From the September/October 2024 issue of Car and Driver. Starting a successful car company is hard, as Henrik Fisker well knows. After working at BMW and Aston Martin, the talented designer struck out with Fisker Coachbuild (the Fisker Tramonto and the Latigo CS), Fisker Automotive (the Karma), and VLF Automotive (the Force 1 V10). The latest endeavor, Fisker Inc., produced the Ocean electric. We sampled the Ocean One, a limited-production launch edition equipped with everything on the top-of-the-line Extreme model, plus a few unique features. That means two-motor all-wheel drive, a total of 564 horsepower and 543 pound-feet of torque, a 106.5-kWh battery promising 360 miles of EPA range, and solar cells on the roof. This two-row electric SUV is a little longer and wider than a Volvo XC60. It looks aggressive, with plenty of bumps and grinds in the bodywork and a high kickup toward the rear of the beltline. We encountered a number of passersby who were smitten by the Ocean's looks, perhaps taken by its matte Big Sur Blue paint and 22-inch F6 Vortex wheels. The interior is comfortable enough for four adults, though the rear seat cushions are a little low and short. Fisker is big on sustainability, and the upholstery in our car consisted of Mali-Blu microsuede, with various recycled and synthetic materials on other surfaces. The overall effect doesn't feel rich, though it is functional. In general, the Ocean drives decently. The steering is accurate, and the brake feel isn't bad. But ride comfort could be better on rough roads, and with a 70-mph sound level of 69 decibels, the Ocean lacks the hushed interior of many EVs. In the mildest of the Ocean One's three drive modes, Earth, accelerator response from rest is sluggish and generally inconsistent. Even keeping up with normal traffic seems difficult, which is ridiculous for a car that can hit 60 mph in 3.9 seconds and cover the quarter-mile in 12.5. In Fun mode, the Ocean is livelier and generally behaves as we'd expect. It's no sports car, however. The undefeatable stability-control system limits the Ocean's cornering grip to 0.79 g. And stopping distances are lengthy, with the SUV requiring 173 feet to halt from 70 mph and 350 feet from 100. Fisker enhanced the Ocean with a number of novel ideas. California mode, for example, opens the four main side windows, the tiny and visually useless "doggie" rear quarter-windows, the liftgate window, and the large glass sunroof with a single button press. The Ocean's 17.1-inch infotainment touchscreen can rotate from vertical to horizontal in the One, letting you watch videos while parked. When you press what looks like a glovebox release button, a small "taco tray" extends from the dashboard. A second mini table unfolds from the central console. On our top-trim example, the solar cells embedded in the glass sunroof can provide a claimed 2000 or more miles of driving per year, assuming you don't regularly park in a shaded lot or a garage. In fact, on our test car, this sunroof powered about 10 percent of the miles driven. In our 75-mph highway range test, the Ocean delivered a solid 290 miles. Unfortunately, many of the controls are odd. For example, the cruise control uses a thumb-wheel and a couple of opaque buttons. Annoyingly, Fisker buries the odometer in the menus of the touchscreen. And while the Ocean offers an electronic display of the rear camera feed in the rearview mirror, it requires that the driver change eye focus when shifting from the road to the display—this quickly grew tiresome. And there were several quality issues. The liftgate frequently failed to open fully when its external button was pressed. Sometimes the climate-control system wouldn't produce enough heat; at other times it seemed too cold. A paired phone wouldn't automatically connect after a restart, even though the car showed the phone on the list of paired devices. After each start, the car operated with low regen, even though the settings menu showed that high was selected. During acceleration testing, the launch-control mode stopped working after a couple of tries. And this SUV has the world's loudest turn-signal clicks. All of this suggests that Fisker rushed the Ocean's development and production started prematurely. Resolving such glitches is not glamorous work, but it appears Fisker won't get the chance. Obituary: Fisker Inc. Fisker Inc. of Los Angeles died on June 17, 2024. It was seven years old. Fisker Inc. was born on October 3, 2016, to famed automotive designer and serial entrepreneur Henrik Fisker and his wife, Geeta Gupta-Fisker, who was responsible for finance and operations. In 2020, the company unveiled its first vehicle, the Ocean electric SUV, to be built by Magna Steyr of Graz, Austria. Intended to be the first of a multivehicle lineup, the Ocean wound up being the sole model Fisker produced. The first U.S.-spec vehicles were delivered to customers in June 2023. The good news for Fisker ended soon after. Following a grim earnings call this past March, the company announced it would pause development of the Pear SUV and the Alaska pickup while also laying off roughly 15 percent of its staff. Hope for a major cash infusion fizzled, leaving Fisker scrambling for capital. The bad news compounded, resulting in a pause in Ocean production and price cuts of up to $24,000. On June 5, Fisker issued a recall of 6864 Ocean SUVs—believed to be all the vehicles in public hands in the United States—over a control-unit defect. On June 17, the automaker's operating subsidiary filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, effectively sealing the company's fate. As part of the bankruptcy filings, Fisker agreed to sell the remaining 3231 vehicles in its possession along with "all relevant source code" to a New York–based leasing firm as it liquidates its assets. —Jack Fitzgerald Specifications 2023 Fisker Ocean One front- and rear-motor, all-wheel-drive, 5-passenger, 4-door wagon PRICE Base/As Tested: $71,437/$79,212 Options: Big Sur Blue paint, $4500; 22-inch Vortex black wheels, $1450; tow hitch, $1200; recycled floor mats, $250; retractable cargo cover, $375 POWERTRAIN Front Motor: permanent-magnet synchronous AC Rear Motor: permanent-magnet synchronous AC Combined Power: 564 hp Combined Torque: 543 lb-ft Battery Pack: liquid-cooled lithium-ion, 106.5 kWh Onboard Charger: 11.0 kW Peak DC Fast-Charge Rate: 250 kW Transmissions, F/R: direct-drive CHASSIS Suspension, F/R: struts/multilink Tires: Bridgestone Alenza Sport A/S Enliten 255/45R-22 107W M+S FSR DIMENSIONS Wheelbase: 115.0 in Length: 188.0 in Width: 78.5 in Height: 64.1 in Passenger Volume, F/R: 55/50 ft3 Cargo Volume, Behind F/R: 32/17 ft3 Curb Weight: 5389 lb C/D TEST RESULTS 60 mph: 3.9 sec 100 mph: 10.1 sec 1/4-Mile: 12.5 sec @ 110 mph Results above omit 1-ft rollout of 0.3 sec. Rolling Start, 5–60 mph: 4.2 sec Top Gear, 30–50 mph: 2.2 sec Top Gear, 50–70 mph: 2.5 sec Top Speed (gov ltd): 129 mph Braking, 70–0 mph: 173 ft Braking, 100–0 mph: 350 ft Roadholding, 300-ft Skidpad: 0.79 g C/D FUEL ECONOMY AND CHARGING Observed: 79 MPGe 75-mph Highway Range: 290 mi Average DC Fast-Charge Rate, 10–90%: 96 kW DC Fast-Charge Time, 10–90%: 57 min EPA FUEL ECONOMY Combined/City/Highway: 92/99/84 MPGe Range: 360 mi C/D TESTING EXPLAINED https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a62068406/2023-fisker-ocean-one-test/

