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A new YouGov poll has revealed that the majority of Britons are in favour of an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and would support the UK ending its arms sales to Israel over the war on Gaza. The poll was commissioned by Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) and the Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu). The survey also found that 55 percent of people support the UK ending arms sales to Israel during the ongoing war on Gaza. Forty percent of those who voted for the Conservative Party in 2019 favour the suspension, while 74 percent of Labour supporters were also in favour. The charities say th...
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Three East London councillors resigned from the Labour Party on Friday over the opposition party's perceived support for Israel's war on Gaza. Councillors Fliss Premru, Claudia Turbet-Delof, and Penny Wrout announced their departure from the Labour Party in the London Borough of Hackney but said they will maintain their seats on the council as independent socialists. Premru, Turbet-Delof and Wrout are planning to work together under the banner of the Hackney Independent Socialist Group. In a statement posted on X, they said: "We can no longer in good conscience continue campaigning for a Labou...
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French police on Friday shot dead a man armed with a knife and a crowbar who tried to set fire to a synagogue in the northern city of Rouen. The French Jewish community, the third largest in the world, has for months been on edge in the face of a growing number of attacks and desecrations of memorials. Emergency services were alerted after a fire was detected at the synagogue, with the man spotted on its roof brandishing an iron bar and a kitchen knife, the prosecutor handling the case said. Smoke was coming out of one window at the synagogue, Rouen prosecutor Frederic Teillet told reporters. ...
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The US military said aid deliveries began Friday viaa temporary pier in Gaza aimed at ramping up emergency humanitarian assistance to the war-ravaged Palestinian territory. "Today at approximately 9 a.m. (Gaza time), trucks carrying humanitarian assistance began moving ashore via a temporary pier in Gaza," the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement, adding that no US troops went ashore. "This is an ongoing, multinational effort to deliver additional aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza via a maritime corridor that is entirely humanitarian in nature," it said. The pier was successfull...
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A professor at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) has garnered praise across social media, following her rousing speech during her arrest by police forces at a pro-Palestine demonstration and solidarity encampment. The professor, who was later identified as Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, UCI’s associate professor of African American Studies, was among three faculty members arrested during the police raid. This comes as police forces on Wednesday appeared to take back control of a lecture hall from pro-Palestine protesters who for several hours occupied a UCI building, according to a univer...
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TheInternational Court of Justice is holding hearings this week in a case brought by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide in the Gaza war and seeking an emergency halt to its Rafah offensive. South Africa wants the court to order a halt to the military operation in Rafah and Israel to allow unimpeded access to Gaza for UN officials, organisations providing humanitarian aid, and journalists and investigators. In hearings on Thursday and Friday, South Africa and Israel will each have two hours to make their case on the new request for emergency measures. Meanwhile, Lebanese group Hezbollah t...
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Spain has refused permission for a ship carrying arms to Israel to dock at a Spanish port, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said on Thursday. "This is the first time we have done this because it is the first time we have detected a ship carrying a shipment of arms to Israel that wants to call at a Spanish port," he told reporters in Brussels. "This will be a consistent policy with any ship carrying arms to Israel that wants to call at Spanish ports. The foreign ministry will systematically reject such stopovers for one obvious reason. The Middle East does not need more weapons, it needs mo...
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Meta Platforms has restored Facebook posts by Malaysian media covering Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's meeting this week with a Hamas leader, saying they were removed in error. The removal had drawn complaints from Malaysia's government, a vocal supporter of the Palestinian cause and which has warned that firm action could be taken against Meta and other social media companies if they were blocking pro-Palestinian content on their platforms. Anwar met Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas in Qatar on Monday. He later stressed that though he had good relations with the group's political leaders, he had no inv...
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An Australian state parliament is now one of the few assemblies in the world to ban politicians from wearing the keffiyeh and other symbols of Palestinian identity. President of Victoria's upper house, Shaun Leane, told politicians on Wednesday they were no longer permitted to don the scarf in the chamber and ordered one Green Party MP to remove a pair of watermelon earnings due to the fruit's association with the Palestinian cause. He said MPs would still be allowed to wear pins associated with ANZAC and other causes, but symbols in solidarity with Gaza or Palestinians were now banned from th...
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As Palestinians in Gaza face an unprecedented humanitarian crisis, with daily airstrikes by Israel and an ongoing siege that is blocking basic food supplies, famine, malnutrition, and food insecurity are becoming increasingly widespread. In response, the US has set up a sea corridor to distribute much-needed food. On Wednesday, the State Department held a news briefing to share details and answer questions about the new sea corridor that aims to facilitate international food aid to Palestinians. "Humanitarian conditions are deteriorating. Insecurity is escalating, particularly in Rafah, and ci...
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