Tag: gaza
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Top Hamas Official Killed In Beirut Blast, Hezbollah Says
An explosion in Beirut on Tuesday killed Saleh Arouri, a top official with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and three others, officials with Hamas and the Lebanese group Hezbollah said. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the blast killed four people and was carried out by an Israeli drone. Israeli officials declined to comment. If…
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Renowned Australian journalist John Pilger passes away at 84
John Pilger, the renowned Australia-born investigative journalist who was a trenchant critic of the West’s “imperialist” foreign policy, has died at age 84. Remember Pilger through truth-telling, integrity and fearlessness; maintain the rage and critique the imperialist and colonialist agenda always.
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Israel’s Supreme Court Overturns Key Part Of Netanyahu’s Judicial Overhaul
In an 8-7 decision, the Supreme Court justices struck down the law because of the “severe and unprecedented harm to the core character of the State of Israel as a democratic country.” The justices also voted 12-3 that they had the authority to overturn so-called “Basic Laws,” major pieces of legislation that serve as a…
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Missile hits Red Sea container ship, US destroyers shoot down two more
The Houthis have targeted vessels in the vital Red Sea shipping lane with strikes they say are in support of Palestinians in Gaza, where Israel is waging war to root out the militant group Hamas. Several shipping lines have suspended operations through the Red Sea in response to the attacks, instead taking the longer journey…
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Netanyahu thanks US for weapons sales, vows Hamas war will continue
Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that Israel’s war against Hamas will continue for “many more months,” amid mounting civilian deaths, hunger and mass displacement in Gaza. Israel’s prime minister thanked the Biden administration for its continued backing, including approval of emergency weapons sales – the second this month. He also praised Washington’s veto of a…
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Biden administration approves “emergency” sale of howitzer shells to Israel amid intensification of ethnic cleansing in Gaza Strip
A further warning from the World Health Organisation illustrates how Israel is also using disease to implement its genocidal policy. WHO president Tedros Ghibreyesus stated that records show almost 180,000 cases of upper respiratory infections, 136,400 cases of diarrhea, half of which are in children under the age of 5, and 55,400 cases of lice…
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Majority of Israeli Jews ‘support the removal of Palestinians from Gaza’
“Israeli-Jewish society has been radicalised,” Loewenstein said. “There was a poll just this week that found 70-80 percent of Israeli Jews support the idea of finding somewhere else for Palestinians in Gaza to be removed. Israel claims that this is somehow voluntary, which is nonsense. “Gaza is being made uninhabitable deliberately and therefore there are…
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South Africa brings case to top UN court accusing Israel of genocide
South Africa has been a fierce critic of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Many there, including President Cyril Ramaphosa, have compared Israel’s policies regarding Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank with South Africa’s past apartheid regime of racial segregation. South Africa asked the Hague-based court to issue an interim order for Israel to immediately…