Sri Lanka's Pathum Nissanka hits out as the tourists made short work of the victory chase on day four. Photograph: John Walton/PA A summer of renewal for England’s Test team delivered five straight wins, two series victories and, with that eye on the future, ushered in a few new faces. It also ended with a sloppy defeat to Sri Lanka at the Oval, the tourists shepherded to a deserved first win on English soil in 10 years by a sublime unbeaten 127 from Pathum Nissanka. England came into the fourth day still hopeful of being able to induce some jeopardy like the collapse they themselves suffered on that pivotal third day. Nine wickets needed, 125 runs to defend, a perfect home season to strive for; it was a grey, acutely end-of-season Monday and the crowd was sparse but there was no reason not to throw everything at it. But on the day there was only one twist when Shoaib Bashir dived full stretch in the deep to remove Kusal Mendis and reward Gus Atkinson’s determination to push through a thigh niggle and keep bowling. Otherwise it was a cruise, Nissanka throttling back a touch from the previous evening’s rapid half-century, reaching his second Test century from 107 balls, and then at 1.03pm rocking back to cut his 13th four off Bashir and seal an eight-wicket win. It was fitting that Angelo Mathews should be there at the end with him, 32 not out. The catalyst for his side’s 1-0 series win here in 2014, the 37-year-old Mathews provided a second calm head in what became a pretty clinical victory push. England’s attack was simply unable to generate the same movement that derailed their own batters 24 hours early, with this Sri Lankan victory very much to the efforts of their seamers. A 2-1 series win for England, then, and perhaps a useful reminder that a drop in intensity can be costly. Sri Lanka, by contrast, could have easily felt beaten after a ragged first day, and again after conceding a 62-run deficit on first innings. Instead the tourists dug deep, stayed serious, and found a way to flip this Test match, with Vishwa Fernando’s removals of Joe Root and Harry Brook in the third innings providing the spark for this fire. But there was no doubt which way the player of the match was heading, with Nissanka, who did not start the series, delivering 191 runs across the two innings and suggesting a player who made his first Test century on debut three years ago is more than just the ODI star he has become in the intervening time. Compact, orthodox and skilful enough to score his runs briskly, the 26-year-old could well become a fan favourite in this format. He certainly was on the day, with the 25.3 overs it took to reel in the remainder of the target meaning a 50% refund for ticket-holders. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/sep/09/brilliant-nissanka-leads-sri-lanka-to-emphatic-test-victory-over-england

Composite: Guardian Design; Getty Images Ihave just discovered how the deep-sea anglerfish mates. My apologies if this is old ichthyological news to you, but it is new news to me, and it is very definitely going to be the hook for this week’s column. The female deep-sea anglerfish is very large compared with the male deep-sea anglerfish. In some species, he sniffs her out (using his giant nostrils) and upon finding his mate, he bites into her, his teeth and lips then dissolving into her flesh. His little fishy body dangling off hers like a limp appendage, he loses himself utterly, including the use of his eyes – what is the point of them, when he has hers? Some males “become little more than blobs or skin tags”, says James Maclaine, senior curator of fish at the Natural History Museum. The two fuse together so completely as to become one physiological entity, with one combined bloodstream, living one life and, eventually, dying one death. I mention this because I do not think it only applies to deep-sea anglerfish. There is a particular way of being in a relationship in which two people allow themselves to be – perhaps crave being, as well as fear being – totally fused together, losing their own sense of identity completely, so that they are no longer two separate individuals together but one seamless entity. Not seeing with two sets of eyes, but with one. In fact, I think it is quite common. This does not happen as dramatically in humans as it does with anglerfish. There is no permanent physical fusing, of course – it is all taking place in a psychological dimension, deep in the unconscious, so it can be more subtle to spot. But we all know when we lose a friend to a relationship like this; when we watch the vibrant, independent person we cherished disappear, as they seem to forget about their own needs and wants and friendships, conforming to a new sense of identity inside someone else. It can be less easy to spot when it is happening to you. One sign you might be caught up in a relationship, or indeed a friendship, with tendencies like this is if you find yourself in absolute fury when your “other half” deviates from a particular script you didn’t even realise you had in mind for them. For example, they have a desire to do something different from what you want them to do, or they feel differently about a political issue from how you want them to feel, or their idea of a good holiday is different from your idea of a good holiday, and they do not immediately comply with your wishes. In other words, they are acting as their own, separate person. One of my friends, who recognised the universality in this description of the deep-sea anglerfish, asked me: “What is the alternative? What is a healthy fish pairing? I bet salmon don’t do this.” The problem is, I think, that we don’t see this way of relating as an unhealthy pairing; in fact, we idealise it. This is how we romanticise falling in love. My other half. I’m yours. You complete me. Two become one. We don’t want to be salmon; a part of us unconsciously longs for this kind of merging. This makes sense. Every single one of us begins our existence in this state of non-separate fusion, of total enmeshment, within our mother’s body, receiving nourishment from her placenta, taking the oxygen we need from her blood through the umbilical cord – though, unlike the anglerfish, we never share a bloodstream. Our minds are folded up together in a state of apparently perpetual oneness. A part of us, I think, is always longing to go back to this, a way of being where needs are met before they can even become needs, so we do not have to experience the vulnerability and difference and aloneness necessary to recognise we are receiving something from somebody else. Where there is no hunger, no cold, no hard edges, nothing asked of us and nothing to ask for. The immersive sense of timelessness and boundlessness some seek in heroin, or gambling, or video games, or social media. Maybe all of us, deep down, want to find someone who loves us unconditionally, as if we are a part of them. But to build better relationships, to build a better life, you have to do it as a separate person. Being a separate person, and tolerating your partner being a separate person, is hard. It is painful. It is a feat of psychological growth. It involves taking responsibility for your own life but also understanding how that life is inevitably shaped by people outside your control. That they too are responsible for their own lives. It involves accepting that there are things that only you can offer yourself – like emotional freedom, personal fulfilment, self-acceptance. And understanding that there are things that only your partner can offer you if they so choose – like their thoughts, their body, their love. It is hard. It is painful. But it is important. Because otherwise you might wake up one morning and realise that you have lost the use of your own eyes, and that you have been seeing the world through someone else’s. That although – unless you are particularly unlucky – your lips and teeth have not fused irretrievably with your lover’s body, you have nevertheless become a limp appendage to another person’s life. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/sep/09/do-you-dream-of-becoming-one-with-your-partner-the-deep-sea-anglerfish-shows-how-badly-that-can-end

