With the signing of six new players, including striker Viktor Gyokeres, to boost Arsenal’s chances of winning the Premier League, Mikel Arteta has had a busy summer.
However, one of the two 15-year-old academy players on their pre-season tour of Asia has caught the attention.
The squad’s youngest members are Marli Salmon and Max Dowman.
And attacking midfielder Dowman has shown in friendlies against AC Milan and Newcastle exactly why his potential is so high.
Dowman was a member of the senior squad that traveled to Dubai in January for their winter training camp despite having trained with the first team when he was 14 first.
The England youth international was even mentioned at the time about being called up to the side as a result of a medical crisis with key forwards Kai Havertz, Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Martinelli, and Gabriel Jesus all having different injury issues.
In both pre-season friendlies, Saka was replaced by Dowman. While he showed some skill in the AC Milan game, his performance against Newcastle demonstrated why he has been touted for a Premier League season debut.
One of the standout moments of the game was a delightful dribble into the area that ended with Joelinton fouling Dowman for a penalty that earned Arsenal a 3-2 victory.
When asked about the youngster’s performance against Newcastle, Arteta responded, “It is special.”
What he did today against this team is undoubtedly not something a 15-year-old would see coming.
“Let them shine and have the right mindset.”
Martin Odegaard, the captain of Arsenal, says he will be able to share my experience with Dowman and the England Under-16 international defender Salmon because he left Real Madrid at the age of 16 after being courted by many of Europe’s elite clubs.
The Norwegian, 26, said, “I think the entire squad is really good at helping the young players.” You can see that the quality is obvious because I simply try to share my experience, point them in the right direction, and help them maintain the right mindset.
“Just trying to help them develop the right mindset, feel good about the team, and kind of let them shine and do what they are supposed to do.”
You can see the quality of their work on the tour, which they have been outstanding. In the future, it will be exciting to watch.
When Dowman scored in the win over the Czech Republic, Dowman became the youngest scorer in the competition and played for England’s Under-17s at the Euros over the summer.
He is three years older than his peers when he plays for Arsenal. In 23 games last year, he scored 19 goals and gave five assists, with 17 of those attacking returns coming in the under-18 Premier League South’s final seven games (14 goals, three assists).
Thailand’s response to a ceasefire that put an end to days of deadly cross-border fighting between its neighbors, including disputed territory, has been called upon by Cambodia.
Although reports from Thailand suggest that the Royal Thai Army wants the detainees to go through the “legal process” before repatriation, according to a spokesperson for the Cambodian Ministry of National Defense, Maly Socheata, who confirmed on Thursday that discussions were ongoing for the release of 20 soldiers.
The spokesperson stated at a press briefing that “we will continue to negotiate with the Thai side to ensure that all of our soldiers return home safely and as soon as possible.”
She urged the Thai government to send all 20 military personnel back to Cambodia as soon as possible.
The group of Cambodian soldiers were detained on Tuesday at around 7:50am local time (00:50 GMT), almost eight hours after a ceasefire between the two nations was declared.
Major-General Winthai Suvaree, a spokesman for the army, told the media on Thursday that the commander of Thailand’s Second Army Region had assured the detainees, who numbered 18, that they would be treated with international legal terms.
Once the legal procedures are finished, the army spokesperson, according to Thailand’s The Nation newspaper, stated that “the soldiers would be quickly returned.”
The Cambodian troops’ specific legal status is unknown, but the Thai military’s “firm position suggests a comprehensive review of the incident is underway,” the Nation added.
The detained Cambodian soldiers were being treated in accordance with international humanitarian law and military rules, according to Thailand’s government’s statement on Wednesday, and they would be returned to Cambodia once the border situation stabilises.
As the two opposing armies clashed for days with long-range rockets and artillery in a largely agricultural and jungle-filled border region, nearly 300, 000 people fled their homes on both sides of the Thai-Cambodia border. Cambodian positions were also attacked by Thai jet fighters.
The fighting, which was the heaviest in decades, claimed the lives of 15 of Thailand’s soldiers and 15 civilians, while Cambodia claimed eight civilians and five of its soldiers were killed.
