内容摘要：Ward al-Sheikh Khalil, a young Palestinian girl, spoke to Al Jazeera after surviving an Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza city. Video showed her walking among the flames of the fires that broke out. The attack killed over 36 Palestinians, including her mother and siblings.

Ward al-Sheikh Khalil, a young Palestinian girl, spoke to Al Jazeera after surviving an Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza city. Video showed her walking among the flames of the fires that broke out. The attack killed over 36 Palestinians, including her mother and siblings.

A number of companies, including German firms Tchibo and Henkel, told Al Jazeera that they have limited means to prevent parallel imports.Coca-Cola said its ability to address the issue is “limited by regulatory factors linked primarily to free trade within the Eurasian Economic Union”, an integrated single market made up of Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.

Finnish food company Fazer, which owns Geisha chocolate, reiterated that it had permanently left Russia.“According to the information that we received during spring 2023 from Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE, the products still sold in Russia have entered the Russian market via Finland and Estonia, and they have been transported by private Russian citizens. Unfortunately, it is impossible for us to stop the trade when it comes to isolated cases,” the company told Al Jazeera in a statement.“Fazer exports some small amounts of products to Central Asia but there are no such sudden increases in these amounts, which could imply that products actually end up in Russia through these channels. If we detect that there is a customer who actively and professionally exports products, then we will intervene.”

Other brands identified in this story did not respond to requests for comment.In an analysis published in December, researchers at the Kyiv School of Economics found that customs data showed the “robust efforts” of many companies to “maintain their commitments and ethical standards”, and that companies that announced their complete exit from Russia had significantly reduced direct shipments of goods to the country.

However, in some cases, a brand’s exit appears to have been largely ceremonial.

While L’Occitane no longer directly supplies its Russian partners, the French brand continues to be imported to Russia in significant quantities.criticised by the army in 2007 for repeatedly

using Palestinian civilians as human shields.“What we’re seeing right now is a struggle between two Zionist elites over who is the greater fascist in different forms,” Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani, a professor at Tel Aviv University, said of the political struggles at play within Israel.

“On the one hand, there are the Ashkenazi Jews, who settled Israel, imposed the occupation and have killed thousands,” he said of Israel’s traditional military and governing elites, many of whom might describe themselves as liberal and democratic, and were originally from central and Eastern Europe. “Or [you have] the current religious Zionists, like Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, who [the old Ashkenazi elite] now accuse of being fascists.“You can’t reduce this to left and right. I don’t buy into that,” Shenhav-Shahrabani said. “It goes deeper. Both sides are oblivious to the genocide in Gaza.”