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Israel threats to expel Gazans over kite-flying ‘outrageous’: UN

August 25, 2026 admin

The United Nations on Tuesday (August 25, 2026) slammed Israel’s threat to expel people from areas where kites, drones and balloons are launched from Gaza, lamenting “unacceptable rhetoric” coming from Israeli leaders. File | Photo Credit: AFP The United Nations on Tuesday (August 25, 2026) slammed Israel’s threat to expel people from areas where kites,…

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Settlers kill Palestinian teen in West Bank clash, and other Middle East developments

August 21, 2026 admin

A Palestinian teenager was killed by Israeli settlers on Friday (August 21, 2026) after a rock-throwing incident in the occupied West Bank. The Ministry identified the teenager as Karim Sanad Raja Shalaldeh. The teenager’s father told The Associated Press at the hospital that Israeli settlers had killed his son. The Israeli military said soldiers were…

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Israel’s Ben Gvir advocates killing ’30 to 40’ people in Gaza nightly while speaking to ex-hostage

August 16, 2026 admin

An extremist Israeli lawmaker in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition publicly advocated for killing “30 to 40” people in Gaza each night, comments that surfaced on Sunday (August 16, 2026) and were quickly shared by Palestinian media. Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir made the statement while speaking to a former Gaza-held hostage, Rom Braslavski,…

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Israeli strikes in Gaza kill two; medical supply warehouses hit

August 1, 2026 admin

Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli airstrike at al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on August 1, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Gaza’s civil defence agency and medical sources said Israeli strikes in the Palestinian territory on Saturday (August 1, 2026) killed two people and significantly damaged a hospital’s medical supply warehouses….

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Israeli settlers set fire to West Bank mosques after deadly clash

July 26, 2026 admin

A Palestinian man inspects the damage at a mosque, which Palestinians say was damaged by Israeli settlers, in Qusra near Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, July 26, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villages in the occupied ‌West Bank early on Sunday (July 26, 2026), setting fire to two mosques and…

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Palestinians say Israeli forces kill two during settler attack

July 20, 2026 admin

Palestinian women mourn over the body of Awda Farakhneh, 53, who, according to the health authorities, was killed by Israeli army fire following a settler attack, during his funeral in the West Bank town of Deir Jarir, northeast Ramallah, Monday, July 20, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP The Palestinian Health Ministry said Monday (July 20,…

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What do genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity mean?

June 26, 2026 admin

“Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, ‌resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank,” an independent U.N. inquiry said on Tuesday (June 23, 2026). International criminal law, as codified in the Rome Statute of the Internation Criminal Court (ICC) and customary…

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Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says

June 23, 2026 admin

Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, ‌resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent U.N. inquiry said on Tuesday (June 23, 2026). The report by the U.N. Independent ⁠International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East…

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Israeli soldiers shoot dead two Palestinian teens in West Bank

June 22, 2026 admin

Israeli military machinery demolishes a Palestinian building in Kafr Aqab in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, near Jerusalem, on June 22, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli soldiers shot dead two Palestinian teenagers in the occupied West Bank on Monday (June 22, 2026), Palestinian officials said, while the Israeli ‌military said the two had attacked a…

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Israeli settlers torch two West Bank mosques: Palestinian officials

June 17, 2026 admin

A man clears the rubble at one of the West Bank mosques that were vandalised and partly set on fire by Israeli settlers overnight in the village of Jiljilya, north of Ramallah, on June 17, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Israeli settlers set fire to mosques in two West Bank villages on Wednesday (June 17,…

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