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Principal Deputy Legal Adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel Tamar Kaplan Tourgman (left) and Legal Adviser at Israeli Embassy to the Netherlands Avgail Frisch Ben Avraham attend a court session in The Hague on May 17, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Israel strongly denied charges of genocide on May 17, telling the…
Presiding judge Nawaf Salam, third from right, opens the hearings at the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, Netherlands, on May 16, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP The United Nations’ top court on May 16 opened two days of hearings into a request from South Africa to press Israel to halt its military operation…
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Palestinians carry mock large keys during a mass ceremony to commemorate the Nakba Day, Arabic for catastrophe, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP As Israel keeps up its campaign against Hamas, Arab leaders are mapping out ways to support post-war Gaza, placing one major condition on…
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This photo provided by Sarah Hubbard shows pro-Palestinian protesters in Okemos, Michigan., demonstrating outside the home of Sarah Hubbard, the chair of the University of Michigan’s governing board, on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Pro-Palestinian protesters wearing masks pitched tents and placed fake bloody corpses outside the home of a University of…
The exodus of Palestinians from Gaza’s last refuge accelerated on May 12 as Israeli forces pushed deeper into the southern city of Rafah. Israel also pounded the territory’s devastated north, where some Hamas militants have regrouped in areas the military said it had cleared months ago. Rafah is considered Hamas’ last stronghold. Some 3,00,000 of…
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A tiny contingent of Duke University graduates opposed pro-Israel comedian Jerry Seinfeld speaking at their commencement in North Carolina on May 12, with about 30 of the 7,000 students leaving their seats and chanting “free Palestine” amid a mix of boos and cheers. Some waved the red, green, black and white Palestinian flag. Mr. Seinfeld,…
Smoke rises following Israeli bombardment in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on May 12, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas. | Photo Credit: AFP Israeli tanks, under cover from heavy fire from air and ground, pushed further into Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, May 13, 2024,…
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Palestinians check the rubble of a residential building destroyed by an Israeli strike in Al-Zawayda in the central Gaza Strip on May 11, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas movement. Photo used for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: AFP Hamas’s armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, on May 11 released…
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Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan destroys with a machine a piece of paper with the title of the United Nations Charter as he addresses delegates during the United Nations General Assembly before voting on a draft resolution that would recognize the Palestinians as qualified to become a full U.N. member, in New…
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Pro-Palestinian messages are scribbled on a sign board mounted outside the plenary hall by delegates attending the 2024 United Nations Civil Society Conference (UNSCS) the UN Headquarters in Nairobi on May 10, 2024. An Israeli ground attack in Gaza’s Rafah would lead to an “epic humanitarian disaster”, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on May 10,…
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