The ceasefire, which was facilitated by Malaysia, has been in place since Tuesday despite allegations of both sides breaking the truce.
Volker Turk, the UN’s representative for human rights, has urged Bangkok and Phnom Penh to fully implement their ceasefire agreement and take swift actions to bolster their mutual respect.
India’s Sikkim – Tashi Choden Lepcha was woken in the middle of the night when her mountainside home in Naga village erupted in shock. Perched above the Teesta River, which flows through a gorge just below, Naga is a remote village in India’s northeastern Himalayan state of Sikkim. The Indigenous Lepcha people have lived there for centuries.
“It felt like an earthquake”, the 51-year-old mother of five says of the events of October 4, 2023. “The whole house was shaking. We couldn’t see anything because it was heavily raining.
In the pitch dark and amid the heavy downpour that night, Lepcha roused her three children, aged 13, 10 and five, and rushed out of the house with her husband, panicking. They searched for a safe place on higher ground with a few neighbors. That’s when they noticed a distinct smell of mud and something like gunpowder.
Moments later, an enormous, tsunami-like wave surged down with terrifying force. Lepcha was unaware of the flood, which was a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOOF), which had been caused by the sudden avalanche of ice and rock entering South Lhonak Lake, a glacial lake high up in the Teesta basin in North Sikkim.
The impact breached the lake’s moraine wall, releasing more than 50 million cubic metres of water. The largest hydropower plant in Sikkim, located at Chungthang on the largest river in Sikkim, Teesta III, which originates in the eastern Himalayas, was destroyed by the flood. It is the largest hydropower plant in Sikkim, measuring 1,200 megawatts. The dam’s collapse released an additional five million cubic metres (equivalent to 2, 000 Olympic swimming pools) of reservoir water.
The high-velocity flood in the Teesta River valley carried about 270 million cubic metres of sediment and debris along with it, causing widespread devastation across Sikkim, parts of West Bengal and Bangladesh through which the Teesta flows.
More than 7, 025 people were displaced, and at least 55 people were killed. 74 of those who went missing. The flood damaged nearly 26, 000 buildings, destroyed 31 bridges and flooded more than 270 square kilometres of farmland. Additionally, it caused 45 landslides, damaged four dams, and completely destroyed National Highway 10.
Both Teesta III and Teesta V, another hydroelectric dam near Dikchu in Balutar, have remained shut since they were severely damaged during the flood. Repair work is continuing, but neither of the dams has generated electricity for almost two years.
According to scientists, the destruction’s magnitude makes it one of the most devastating floods to have occurred in recent years in the Himalayas.
Tashi Choden Lepcha, whose family lost both their houses in Naga village to the 2023 glacial flood. She still has no home [Arunima Kar/Al Jazeera] nearly two years later.
Rebuilding amid ruin
Today, Naga village, located about 73 kilometres from Sikkim’s capital, Gangtok, is deserted due to continuous land subsidence. Houses are sagging, have collapsed, or are leaning toward the river below. The main NH10 road passing through the village has been destroyed with long, deep cracks.
About 150 families lost their homes and land in the flood, leaving them with uncertain futures. Lepcha’s family lost both their houses, which collapsed in the landslides. They, along with 19 other families, are now living temporarily in a government tourist lodge in Singhik, about 10km from their home.
Despite concerns about the potential for future glacial lake outburst floods and the seismic-sensitiveness of the region and the communities along the Teesta, which are still displaced and vulnerable, the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEF&, CC) approved plans to rebuild the Teesta III dam without any public consultation.
With the ongoing monsoon season, the Teesta’s water levels have risen significantly. The Sankalang Bridge, which is still under construction, has already been flooded by this, which has already caused a number of landslides in North Sikkim.
Long stretches of roads across North Sikkim are still unpaved, muddy and full of rubble. Several bridges damaged during the 2023 flood and the monsoon next year are yet to be rebuilt.
