Shooting in Belgium and Sweden and Trump’s Plan to Occupy Gaza
Andrew Sheves Good morning.
🇧🇪 Belgian police are looking for two to three gunmen who are on the run in Brussels after a shooting outside a metro station this morning. There were no casualties in the incident at around 06:15 local this morning, but stations were closed, and morning rush hour was disrupted. The men were armed with Klashnokov-style weapons and remain on the loose. [More - BBC]
🇸🇪 10 people were killed and five others injured in a shooting at an adult education center in Orebro, West of Stockholm. The gunman is believed to be among those killed. Police are discounting terrorism as the cause, but the motive remains unclear. This is Sweden’s worst mass shooting. [More - AlJazeera]
🇵🇸 In a joint news conference with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump proposed that the US take a “long-term ownership position” in Gaza to rebuild it and suggested Gaza’s Palestinians move to other countries while this took place. Egypt and Jordan have been under pressure to accept Palestinian refugees throughout the Gaza conflict. Both are reluctant for political and security reasons, but primarily as neither wants to be seen as facilitating the ethnic cleansing of the strip. Jordan’s King Abdullah is scheduled to meet with Trump on February 11. [More - Washington Post]
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