The scientists tracked the eels’ escape from the stomach of the predator fish using X-ray video. Photograph: Current Biology Hasegawa It sounds like the plot of a horror movie – a predator swallows its prey only for the creature to burst out of its captor’s body. But it seems Japanese eels do just that. Scientists in Japan have discovered that when swallowed by a dark sleeper fish, the eels can escape. In a manoeuvre reminiscent of the fosbury flop high-jump technique, the eels back up the digestive tract of the predator fish towards its oesophagus, poke their tail through its gills, and complete their attempt at freedom by pulling their head free. The researchers say they initially assumed the eels were escaping the predator via its mouth. “However, contrary to our expectations, witnessing the eels’ desperate escape from the predator’s stomach to the gills was truly astonishing for us,” said Yuha Hasegawa, first author of the research from Nagasaki University. Writing in the journal Current Biology, the team reports how it began with 104 Japanese eels. The researchers placed one eel at a time in a tank that also contained one dark sleeper fish out of a collection of 11. The eels had barium sulfate injected into their abdominal cavity and tail, which allowed a swallowed eel to be tracked using an X-ray video system. The team recorded 32 eels being captured and swallowed by the sleeper fish. Some fully entered the predator’s stomach and were observed circling, apparently looking for a way out. Nine eels that were swallowed managed to break out, employing a tail-first approach. “The predatory fish were not harmed. However, the eels that managed to escape sometimes showed signs of abrasions,” said Hasegawa. Not all of the eels were successful. Four got their tail out of the predator’s gills but did not complete their exit, while two failed because they poked their tails in the direction of the predator’s vent rather than its oesophagus. The team says its findings are a first. While previous studies have observed other species of eel dying while attempting to escape from predators’ stomachs, the latest study shows the Japanese eels escaped alive. “At this point, the Japanese eel is the only species of fish confirmed to be able to escape from the digestive tract of the predatory fish after being captured,” said Yuuki Kawabata, another author of the research. The researchers add the elongated shape of the eels may have aided their escape by increasing the chance of their tail remaining in the predator’s oesophagus when swallowed headfirst. They are now planning to explore specific factors that could be involved in a successful escape, with experiments involving other eels and fish with a similar body shape. “Before capturing the first X-ray footage, we never imagined that eels could escape from the stomach of a predatory fish,” said Hasegawa. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/sep/09/japanese-eels-escape-predator-stomach-gills-study

Vice President Kamala Harris will confront former President Donald Trump on September 10 in their first head-to-head debate [File: AP Photo] Former United States President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are preparing to face-off in their first presidential debate, with the election less than two months away. Tuesday’s debate will be the first time Trump and Harris — the candidates for the Republican and Democratic parties, respectively — will share a stage. The two have never met in person. The debate is also set to be a reflection of how dramatically the race has shifted in recent months. Trump was originally expected to face President Joe Biden at Tuesday’s event. But after an initial debate in June, Biden quit the race amid pressure over his stumbling performance and advanced age. The Democratic Party has since rallied around Harris, naming her its nominee for the presidency. That change has galvanised Democratic voters and led to a significant improvement in national and state-level polls. Meanwhile, the Trump campaign has struggled to respond to the opposition’s newfound enthusiasm. With Harris on the upswing and Trump looking for a way to blunt her momentum, the debate could be their only direct encounter ahead of the vote on November 5. What will Tuesday’s debate look like? What issues will be discussed? And what effect could the debate have on the race, with voting just on the horizon? When and where is the debate? The debate will take place at 9pm US Eastern Time on September 10 (01:00 GMT on Wednesday) at the National Constitution Center (NCC) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is set to last 90 minutes. The NCC is a nonprofit organisation that houses a museum and promotes education about the US Constitution. It has served as a venue for national political events in the past, including a Democratic presidential primary debate in 2008 and two ABC News town halls ahead of the 2020 election. How to watch the debate? The debate is being hosted by ABC News in collaboration with its local affiliate, WPVI-TV/6ABC. The debate will air on ABC and be available to stream on platforms such as ABC News Live, Disney+ and Hulu. Who will moderate the debate? ABC’s World News Tonight host David Muir and ABC News Live Prime anchor Linsey Davis will serve as moderators. Muir had moderated a Republican primary debate in February 2016, featuring then-candidate Trump in his first successful run for office. He and Davis also co-helmed the Democratic primary debates in September 2019 and February 2020. What is at stake in the debate? With Biden’s decision to end his campaign upending the dynamics of the race, Harris and Trump will use the debate to build momentum as the campaign enters its final stretch. Harris, in particular, has a relatively short time to pitch herself to voters before the vote as she replaced Biden in the race on July 21, a mere seven weeks ago. But the upheaval has been to her advantage as the Democrats have seen a substantial swing in their favour. According to national polling averages by Real Clear Politics, Democrats have gone from trailing Trump by 3.1 percent nationally to leading by 1.8 points in the weeks since Harris’s entry into the race. That is a nearly five-point improvement in just over a month. But Marc Trussler, director of data sciences at the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, said despite the impressive shift, Harris remains neck and neck with Trump. “After a remarkable period with a lot of unprecedented events, we’ve ended up in a place that feels pretty familiar, with the Democratic nominee holding a slight advantage in a tight race that will come down to tens of thousands of voters in a handful of swing states,” Trussler said. In fact, a national poll by The New York Times and Sienna College released on Sunday showed Trump and Harris in practically a dead heat, with the former president marginally ahead. The poll also suggests that the momentum that Harris gathered over the past month might have somewhat stalled. While presidential debates do not decide elections on their own, the narrow margin of this year’s race means that every success or slip-up can come with consequences. “Usually, we would say these debates don’t have much of an impact because the people who tune in tend to be those who have already made up their mind,” said Trussler. “But this is going to be a very close election, so anything that has the potential to move the needle even a little comes with high stakes.” What issues could be discussed? While a list of questions has not been released, a number of issues have dominated the race so far. They include the economy, immigration, abortion, Trump’s refusal to acknowledge his loss in the 2020 election and foreign policy, particularly with wars raging in Ukraine and Gaza. “Trump’s campaign will hope to emphasise inflation and immigration, where they think Harris is most vulnerable,” said Trussler. “For the Harris campaign, the emphasis will probably be on