Construction work has been halted because of the removal of the Chungthang dam site’s quality control lab. “It looks like a war-torn area. How is Teesta III going to be rebuilt? asks Gyatso Lepcha, a climate activist with Affected Citizens of Teesta (ACT), a group of Lepchas campaigning against large hydropower projects and environmental conservation in the region.
“A detailed risk assessment considering future climate scenarios, glacial behaviour, hydrological changes, and sedimentation rates is essential before deciding to rebuild the dam in the same location”, says Farooq Azam, senior cryosphere specialist at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD).
The region’s Lepcha communities are protesting against the construction in the absence of such a review because they fear a second disaster.
Naga village in north Sikkim, with its cracked and sinking houses and roads, is deserted following the glacial lake flood in 2023]Arunima Kar/Al Jazeera]
A contentious dam
Sikkim is home to 40 of India’s 189 potentially dangerous glacial lakes across the Himalayan region, many of which are at risk due to rising temperatures and glacial melt driven by climate change.
Built on a river already lined with dams constructed by the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC), the Teesta III dam was originally pitched as a renewable energy project.
The dam’s construction was approved in 2005 with a budget of Rs 5, 705 crore (roughly $667m), but by 2017 it had already cost more than Rs 14, 000 crore ($1.6bn). Delays were caused by the 2011 earthquake, which destroyed major infrastructure, and also repeated flash floods and landslides.
Environmentalists and the All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) criticized the dam because of its excessive costs, lengthy delays, environmental damage, and disregard for Indigenous rights and livelihoods.
The operator, Sikkim Urja Limited (formerly Teesta Urja Ltd or TUL), was forced to sell electricity at half the agreed rate as buyers, including the states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, refused to pay higher prices. In 2017, transmission delays caused yet more losses of about Rs 6 crore ($701, 000) per day from June to September 2017.
Experts wonder how such a massive reconstruction could be carried out at less than a third of the cost of the dam’s original building, which is now estimated to cost Rs 4, 189 crore ($490m).
An investigation in May this year renewed concerns about the project. The independent power producer, who, according to the findings of the police investigation, lacked the necessary qualifications for a project of this size, was chosen by the Sikkim Vigilance Police, a special police force. It was alleged that critical dam design parameters had been compromised as a result.
Other reports have found that environmental assessments also overlooked key risks. The Chungthang region was classed as a highly arid ecological zone in Delhi University’s 2006 biodiversity report [PDF]. Yet the project received swift environmental clearance from the environment ministry based on a report which claimed that little to no significant wildlife existed in the area. The ministry’s own directive, which required that no dams in Sikkim be approved until the Teesta basin’s complete “carrying capacity study” (a study of an area’s capacity to support human life and industry), had been bypassed.
“What was the hurry to give clearance for rebuilding even before the Central Water Commission and Central Electricity Authority cleared the design”? asks Himanshu Thakkar, coordinator of South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRP), an advocacy group working on the water sector. Prior to 2006, the Environmental Impact Report (EIA) used didn’t take into account the risk of a GLOF. It contributed to the disaster, and now the same flawed EIA is being used again. Even the dam safety report that was created following the collapse has not been made public or taken into account.
Teesta Bazar in Kalimpong, West Bengal, endured extensive destruction in the October 2023 glacial lake outburst flood]Arunima Kar/Al Jazeera]
While a “concrete faced rockfill dam” is planned this time – supposedly more resilient to flooding than the old “concrete gravity dam” design – experts and local communities still worry this won’t be enough because, they say, key impact studies are incomplete.
Despite concerns about safety and environmental effects, Al Jazeera contacted MoEF&, CC to inquire as to why the Teesta III reconstruction had been approved without a new EIA. Questions were also sent to Sikkim Urja Ltd regarding reconstruction plans and structural safety and to NHPC about the cumulative impacts of multiple dams along the Teesta. By the time of publication, all of these offices’ emails and calls had been unreturned.
Tunnelling and blasting during the original construction of Teesta III, before it opened in 2017, led to landslides, erosion and damage to homes. Yet, no comprehensive assessment has been conducted on seismic risks, reduced river flow or long-term ecological impacts.
