Tag: israel
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Biden Pushes for Six-Week Fighting Pause in Israel-Hamas Hostage Deal
US President Joe Biden said he’s pushing for a six-week pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas to allow for the release of hostages, saying those conditions could lay the groundwork for broader peace. Such a pause “would bring an immediate and sustained period of calm into Gaza for at least six weeks, which we…
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Israeli drone attack kills 2 in Lebanon, one of the deepest hits inside the country in weeks
An Israeli drone strike hit a car near Lebanon’s southern port city of Sidon on Saturday, killing at least two people and wounding two others, security officials said. The strike came as tensions across the Middle East grow with the Israel-Hamas war, a drone attack last month that killed three U.S. troops in northeastern Jordan…
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U.S. claims it won’t support ‘unplanned’ ground operation in Rafah, Israel escalates attacks anyway
the U.S. has so far done little to meaningfully use its leverage in the region — even though Netanyahu threw out a proposed ceasefire earlier this week. Alarmingly, the Israeli military continues to intensify its attacks across the Gaza Strip. Over the past 24 hours, Israeli airstrikes have targeted several homes across Gaza City, as well as homes in…
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‘Overruled’: Over 800 U.S. And Allied Officials Issue Public Call For Shift In Gaza Policy
A group of more than 800 government officials in the U.S., Britain and major European countries ― as well as European Union institutions ― has signed a letter urging Western countries to reconsider their policy of near-total support for Israel’s devastating offensive in Gaza. The letter, released Friday, urges those governments to use all possible…
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Anti-Muslim incidents jump in US amid Israel’s genocide
Complaints of anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian discrimination and hate in the U.S. rose by about 180% in the three months after Oct. 7 following Hamas’ attack on Israel and Israel’s subsequent assault on Hamas-governed Gaza genocide, an advocacy group said on Monday. The justification of Israel’s genocide in these articles is really such a contorted backflip.…
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Iran’s IRGC says 5 members killed in Israeli attack on Syria’s Damascus
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says five of its “military advisers” have been killed in an Israeli air raid on a residential building in Syria’s capital, Damascus. Syrian state media SANA said the attack on Saturday took place in the Mazzeh neighbourhood. It said “Israeli aggression” targeted the building. Iran also blamed Israel for the…
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Six Jewish students file federal lawsuit against Harvard, calling it ‘a bastion’ of ‘anti-Jewish hatred’
Several graduate and law students at Harvard University filed a federal lawsuit against the Ivy League school this week, accusing the administration of failing to protect Jewish students from antisemitic harassment on campus during the Israel-Hamas war Israeli Zionist genocide. The 79-page civil complaint, filed Wednesday in US District Court in Boston, alleges that antisemitism at…
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Israel and Hezbollah trade fire across the Lebanon border as more bombs hit Gaza
The Israeli army said it had “struck a series of Hezbollah terror targets” across southern Lebanon including “a launch post, military sites and terrorist infrastructure”. It said its fighter jets struck two Hezbollah military compounds containing significant assets, including one used by the group’s surface-to-air missile unit. It said that earlier in the day a…