Israeli Prime Minister issues blistering attack on Anthony Albanese as tensions with Australia boil over
Netanyahu took to X on Tuesday evening to brand the Australian Prime Minister 'weak' and accused him of 'betraying Israel '.
He wrote: 'History will remember Albanese for what he is: A weak politician who betrayed Israel and abandoned Australia's Jews.'
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Metro
21 minutes ago
- Metro
Man arrested at protest after police misread 'Plasticine Action' T-shirt
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Police mistakenly arrested a protester over terrorism offences because they thought his 'Plasticine Action' T-shirt read 'Palestine Action.' Miles Pickering, 59, says senior officers burst out laughing when they realised the blunder before releasing him without charge. He told Metro that he turned up to a protest in Parliament Square on August 9 over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza wearing the T-shirt. However, when a police officer saw the tee, he arrested the 59-year-old and hauled him to Scotland Yard. This shirt was only a few jumbled letters away from Palestine Action, a group banned under terrorism legislation last month. Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000 makes it illegal to wear anything supporting a banned organisation. Instead, the T-shirt was for Plasticine Action, a group of artists who campaign against animation generated by artificial intelligence (AI) Plasticine is a modelling material used to create stop-motion figures, such as the character Morph, who features on Miles' shirt. Miles, from Brighton, told Metro: 'He must have misinterpreted the fact that I was wearing a Plasticine Action T-shirt as me wearing a Palestine Action T-shirt. 'I do not support Palestine Action and was not at the protest to support them. 'But I was definitely there to protest genocide and the government's role, as well as to highlight the plight of animators losing their work in this country.' The protest itself led to 532 arrests on terrorism charges, almost all under section 13 of the Terrorism Act. Miles was also nicked under Section 13 and was taken to two gazebos handling the large queues of arrested people. Protesters cheered Miles and others on, the engineer recalled, saying: ''Well done,' 'You're a hero', 'You're fantastic'.' 'I'm pointing to my T-shirt and going, 'Have a look, Plasticine Action',' Miles said. 'I put my fingers to my lips like, 'shh, don't tell the police'. And everyone's laughing and taking photos. And the crowd can see what's happening.' As he was waiting in line to be booked in, a senior officer asked the arresting officer if Miles could be detained under Section 12, which would bring more serious charges of supporting a proscribed group. Miles said: 'My arresting officer said, 'I can't,' and the senior officer said, 'Why not?' 'And he said, 'Because he hasn't got Palestine Action written on him. He's got Plasticine Action written on him'.' Miles claims that 10 minutes later, two plainclothes police officers approached him and burst out laughing after seeing his shirt. 'They both look at me, and they said, 'Can you just hold your scarf out of the way, please, sir?' So I did that, and they both laughed quite a lot.' Shortly after, Miles was let go. 'The arresting officer says, 'I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is I'm de-arresting you',' Miles added. 'And I said: 'What's the bad news?' He said, 'It's going to be really embarrassing for me'.' Miles' friend, Cara Brenna, 50, who was not present at the rally, said Miles is a 'lovely guy who stands up for what is right'. 'He's just using humour to show how crazy things are,' the creative artist and charity fundraiser told Metro. 'The fact that he was arrested for wearing a T-shirt saying, 'Plasticine Action'? We need to have a look at what is happening and what common sense is.' The Brighton local added: 'The police's job is to protect the people, but is that being done?' After footage of Miles' arrest went viral online, demand for more copies of the shirt has skyrocketed. Profits go to the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians. According to the product pages at the time of writing, 1,745 white and black Plasticine Action T-shirts have been sold. Miles said: 'What do the police do with people who are walking around with Plasticine Action T-shirts? 'And if another 1,000 people are wearing our T-shirt, or even 500, are they really gonna arrest them as well?' Footage over the weekend from another pro-Palestine protest in Glasgow showed a man, also wearing a Plasticine Action tee, being spoken to by officers. The force confirmed that no arrests were made. Palestine Action was banned after members broke into the RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire and sprayed red paint into aircraft engines. The group, which does not call for violence against people and often targets sites operated by Israeli weapons manufacturers, argued that their actions were a response to the 'genocide' happening in Gaza. Peter Leary, deputy director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, accused the government of 'wasting public resources' and 'silencing' protesters. 'The disgraceful proscription of Palestine Action comes alongside the use of draconian police powers to impose unprecedented restrictions on marches in solidarity with the Palestinian people,' he told Metro. More Trending The Met Police said in a statement to Metro: 'Shortly after 2pm on Saturday (August 9), officers on duty in Parliament Square arrested a man on suspicion of an offence under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000. 'At the time of his arrest, the man was wearing a scarf that partially obscured the slogan on his T-shirt, which officers believed read Palestine Action. 'He was taken to one of the nearby prisoner processing points where, once officers realised the t-shirt actually read Plasticine Action, he was de-arrested and was free to leave. 'His arrest is not included in the figure of 532 arrests as part of the policing operation that day.' Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page.