Trump’s general fitness for office and abortion.” What rules have been agreed to? The rules over the debate have been a point of contention between the two campaigns. For the first debate in June, Biden’s camp had asked that the microphones of both candidates be switched off while the other was speaking to avoid interruptions. But for Tuesday’s debate, the Harris campaign asked to reverse that sti[CENSORED]tion, on the premise that the rule worked to Trump’s advantage. Trump, after all, is known for outbursts and interruptions during debates, and Harris’s strategists suggested that a muted microphone may make him appear more disciplined than he really is. Both campaigns eventually agreed to keep the muted microphones. Only Trump and Harris are expected to appear onstage. No audience will be present at the live broadcast, and there will only be two breaks during the debate for commercials For each question they face, the candidates have two minutes to respond. Rebuttals will also be capped at two minutes, with the possibility of an extra minute for a further response. Both Harris and Trump will also have two minutes at the end of the night to offer a closing statement. What about third-party candidates? Third-party candidates in the US are generally considered long shots, and the threshold to qualify for Tuesday’s debate effectively limited their participation. To be on stage, participants had to show they had drawn at least 15 percent support in four separate national polls, a bar no third-party candidate has been able to clear. Will there be more debates after this one? For the moment, no additional debates are scheduled. Tuesday’s encounter between Trump and Harris could mark the only time voters have a chance to watch them square off before voting. Whether Tuesday’s debate would even happen was itself the subject of speculation. Trump previously suggested that he might skip it altogether and accused ABC News of bias. He reversed course in a social media post last month, saying he had agreed to the September 10 debate. But he included a swipe at the debate host in his message. “ABC FAKE NEWS,” he wrote, was “by far the nastiest and most unfair newscaster in the business”. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/9/trump-harris-first-presidential-debate-what-to-watch-for-on-tuesday

A view of the ruins of Lifta, a Palestinian village from where Palestinians were expelled by Jewish militias during the Nakba of 1948. Photo taken on June 18, 2021 [File: Reuters/Ammar Awad] It has been 11 months of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. The official death toll has exceeded 40,000 people but estimates put it much higher – in the hundreds of thousands. Intensifying starvation, and lack of sanitary conditions or clean water and medicines have caused mass death among the elderly, wounded, newborn, and chronically ill. Gaza has been turned into such a death trap that even if Israeli bombing were to stop tomorrow, those numbers would continue to rise for years. Simply trucking in more food would not stem mass death. Without clean water, toilets, and sewage disposal and treatment, without functioning hospitals and without an environment decontaminated from pathogens and poisons from Israeli bombs, people will continue to die from communicable diseases, chronic illnesses, and pollution. Israel and its supporters have used such concerns to push forward “solutions” which involve the mass expulsion and dispossession of the Palestinian po[CENSORED]tion in Gaza. Palestinians have outright rejected such schemes, and rightly so. However, there is a way to carry out temporary evacuation to allow for the cleaning up and rebuilding of Gaza and the preservation of the health and wellbeing of its people that does not involve their relocation out of historic Palestine. That can be done by rehousing Gaza’s po[CENSORED]tion to nearby areas in what is now Israel, which have the necessary infrastructure to sustain the temporary relocation of a large po[CENSORED]tion. No more exile: Palestinians must stay in Palestine Evacuation, even temporary, is a fraught topic for Palestinians precisely because the unlivable conditions in Gaza have been openly and deliberately created by Israel and its allies in the West to force the po[CENSORED]tion into exile. Last year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke of “thinning” the Palestinian po[CENSORED]tion in Gaza “to a minimum”, and his Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich spoke of getting it below 200,000 through emigration. “Our problem,” said Netanyahu, “is finding countries willing to accept them, and we are working on it.” There have been various Israeli proposals to exile the Palestinian po[CENSORED]tion to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Canada – thought to be especially suitable. Israeli government ministers, their US allies and pliant media have all openly endorsed such plans. Last year, the White House asked Congress for funding to support “Gazans fleeing to neighbouring countries”, while US officials reportedly presented a plan for a tent city in El Arish in Egypt. Cairo has been put under immense pressure by Israel and its allies to accept Palestinians into Sinai, but it has so far rejected such plans. Palestinian factions across the political spectrum have condemned any suggestion for expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland. Recognising the injustice of expulsion, we, along with other Palestinians and Israeli anti-Zionists, have called for temporary and voluntary evacuation within historic Palestine. Instead of exiling Palestinian survivors of the war to other countries, we propose that they be housed in temporary accommodation in other parts of historic Palestine falling within Israeli borders while Gaza is rebuilt. There is already a legal basis for such a relocation. Let us remember that some 74 percent of Gaza’s po[CENSORED]tion are refugees and descendants of refugees from historic Palestine and they have the right to return. In December 1948, a year after the Nakba began, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 194, which guaranteed the right to return for Palestinians expelled from their homes by Israeli forces. This right is further enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, passed the same month. The Pinheiro principles, introduced in 2005, give guidance on how to implement housing and property restitution for returning refugees. Israel’s admission as a member state into the UN in 1949 was conditional on the implementation of Resolution 194, which it never fulfilled. Now, it is time to correct this mistake. Evacuate within Palestine: A just solution While relocating Palestinians from Gaza into what is now Israel will be a challenge, there are some circumstances that will facilitate it. First, there is space. Some 88 percent of the land in Israel is controlled by the military, is dedicated to nature reserves or is vacant; 87 percent of Israelis live on less than 6 percent of the country. Second, there are many suitable sites with existing roads, water, sewage, and electric infrastructure that can be quickly expanded, as demonstrated by the research of Palestinian scholar Salman Abu Sitta. Shelter and humanitarian aid can be scaled and distributed by UNRWA, and other local aid agencies, such as Palestine Red Crescent Society. It will be paid for by Israel and its allies in view of its obligations under international law to provide for the po[CENSORED]tion it occupies, as the recent advisory ruling by the International Court of Justice has reaffirmed. Importantly, proper housing does not mean concentration camps in the Naqab desert. During rehousing and rebuilding, the po[CENSORED]tion from Gaza can maintain access to their extant homes in Gaza and have the right to move freely. An international