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Benjamin Netanyahu has accused human rights groups of turning a blind eye to rapes that Israel says were committed by Hamas during the 7 October massacre. Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday, the Israeli prime minister accused the international community of playing down the attacks and even ignoring them. He said he expects “all…
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“Harrowing” reports are emerging from aid workers inside Gaza as Palestinians are “crammed in a smaller and smaller area” that is being bombarded from Israeli forces, the secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council has said. Jan Egeland told Sky News there are no safe areas in southern Gaza, despite calls from the Israeli military for…
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Turkey has rejected plans to create a buffer zone in Gaza after the war, the country’s president has told reporters. Tayyip Erdogan said such a plan would be “disrespectful” to Palestinians and Israel must return the territories it occupies. Reuters reported last week that Israel had conveyed plans for the buffer zone to several Arab…
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The Israel Defence Forces has urged people in areas of southern Gaza to evacuate. The IDF released a map last week breaking the enclave into a number of small grid squares. It has been telling people in certain squares to move away amid the threat of attacks – though with intermittent internet, it has been…
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We’ve heard this morning from the deputy mayor of Jerusalem, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum. She was asked about the number of civilians deaths inside Gaza. “We don’t know if the death toll is high, you’re relying on numbers by Hamas,” she said, referring to the some 15,000 casualties reported by the Hamas-run health ministry inside the enclave. …
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan has once again called for Israel to be held accountable internationally over its conduct in Gaza – and claimed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be tried as a war criminal. Speaking at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the Turkish president also said that Gaza was Palestinian land and would always belong…
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Iran has vowed to “respond” after Israel attacked its interests in Syria last month, according to a foreign ministry spokesperson. Two Iranian revolutionary guards members, who served as military advisers in Syria, were killed in an Israeli attack – Iranian state media reported at the beginning on November. The strike marked the first Iranian casualties…
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Israel’s ambassador to the UK spoke on Sky’s Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips programme where she dismissed the suggestion that support from Israel’s allies is waning. “One of the ministers in the [US] cabinet said, ‘If you can give us a magic spell, maybe a Harry Potter stick to make those tunnels disappear, we’ll be very grateful’,” Tzipi…
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In a statement, the Municipality of Gaza (MoG) has expressed its profound concerns over the halt of the essential services, top of which is water supply, in light of the depletion of fuel. Hereby, the Municipality of Gaza earnestly communicates the following: • MoG expresses its grievance over the failures recorded by the United Nations…
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Protecting Palestinian civilians in Gaza is “both a moral responsibility and strategic imperative”, US defence secretary Lloyd Austin has said. He said he had “repeatedly” made this clear to Israel’s leaders. “In this kind of a fight, the centre of gravity is the civilian population. And if you drive them into the arms of the enemy,…
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The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and Israeli Security Agency (ISA) say they have killed Hamas commander Wessam Farhat, leader of the Shejaiya Battalion. The commander was responsible for killing six IDF solders in the 2014 Gaza war and took part in planning the 7 October attacks, the IDF and ISA said in a joint statement…
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There will be no Christmas tree in Bethlehem this year at the traditional site of Jesus’s birth as the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on. The town will hold pared-down celebrations “without the fanfare and without too many lights”. Bethlehem, which neighbours Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, has seen destruction in Israeli-Palestinian clashes in recent decades. …
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Israel’s determination to completely dismantle Hamas means that takeover of the south is an absolute military necessity. The southern campaign has already started, with air raids in and around the city of Khan Younis fully underway. The problem is that to all intents and purposes most of the surviving Gazan population is now crowded into…
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Israel’s prime minister has pledged to continue the fight against Hamas “until the end”. “Until we achieve victory, the war continues,” he told a news conference. “The day before yesterday, I instructed the IDF, along with the war cabinet, to resume the war with increasing intensity over the past 24 hours. “We are going to…
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Singer The Weeknd has relocated $2.5m (£1.9m) from his charity to the World Food Programme’s humanitarian response efforts in Gaza. The star, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, is also a Goodwill Ambassador. As part of his role, he established the XO Humanitarian Fund in partnership with World Food Program USA. The fund has raised $5m (£3.9m)…
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Palestinian human rights groups have refused to meet the International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan. The groups accused him of favouring Israeli accusations of human rights abuses over longstanding Palestinian charges. Mr Khan has been visiting Israel and the occupied West Bank following a request by a group representing families of victims of the 7…
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