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Satellite view of Gaza’s ruins reveals the savagery of bombardment

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Satellite view of Gaza’s ruins reveals the savagery of bombardment

Palestinians inspect the destruction following overnight Israeli strikes on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 6, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. | Photo Credit: AFP As well as killing more than 34,000 people and causing catastrophic levels of hunger and injury, the seven-month war between Israel…

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Turkey halts trade with Israel over Gaza humanitarian crisis

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Turkey halts trade with Israel over Gaza humanitarian crisis

File picture of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan | Photo Credit: AP Turkey has halted all exports and imports to and from Israel, citing the escalating humanitarian situation in Gaza, announced the Turkish Ministry of Trade, Al Jazeera reported. “Export and import transactions related to Israel have been stopped, covering all products,” the Ministry said…

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Hamas says it received Israel’s response to its ceasefire proposal

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Hamas says it received Israel’s response to its ceasefire proposal

Palestinians sit at the rubble of a residential building destroyed by Israeli strikes, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the northern Gaza Strip, April 22, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Hamas said it had received on April 27 Israel’s official response to its latest ceasefire proposal and will study it before submitting…

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New York Students Admit They Have No Idea What They Are Protesting

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New York Students Admit They Have No Idea What They Are Protesting

Students at universities across the US are staging encampments to protest the war in Gaza. A video circulating online shows two anti-Israel protesters at New York University struggling to explain the purpose of the demonstrations. The clip, posted on X by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, shows a young woman at an NYU protest…

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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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U.S. vetoes resolution backing full U.N. membership for Palestine

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U.S. vetoes resolution backing full U.N. membership for Palestine

Representatives of member countries take votes during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, on April 18, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP The United States vetoed a widely backed U.N. resolution on Thursday that would have paved the way for full United Nations membership for the state of Palestine. The vote in the 15-member…

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US Vetoes Palestinian Request For Full UN Membership

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US Vetoes Palestinian Request For Full UN Membership

US on Thursday vetoed a Security Council measure on a Palestinian bid for full United Nations membership. United Nations: The United States on Thursday vetoed a Security Council measure on a Palestinian bid for full United Nations membership. The draft resolution, which was introduced by Algeria and “recommends to the General Assembly that the State…

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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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