Our soil is fragile, according to ACT president Sangdup Lepcha. “We are seeing more landslides every year. The soil was completely washed away during the GLOF. If tunnels are dug again under our villages, the area could collapse”.
Sangdup, who lives in Sanggong village in Lower Dzongu, says the 10km stretch from Namprikdang to Dikchu is the only remaining stretch of the Teesta without any dams.
Many people are concerned that villages will be in danger if Teesta III’s reconstruction continues without any safeguards. “We have already seen what happened in Naga”, says Sangdup. Why is the project receiving urgent approval while the families of the affected are still awaiting rehabilitation?
Teesta Bazar in Kalimpong, West Bengal, was one of the worst-hit areas downstream of the Sikkim dam during the October 2023 glacial lake outburst flood. Roads are still unstable and cracked, and many houses are sinking into the Teesta River]Arunima Kar/Al Jazeera]
Sacred land
Dzongu, a region bordering the Kanchenjunga Biosphere Reserve in North Sikkim, is a protected reserve for the Indigenous Lepcha community. The Lepchas from Dzongu have long opposed large-scale hydropower projects in the area to protect their identity, livelihoods, and the region’s biodiversity. They are known for their spiritual ties to rivers and mountains.
When multiple dams were proposed in the early 2000s along the Teesta basin – a river the Lepchas revere as a living deity – ACT spearheaded protests against dam construction. Their hunger strikes and protests led to the cancellation of four major hydropower projects in Dzongu and four outside.
Our main character, Mayalmit Lepcha, the general secretary of the ACT, says, “We are animists.” “Our traditions, culture, identity, and everything else are tied to Mount Kanchenjunga, Teesta, Rangeet and Rongyong rivers here”.
The communities claim that during the public consultation process, despite their long history of activism, the 520 MW Teesta IV hydroelectric project would be based on their land and rivers.
At least 16 villages lie near the potential construction site, across the agricultural belt of North Sikkim. The project would include building tunnels underneath Hee Gyathang and Sanggong villages in Dzongu to carry water to the power station. Under the Tung Kyong Dho, a sacred lake known for its rich biodiversity, is supposed to run the siltation tunnel, which will divert sediment-laden water from the main reservoir.
Songmit Lepcha, from Dzongu’s Hee Gyathang village, told Al Jazeera that she lost her livestock and plantation during flash floods in June last year. Songmit yelled, “We fear rebuilding our homes,” in a voice filled with worry.
Opposition Citizen Action Party (CAP) leader Ganesh Rai told Al Jazeera that he is particularly worried about the new plans to rebuild the dam to a height of 118.64 metres, twice as high as the original. “With climate change intensifying, any future breach could submerge all of Chungthang”, he said. It won’t just affect Dzongu, but everyone else downstream as well.
That could include settlements in Dikchu, Rangpo, Singtam and Kalimpong, and Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts in West Bengal, which were severely affected by the 2023 flood. Since the 2023 floods, families have been residing in impromptu shelters like Bhalukhola near Melli. Conditions are difficult, with limited access to clean water, sanitation and medical care.
Leboon Thapa’s house in Bhalukhola, Kalimpong, was destroyed by the 2023 glacial lake outburst flood in Sikkim. Since then, he has been living with his parents in a cramped, single room at the relief camp [Arunima Kar/Al Jazeera]
Struggles downstream
Leboon Thapa, 22, was only a hundred kilometers downstream of the old Teesta III dam’s site when the flood hit Bhalukhola, in north Bengal, to destroy the family home. It also disrupted his dreams of a professional football career.
Leboon is now living with his parents in a single, cramped room inside a relief camp along the Teesta highway, which is situated above Bhalukhola. They are sandwiched between the Sevoke-Rangpo railway project’s ongoing tunnel construction work and the works being done to widen the highway in front of their site. The exposed location leaves them at risk of landslides and flooding.
The lanky, athletic young man, looking around his village, says, “If they are rebuilding the dam, they must build protection walls here for our safety.” The fields he played football in as a child, as well as the playground he once ran about in, are now buried under silt and debris. “We only have this land. Where do we go if we lose it?”
