrow should help progress efforts to reach a deal for the release of more hostages and a ceasefire in Gaza.

Does not say what happens to Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Palestinian prisoners released for hostages, but no number agreed. No guarantee of .permanent end to war - key Hamas demand but talks on that to happen during 60 truce.

Here’s the basic deal. 60-day ceasefire. Hamas frees 10 living /18 dead hostages, Israel withdraws to a buffer zone on Gaza’s borders. Big aid delivery by UN/ICRC….