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Myth of conquest: why Gaza will never be subdued by Israel

TO CONQUER a place is to fundamentally subdue its population. This must be clearly differentiated from ‘occupation’, a specific legal term that governs the relationship between a foreign ‘occupying power’ and the occupied nation under international law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention...

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Israeli strikes kill 16 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli strikes on Monday killed at least 16 people across the Palestinian territory, which has been under an Israeli aid blockade for more than 50 days...

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Israel intercepts missile from Yemen

Israel’s military said Saturday it had intercepted a missile fired from Yemen, whose Huthi rebels have launched attacks throughout the Gaza war, as well as a drone approaching ‘from the east’.

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Spain awards 46 contracts to Israel: report

Spain has awarded 46 contracts worth more than one billion euros to Israeli defence firms since the outbreak of the Gaza war, breaking the leftist government’s pledge not to trade arms with Israel, researchers said on Friday.

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Israeli strikes kill 36 in Gaza

Gaza rescue teams and medics said Israeli air strikes killed at least 36 people on Thursday, including a family of six whose home was struck in Gaza City...

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Too little, too late

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vehement opposition to a Palestinian state aligns perfectly with a long-standing Zionist ideology that has consistently viewed the establishment of a Palestinian state as a direct threat to Israel’s very foundation as a settler colonial project...

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HRW accuses Israel of attacks on civilians in Lebanon war

Human Rights Watch accused Israel on Wednesday of ‘indiscriminate’ attacks on civilians during its recent war with Hezbollah, saying two deadly strikes in east Lebanon should be investigated as war crimes...

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De facto occupation: Israel’s security zone strategy

IN RECENT months, the Israeli Defence Forces have been much taken by a term that augurs poorly for peaceful accord in the Middle East. ‘Security zones’ are being seized in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria. Land is, for claimed reasons of self-defence, being appropriated with brazen assuredness. It is hard, however, to see this latest turn as anything other than a de...

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Israeli air strikes kill 25 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency reported that Israeli air strikes since dawn on Sunday have killed at least 25 people across the Gaza Strip, including women and children...

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End to Israeli mass killings in Palestine demanded

A cross section of people including academics, politicians, and rickshaw pullers on Saturday at a protest rally in Dhaka demanded an immediate end to Israeli offensive and mass killings in Palestine...

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One killed in Israeli strike in Lebanon

Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli strike on Friday hit a vehicle near the southern coastal city of Sidon, killing one person.

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Israeli air strikes kill 40 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Thursday that a rash of Israeli air strikes killed at least 40 people, most of them in encampments for displaced civilians, as Israel pressed its offensive in the Palestinian territory.

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Israeli air strikes kill 11 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency reported that Israeli air strikes in the early hours of Wednesday killed at least 11 people, including women and children...

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Palestinian resistance in Orwellian world

IN THE Orwellian world in which we now dwell, countries and groups that uphold international law are labeled terrorists or supporters of terrorism, while those that commit unspeakable crimes, flagrantly violating international and humanitarian laws, remain unlabeled and unpunished...

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The boycott Bangladesh has yet to learn

IN RECENT months, as Israel’s assault on Gaza has continued to draw global condemnation, public solidarity in Bangladesh has grown louder. Rallies in Dhaka and other cities have drawn thousands, with demonstrators demanding justice for Palestinians. Social media platforms have been flooded with expressions of outrage. Among the loudest chants at these protests is a...

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Israel is about to empty Gaza

ISRAEL is poised to carry out the largest campaign of ethnic cleansing since the end of World War II. Since March 2, it has blocked all food and humanitarian aid into Gaza and cut off electricity, so that the last water desalination plant no longer functions. The Israeli military has seized half of the territory — Gaza is 25 miles long and four to five miles wide — and placed...

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Gaza hospital hit as Israel intensifies assault

An Israeli air strike early Sunday heavily damaged one of the few functioning hospitals in Gaza, with the Israeli military saying it had targeted a Hamas ‘command and control centre’ operating within the facility.

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March for Gaza rally to be held in Dhaka today

In protest against the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, a rally of March for Gaza will be held at Suhrawardy Uddyan on Saturday, aiming to intensify global solidarity with the oppressed people of Palestine...

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Israeli strike kills family of 10 in Gaza

Dozens of Israeli air strikes on Gaza have killed ‘only women and children’ after a ceasefire collapsed, the UN said, as an Israeli attack in the territory’s south on Friday killed a family of 10.

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