force can be deployed inside Israel to protect both the Palestinians and aid sent to them from Israeli attacks. The creation of such a force for the occupied Palestinian territory was already suggested by the UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine Francesca Albanese in her March 2024 report and by South Africa last October. Importantly, this must not mean occupation by forces from any country. The rebuilding of Gaza should be controlled by the Palestinian people and their political leadership. The people of Gaza should be employed in any necessary construction in Israel and the extensive, multiyear rebuilding of Gaza, as scoped out in numerous UN agency reports. The question of who should be “in control” of Gaza during this process has already been addressed in the Beijing Declaration, signed in July by 14 Palestinian factions. They committed to unity under the umbrella of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the creation of an interim reconciliation government to carry out reconstruction in Gaza and prepare for elections. The Israeli government will likely resist such a plan of relocation, which is why the UN must use all its power and tools of enforcement – including sanctions and suspension of membership – to force it to accept and fulfil its legal obligations. This is the least the UN can do to start correcting the errors it made in 1947 and after that. Exile is traumatic, elaborate, costly and unjust. Evacuation within historic Palestine, over the fence, is simple, efficient, walkable, and just. International law gives us all the tools we need to save lives in Palestine by fulfilling the Palestinian right to return. The views expressed in this article are the authors’ own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/9/9/the-people-of-gaza-belong-in-palestine-not-canada-or-drc

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UPDATE 9/4/24: According to Volvo, new EPA data gives range for the 2025 EX90 of 300 or 310 miles, up from 296 or 308 miles. We have revised the story that follows to include the new figures, which are not yet published on EPA's website. Volvo takes a big step into its electric future with the release of the 2025 Volvo EX90. It has spent a long time percolating, but the new Volvo flagship EV is finally here. For those who haven't been following along, the EX90 is a dual-motor electric SUV, with a floor-spanning lithium-ion battery that stores 107.0 kWh of usable energy and can deliver a claimed 300 to 310 miles of range. But mostly, it's a Volvo. A Familiar Shape On the outside, the new EX90 looks like a refreshed version of the Volvo XC90, especially from the rear three-quarter view. After all, it rides on the same 117.5-inch wheelbase, but it stands 1.6 inches wider and stretches 3.3 inches longer. When you look at the front, however, the difference between the two is apparent: The EX90 has no grille opening between the Thor's-hammer headlights. Oh, and there's the not small matter of the subtle bulge above the windshield, which houses a lidar sensor. That's a tell. Inside, the EX90 looks wildly different from the XC90, but still very much like a Volvo. The small screen in front of the driver is mounted on the steering column, where it can move with the steering-wheel adjustment. The center screen measures a rather large 14.5 inches and is oriented portrait-style. It's powered by Google but also supports wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. The shifter has moved to the right stalk, whereas the left-hand one is for turn signals and wipers. The only physical control anywhere on the console is for the stereo. To move the mirrors or tweak the steering column, Volvo expects you to press a touchscreen button, which brings up the appropriate menu. The idea is that you do this once and save it to your profile, but we'll see how that goes. Also, Volvo has aped VW in its driver window controls, adopting only left and right buttons, but adding a toggle (and a light) to indicate front and rear, in the name of . . . simplicity? All of this exists on a lovely background of sustainably sourced materials. Volvo took pains to make it look like fine Scandinavian furniture, and it largely works. We sampled two such interiors, including one with a wool-blend upholstery made from recycled polyester and responsibly produced wool. The other was called Dawn quilted Nordico, a leather-free upholstery. Both looked great, especially considering the handsome wood accents they came paired with. On the Move Two versions of the powertrain are offered. The standard one develops 402 horsepower and 568 lb-ft of torque, while the Performance powertrain up that to 510 horses and 671 lb-ft. Basically, the more powerful one swaps in a bigger rear motor; otherwise the coaxial permanent-magnet motors are the same. In either case, both are engaged at launch, but the rear one shuts down as you approach cruising speed, leaving you with front-wheel drive. In the twisties, however, the rear motor can vector torque to help with agility. Volvo says the two powertrains are good for runs to 60 mph in 5.7 seconds for the standard version and 4.7 seconds for the Performance setup, but we suspect they'll do slightly better. We drove the Performance model and don't doubt any of the above. The big EX90 moved out smartly, despite the approximately three-ton curb weight of our sample car, which was loaded to the gills. But what stood out even more was the suppleness of the suspension. This was surprising in light of our car's 22-inch wheels, as you'd have guessed the car had more sidewall. The dual-chamber air springs (up from one-chamber units in the XC90) likely had much do with it. The suspension can lower the car 0.4 inch at 43 mph and 0.8 inch at 62 mph, and do rear-axle load leveling to boot. The air springs are paired with adaptive dampers that automatically tweak the damping to suit conditions. It all smooths out the road beautifully, with only the occasional tug when you're hustling. The steering is nicely weighted too, but the overriding theme is one of sheer quietness, and we say that with full knowledge that EVs are quiet. This one is on another level. And that's a good thing considering our car was equipped with the optional Bowers & Wilkins stereo that can reproduce Dolby Atmos sound through its 25-speaker system. You want a perfect backdrop for unbelievable sound on the move? This is it. EX90 Pricing The entry point for the EX90 is the Plus version at $81,290, some $6195 more than the PHEV XC90 Plus. This full-blown EV comes with goodies such as a fixed panoramic sunroof, Volvo's Pilot Assist, parking assist, a 360-degree camera, a digital key, an air purifier, a head-up display, Bose premium audio, and 20-inch wheels. From there, you can add $5000 for the Performance powertrain or $4350 for the Ultra package, which brings with it air springs, adaptive dampers, soft-close doors, massaging front seats, laminated rear windows, and 21-inch wheels. Two options are available on the Ultra: a Bower & Wilkins premium sound system for $3200 and 22-inch wheels for $800. Six-passenger seating is available on all models for $500. What Volvo doesn't say just yet is what's up with the hands-free driving feature, which will eventually be enabled in some limited scope that will probably start with limited-access highways. The lidar sensor is the tip-off, but all EX90s will have that plus eight cameras, five radars, and 16 ultrasonic sensors. When the necessary approvals are received, Volvo will push an over-the-air update. In any trim, the Volvo EX90 is a worthy addition to the lineup. It shows what Volvo can do when it wants to produce an EV: build a great car that just happens to be electric. Specifications 2025 Volvo EX90 Vehicle Type: front- and rear-motor, all-wheel-drive, 6- or 7-passenger, 4-door wagon PRICE Plus, $81,290; Ultra, $85,640; Performance Plus, $86,290; Performance Ultra, $90,640 POWERTRAIN Front Motor: permanent-magnet synchronous AC, 232 or 241 hp Rear Motor: permanent-magnet synchronous AC, 170 or 268 hp Combined Power: 402 or 510 hp Combined Torque: 568 or 671 lb-ft Battery Pack: liquid-cooled lithium-ion, 107.0 kWh Onboard Charger: 11.0 kW Peak DC Fast-Charge Rate: 250 kW Transmissions, F/R: direct-drive DIMENSIONS Wheelbase: 117.5 in Length: 198.3 in Width: 77.3 in Height: 68.8 in Passenger Volume, F/M/R: 58/51/21 ft3 Cargo Volume, behind F/M/R: 71–74/36/13–14 ft3 Front-Trunk Volume: 2–3 ft3 Curb Weight (C/D est): 5700–6100 lb PERFORMANCE (C/D EST) 60 mph: 4.5–5.5 sec 1/4-Mile: 13.0–14.3 sec Top Speed: 112 mph EPA FUEL ECONOMY (C/D EST) Combined/City/Highway: 79–81/82–84/76–79 MPGe Range: 300–310 mi https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a62019773/2025-volvo-ex90-drive/

