MONDAY 4 MARCH 2024

NEWS NOTES: Reported Today

ISRAEL:

• Hamas said on Friday that seven more hostages had been killed in Gaza due to bombing.
• BBC journalists investigated for posting about Oct 7 massacre, supportive of Hamas.
• Right-wing Itamar Ben-Gvir has been accused of breaching the very guidelines he has been appointed to protect.  Israel’s hardline security minister has been barred from intelligence briefings.

RUSSIA/UKRAINE

• German military uses unsecure telephones and divulges British military secrets to Russia. 
• Germany’s Scholz refuses to send missiles to Ukraine because they might be used on Moscow?  (Note: What?)  Ukraine pays the price
• Ukraine destroys railway bridge deep inside Russia.  The bridge Ukraine says it bombed was being used to transport military cargo. Russia has rerouted trains in the Samara region
• Russia leaks telephone call conversation and claims it means that Germany is “preparing a war” against Russia.
• More than 40 countries have demanded an investigation into Navalny’s death. 
• West’s dithering over Ukraine funding could spark nuclear arms race, Poland warns.
• Indian nationals tricked into fighting for Russia with promises of jobs in Dubai.
• Russia is massing forces around Chasiv Yar to make a breakthrough in the Donetsk region.
• Kremlin’s gains in February have cost 29,000 lives killed or wounded.