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Hamas ‘only thing standing between the people of Gaza and a ceasefire’: U.S.’s Blinken

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Ashdod, Israel, on May 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Accepting a ceasefire deal with Israel should be a “no-brainer” for Hamas, but the motivations of the militants’ elusive Gaza-based leadership remain unclear, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, has announced…

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Watch | Campus protests in U.S. | Will it impact presidential elections?

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First let’s tell you where the US election campaign is- We are about 2 months from the Republican National Convention- despite cases against him, Mr. Trump seems set to be the candidate About 3 months from the Democratic Convention- where despite concerns about his age and health, Mr. Biden is the confirmed candidate And about…

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Turkey Halts Trade Activities With Israel Amid Non-Stop Violence Against Palestinians

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Ankara: Turkey halted all trade activities with Israel due to the latter’s “non-stop violence” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the Turkish Trade Ministry said. The move follows Turkey’s imposition of restrictions on an array of exports to Israel since last month, which Ankara said on Thursday would remain in effect until a ceasefire in…

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Israel Military Says It Will Scale Up Amount Of Aid Going Into Gaza

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File photo Jerusalem: The amount of humanitarian aid going into the Gaza Strip will be ramped up in the coming days, Israel’s military said on Sunday, citing new corridors that use an Israeli seaport and border crossings into the Palestinian enclave. After closing off access to Gaza following the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 that…

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Students resume pro-Palestinian protests at a prestigious Paris university after police intervention

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Police officers watch students outside the Sciences-Po university on April 26, 2024 in Paris. | Photo Credit: AP Students at a prestigious university in Paris resumed pro-Palestinian protests on Friday, inspired by Gaza solidarity encampments at campuses around the United States, two days after French police broke up another demonstration. Dozens of students at the…

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Gaza | Premature baby girl rescued from her dead mother’s womb dies after 5 days in an incubator

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Palestinian baby girl, Sabreen Jouda, who was delivered prematurely after her mother was killed in an Israeli strike along with her husband and daughter, lies in an incubator in the Emirati hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip on April 21, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A premature Palestinian infant, rescued from her mother’s womb shortly…

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Israel says forces carrying out ‘offensive action’ in south Lebanon

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Israeli and Lebanese flags are seen in this illustration | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli forces are carrying out “offensive action” across southern Lebanon, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said Wednesday without specifying whether ground troops had crossed the border. “Many forces are deployed on the border and IDF (army) forces are carrying out offensive action currently…

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After Columbia, Pro-Palestine Protests At Other Top US Universities

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Students from several other universities in the US are holding rallies Pro-Palestine encampments at Columbia University in the US are still going strong, despite 108 students being arrested and three suspended last week. Contrary to what the police’s sweep of the encampments had hoped to achieve, the crackdown has simply stoked the fires of dissent….

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Why US University Students Are Protesting Against Israel-Hamas War In Gaza

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Students across the US universities and colleges have been protesting for a few weeks now It has been 200 days since Israel launched its brutal war in Gaza, retaliating against the October 7 attack carried out by Hamas. As the calls for the ceasefire grow in different parts of the world, university and college students in…

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Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu Vows To Increase “Military Pressure” On Hamas

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File photo Jerusalem: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Israel will increase “military pressure” on Palestinian group Hamas in a bid to secure the release of hostages held in Gaza. “In the coming days we will increase the military and political pressure on Hamas because this is the only way to free our hostages,”…

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