About 10km further downstream in Teesta Bazar, 68-year-old Tikaram Karki lost his house and motorcycle repair shop to the 2023 flooding. Just a few days after the flood, his house, which was constructed above the riverbank, started cracking and sliding.
“We were hiding in the mountains in the rain. When we came back at 6am, there were no houses, roads, or electricity”, he says, as he stands next to what remains of his house and shop, both of which are leaning steeply towards the Teesta. Even as he discusses his losses from that terrible night, he grinnes.
Tikaram now lives in a rented house with his family of four. He is running his business and is paying Rs 8, 000 ($93) per month in exchange for financial losses.
He received some compensation from the West Bengal state government, but it does not cover all he has lost. “I have been living here for 30 years and spent Rs 30 lakh ($35, 000) building my house. I received only Rs. 75, 000 ($876) in compensation. What will happen with that”?
Tikaram, like others in this area, claims that the dam’s elevation raised the Teesta’s riverbed, adding years of poor planning and unchecked silt buildup, made the destruction worse.
“If they had cleared the silt during the dry months, we wouldn’t be so vulnerable now”, he says.
“I cannot tell the government not to build the dam, but they should build proper protection for all the people still living along Teesta”, adds Tikaram.
Following the massive flood in the area in October 2023, which caused extensive property damage, Tikaram Karki’s home and motorcycle repair shop [Al Jazeera] are sinking into the Teesta River.
Rising risk
South Lhonak Lake is one of Sikkim’s more rapidly expanding and hazardous glacial lakes, according to a study conducted by an international team of scientists and NGOs and published in the Science journal in January 2025. The lake expanded from 0.15 square kilometres in 1975 to 1.68sq km by 2023, posing a danger of flooding to the communities downstream.
“The Teesta-III dam played a significant role in amplifying the downstream impact of the South Lhonak GLOF disaster”, Azam, at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), tells Al Jazeera.
Azam argues that improved infrastructure planning and active lake monitoring could have significantly reduced the impact of the disastrous flood, despite the fact that it could not have been avoided. “Reinforced spillways, sediment handling systems, and early warning systems linked to upstream sensors could have provided critical response time”, he says.
The dam’s power station was still in operation the night of the flood. According to Thakkar, authorities had received alerts well in advance, but there were no standard operating procedures or emergency protocols in place about opening spillway gates during such situations. “And there has been no accountability since”, he added.
According to Thakkar, he claims that despite the current rainfall patterns, the dam’s reconstruction is being done without consideration for the flood potential.
“And what happens to the other downstream dams when this one releases excess water during the next flood”? he inquired. “None of them are being redesigned to withstand that kind of excess flow”.
At the end of May, there was a landslide at the Teesta VI dam site in Singtam. Gyatso remarked, “This happens every monsoon.
Rai criticises the state’s priorities, saying the government was “pushing for more dams instead of strengthening disaster preparedness” at a time when the frequency of extreme weather events is expected to increase.
After a massive glacial lake outburst flood from South Lhonak Lake, above, in Lachen [Arunima Kar/Al Jazeera], the once prosperous town of Chungthang in North Sikkim is now strewn with rocks, boulders, and a thick layer of sand and debris.
‘ No Future Here ‘
Nearly two years after the October 2023 flood, Tashi Choden Lepcha still has no home. She talks about her homes in Naga village while choking on her voice.
“We were born there, raised children there. She and her husband, wiping her tears, claim that they now have nothing. Her brother used to live next door: he lost everything as well.
After the disaster, she, her husband and children stayed in a school building in Naga. However, Singhik was tasked with fixing the cracks in the school walls. The lodge, too, is beginning to show cracks in the kitchen and bathroom.
Since moving to Siliguri, where her husband and children reside, for both work and education, while she has remained by herself because she teaches at Naga Secondary School, the couple has since relocated.
The government gave them Rs 1.3 lakh ($1, 520) in compensation, but most of it went on the cost of moving their belongings to different locations.
There have been discussions about allocating land higher up in the mountains for the displaced families. However, many of them worry that their reunification could take years. “If the government gives us land in a safe location, we can build a house. How long can this kind of life last? We have no future here”, she says now.
