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Deadly Israeli strikes on ‘apocalyptic’ north Gaza

Israel on Saturday again carried out deadly air strikes on north Gaza, where the UN calls conditions ‘apocalyptic’, as Lebanon’s Hezbollah intensified rocket fire near Israel’s commercial hub of Tel Aviv, on Israel’s second front...

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Unprecedented madness grips Middle East

THE ongoing violence in Gaza has reached an alarming peak, with 93 more lives lost in the latest Israeli airstrikes on October 30. This brings the death toll past 43,000, a tragic number mostly comprising civilians and children, making it one of the deadliest periods in the region’s history. Each day, Gaza witnesses unimaginable destruction, and the...

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Israeli forces strike deadly bombing in Gaza

Israeli forces carried out new deadly bombings targeting Hamas in Gaza on Wednesday, as international mediators prepared to propose a short-term truce to free hostages and avert a humanitarian catastrophe...

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Deadly Israeli strike in Gaza amid anger over UN agency ban

A single Israeli air strike on a residential block left nearly 100 dead Tuesday, Gaza’s civil defence agency said, as Israel faced criticism after its parliament voted to ban the key UN aid agency working in the Palestinian territory...

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The US-Israel plan for the Gazans

DAN Cohen, an American Jew whose family in Lithuania had been wiped out by Hitler’s forces, is one of the great investigative journalists on Israel-Palestinian affairs, and he headlined on October 21, ‘US authorizes CIA mercenaries to run biometric concentration camps in Gaza Strip.’ He opened:...

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Crippling UNRWA

THE man has a cheek.  Having lectured Iranians and Lebanese about what (and who) is good for them in terms of rulers and rule (we already know what he thinks of the Palestinians), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been keeping busy on further depriving access and assistance to those in Gaza and the West Bank...

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Israel’s war on journalism

THERE are some 4,000 foreign reporters accredited in Israel to cover the war. They stay in luxury hotels. They go on dog and pony shows orchestrated by the Israeli military. They can, on rare occasions, be escorted by Israeli soldiers on lightning visits to Gaza, where they are shown alleged weapons caches or tunnels the military says are used by Hamas...

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Israeli forces detain hundreds at Gaza hospital

Gaza’s health ministry said on Friday hundreds of patients and staff were detained in north Gaza’s last functioning hospital, after the Israeli army said it was on the ground in the area.

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770 people killed in Israel assault on north of Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Thursday more than 770 people have been killed in the north of the territory since Israel launched an assault aimed at preventing Hamas from regrouping there.

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Reflections on Gaza and 2024 US elections

I GET calls and emails from my old friends and editors of some of the newspapers and online portals who ask me if I am doing okay. When I tell them I am doing okay, they ask me why...

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UN expert accuses West of gagging speech over Gaza

Protest crackdowns, banned marches, media workers at risk -- a UN expert on Friday accused Western nations and Israel of freedom of speech violations in the year since the Gaza war broke out.

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Israeli strike kills 33 in Jabalia

Gaza’s civil defence agency said an Israeli strike on Friday night near Jabalia in the territory’s north killed 33 people at a refugee camp.

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AFP, BBC win top French war reporting awards

The prestigious Bayeux War Correspondents’ Awards on Saturday honoured reporters from Agence France-Presse, the BBC and others documenting conflict and strife around the world...

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Nicaragua breaks off ties with Israel

Nicaragua on Friday announced plans to break off relations with Israel over the war in Gaza, calling the Israeli government ‘fascist and genocidal’...

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Southern EU states call for ME ceasefire

Leaders from nine European countries around the Mediterranean Sea on Friday called at a summit in Cyprus for an end to fighting in Gaza and Lebanon.

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30 killed in Israeli strikes in Jabalia

Gaza’s civil defence agency Friday said at least 30 people have been killed by Israeli strikes throughout the day in northern Gaza’s Jabalia town and refugee camp amid intense...

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Israeli strike on Gaza school kills 28

Rescuers in Gaza said Israel conducted a deadly air strike Thursday on a school housing families displaced by the war, though the Israeli military said it was a Hamas command centre.