(18-05-2025 19:28 )Charlemagne Wrote:  It's reported that James Corden is concidering going for the Mayor of London gig....

(18-05-2025 19:28 )Charlemagne Wrote:  It's reported that James Corden is concidering going for the Mayor of London gig....

Quote:‘Ridiculously inadequate’ aid allowed into Gaza will keep population ‘barely surviving’, aid organisation says
Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) has decried the small amount of aid being allowed in was a “smokescreen” to pretend the blockade was over.

Pascale Coissard, MSF emergency coordinator in Khan Younis accused Israel of making aid a “tool to further Israeli forces’ military objectives”.

“The Israeli authorities’ decision to allow a ridiculously inadequate amount of aid into Gaza after months of an air-tight siege signals their intention to avoid the accusation of starving people in Gaza, while in fact keeping them barely surviving,” he said.

MSF pointed out that before October 2023, the UN reported that 500 aid trucks were entering Gaza each day, and said the current authorisation of 100 trucks a day was “woefully inadequate”.

Quote:The footage played by Trump in the Oval Office showed rows of white crosses stretching off into the distance along a rural road. Trump claimed: "These are burial sites right here. Burial sites. Over a thousand of white farmers."

However, the crosses do not mark graves. The video is from a protest against the murder of white farming couple Glen and Vida Rafferty, who were ambushed and shot dead on their premises in 2020. The clip was shared on YouTube on 6 September, the day after the protests.

"It's not a burial site, but it was a memorial," Rob Hoatson, one of the organisers of the event, told the BBC. He said the crosses were erected as a "temporary memorial" to the couple.

Quote:The country has one of the highest murder rates in the world. There were 26,232 murders last year, according to South African Police Service (SAPS) figures.

Of these, 44 were killings of people within the farming community and of those, eight were of farmers.

These figures are not broken down by race in any public stats release that we've been able to locate - but they clearly don't provide evidence for the claims of "white genocide" made repeatedly by Trump.

In February, a South African judge dismissed the idea of a genocide as "clearly imagined" and "not real".

Quote:During the meeting, Trump held up a series of articles which he claimed showed evidence of white farmer killings in South Africa.

There was an image clearly visible as Trump spoke and said: "Look, here's burial sites all over the place. These are all white farmers that are being buried."
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But the image isn't from South Africa - it's actually from a report about women being killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The French news agency (AFP) initially pointed out the image, and BBC Verify ran a search and confirmed it as being from a Reuters news agency clip filmed in the DR Congo city of Goma in February.