 Hello and welcome to today's episode of the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch where we bring you some of the top stories from around the world. Let's take a look at today's headlines. Israel reinforces threat of escalation with Iran. Egypt uses French intelligence to kill civilians. At least nine killed in Brazilian police raids in Favella. And tribal activists resist mining in Indian state. We begin with Israel, which has reiterated its readiness to escalate confrontations with Iran. During a speech on November 23, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett stated that Israel was not a party to the 2015 nuclear deal and is not obligated by it. These remarks come just days before indirect talks on the deal are set to resume in Vienna on November 29. Israel has opposed the negotiations, claiming the deal is too favorable to Iran. Iran has denied Israeli accusations that it has built an atomic bomb and maintains that its nuclear program is peaceful. Moreover, unlike Iran, Israel is not a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It also abides by the Begin Doctrine, which is a policy of pre-emptive strikes on nuclear sites in supposed enemy countries. It destroyed an Iraqi nuclear facility in 1981 under this policy. The Israeli government has now allocated $1.5 billion to prepare its armed forces for a potential attack on Iranian nuclear sites. Representatives from the U.S. and Israel held a joint press conference in Bahrain on November 21. Israeli National Security Advisor Eyal Holata openly threatened that Israel would continue attacks on Iranian facilities to prevent it from acquiring nuclear capability. This was in response to comments by U.S. Regional Advisor Brett McGurk that talks were the only way to resolve the issue at the moment. A recent report also revealed that U.S. officials had warned Israel that attacks on nuclear facilities in Iran were counterproductive. However, these warnings were dismissed. Israeli operatives have already been linked to attacks on four Iranian nuclear sites and the assassination of top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakrizadeh. In our next story, Egypt has used French military intelligence to target and kill civilians suspected of smuggling. These findings are based on hundreds of leaked documents accessed by investigative websites disclosed. Egypt and France started collaborating on a mission called Operation Sirli in 2016. Its purpose was to provide intelligence on possible militant threats along Egypt's border with Libya. However, disclose stated that the mission's French members soon found that the information provided to Egypt was being used to kill civilians suspected of contraband. Disclose found that the French military was implicated in at least 19 airstrikes against civilians between 2016 and 2018. French military staff had repeatedly notified their superiors about this abuse of information. Moreover, one document noted that the terrorist problem was never raised during the course of the operation. French military intelligence and the Air Force had also raised concerns, including in a January 2019 note to Defense Minister Florence Parley. Despite this, France maintained its military presence in Egypt's western desert. Egypt has remained one of France's key arms client with a significant increase in sales recorded since President LCC came to power in 2014. French opposition deputies have called for a parliamentary commission to look into the matter. Next, we go to Brazil, where a favela on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro was rocked by a military police operation. Residents of the neighborhood in Salgueiro discovered the bodies of nine people in a mangrove on November 22. They were found hours after a raid by the police special forces Battalion or BEOPE. The operation took place on November 21, a day after the police said a sergeant on patrol was attacked and killed. Sunday's raid was prompted by information that a person involved in the attack was hiding in the favela. Police said that they had seized ammunition, cannabis and a substance resembling crack cocaine in the raid. However, the residents of the favela told the security observatory network that no weapons had been discovered with the nine bodies. Moreover, the bodies appear to show signs of torture. The raid in Salgueiro is being compared to Rio de Janeiro's deadliest police operation, the May 2021 raid in the Jacarajinio favela. Police were accused of summary executions during the operation which killed 28 people. Right's group Fogo Cruzado documented at least 58 shooting incidents with three or more victims in Rio State this year. Out of this, 74% were during police operations. Right's groups have reportedly accused Brazilian police of disproportionate and excessive violence in favelas which are predominantly inhabited by poor and Afro-Brazilian people. And for our final story, we go to India where local communities in the state of Odisha are resisting bauxite mining. The government initially handed a 20-year lease to aluminium company Hindalco in 2007. This included a mining capacity of 600,000 tonnes of bauxite per year. The project will be spread over 270 acres in Malipur with mine in Corapu district. It will directly impact 20,000 people across 44 villages and indirectly hit 200 villages. When Hindalco was first given the lease, the environmental impact assessment declared that there were no water bodies in Malipur. However, local residents have said that Malipur has 32 perennial streams and 4 canals. Villagers in the area belong to the historically oppressed Dalit and Adivasi communities. A public hearing on environmental clearance for the mining project was held on September 22. However, the police, company officials and hired goons blocked the roads leading up to the public hearing. Hundreds of villages protested the meeting and it was ultimately cancelled. Meanwhile, as per reports, at least 28 people were arrested and charged with rioting, being armed with deadly weapons and even attempted murder. The public hearing was then scheduled for November 22. Hundreds of women held a protest last week, citing police intimidation and frequent raids in villages to scare people into not opposing the hearing. Journalist Chitrangda Chaudhary also reported that prohibitory orders were imposed on 50 people a day before Monday's hearing. 30 platoons of police officers were deployed at the site of the public hearing on Monday. The venue was also cordoned off with iron wire fencing. Local activists also stated that police barred them from attending the meeting.