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Organisers of Eurovision Song Contest ready to remove Palestinian flags or symbols

May 2, 2024 admin

The completed Eurovision stage at Malmo Arena is shown at a press conference in Malmo, Sweden on April 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Organisers of the Eurovision Song Contest said on May 2 they reserve the right to remove any Palestinian flags and pro-Palestinian symbols at the show next week in Sweden. The announcement…

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After mass arrests at Columbia University, pro-Palestinian protests sweep U.S. college campuses

April 23, 2024 admin

Columbia canceled in-person classes, dozens of protesters were arrested at New York University and Yale, and the gates to Harvard Yard were closed to the public on April 22 as some of the most prestigious U.S. universities sought to defuse campus tensions over Israel’s war with Hamas. More than 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had camped…

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Israeli strikes on southern Gaza city of Rafah kill 18 as U.S. advances aid package

April 21, 2024 admin

Palestinian children sit next to the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, April 21, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight killed 18 people, including 14…

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Israel to pull back some troops from South Gaza as war crosses six months

April 7, 2024 admin

Israeli soldiers patrol in a tank near the Israel-Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, on the Israeli side on April 7, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel’s military announced on April 7 it was drawing back some forces from a Hamas stronghold in southern Gaza following a major…

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Israel-Hamas war | Revisiting 10 key moments of the last six months, in pictures

April 6, 2024 admin

On October 7, members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an attack on southern Israel that resulted in the deaths of about 1,170 people, mostly civilians. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government responded to the worst attack in the country’s history with a devastating military campaign in Hamas-ruled Gaza that has killed nearly 33,000 people,…

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Gaza war | UN human rights body calls for halt to shipments of weapons to Israel as concerns mount

April 5, 2024 admin

A view of the screen showing the result of a vote on a resolution regarding the Israeli military campaign in Gaza, during the 55th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on April 5, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP The United Nations’ (UN) top human…

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India ‘concerned’ by Israeli attack on Iranian embassy in Syria

April 4, 2024 admin

Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal. | Photo Credit: MEA Briefing India is concerned by the Israeli attack on the Iranian diplomatic premises in Syria on April 1, the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement on April 4. “Distressed at the escalating tensions in West Asia and their potential to fuel further…

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As war grinds on in Gaza, Netanyahu comes under pressure at home to quit

April 4, 2024 admin

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Houdini of Israeli politics and its longest serving Prime Minister, has been written off many times before. But with thousands of protesters on the streets every night this week demanding his resignation, and growing anger at his handling of the war in Gaza, many wonder how long the veteran political escapologist can…

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Israeli strike kills seven World Central Kitchen aid group workers in Gaza, including foreigners

April 2, 2024 admin

A man displays blood-stained British, Polish, and Australian passports after an Israeli airstrike, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on April 1, 2024. Gaza medical officials say an apparent Israeli airstrike killed four international aid workers with the World Central Kitchen charity and their Palestinian driver after they helped deliver food and other supplies to northern…

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Palestinian Teen Shot Dead During Israeli West Bank Raid: Report

March 30, 2024 admin

Violence in West Bank had already been on the rise before Israel-Hamas war Israeli forces shot dead a 13-year-old Palestinian boy during a raid in the occupied West Bank, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Saturday, an incident which the Israeli military said was under review. There were confrontations with Israeli forces at…

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