Most people in the surrounding villages share her fears. They demand that the dam project be abandoned or relocated to a safer location.
Mayalmit echoes this call for caution. There is no denying that there will be more GLOFs.
“People will have confidence only if decisions are based on proper impact assessments, considering all factors, and done in a transparent way”, Thakkar adds. “But that’s not happening now, which is why there’s scepticism about hydro projects among locals”.
He asserts that the decision-making process must involve Indigenous communities. “They’re the ones most at risk, and also the most knowledgeable”.
NGO Save the Hills, which works in North Bengal and Sikkim, has advocated for joint disaster planning between the two states. “What happens upstream affects us downstream. It is time we work together for science-based disaster planning, not blindly push dam projects for revenue”.
Rao warns against unchecked expansion, despite the fact that hydroelectricity is crucial for India’s energy future. “You can’t build dams every few kilometres. How many people can this tense region support safely?
The music industry’s Kneecap, Fontaines D. C., and Brian Eno have formed a partnership to protect artists who openly support Palestine from censorship and intimidation.
The Irish rap group Kneecap are part of the alliance known as Ethical Syndicate Palestine(Image: Redferns)
The British band Massive Attack have formed an alliance for artists who are facing intimidation from within the music industry over their support of Palestine and Gaza. The collective known as Ethical Syndicate Palestine (ESP) is supported by Kneecap, Fontaines D.C. and Brian Eno and cites “organised censorship” of artists who have spoken out about Israel’s military action.
The statement shared by Massive Attack and others on Instagram reads: “The scenes in Gaza have moved beyond description. We write as artists who’ve chosen to use our public platforms to speak out against the genocide occurring there and the role of the UK government in facilitating it.”
We’re aware of the scale of aggressive, vexatious campaigns carried out by [UK Lawyers for Israel] UKLFI, as well as of numerous instances of intimidation within the music industry itself, all of which were designed to censor and defame artists from speaking their hearts and minds, according to ESP in their statement.
The accusations that we have intimidated Massive Attack and carried out aggressive vexations campaigns are false, said Caroline Turner, director of UKLFI, in a statement to The Mirror. She further describes the Lido Festival performance by Massive Attack in June 2025 as “divisive and offensive political theater.”
Mo Chara of Kneecap was charged with a terrorism offence in May 2025 after being reported to the police by UKLFI(Image: PA)
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In a statement, ESP pointed fingers at UKLFI, accusing them of intimidating artists. Brian Eno, Kneecap, and Massive Attack all tagged the activist group Led By Donkeys, which requested an investigation into UKLFI’s charitable wing in their ESP Instagram posts.
Before Led by Donkeys, Turner claims that UKLFI responded to their film and that their allegations primarily concerned UKLFI Ltd., a non-profit, rather than UKLFI Charitable Trust.
In recent months, UKLFI reported the band Bob Vylan to the police for leading a chant of “death to the IDF [Israel Defence Forces]” during their Glastonbury set. It also reported the BBC for broadcasting the set and wrote to the Academy of Music Group advising them to cancel Vylan’s Radar Festival performance.
Following a report to the police by UKLFI, Mr. Liam hAnnaidh (aka Mo Chara), a member of the music trio Kneecap, was charged with a terrorism offence in May 2025. On August 20, 2025, Mr. hAnnaidh will make his court appearance for the following hearing. The UKLFI wrote to all the venues in the UK that were scheduled to host Kneecap over the summer informing them of the dangers of allowing them to perform.
Earlier this month, activists from Led By Donkeys installed a banner showing destruction in Gaza directly across from the Labour Party’s headquarters in London(Image: Getty Images)
The musicians of ESP say their goal is to protect other artists, particularly those at early stages of their careers. “Having withstood these campaigns of attempted censorship, we won’t standby & allow other artists – particularly those at earlier stages of their careers or in other positions of professional vulnerability – to be threatened into silence or career cancellation.
Their statement reads, “In this spirit, we encourage artists who have been placed in this position, or those who are now interested in using their platforms to talk about Palestine, but are concerted about industrial or legal repercussions to contact us.”