Britain's Lee Manning and Peter Cusack in action during their group game with France. Photograph: François-Xavier Marit/AFP/Getty Images It’s the closing weekend of Paris 2024 and we’re about to enjoy the biggest moment in British Paralympic basketball history. In fact I think it’s the biggest moment for British basketball, full stop. Britain play the USA in the men’s wheelchair basketball final on Saturday and we’ve never won gold, either men’s or women’s. What we’ve got here is something that has taken decades. It’s the work of the generation before me, my generation and those that came after and now we are here; GB and USA are by quite some margin the two best teams in the world. Youth is a superpower and it’s great to see our Paralympians harnessing it Ade Adepitan Read more So I want the whole of the UK to watch on Saturday; to support the British team, to cheer them on just like you do the England men’s football team and the Lionesses and the rugby team. We need you. We need your support. We need it because these guys have put everything into this. They’ve put their whole lives on the line for this moment. It’s personal for me, of course. I’m connected with so many of the players, I’ve either played against them or played in the same team. Terry Bywater and I began at Sydney 2000 together. Me and Phil Pratt played wheelchair tennis doubles together and got to the final of the Lithuanian Open (a bit random, I know). He’s now one of the best basketball players in the world and on the verge of leading Britain to a gold medal. It’s surreal, it’s emotional, it gives me a wonderful sense of pride and I also know the job isn’t done yet. But what they’re doing is representing at least five generations of British basketball players and a sport that has virtually zero recognition in the UK. And we’re taking on the USA – this is their sport. Most of the British guys have started basketball from scratch. When they had their injuries, or they became disabled and they started to play wheelchair basketball, they had to learn how it works, how to understand it. It’s not like in America and Europe where everyone grows up playing basketball at school and learns it like a second skill. So it’s even more remarkable for our guys to be where they are. Philip Pratt of Great Britain plays a pass against France. Photograph: Carlos García Rawlins/Reuters You’ve also got to remember that so many of them have come from grassroots teams who have got next to no resources and rely on volunteers just to keep things going. So this is a proper fairytale story, a rags to riches script – we’ve come from nowhere to get this opportunity; 28 years, man, it’s been so hard. A gold medal in basketball would cap off what has been an incredible Games for ParalympicsGB. At the time of writing we are second in the medal table and that’s despite not having done as well as we would have liked in the athletics, which traditionally has brought us a lot of success. It’s testimony to the depth of our squad that we are where we are and we can really hold our head up high about our performance. It sort of confirms my opinion that we are probably the leading Paralympic nation. Yes, we’re not top of the table. It’s hard to beat China. The last time China didn’t top the table was when Australia beat them in 2000 and that was a home Games; since then they’ve been smashing it. But in terms of what we do both on the field of play in a whole range of sports, and then off the field in breaking down barriers and perceptions of disability, if you look at it as a whole package, we are the No 1 nation in the world. There’s lots to feel proud about, but I also think this has been a good Games for France. I was definitely worried about how much the French would embrace the Paralympics. But in the end the one sad thing is that they didn’t make enough finals, because every time I’ve seen the French in any sort of competition, the support from the crowd has been immense. It’s so invigorating watching how much they get behind their athletes. And if they had reached some more finals, I think these Games could have potentially surpassed London. Should the Paralympics have a responsibility to address social issues? Yes, it should Ade Adepitan Read more The French have had the support but, unfortunately, they didn’t have the team to take them to the level of London. And maybe this will be the catalyst. Speaking to people while I’ve been in Paris, there’s a long way to go in order to get the funding that French athletes need to really compete with the best in the world. But they now know what it’s like, they’ve had a taste of it, and there’ll be French kids up and down the country who have disabilities, parents who have children with disabilities, who’ll be inspired by the Games and thinking my child needs those opportunities. I’ve felt that sense of legacy. My three-year-old son has come to these Games and it gives me extra pride to know that his first experience of a major global sporting event is the Paralympics. He’s learned the word Paralympian before the word Olympian and he sees no difference between the greatness of the athletes in both Games. This is where we need to be at. Now, just bring home that basketball gold. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/sep/07/basketball-gold-for-paralympicsgb-would-be-fitting-end-to-fantastic-games

Illustration: Ryan Gillett/The Guardian Santiago, 38 I was initially against monogamy, but I realised that being exclusive brings us closer Ellen and I first met when we were roommates 13 years ago. We’re from different countries and after she went back home we stayed in touch for a number of years by phone and became very close friends. After years of just talking we arranged a trip together, back in 2021. It didn’t surprise me that, when we saw each other, we kissed straight away. There was a strong physical connection. We got married a year later. We had a lot of conversations about what kind of relationship we wanted. I was initially against having a monogamous relationship as I believed it was a myth that we are only attracted to one person. But I realised that being exclusive brings us closer. We see each other in person every few months, and speak on the phone all the time. About once a month, that will turn into phone sex. It’s not more than that because our lives are busy and when we talk it’s often late, so we’re tired and also more interested in just catching up. There isn’t a huge time difference between us – maybe two hours – but it’s long enough that there have been instances when Ellen will all of a sudden be asleep. Once, when I met her at the airport, she used a different name to greet me. I then changed my character and it was as if we were meeting for the first time We never plan phone sex. One of us might message and share a desire, then we invite each other to touch ourselves in a certain way. That really helps us feel close. We used to read Anaïs Nin’s