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UN urges access for international investigators to Gaza after bodies found

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UN urges access for international investigators to Gaza after bodies found

Mourners gather for a mass burial of around 100 Palestinians, including 62 children, whose remains where recovered from rubble, in Gaza City. File | Photo Credit: AFP The United Nations called Tuesday (September 15, 2026) for international investigators to be granted to access to all of Gaza “to assist with evidence-gathering” as hundreds of bodies…

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Israel is building a miles-long earthen barrier inside Gaza, entrenching its division

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Israel is building a miles-long earthen barrier inside Gaza, entrenching its division

The Israeli military is quietly but quickly building a giant earthen barrier separating the over 50% of the Gaza Strip it controls from the rest of the territory, according to satellite imagery, further entrenching the division of the tiny Palestinian enclave. More than 23 Km (14 miles) have been constructed in recent months, running through…

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Israeli fire kills five people in Gaza, including a child, medics say

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Israeli fire kills five people in Gaza, including a child, medics say

Mourners carry the bodies of two Palestinian girls, Zeina Safadi and her sister Lana, who were killed during an overnight Israeli airstrike that damaged their home, during their funeral in Gaza City, on June 20, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least five ​people, including a child, in the ‌Gaza…

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Israel’s security cabinet approves measures to strengthen control over West Bank

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Israel’s security cabinet approves measures to strengthen control over West Bank

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, in a statement, announced the decisions that would make it easier for Jewish settlers to force Palestinians to give up land. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel’s security cabinet on Sunday (February 8, 2026) approved measures that aim to deepen Israeli control over the occupied West Bank and weaken the…

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Hamas to return Israeli hostage’s body, part of fragile ceasefire

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Hamas to return Israeli hostage’s body, part of fragile ceasefire

Red Cross personnel, escorted by Hamas militants, wait to head towards an area within the so-called “yellow line” to which Israeli troops withdrew under the ceasefire, as Hamas says it continues to search for the bodies of deceased hostages seized during the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, in Gaza City, on November 12, 2025….

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Israel strikes Gaza as Palestinians pin hopes on Trump’s Gaza plan

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Israel strikes Gaza as Palestinians pin hopes on Trump’s Gaza plan

Israeli planes and tanks pounded areas across the Gaza Strip overnight and on Sunday (October 5, 2025), destroying several residential buildings, witnesses said, as Palestinians desperately awaited implementation of a U.S. plan to end the war. U.S. President Donald Trump, who had called for an end to the bombing, said on Saturday (October 4, 2025)…

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Indian academia in times of genocide

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Indian academia in times of genocide

In August, as part of a group of 500 scientists and academics, we petitioned the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) regarding Israel’s participation. The IOAA, held in Mumbai from 11-21 August with 63 countries participating, is one of the major science Olympiads designed to identify talented high-school students. The Olympiads are a matter…

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