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Media groups call on European Union to suspend treaty, impose sanctions on Israel

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Media groups call on European Union to suspend treaty, impose sanctions on Israel

Egyptian and Palestinian journalists attend a vigil for Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images Some 60 media and rights organisations on Monday (August 26, 2024) urged the European Union (EU) to suspend a cooperation accord with Israel and impose sanctions, accusing it of “massacring journalists” in Gaza. “In response to…

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Media Groups Urge EU To Sanction Israel For Death Of Journalists In Gaza

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Media Groups Urge EU To Sanction Israel For Death Of Journalists In Gaza

More than 130 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza since the war started (representational) Paris: Some 60 media and rights organisations on Monday urged the European Union to suspend a cooperation accord with Israel and impose sanctions, accusing it of “massacring journalists” in Gaza. “In response to the unprecedented number of journalists killed and…

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Kamala Harris Faces Uphill Battle To Win Back Muslim Votes In Swing State

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Kamala Harris Faces Uphill Battle To Win Back Muslim Votes In Swing State

Kamala Harris has vowed not to be silent about the suffering of Palestinians (file). Dearborn, United States: In key US swing state Michigan, Democratic voters of Arab and Middle Eastern heritage say Kamala Harris is going to have to win them back after they were alienated by President Joe Biden’s handling of Israel’s military offensive…

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Progress Made At Latest Round Of Gaza Truce Talks In Cairo, Says US

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Progress Made At Latest Round Of Gaza Truce Talks In Cairo, Says US

Fighting raged on Friday, with witnesses reporting combat in northern, central and southern Gaza (file). Palestinian Territories: The United States said Friday that progress had been made at the latest round of Gaza truce talks after the presence of Israeli troops on the Egyptian border emerged as a major sticking point. The White House said…

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Antony Blinken Heads To Egypt After Israel To Push For Gaza Ceasefire

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Antony Blinken Heads To Egypt After Israel To Push For Gaza Ceasefire

Antony Blinken said he had a very constructive meeting with the Israel PM on Monday. Israel: Top US diplomat Antony Blinken was due to travel to Egypt on Tuesday for talks on a Gaza ceasefire after saying Israel had accepted a US “bridging proposal” for a deal and urging Hamas to do the same. Blinken,…

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Will Go To Gaza Even If It Would “Cost My Life”, Says Palestine President

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Will Go To Gaza Even If It Would “Cost My Life”, Says Palestine President

“There cannot be a Palestinian state without Gaza,” Mahmud Abbas said (File) Ankara: Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas told a special session of the Turkish parliament on Thursday that he would travel to Gaza. He was speaking as health ministry officials in the Hamas-run territory said the death count from Israel’s assault there had passed…

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Airstrike On Gaza School Kills 100, Israel Says It Was Hamas Command Centre

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Airstrike On Gaza School Kills 100, Israel Says It Was Hamas Command Centre

Israel has vowed to destroy the Palestinian group in retaliation for its October attack. Gaza’s civil defence agency said Saturday an Israeli strike hit a school in Gaza City, killing 90-100 people, while the Israeli military said it had struck a Hamas command centre. “Forty martyrs and dozens wounded after the Israeli bombing of the…

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Gazans flee destroyed Khan Yunis as new Israel operation begins

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Gazans flee destroyed Khan Yunis as new Israel operation begins

By dusk, the streets of Khan Yunis stood completely deserted and eerily quiet. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Crowds fleeing Khan Yunis after an Israeli evacuation order gave way to empty streets on Friday as Palestinian residents tried to escape a new Israeli military operation in Gaza’s main southern area. “They threw leaflets at us,…

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