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Embracing hostage families, Blinken urges Hamas to accept ‘very strong’ deal

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Embracing hostage families, Blinken urges Hamas to accept ‘very strong’ deal

U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, fourth left, and Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, third left, walk at the Kerem Shalom border crossing in Kerem Shalom, Israel on May 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Hamas on May 1 to accept a “very strong” ceasefire-for-hostages offer as he vowed…

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Biden and Netanyahu speak as pressure’s on Israel over planned Rafah invasion and cease-fire talks

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Biden and Netanyahu speak as pressure’s on Israel over planned Rafah invasion and cease-fire talks

The White House on April 28 said U.S. President Joe Biden had again spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as pressure builds on Israel and Hamas to reach a deal that would free some Israeli hostages and bring a cease-fire in the nearly seven-month-long war in Gaza. The White House said that Mr. Biden…

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Columbia University Faces Civil Rights Case Over Protesters Arrests

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Columbia University Faces Civil Rights Case Over Protesters Arrests

Columbia University did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A pro-Palestinian US group filed a federal civil rights complaint against Columbia University following last week’s mass arrest of anti-war protesters after the school called police to clear demonstrator encampments, the group said on Thursday. Palestine Legal, an organisation that seeks to protect the…

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Israel pummels Gaza after U.S. Congress approves military aid

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Israel pummels Gaza after U.S. Congress approves military aid

April 24, 2024 10:10 pm | Updated 10:10 pm IST – Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territories Israel pounded Gaza with air strikes and artillery fire in its war against Hamas on Wednesday after the U.S. Congress approved $13 billion in military aid. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said the Senate’s approval of the aid package already…

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

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

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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Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza city of Rafah kills at least nine Palestinians, including six children

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Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza city of Rafah kills at least nine Palestinians, including six children

An Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza’s southernmost city killed at least nine people, six of them children, hospital authorities said on April 20, as Israel pursued its nearly seven-month offensive in the besieged Palestinian territory. Israel’s war against the Islamic militant group Hamas has led to a dramatic escalation of tensions in an…

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West Bank villagers vigilant but vulnerable after settler attacks

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West Bank villagers vigilant but vulnerable after settler attacks

Palestinian men sit around a camp fire as they watch over livestock on the outskirts of the village of the West Bank village of Al-Mughayyir near Ramallah, in the aftermath of a settler attack on their village, on April 17, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Sitting around a fire in the hills of the Israeli-occupied…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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