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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 2 March 2022
NATO chief sees no need to change nuclear alert level

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA rific invasion of an innocent
Associated Press country and we see that
LASK AIR BASE, Poland civilians are killed. It's a bru-
(AP) — NATO's chief said tality that has to stop imme-
Tuesday that, despite Rus- diately," Stoltenberg said.
sia's threats about nuclear The United States recent-
weapons, the alliance sees ly reinforced the eastern
no need to change its own flank of NATO's territory
nuclear weapons alert lev- with some 5,000 additional
el. troops deployed to Poland
The alliance's secretary- and Romania. Both NATO
general, Jens Stoltenberg, countries border Ukraine,
spoke to The Associated which is not part of NATO.
Press following talks on Eu- A number of French troops
ropean security with Polish were traveling to Roma-
President Andrzej Duda at nia on Tuesday to further
an air base in Lask, central strengthen the region, Stol-
Poland, where NATO's Pol- tenberg said.
ish and U.S. fighter jets F-15 The alliance is to discuss
and F-16 are based. further reinforcement steps
"We will always do what is at its next summit in June in
needed to protect and de- Madrid.
fend our allies, but we don't It is NATO's responsibility to
think there is any need now "ensure that we don't see a
to change the alert levels NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks to the media at Lask air base in Poland, Tues- development where a con-
of NATO's nuclear forces," day, March 1, 2022. flict in Ukraine spiraled out
Stoltenberg said. Associated Press of control and becomes a
Ukraine is not a member of full-fledged confrontation
NATO, and the 30-mem- center of the Ukrainian city reckless and irresponsible and should not be fought. between NATO and Rus-
ber military alliance is not of Kharkiv. Russia has raised the way Russia is speaking He called on Russia to "stop sia in Europe," Stoltenberg
intervening directly in the the specter of nuclear war, about nuclear weapons," the attacks and withdraw said.
armed conflict between reporting on Monday that Stoltenberg said, stand- all its forces and engage in He said alliance com-
Russia and Ukraine. But its land, air and sea nuclear ing in one of the base's good faith in diplomatic ef- manders are insisting that
NATO members are sup- forces were on high alert hangars, which has been forts" to end the war. they are "able to maintain
porting Ukraine with military following President Vladi- turned into a conference Government delegations deconfliction (contacts)
equipment and humanitar- mir Putin's weekend order. room with Polish and NATO from Ukraine and Russia with Russia," he said.
ian and financial aid, Stol- NATO itself has no nuclear flags and jets around it. met for talks in southeast- From Lask, Stoltenberg flew
tenberg said. weapons, but three of its Stoltenberg stressed that ern Belarus on Monday, but to Tallin, Estonia, for talks on
The Kremlin began an in- members do — the United Russia has signed a number the outcome was not im- security of the Baltic region,
vasion of Ukraine last week States, Britain and France. of deals agreeing that nu- mediately clear. which borders Russia and
and on Tuesday shelled the "We strongly believe it's clear war cannot be won "This is a horrendous, hor- its ally Belarus.q

Israel high court suspends Palestinians' evictions for now

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's homes will be recognized thousands face the threat
Supreme Court on Tuesday as protected tenants. Each of demolition because of
ruled that a group of fami- will deposit a largely sym- discriminatory policies that
lies slated for eviction from bolic rent amounting to make it extremely difficult
a flashpoint east Jerusalem $62 a month to a trust, until for Palestinians to build new
neighborhood can remain the property's ownership is homes or expand existing
in their homes for the time settled. ones.
being. Sami Arsheid, a lawyer rep- The properties in question
The ruling could work to resenting the families' case were built on land that
ease tensions in Jerusalem's before the court, said the was owned by a Jewish
Sheikh Jarrah neighbor- decision was "something community trust before
hood, which helped ignite huge" that ran counter to the 1948 war surrounding
the 11-day war between the previous 63 rulings by Israel's creation, the court
Israel and Hamas in Gaza Israeli courts on the issue documents say. After the
last year. of Palestinian properties in war, when east Jerusalem
The court ruled that the Sheikh Jarrah. was controlled by Jordan, A woman looks at the ruins of a Palestinian house demolished
by the Jerusalem municipality in the east Jerusalem neighbor-
families can stay in their He said the court agreed Palestinian refugee fami- hood of Sheikh Jarrah, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022.
homes for now until Israel that there's a strong claim lies were settled in houses Associated Press
carries out a land arrange- of Palestinian ownership of on the property. Israel took
ment, a process that could the property and that his control of east Jerusalem in ing the 1948 war but does neighborhoods, which are
take years or may not be clients "feel some relief that the 1967 Mideast war and not accord Palestinians the tied up in decades-old le-
carried out at all, accord- they are not going to be since 1972 settler groups right to recover property gal battles between Pales-
ing to Ir Amim, an advo- evicted from their homes." have tried to claim the they lost in the same war, tinian residents and Jewish
cacy group that was not Dozens of Palestinian fami- property and evict the Pal- even if they still reside in ar- settlers, set off protests and
involved in the court case. lies in east Jerusalem are estinian residents. eas controlled by Israel. clashes last year that even-
For the time being, the at risk of eviction by Jewish Israeli law allows Jews to Other threatened evictions tually helped ignite the
four families residing in the settler organizations, and reclaim property lost dur- in Sheikh Jarrah and other Gaza war.q