The Independent
21 minutes ago
- The Independent
Qatar urges progress on Gaza ceasefire after ‘positive response' from Hamas
A key mediator has stressed the urgency of brokering a ceasefire in Gaza after Hamas showed a 'positive response' to a proposal. But Israel has yet to weigh in as its military prepares an offensive on some of the territory's most populated areas. The prospect of an expanded assault on areas sheltering hundreds of thousands of civilians has sparked condemnation inside Israel and abroad. Most war-weary Palestinians see no place in Gaza as safe, not even declared humanitarian zones, after 22 months of war. Many Israelis, who rallied in their hundreds of thousands on Sunday, fear the offensive will further endanger the remaining hostages in Gaza. Just 20 of the 50 remaining are thought to be alive. 'If this (ceasefire) proposal fails, the crisis will exacerbate,' Majed al-Ansari, a spokesperson for Qatar's foreign ministry, told journalists, adding they have yet to hear from Israel on it. Mr al-Ansari said Hamas had agreed to terms under discussion. He declined to provide details but said the proposal was "almost identical" to one previously advanced by US envoy Steve Witkoff. That US proposal was for a 60-day ceasefire, during which some of the remaining hostages would be released and the sides would negotiate a lasting ceasefire and the return of the rest. 'If we get to a deal, it shouldn't be expected that it would be instantaneously implemented,' Mr al-Ansari said. 'We're not there yet.' That cautious assessment came a day after the foreign minister of Egypt, the other Arab country mediating the talks, said they were were pushing for a phased deal and noted that Qatar's prime minister had joined negotiations between Hamas leaders and Arab mediators. Mr Witkoff has been invited to rejoin the talks, Egyptian foreign minister Badr Abdelatty told The Associated Press. Mr Witkoff pulled out of negotiations less than a month ago, accusing Hamas of not acting in good faith. It was not clear how Mr Witkoff has responded to the invitation. An Israeli official on Monday said the country's positions, including on the release of all hostages, had not changed. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak with the media. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said a final push is needed to 'complete the defeat of Hamas'. He has vowed to continue the war until all the hostages are returned and Hamas has been disarmed. Hospitals in Gaza said they had received the bodies of 28 Palestinians killed on Tuesday, including women and children, as Israeli strikes continued across the territory. Among them were nine people killed while seeking aid, officials at two hospitals told The Associated Press. The deaths were recorded across Gaza, including in central Deir al-Balah, southern Khan Younis and near aid distribution points, hospital officials said. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an Israeli-backed private American contractor that has become the primary distributor of aid in Gaza since May, operates those sites. Nasser Hospital also said an airstrike killed a mother, father and three children in their tent overnight in Muwasi, a camp for hundreds of thousands of civilians. "An entire family was gone in an instant. What was their fault?" the children's grandfather, Majed al-Mashwakhi, said. Neither the GHF nor Israel's military immediately responded to questions about the casualties reported by Nasser, Awda and al-Aqsa hospitals. The Palestinian death toll in the war surpassed 62,000 on Monday, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which is part of the Hamas-run government and staffed by medical professionals. The ministry does not say how many of the dead were civilians or combatants, but says women and children make up around half of them. In addition to that toll, other Palestinians have died from malnutrition and starvation, including three reported in the past 24 hours, the ministry said on Tuesday. It says 154 adults have died of malnutrition-related causes since late June, when it began counting such deaths, and 112 children have died of malnutrition-related causes since the war began with the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. Aid groups continue to struggle to deliver supplies to Gaza, where most of the population is displaced, large swaths are in ruins and experts say the "worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out".
Telegraph
21 minutes ago
- Telegraph
Norway to donate money from Israel match ‘to save lives in Gaza'
The Norwegian football federation says it will spend profits from its upcoming World Cup qualifier against Israel on 'saving lives in Gaza'. Lise Klaveness, the governing body's president, announced the donation in a statement criticising 'humanitarian suffering' and 'disproportionate attacks'. Klaveness, a lawyer and former footballer, had been a prominent critic of human rights abuses in Qatar and Saudi Arabia prior to the nations being handed World Cup hosting rights. Her intervention comes after political tensions also flared ahead of the first fixture between the nations – a 4-2 away victory for Norway – in March. Klaveness had said last year that the situation was 'difficult for us'. Now, in a statement announcing ticket arrangements for the fixture in Oslo in October, the national federation has confirmed a donation to 'emergency aid' charities. 'Advance sales open on August 25th, and the NFF has decided that the profits from the match will go to a humanitarian cause,' the governing body says on its website. In an apparent acknowledgement of security concerns, the NFF added it 'is taking several considerations to ensure a safe event for players and spectators'. In a statement, Klaveness said: 'Neither we nor other organisations can have an indifferent attitude to the humanitarian suffering and the disproportionate attacks that the civilian population in Gaza has been subjected to for a long time. Israel is part of Fifa's and Uefa's competitions and we must deal with that. But we want to give the profits to a humanitarian organization that saves lives in Gaza every day and that contributes with active emergency aid on the ground.' The Norwegian federation is confident it has not breached any rules in making the gesture despite Uefa stating that political messages cannot be promoted in stadiums before, during or after matches. Uefa have themselves faced scrutiny over that position, however, after last week displaying a 'Stop Killing Children – Stop Killing Civilians' banner on the pitch before the Super Cup.
