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Murder of Anas al-Sharif

‘ASSASSINATION,’ wrote George Bernard Shaw in The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, ‘is the extreme form of censorship’. Such extremism visited Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues in Gaza City late on August 10. Resting in a tent located outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, he was killed alongside Al Jazeera correspondent...

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Israeli air strikes on Gaza intensifying

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli air strikes on Gaza City have intensified in recent days, following prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet approving plans to expand the war there.

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Gazans mourn Al Jazeera staff killed by Israel

Gazans gathered on Monday for the funeral of five Al Jazeera staff members and a sixth reporter killed in an Israeli strike, with Israel calling one of them a ‘terrorist’ affiliated with Hamas.

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Greta, activists plan new aid flotilla to Gaza

Greta Thunberg said she and a Palestinian activist group plan to sail a new flotilla loaded with humanitarian aid to Gaza to break the ‘illegal Israeli siege’.

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Netanyahu and taking over Gaza

TO SAY that Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had lost the plot is to assume he ever had one. With a dearth of ideas as to how to come up with a ‘final solution’ to the Palestinian problem, he has received a majority approval from his cabinet colleagues to take over Gaza City. It took a late-night meeting with the security cabinet lasting some ten hours...

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Israel’s Gaza plan risks another calamity: UN

A UN official on Sunday warned the Security Council that Israel’s plans to control Gaza City risked ‘another calamity’ with far-reaching consequences as Benjamin Netanyahu insisted his goal was not to occupy the territory.

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Israeli strike kills 18 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said at least 18 people were killed across the Palestinian territory on Saturday, including civilians who were waiting to collect aid.

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Trump seeks $1b from University of California over UCLA protests

President Donald Trump demanded a massive $1 billion fine from the prestigious University of California system on Friday as the administration pushed its claims of anti-Semitism in UCLA’s response to 2024 student protests related to Gaza...

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Israel plans to ‘take control’ of Gaza City

Israel’s military will ‘take control’ of Gaza City under a new plan approved by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet, touching off a wave of criticism Friday from both inside and outside the country.

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Relatives of Israeli hostages set off on Gaza flotilla

Relatives of Israeli hostages set sail on Thursday in a flotilla to approach the Gaza Strip, according to an AFP journalist aboard one vessel, with organisers saying they hoped to ‘get as close as possible to their loved ones’.

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20 killed by overturned aid truck in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Wednesday that 20 people were killed when an aid truck overturned on a crowd of aid seekers in the central Gaza Strip...

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Israeli attacks kill 26 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said 26 people were killed by Israeli gunfire and air strikes on Tuesday, including 14 who were waiting near an aid distribution site inside the Palestinian territory.

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A ‘blatantly theatrical display’

PALESTINIANS and international humanitarian groups were among those who denounced Friday’s (August 1) highly orchestrated tour of a Gaza aid distribution center run by a US-backed group condemned for its role in Israeli forces’ massacres of desperate people seeking food and other lifesaving aid...

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Israeli fire kills 22 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli gunfire and air strikes killed at least 22 people on Friday, including eight who were waiting to collect food aid in the war-battered Palestinian territory.

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US-Israel genocidal partnership

FOR decades, countless US officials have proclaimed that the bonds between the United States and Israel are unbreakable. Now, the ties that bind are laced with genocide. The two countries function as accomplices while methodical killing continues in Gaza, with both societies directly, and differently, making it all possible...

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Bangladesh foreign adviser calls for ceasefire in Gaza

Bangladesh interim government foreign affairs adviser Md Touhid Hossain has urged an immediate, unconditional ceasefire in Gaza and accountability for crimes against Palestinians while addressing a high-level UN conference on the peaceful settlement of the Palestine question in New York.

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Israeli fire kills 16 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said 16 people were killed by Israeli fire Monday in the Palestinian territory devastated by more than 21 months of war.

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The Gaza Riviera

ISRAELIS do not see the images of skeletal corpses of Palestinian children who they have starved to death as a curse. They do not see the slain families they gun down at food hubs — designed not to deliver aid but lure starving Palestinians into a massive concentration camp in the south of Gaza in preparation for deportation — as a war crime. Israelis do not look at...