Delta of Venus together, a book of erotic stories that explore desire in a strange way. We would then meet on Zoom and write our own erotic stories, based on past experiences of hooking up with another person. Other times, we imagine what we’ll do when we are together. For example, Ellen will ask me if I can wake her up one day by touching her, then when we’re together, I make that happen. There’s a lot of buildup when we meet in person, and I try to heighten this, suggesting that we shouldn’t have sex for the first few days – just to increase that tension. Ellen makes fun of me and refuses. Once, when I met her at the airport she used a different name to greet me. I then changed my character and it was as if we were meeting for the first time. We got in a taxi and started flirting – I covered our legs with a jacket so I could touch her. Ellen, 33 My sex life is satisfying – maybe that would be different if I didn’t feel comfortable masturbating I’m a physical person, so prior to starting this relationship I was put off by any hint of long-distance. But Santiago and I are from different countries and live apart. We plan to start living together in the next few months and are working through visa applications now, but for the three years of our relationship we have only met up every few months. We stay together for weeks if we can, but the rest of the time we communicate by phone. We met in 2011 when I was living abroad. Looking back, we were clearly attracted to each other, but it took us a decade to begin expressing our sexual desires. The first time we talked sexually on the phone was so exciting, though I did feel a little self-conscious. We used to read Anaïs Nin’s Delta of Venus together. We would then meet on Zoom and write our own erotic stories We have now been married for two years and are in a monogamous relationship. Despite the distance, I feel like my sex life is satisfying. Maybe that would be different if I didn’t feel comfortable masturbating. We have phone sex erratically, once every few weeks, and it never feels planned. We imagine scenarios, but it’s not role playing; it’s more like, I wish I could touch you this way, or kiss you that way. I think we feel closer and more lovey-dovey afterwards, because when we’re not together our relationship often feels more like companionship. When we do talk intimately, even if it’s just once a month, I feel a stronger attraction, a more primal feeling, but when we say goodnight, I miss him acutely. There is a lot of tension before we meet in person. Sometimes Santiago intensifies the longing. One time, he proposed that we not have sex the first night, and I just said: “Are you kidding?” But it definitely boosts the attraction. The first couple of times we have sex, it’s like kissing someone you’ve never kissed before. You feel like your nerve endings are more alive. Share your experiences If you’re keen to talk to us about your sex lives you can get in touch by filling in the form below. It is very important that both sexual partners are happy to participate. Please share your story if you are 18 or over, anonymously if you wish. For more information please see our terms of service and privacy policy. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/sep/07/this-is-how-we-do-it-we-have-phone-sex-once-a-month-and-it-feels-primal

Larry keeping watch outside 10 Downing Street. Photograph: Alberto Pezzali/AP On the face of it, the kitten that joined Keir Starmer’s family appears to have had a peaceful first week at an address where feline and human rivals have been known to get their claws out. The arrival of the Siberian cat – as yet unnamed in public – was revealed on Monday by the prime minister, who said his children had been pushing for a dog to join them at Downing Street. “We are now getting a kitten instead of a dog, and this is an agreement after long negotiations – I said we’d get in the room and sort it out,” Starmer told BBC Radio 5 Live. As a consolation, the Starmer family may be cheered to know that “Sibbies” are regarded by experts as being more like dogs than other cats. They are known to be highly intelligent, inquisitive and can be trained, according to Kate Staveley, a breeder and the honorary secretary of the Siberian Cat Club. “They can be very dog-like in their behaviour. You can put a harness on them. I know of people who go camping with them and a couple who even go up the Cairngorms quite regularly with them,” she said. “But, as with anything, it’s what you put into them that you get out.” If the cat is a true breed, the Starmers would also appear to be lucky in getting a Siberian at a time when Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has caused some breeders in Britain to pause before importing new additions from Russia. A Siberian kitten. The breed is known to be highly intelligent and inquisitive. Photograph: Holly Vegter/Alamy Staveley said: “They have only really been here since around 2002 when someone imported one and, for most breeders, the basic stock is from Russia. The true, traditional Siberians are based on Russian breeding – and Russians are very guarded about anyone using anything that interfere with those lines.” She added that adverts offering Siberian cats for as little as a few hundred pounds should be treated with caution. While she had wanted to bring in a new male cat from Russia, like others she had decided against doing so on principle, but knew of others who were still going abroad. A more immediate challenge for the Starmers concerns the bedding-in of the kitten at a residence where it has become the third cat – alongside Jojo, the Starmer family cat, and Larry, who has been chief mouser to the Cabinet Office at 10 Downing Street since 2011. Larry, for one, has form – infamously clashing outside No 10 in 2012 with Freya, who lived next door with the then chancellor, George Osborne. Larry the cat and Freya, the then chancellor George Osborne’s cat, slug it out on Downing Street in October 2012. Photograph: Steve Back/Rex Features Staveley advised that it will be the older cats, rather than kitten, that could present problems because of potential antipathy towards a new arrival on their territory. “One approach to begin with might be to put the kitten in a confined area for its own good, and for the other cats then to become used to its presence from a distance,” she said. The Starmers should also heed another caveat that comes with owning a Siberian: beware their triple coats. “Whoever gets one has to be prepared to groom it,” Staveley said. “Because of their origins in snowy Siberia, they grow an outer coat in the winter and then really start to shed it in the spring. They really have to be groomed, otherwise you end up with a lumpy cat. Some people even end up shearing them, which is the worse thing you can do.” While known for their long and fluffy coats, the cats are often a more suitable and safer choice when it comes to triggering allergies. That said, aides and visitors to Downing Street with a sensitive cat allergy could still suffer. Staveley, who hopes the newfound profile of the breed in Britain will not lead to a boom in po[CENSORED]rity, adds that the cats are an excellent choice for other assets, such as their traditional ability to survive in a hostile climate. For now, at least, Downing Street is a hospitable one. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/sep/07/starmer-compromise-new-family-pet-siberian-kitten-dog-like-cat

