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On October 7, 2023, armed Hamas militants launched a surprise attack on Israel from Gaza, firing thousands of rockets and breaking through the Gaza-Israel barrier. At least 1,200 Israelis were killed in the attacks, which included an assault on a music festival, and hundreds more civilians and soldiers were taken hostage. In response, the Israeli government declared war on Hamas. The resulting barrage of artillery on Gaza and a subsequent blockade of aid caused the deaths of thousands of Palestinians and led to an international outcry.
Like the previous Vietnam generation of baby boomers, US university students are waking up to the atrocities their government commits or helps its client states to commit around the world.
If Western politicians are right, Beijing is behind the student protests in the US, responsible for preventing a British MP from visiting Djibouti and ‘fuelling the largest armed conflict in Europe since WWII’.
The world would be a better place if US politicians exercised the same conscientiousness over Palestine as they have over the Chinese autonomous region.
If China has been committing genocide in Xinjiang, then what do we call what Israel and the United States are doing to the people of Palestine?
Crisis-hit region needs ceasefire in Gaza where thousands have died in fighting, not another step towards a full-scale conflagration.
- The proposal that US and Egyptian mediators have put to Hamas -– apparently with Israel’s acceptance – sets out a three-stage process
- Phases include an immediate six-week ceasefire and partial release of Israeli hostages. Hamas wants a full Israeli withdrawal and complete end to the war
Israel and Hamas appear to be seriously negotiating an end to the war in Gaza and the return of Israeli hostages. Here’s what’s known so far about the current proposal.
The United Nations said it would take at least until 2040 to restore the homes devastated in Israel’s bombing and ground offensive if the conflict ended today.
Or’s wife, Yonat, was killed in the October 7 Hamas attack, while two of their three children were abducted and then freed as part of the November ceasefire deal.
Adnan Al-Bursh, head of orthopaedics at al-Shifa Hospital, was detained while temporarily working in north Gaza and kept in custody for over 4 months before his death.
The US president says the protests have not made him reconsider his position on the war, but he does not support calls to send in the National Guard.
The predawn police crackdown at UCLA marked the latest flashpoint for mounting tensions on US college campuses, where protests over Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza.
Tensions are boiling over at college campuses across the United States as police move in to break up protest encampments, clear out occupied buildings, and make arrests.
The United States and Saudi Arabia are said to be nearing a pact that would offer the kingdom security guarantees and lay out a possible pathway to diplomatic ties with Israel if it brings the war in Gaza to an end.
President Gustavo Petro described Israel’s siege of Gaza as ‘genocide’. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz accused Petro of being ‘antisemitic and full of hate’.
Students urged to prioritise safety and avoid the risk of suspension from their schools amid harassment of those who wear hijab or keffiyeh.
Eastern midfielder Barak Braunshtain is resurrecting his career in the Premier League, but still hears the sirens from the early days of the war in Gaza.
Violent clashes erupted on the University of California campus in Los Angeles between pro-Palestinian protesters and a group of counterdemonstrators.
Dozens of helmeted police flooded Columbia University’s campus in the heart of New York City to evict a building occupied by pro-Palestinian student protesters and detain demonstrators.
Decision whether to take part in demonstrations fraught with concerns as ‘it is already precarious to be Chinese in the US in these times’, says one.
Judges at the International Court of Justice on Tuesday ruled against issuing emergency orders to stop German arms exports to Israel, adding that they remained deeply concerned about conditions in Gaza.
Protesters barricaded the entrances of Hamilton Hall and unfurled a Palestinian flag out of a window in the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Gaza war
Rival Palestinian parties met in Beijing for an ‘in-depth and candid dialogue on promoting internal reconciliation’, according to ministry spokesman.
The Israeli PM pledged on Tuesday to launch an incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are sheltering from the 7-month-long war.
The US and its allies are concerned that the International Criminal Court may issue arrest warrants for Israeli officials just as the country is getting closer to a ceasefire agreement with Hamas, potentially jeopardising a deal.
The American chicken franchise, fast-food rival McDonald’s and US coffee chain Starbucks have all become targets of a nationwide boycott movement triggered by Israel’s war on Gaza.
The crackdown at Columbia, at the centre of Gaza-related protests roiling university campuses across the US, came as police at the University of Texas at Austin arrested dozens of students.
US and Israeli officials have said they hope to have the floating pier in place, the causeway attached to the shore and operations under way by early May.
UK foreign minister David Cameron said Hamas has been offered a 40-day ceasefire and the release of “potentially thousands” of Palestinian prisoners in return for freeing Israeli hostages.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken also said Israel must still do more to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into besieged Gaza
The White House insisted that pro-Palestinian protests that have rocked US universities in recent weeks must remain peaceful.
