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Over 500 Palestinians killed by Israel in the West Bank since October 7

The death toll due to Israel operations in the occupied West Bank since October 7 crossed 500 on Thursday after three youths were killed by Israeli forces raiding Tulkarm. Mohamed...

Euro-Med Monitor clams Israel strike on civilians at internet distribution point, calls it “another massacre”

Israeli army has committed another horrific massacre against Palestinian civilians in Gaza City who were trying to access communications and Internet services, says Euro-Med...

‘Blockout’ campaign aims at silence of celebraties on Gaza genocide 

A growing online movement is calling for the mass blocking of celebrities on social media who have stayed...

Forced displacement continues for Palestinians 76 years after Nakba: UNRWA

The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees has drawn attention to the masses of Palestinians who have been displaced...

Nestlé adds excessive amount of sugars to baby food in low-income countries: report

An alarming report by Swiss nonprofit Public Eye and the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) has accused global food giant Nestlé of adding excessive amounts of sugar to its baby food products sold in low- and middle-income countries.

“Let our enemy know that our anger is imminent…”: Hamas warns Israel against Al-Aqsa Mosque restrictions in Ramadan

“Let our enemy know that souls are boiling … [our] anger is imminent … and an explosion is coming in response to any restrictions on the entry of Muslims to Al-Aqsa Mosque during the month of Ramadan,” Hamas wrote on its Telegram page

“There is a total mess”, retired general on Israeli military operations in Gaza

Retired Israeli Major General, Itzhak Brik, exposed the Israeli army's chaotic condition in Gaza. "There is a total mess. Equipment, logistics, food, and everything that is needed to move forward...
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“I would not exchange my freedom for my dignity”: Brazil’s Lula blasts Israel’s ‘genocide’ in Gaza – again

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has doubled down on his criticism of Israel, saying, once again, that what “the Israeli government is doing is not war, it is genocide”.

At least 40 killed in ‘heinous massacre’ in central Gaza, “all of them women, children,” says Hamas

Israeli army shelling of residential homes in central Gaza late on Thursday killed at least 40 Palestinians and injured over hundred, local authorities said.
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Immediate ceasefire is ‘common wish’ of international community, says China

Speaking at the United Nations Security Council, China’s representative to the UN, Zhang Jun, has said that a ceasefire in Gaza is an “urgent imperative to save innocent lives and to prevent a wider war.”

Israel should not be ordered to immediately end occupation: US at World Court

The United States has told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that it should not order the unconditional withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Palestinian territories without security guarantees. The...
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Gaza has become a ‘death zone’, warns WHO chief

“Gaza has become a death zone,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organisation’s Director-General told reporters on Wednesday during a press briefing in Geneva. “Much of the territory has been destroyed. More than...

Palestinian human rights lawyer, her seven family members killed by Israeli shelling

Nour Naser Abu al-Nour, a human rights lawyer working with Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, was killed last night along with seven of her family members, including her two-year-old daughter, in an Israeli attack on her home in Rafah, in the far south of the Gaza Strip.
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Nasser Hospital in Gaza ‘place of death’, says UN

Besieged hospital in Gaza’s Khan Younis, Nasser Medical Complex, has become “place of death”, says United Nations official after aid visit.

Julian Assange in his final battle to prevent US extradition

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange begins his final legal battle to stop his extradition from Britain to the United States on February 20. After fighting the authorities for more than 13...
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Book review: My People Shall Live by Leila Khaled

‘My People Shall Live’ is the autobiography of the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) revolutionary Leila Khaled who attempted two plane hijacks- TWA Flight 840 and El-Al Flight 219 in 1969 and 1970 in order to free her people who were being held as prisoners in Israel, as well as bring the Palestinian cause to the forefront. The book, originally published in 1973, was edited by George Hajjar. 

Brazil recalls envoy to Israel following spat over Lula’s comments on Gaza genocide

Brazil’s foreign ministry has said that the country’s ambassador to Israel has been called home, following an Israeli announcement that Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva would be “persona non grata” until he retracted comments drawing parallels between Israel’s war on Gaza and the Holocaust.
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