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump faces two federal indictments and two state-level criminal cases [Stefan Jeremiah/AP Photo] Former President Donald Trump has said the Department of Justine has a “60-day rule” that prevents it from taking certain law enforcement actions against candidates in the run-up to a United States election. If Trump’s statement were correct, it would have wide-ranging implications as he stares down two federal indictments: one in Washington, DC, for efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and another in Florida for allegedly hoarding classified documents. What did Trump say? Trump invoked the “60-day rule” while responding to an updated indictment filed last month in the federal election case in Washington, DC. “It is DOJ policy that the Department of Justice should not take any action that will influence an election within 60 days of that election – but they just have taken such action,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. Others have since echoed that criticism. Last week, Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, questioned federal prosecutors in the Florida case about whether holding a trial before the election would violate the rule. Legal experts, however, have rejected that position. And Jay Bratt, a federal prosecutor in the Florida case, told Cannon that, since Trump had already been charged, no rule or norm would be violated. So what was Trump talking about? Trump was referring to an unwritten — and admittedly vague — guideline that Justice Department officials have adopted over the years. A 2018 report from the Justice Department’s inspector general clearly states: “No Department policy contains a specific prohibition on overt investigative steps within a particular period before an election.” Still, it noted that many officials have adhered to “a longstanding unwritten practice to avoid overt law enforcement and prosecutorial activities close to an election, typically within 60 or 90 days of Election Day”. The report probed the decision by former FBI director James Comey to reopen an investigation into Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails just 11 days before the 2016 election. Advertisement Comey later said avoiding actions that could impact the election was a “very important norm”. Does Trump have any recourse? No. Because the guideline is unwritten, it is a best practice rather than a legal requirement. When and how the guideline applies is up to department officials. Legal scholars have further argued that Trump cannot claim he was being treated unfairly because the guideline only applies to major actions, like the filing of brand-new indictments. Because Trump had been indicted long before the 60-day window, the guideline would theoretically not apply to the ongoing federal proceedings in Washington, DC, and Florida. The guideline is also not valid for Trump’s upcoming sentencing in New York or the pending trial in Georgia: Both of which are state-level proceedings, whereas the guideline is strictly federal. Finally, Trump may need to check his math. Even if he were correct about the rule, Special Counsel Jack Smith filed the updated indictment on August 27. That is 70 days out from the November 5 vote. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/6/is-there-a-60-day-rule-in-the-us-elections-what-to-know-in-500-words

The family of a Turkish-American activist shot and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank urged the United States to launch an independent inquiry into her killing, saying an Israeli probe was not “adequate”. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was shot by an Israeli soldier while taking part in a demonstration against illegal Israeli settlements near the West Bank village of Beita, near the city of Nablus, on Friday, according to witnesses and local authorities. An autopsy confirmed that Eygi, who died of her wounds at a Nablus hospital, was killed by a sniper bullet to the head, Nablus Governor Ghassan Daghlas told Al Jazeera on Saturday. Nablus, the governorate where Beita is located, will hold an official ceremony commemorating Eygi after her body is handed to her family, said Daghlas. “A US citizen, Aysenur was peacefully standing for justice when she was killed,” said her family in a statement on Saturday, describing her as a “fiercely passionate human rights activist”. “Her presence in our lives was taken needlessly, unlawfully and violently by the Israeli military,” the statement said. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi in Seattle, Washington [Courtesy of the Eygi family/International Solidarity Movement via AP] Israeli reaction Responding to Eygi’s killing, the Israeli military said its forces had fired towards “a main instigator of violent activity who hurled rocks” at them during a protest, and that it was looking into reports that a foreign national was killed. Eygi was a member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a pro-Palestinian organisation. The group on Saturday dismissed claims that its activists threw rocks at Israeli forces as “false” and said the demonstration was peaceful. Several witnesses said an Israeli sniper, stationed on a nearby rooftop, shot Eygi after she moved into an olive grove. “A sniper fired from a building – one or two shots – and they targeted and murdered Aysenur,” said British rights activist Rob Sadler, disputing the notion she posed any threat to Israeli forces. In doing this work, Aysenur “has made the ultimate sacrifice”, Sadler told Al Jazeera. “But we will continue to work in her name and make sure her sacrifice was not for nothing. We’ll continue to bring pressure to bear on Israel until Palestine is free.” ‘Unlawful killing’ US National Security Council spokesman Sean Savett said President Joe Biden’s administration was “deeply disturbed by [Eygi’s] tragic death” and had asked Israel to investigate. However, Eygi’s advocates doubt an Israeli inquiry would clarify all the facts or ensure accountability. “If they leave [an inquiry] to the Israeli military, it will go on for weeks and months and then it will be forgotten, like the many cases before this,” Sultan Barakat, professor of public policy at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, told Al Jazeera. Eygi’s family said an Israeli investigation was not enough “given the circumstances”, and urged the US to handle it. “We call on President Biden, Vice President [Kamala] Harris, and Secretary of State [Antony] Blinken to order an independent investigation into the unlawful killing of a US citizen and to ensure full accountability for the guilty parties,” said the family. United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric also called for a “full investigation”, saying that “civilians must be protected at all times”. Nablus Governor Ghassan Daghlas, third from right, stands in front of the bodies of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, left, and 13-year-old Palestinian Bana Baker at a hospital morgue in Nablus, on September 7 [Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP] ‘Not unprecedented’ Eygi is not the first US citizen to be killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the West Bank. Earlier this year, an off-duty Israeli police officer and a settler opened fire and killed 17-year-old US citizen Tawfiq Ajaq near his ancestral village of al-Mazraa ash-Sharqiya. An investigation into the case is ongoing. In 2022, an Israeli sniper shot US citizen and Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was reporting at the time in the Jenin refugee camp. US Senator Chris Van Hollen said Eygi is the third American to be killed in the West Bank since October 7 and that the Biden administration “has not been doing enough to pursue justice and accountability on their behalf”. “It is unfortunate but it is not unprecedented”, US lawyer and Palestinian rights activist Tarek Khalil told Al Jazeera. “It’s another incident, another horrific killing of an innocent person that is protesting.” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/7/family-demands-independent-probe-into-killing-of-us-activist-in-west-bank

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