Benjamin Netanyau has said Israel’s war on Gaza will continue despite the killing of Yahya Sinwar [Getty] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that the killing of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar in the Gaza Strip was the “beginning of the end” of the year-long war on the Palestinian territory. The Israeli military said that […]
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On the stage of the Modern Art Gallery of Catania, Sicily’s second-largest city, six Palestinian circus performers lift and drag a heavy Chinese pole. The group carries it in perfect synergy in a breathtaking display of athleticism and trust among each other. If one lets go, they will all get hurt. “But we all trust each
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Palestinian director Laila Abbas’ debut feature film, Thank You for Banking With Us!, will have its world premiere this week at the London Film Festival during arguably the most difficult period in Palestine’s history — a year of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza which has killed over 42,000 Palestinians, including more than 16,000 children and displaced 1.9 million people. Set
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In 1948, Morocco had the largest Jewish community in the region, with 260,000 Jews. [Getty] Morocco‘s parliament is set to debate a controversial decree that would grant citizenship to descendants of Moroccan Jews, most of whom immigrated to Israel in the last century. Anti-normalisation groups warn the move could pave the way for Israeli soldiers to
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Amnesty International and UN special rapporteurs on Thursday called for a transparent probe into reports that Iranian security forces had killed and wounded dozens of Afghan migrants seeking to cross into Iran from Pakistan. Iran hosts one of the largest refugee populations in the world, mostly Afghans who fled strife in their home country in
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Hezbollah fighters destroyed two Israeli Merkava tanks near the Israel-Lebanon border early on Thursday, according to local reports. The Lebanese television channel said anti-tank systems were fired in two separate incidents amid clashes around the al-Labbouneh Hill area, the first hitting a tank at around 12:50 am, causing the vehicle to catch fire. Hezbollah said
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UN experts on Thursday accused the two sides in Sudan’s civil war of using “starvation tactics” against 25 million civilians, leaving 97 percent of the population facing ” “severe levels of hunger”. “Never in modern history have so many people faced starvation and famine as in Sudan today,” said the group of about a dozen
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Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty (R) meets with his counterpart from Iran Abbas Araghchi in Cairo on October 17, 2024. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP) Iran’s top diplomat Abbas Araghchi and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned against the expansion of regional conflict during a rare meeting in Cairo Thursday. Araghchi is the first
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No European or US body has ever asked Israel to remove the hatred or negation of Palestinians from its schoolbooks, writes Anna Saif. [GETTY] How can they do that? Why are they like that? Where is their humanity? With each and every shocking episode of Israel’s genocidal attack on Palestinians in Gaza, with each day
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The military academy of Kenitra, about 60 kilometres north of Rabat, is the most unlikely place to discover one’s artistic vocation. But that was precisely what happened to Moroccan painter Mehdi Qotbi. It was in his teenage years at the academy that he was allowed to paint a wall. Out of sudden inspiration, he painted
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