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Israel says Gaza ceasefire would mean ‘immunity for baby killers’

Published by DPA After the United States vetoed a UN Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire in the Gaza war, Israel strongly rejected calls for a truce. This “absurd notion of a ceasefire” was constantly being thrown around within the Security Council and the UN General Assembly as if it was “a silver bullet, a […]

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US vetoes UN resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire

Published by DPA International A draft resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip failed in the UN Security Council on Tuesday after the US again vetoed the text tabled by Council member Algeria. Given concerns about a possible major Israeli offensive on the crowded city of Rafah in southern Gaza, the proposal

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Israel tells more Gazans to flee as Hamas leader holds talks in Cairo

Published by DPA International Israel ordered new evacuations from two Palestinian neighbourhoods in Gaza City on Tuesday, indicating impending military operations there and dashing hopes that Hamas talks in Cairo could prompt a ceasefire. The call was issued for the neighbourhoods of Zeitoun and Turkman, located in the north of the Gaza Strip, where the

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‘I’m a Muslim feminist’ Asra Nomani blasts ‘toxic exportation of extremist ideology’ from Iran and Saudi

Published by GB News (CA) Muslim-American activist Asra Nomani has blasted the “toxic exportation of extremist ideology” from Iran and Saudi that she claimed was a “dichotomy for me as a girl growing up in the West.” Nomani also brought up her friend, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl who was kidnapped and executed in

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Israeli defense minister says Hamas has lost its ‘fighting spirit’

Published by DPA International Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Galant says Palestinian extremist organization Hamas in Gaza has lost its fighting spirit after more than four months of war. “Two hundred fighters surrendered [in Khan Younis] in the Nasser hospital, dozens more in the Amal hospital,” Galant told army commanders on Sunday. “This shows that they

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US threatens to veto new Gaza ceasefire resolution at UNSC

Published by ANI News Washington, DC [US], February 18 (ANI): The United States on Saturday warned of exercising its veto power at the UN Security Council against a resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, CNN reported. According to the report, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield warned that if the

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Israel says 18 of 24 Hamas battalions in Gaza Strip ‘destroyed’

Published by DPA International Israel’s army has dismantled the majority of Hamas’ military divisions in the Gaza war, according to Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. “There were 24 regional battalions in Gaza – we have disbanded 18 of them,” Gallant said on Friday. According to the military, each of these battalions is estimated to have around

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World leaders descend on Munich for annual security conference

Published by DPA International UN Secretary General António Guterres is to formally open the 60th Munich Security Conference on Friday as some 50 world leaders are expected to attend this year’s event. The main topics on the security conference’s agenda are the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip. US Vice President Kamala Harris

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Israeli military eliminates senior Hezbollah commander Ali Muhammad Al-Dabs

Published by ANI News Tel Aviv [Israel], February 16 (ANI/TPS): The IDF (Israel Defence Forces) revealed Thursday evening that on Wednesday night its forces killed in Lebanon who it called a “central commander” of Hezbollah’s al-Hajj Radwan Force, Ali Muhammad Al-Dabs, along with his deputy Hassan Ibrahim Issa and another Hamas terrorist. Al-Dabs, said the

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Detroit-area terror suspect Yousef Ramadan jailed amid bomb, Islamic State concerns

Published by The Detroit News DETROIT — An ex-con from Ypsilanti at the center of an FBI counterterrorism investigation in 2017 risks being sent back to federal prison after prosecutors accused him of buying dangerous weapons while under court supervision and downloading Islamic State manuals for making bombs, explosives and poisons. Prosecutors and court records

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Verdi’s ‘Requiem’ Revisited in Tel Aviv Performance

At the performance in Tel Aviv last week the audience sat in rapt silence as the orchestra played and the choir and soloists sang, bringing the majesty and drama of Verdi’s music to life. In Israel of today, with war being waged in the Gaza Strip and skirmishes raging in the north of the country, the performance of the Requiem has special significance. In the plaza of the nearby Tel Aviv Museum families of the hostages held in Gaza were demonstrating in order to convince the government to do more to get them released. [Dorothea Shefer-Vanson]

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Biden protects Palestinians from deportation for ‘humanitarian’ reasons

Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – President Joe Biden has shielded Palestinians in the United States from deportation for 18 months, the White House said Wednesday, as he faces growing anger over his support for Israel’s Gaza offensive in an election year. Biden signed an order saying the Palestinians should not be deported “in light

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Documenting Darkness: National Library of Israel preserving ‘collective memory’ of Oct 7

Published by ANI News Tel Aviv [Israel], February 13 (ANI/TPS): The National Library of Israel has embarked on a massive project to collect and archive any materials from around the world that have been published about the October 7 massacre, both the good and the bad. While scholars and the curious public explore the new

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Lebanon receives French proposal to ease border tensions with Israel

Published by DPA Lebanon has received a written proposal from France that aims to halt border clashes between pro-Iranian Hezbollah fighters and Israeli soldiers, a Lebanese government source told dpa on Tuesday. “I can confirm that Lebanon received this proposal, which calls mainly for Hezbollah to withdraw its fighters around 10 kilometres from the border

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