The syndicate also urges artists to make a stand on demands including immediate unfettered access to Gaza for recognised aid agencies, an end to UK arms sales and licences to Israel, and an immediate and permanent ceasefire.
Artists including Paloma Faith, Bob Vylan, Aja Monet, Saul Williams, and AURORA all commented expressions of support on Instagram. Paloma Faith wrote: “I’ve been shadow banned for some time!!! Keep going everyone, it’s going to eventually change! Hang in there”. The Scottish rock band Garbage have also publicly joined the syndicate.
The Mirror has reached out to the Ethical Syndicate Palestine for comment.
In response to growing international condemnation of Israel’s war in Gaza, the US Senate turned down a proposal to stop sales of weapons to it.
Even though the Democratic Party’s vote was unsuccessful, the Democratic Party’s vote on Wednesday nonetheless highlighted growing growing opposition to Israel’s war.
Twenty-seven Democrats voted in favor of a resolution to stop Israel’s $ 270 million bombing program, while 24 voted against it.
Republicans who voted were all against.
The US Senate’s resolutions, introduced by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, are by far the closest they have ever been to limiting arms shipments to Israel.
Sanders’ campaign aimed to stop weapons deliveries in April won the support of 15 Democrats, while a similar vote in November won 18 Democrats.
Sanders, an independent, argued prior to the vote that Washington could no longer provide Israel’s “racist government” with weapons intended to kill innocent people.
“Netanyahu is a detestable liar,” he says. According to Sanders, who mentioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, children are starving to death on X.
Senator for Washington state Patty Murray said she could not support the continued suffering of innocent children in Gaza despite the resolutions being “not perfect” among the lawmakers supporting Sanders’ bid for the first time.
I’ve been a long-time friend and supporter of Israel, and I’m voting yes in a statement to warn the Netanyahu government against using this tactic.
“Netanyahu has continued to rule this country at every turn.” When literally thousands of tons of aid and supplies are just sitting across the border, children and families should not be starving or dying from starvation or disease in Gaza.
The Democratic Party’s support for Israel is waning as a result of the US public’s growing opposition to the war in Gaza.
Americans’ approval of Israel’s military action in Gaza was measured by a Gallup poll on Tuesday, a 10-point decrease from September’s survey that was released on September.
In their Leagues Cup opener against Atlas in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Lionel Messi scored two assists, including one in the final seconds of the match, to defeat them 2-1.
Messi and teammate Jordi Alba received a one-game suspension from Major League Soccer (MLS) for skipping its All-Star game. In stoppage time, Messi, 38, scored the game-winning goal in the final minute of the match on Wednesday night.
Messi stated in Spanish during a post-match interview with Apple TV that “we always do well in this competition.” “I believe we performed well against a strong team.”
Messi also provided an assist for Telasco Segovia’s goal that set the scoring. Sergio Busquets sent the Argentine star to Segovia for a quick finish in the 58th after receiving a through ball.
The Guadalajara club equalized in the 80th minute before Weigandt’s goal in the 96th, which had to be confirmed by VAR after his initial offside ruling, was confirmed in the 96th.
fireworks erupted at Chase Stadium after Weigandt’s goal was confirmed. As he embraced De Paul and Suarez, Messi pumped his fist in joy.
Messi scored eight goals and helped Miami reach a 4-1-1 league record in July, which included five assists for him. He was named the MLS Player of the Month.
Despite a chippy opening period, neither team was able to break the scoring deadlock.
In the opening period of Miami, Rocco Rios Novo made three saves, including one that saw him slam over the back post to stop Eduardo Aguirre. On the final possession of the first half, Luis Suarez fired a shot that went off the crossbar.
Rodrigo De Paul made his Inter Miami debut as an argentinian midfielder. De Paul, Messi’s friend on the national team, signed for the club last week.
The United States, Canada, and Mexico compete in the Leagues Cup every year, which was started in 2019.
In stoppage time, Messi scored the game-winning second goal against Atlas at Chase Stadium. [Sam Navarro/Imagn Images via Reuters]
