October 7

  • UN aid agency UNRWA has been “exposed” over links with Hamas to the point where the organisation is not a “few bad apples” but a “whole rotten orchard”, an Israeli government spokesman has claimed. The aid agency, which is responsible for more than five million Palestinian refugees, has come under repeated attack by Benjamin Netanyahu,…

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  • Israel-Hamas War: ICJ ruling begins

    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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  • Israel needs foreign labour after ban on Palestinian workers

    This week, financial daily Calcalist reported that Israel plans to bring in some 70,000 foreign workers from China, India and other countries for its construction sector, which has faced a labor shortage since the October 7 Hamas attack. Yehuda Morgenstern, director-general of the Construction and Housing ministry, told the newspaper that the Israeli government will…

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  • Hamas denies claim that Oct. 7 anti-Israel attack was ‘in revenge’ for Iranian general’s death

    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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