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An 8-year-old boy who survived an explosion at Tarwekamp with just a wound tragically lost his parents and sister, while survivors and relatives continue to suffer from the emotional and mental consequences of the attack that took place two years ago. #Tarwekamp #aanslag #trauma (translated)

An opinion article criticizes that the Dutch cabinet is indifferent to the rights and needs of Palestinian survivors in Gaza, including students and a seriously ill child, both of whom have a Dutch residence visa but are stuck in life-threatening circumstances due to formal obstacles. #Gaza #Mensenrechten #Visum (translated)

In an interview, Bushra Khalidi, project leader at Oxfam, describes the deteriorating situation for Palestinians in the West Bank due to increasing settler violence and its impact on their daily lives, with the focus shifting from whether their land has been stolen to the necessity of survival. #Palestina #Israël #kolonialisme (translated)

Max von Kreyfelt wrote in a column that Dutch bureaucracy, according to him, was slowing down the work of people who create things and maintained a large system of assessors, advisors, and task forces. He suggested that housing construction and entrepreneurship were facing more and more procedures, while shortages of skilled workers were being addressed with new task forces. He also wrote that citizens had to first demonstrate that they could survive financially before they were allowed to start a business, and that construction plans had to go through participation and policy procedures. He argued that people with the right contacts could navigate the system more easily and that mistakes made by officials were treated differently than those made by citizens. Those who asked questions were told, according to him, that trust in institutions needed to be restored, with a campaign funded by taxpayers. Von Kreyfelt referred to a warning from Ayn Rand and wrote that, in his view, the Netherlands was enabling fewer people to create things while more and more people were explaining why decisions were made carefully. He also mentioned that his collection was for sale and asked readers to support him. https://t.co/V2P6pFuNy1 #Nederland #overheid #ondernemen (translated)

Forum for Democracy stated that the protection of babies should be self-evident, but according to the party, it is not always provided in the Netherlands. The party claimed that babies born after 23 weeks of pregnancy who have a real chance of survival do not receive life-saving care. As a reason, Forum for Democracy mentioned the potential consequences for abortion rights if babies of that age are recognized as viable. #Levensvatbaarheid #Abortusdebath (translated)

Joren Vermeersch wrote that he did not view the closure of Starlink for Ukrainian drone operations on Ukrainian territory as a lever to make Ukraine stop attacking Russian refineries. According to him, Ukraine had already unilaterally halted those attacks at Trump's request. Vermeersch suspected that Trump might want to force Ukraine to withdraw from the non-occupied parts of the Donetsk province and hand them over to Russia. He derived this from Trump's statements that Zelensky did not want to reach an agreement and that Putin was more focused on an agreement than Zelensky. According to Vermeersch, Trump seemed to think that Putin would be willing to negotiate a ceasefire after such a Ukrainian concession. He described that expectation as dangerous wishful thinking and pointed out that, in his view, Putin also claimed the non-conquered parts of Zaporizhia and Kherson. According to Vermeersch, Russia had constitutionally annexed those provinces; the claimed areas also included both provincial capitals. A Russian presence there would give Russia, according to him, a foothold on the right bank of the Dnipro in two places, in view of a possible third phase of the conquest war. As the main obstacle to a ceasefire, Vermeersch mentioned Putin's demand that Ukraine unilaterally disarm and demilitarize. According to him, that would amount to capitulation and certainly provoke a new invasion. He wrote that Putin had repeated that demand in every diplomatic round, including during the last round in Moscow the month before, with Witkoff and Kuchner. Vermeersch believed that Trump was wrongly thinking that Putin did not take that demand seriously. Vermeersch argued that Ukraine could not afford dangerous wishful thinking, as it was fighting for the survival of its society, people, and state. Because Putin continued to insist on unconditional capitulation, Ukraine was forced to keep defending itself. He wrote that it would continue to do so until it achieved a ceasefire that left it free in the part of the country it had successfully defended. #Oekraïne #Rusland #Vrede (translated)

The screening of the documentary NAZA in Delft was disrupted by a survivor of the terrorist attacks on October 7 and an Israeli activist group, raising questions about unwanted foreign interference, as previously warned by the NCTV. #Delft #buitenlandsebeïnvloeding #NAZA (translated)