内容摘要：Though not as elaborate as the GTSEZ, purpose-built cyber-scam “compounds” have proliferated in Myanmar’s border areas with Thailand.

Though not as elaborate as the GTSEZ, purpose-built cyber-scam “compounds” have proliferated in Myanmar’s border areas with Thailand.

One of the biggest suppliers of Lego, which is readily sold on Russian online markets such as Ozon despite officially leaving the country, is a company registered in Poland, Bilax.When approached by an Al Jazeera journalist posing as a customer, a company representative said his main business was to transfer goods from Western Europe to Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

“We have continuous relationships with our clients in Russia and we are on the side of business in this conflict,” he said.He connected Al Jazeera to a company based in Russia, Kids’ Times, where a sales manager claimed to have access to almost any item of Lego “through their partners based in Europe”.In a statement to Al Jazeera, Bilax said that the company “has never traded Lego” and provides only logistical services for third parties.

Lego said in a statement to Al Jazeera that it has “taken steps to increase visibility and control over any potential resale activity by retail partners which includes adding a clause to existing retailer contracts prohibiting existing retail partners from supplying to Russia”.Businesses outside Russia willing to supply sanctioned goods directly to Russian customers are not difficult to find.

Styleout Watches and Jewellery, a jewellery store in Dubai that sells Rolex and other premium watches, told an Al Jazeera journalist posing as a buyer that it was “more than happy” to deal with a Russian client and had “lots of them”.

Rolex announced a boycott and ceased supplies to Russia after the Ukraine invasion and its watches are considered luxury goods under EU and US sanctions, although the UAE has not joined sanctions against Moscow.Israel is applying many of the tactics used in its war on Gaza to seize and control territory across the occupied West Bank during its Operation Iron Wall campaign, a new report [

Israel launched the operation in January. Defending what the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (termed “by far the longest and most destructive operation in the occupied West Bank since the second intifada in the 2000s”, the Israeli military claimed its intention was to preserve its “freedom of action” within the Palestinian territory

to rip up roads and destroy buildings, infrastructure, and water and electricity lines.The report by the British research group