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Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry is reporting that 112 Palestinians have been killed and another 148 injured over the last 24 hours. It brings the total number of those killed in Gaza since the conflict began to 27,131, the ministry says. A further 66,287 people have been injured. Israel launched its ground and air offensive in…
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The UN Palestinian agency says it will be forced to stop humanitarian operations in Gaza in four weeks if key international backers do not restart funding. “If the funding is not resumed, UNRWA will not be able to continue its services and operations across the region, including in Gaza, beyond the end of February,” a…
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MEZIESBLOG now reports the key part of ICJ proceedings on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Judge Donaghue says: “Having considered the terms of the provisional measures requested by South Africa and the circumstances of the case, the court finds that the measures indicated need not be identical to those requested. The court considers that with regard…
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The International Court of Justice is starting to hand down its ruling on the emergency measures requested by South Africa in its genocide case against Israel. The president of the ICJ Judge Joan Donoghue is speaking first, saying the court is “acutely aware of the extent of the human tragedy” unfolding in Gaza. She explains…
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Police have seen an “unprecedented” rise in the threat from terrorism following the conflict in Gaza, which has become a “radicalization moment”, Britain’s most senior counter-terrorism officer has said. Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner Matt Jukes said there had been a 25% increase in intelligence coming into counter-terrorism police, “a significant increase on our usual levels”.…
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The leader of Hamas has been added to the European Union’s terrorist list. Yahya Sinwar is understood to be the mastermind behind the militant group’s 7 October attacks. EU headquarters said the move was in “response to the threat posed by Hamas and its brutal and indiscriminate terrorist attacks in Israel”. Sinwar is now subject…
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Sagiv Jehezkel, the Israeli footballer who was held for questioning in Turkey after he displayed solidarity with Hamas hostages during a match, has landed in Tel Aviv. The player told police he was calling for an end to the war when, after scoring a goal, he displayed a bandage on his wrist with the words…
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Hamas “opted to invest precious resources in building terrorist infrastructure used to harm Israeli civilians and IDF forces, while cynically exploiting the civilian population in the Gaza Strip,” the military said. An analysis of tunnel shafts discovered since the start of Israel’s ground operation in the coastal enclave last year shows that Hamas diverted at…
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Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Wednesday denied Iranian claims that its Oct. 7 attacks against Israel were in revenge for the killing of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in 2020. Soleimani was assassinated in a US drone strike in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in January 2020. Ramadan Sharif, a spokesman for Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary…
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There is “no difference” between what Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu is doing in the months-long attacks on Gaza and what Nazi leader Adolf Hitler did decades ago, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday. At a science awards ceremony in the capital Ankara, Erdogan said: “How do you (Netanyahu) differ from Hitler? These (actions)…
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The UN special rapporteur on Palestine slammed Tuesday Israel’s decision to deny visa to UN staff, saying “baseless attacks” on the organization proves “moral cowardice.” “Baseless attacks agst the UN only proves moral cowardice. The UN has been weakened by decades of ISR impunity for breaches of Intl Law, incl colonisation of occup.territory & Pal.…
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– ‘I refuse to believe that more violence will bring security, I refuse to take part in a war of revenge’ – ‘In a world full of corrupt interests in which we live, violence and war are another way to increase support for the government and silence criticism’ – Teen is first Israeli to be…
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“I hope to wake up from such a nightmare,” by these words, the fiftieth Palestinian Abo Ibrahim started his talk with Anadolu reporter, as he currently lives in a rickety tent in Rafah city, in the southern Gaza Strip. Abo Ibrahim moved several times during the past 80 days of the Israeli deadly onslaught against…
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A released hostage has outlined her experience as she and three of her children spent 51 days in the hands of the Hamas gunmen who abducted them. Chen Almog-Goldstein told the Reuters news agency she had to quickly stifle tears after watching her husband and her eldest daughter be shot and killed during the 7…
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Syrian media is reporting that explosions heard near the capital of Damascus are the result of “Israeli aggression”. Explosions were heard in the vicinity of Damascus, and investigations were ongoing to verify their nature, the country’s state news agency reported earlier. This is the most recent in a series of reported Israeli strikes in Syria. …
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The Christmas Eve attack on the Mughazi refugee camp in central Gaza has been one the deadliest in the war. The UN reported that 86 people were killed in the carnage. Footage taken by a Sky News team of the aftermath showed massive destruction, bodies dragged from beneath the rubble and the shrapnel scarred…
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