CAIRO/JERUSALEM – Israeli planes and tanks pounded areas across the Gaza Strip, residents said, as White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan met Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday amid US calls for a more focused military campaign. Sullivan was expected to press for Israel to go after Hamas militants in a targeted way, […]
LONDON: Deprived of adequate access to water, sanitation, and hygiene services, Palestinian women and girls in Gaza are bearing the brunt of the prolonged and deepening humanitarian emergency caused Israel’s ongoing military offensive. With no resolution to the conflict between Israel and Hamas in sight, more than a million displaced women and girls in the
US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew said that the US government had been talking about post-war plans for Gaza for months [Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images] US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew said on Friday that the US government has been telling Israel that it must come up with a post-war plan for Gaza.
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Students at Columbia University in New York held demonstrations for weeks which sparked a worldwide student movement in support of Palestinian rights [GETTY] A group of top US businessmen from across the retail, tech and finance industries were working to encourage New York City’s mayor to use police against student pro-Palestinian protesters, according to a
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Yemen’s Houthis have launched dozens of attacks on vessels in and around the Red Sea since November in solidarity with the people of Palestine [Getty] A crude oil tanker was hit by a missile off the coast of Yemen’s southwestern city of Mokha overlooking the strategic Bab al-Mandeb strait, maritime security firm Ambrey said on
Under BBC guidelines neither Tel Aviv nor Jerusalem are referred to as the capital of Israel [Getty] The BBC has received accusations of bias after one of its reporters used Tel Aviv as a metonym for Israel against the public broadcaster’s guidelines. The incident occurred when BBC’s Washington Correspondent Gary O’Donoghue said in an interview
Many countries, including Britain and the United States paused their funding to UNRWA [GETTY] Austria will release funds to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) that were blocked after allegations agency staff were involved in the 7 October attacks on Israel. Vienna’s decision comes after UNRWA set out an action plan to better ensure its
Rival military groups have uprooted millions in Sudan and left the country in a dangerous humanitarian crisis [archive/Getty] Civilians in the Sudanese city of Al Fasher have been facing intensive fighting between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army over the past week, as the paramilitary group closes in on North Darfur’s
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Israeli troops and tanks pushed on Saturday into parts of a congested northern Gaza Strip district that they had previously skirted in the more than seven-month-old offensive, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, medics and residents said. On Saturday, troops and tanks edged into streets so far spared the ground offensive, residents said. In one
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Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek finance minister, launched MERA25 as a radical alternative to the European status quo [Getty] With less than three weeks to go before Europeans cast their votes in the European Parliament elections, MERA25 launched its campaign in Berlin, with a series of radical leftist policies on the economy, democratic rights and climate
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