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135 Palestinians killed in Gaza so far today. Massacre after massacre, day after day. The world does nothing.
Israeli military begins ‘extensive’ ground operation as 135 killed in Gaza
Israel continues to unleash its bloodbath in the enclave, rendering all public hospitals in north Gaza ‘out of service’.
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May 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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British surgeon working in Gaza says it is now 'a slaughterhouse' amid Israeli bombardment
British surgeon working in Gaza says it is now 'a slaughterhouse' amid Israeli bombardment
A British surgeon working in southern Gaza has compared the region to a "slaughterhouse" because of the daily bombardment from Israeli forces.
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May 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Rights groups take UK govt to court over Israel arms sales
<article data-history-node-id="422420" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/rights-groups-take-uk-govt-court-over-israel-arms-sales" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/rights-groups-take-uk-govt-court-over-israel-arms-sales" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Rights groups take UK govt to court over Israel arms sales</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Rights groups and NGOs are dragging the UK government to court on Tuesday, accusing it of breaching international law by supplying fighter jet parts to Israel's war on&nbsp;Gaza.</p> <p>Supported by Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, Oxfam and others, the Palestinian rights association Al-Haq is seeking to stop the government's export of UK-made components for&nbsp;Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets.</p> <p>Israel has used the American warplanes to devastating effect in&nbsp;Gaza&nbsp;and the West Bank, and the head of Amnesty UK said Britain had failed to uphold its "legal obligation... to prevent genocide" by allowing the export of key parts to Israel.</p> <p>The&nbsp;new Labour government suspended around 30 licences following&nbsp;a&nbsp;review&nbsp;of&nbsp;Israel's compliance with international humanitarian law, but the partial ban did not cover British-made parts for the advanced F-35 stealth fighter jets.</p> <p>It is not clear when a decision could be made following the four-day hearing at London's High Court, the latest stage in a long-running legal battle.</p> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="A protestor dressed as Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer poses in front of a 16-foot replica of a MK-84 2,000-pound bomb labelled with the word " and with a tag reading that people data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="69dedc64-77e0-4cda-8a23-4b54b815839d" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/000_46C733C.jpg" width="1024" height="682" alt="A protestor dressed as Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer poses in front of a 16-foot replica of a MK-84 2,000-pound bomb labelled with the word " and with a tag reading that people typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>A protestor dressed as Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer poses in front of a 16-foot replica of a MK-84 2,000-pound bomb labelled with the word "Complicity" and with a tag reading "more that 52.000 people killed", (AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>
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May 13, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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UK Lawyers for Israel condemned over claim war may reduce obesity in Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
UK Lawyers for Israel condemned over claim war may reduce obesity in Gaza
Palestinian rights group says remarks criticising a Lancet analysis on impact of the conflict are ‘sickening’
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May 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Why isn’t there a “coalition of the willing” to stop the mass starvation and genocide in Gaza?
May 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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French journalists stage die-in to protest against Israel’s killing of reporters in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-stage-die-protest-israels-killing-reporters-gaza
French journalists stage die-in to protest against Israel’s killing of reporters in Gaza
<article data-history-node-id="421380" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-stage-die-protest-israels-killing-reporters-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-stage-die-protest-israels-killing-reporters-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">French journalists stage die-in to protest against Israel’s killing of reporters in Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>About 200&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/france" target="_blank">French</a>&nbsp;journalists staged a die-in in Paris and Marseille on Wednesday evening to protest against&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel</a>’s killing of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a>&nbsp;journalists and show solidarity with their colleagues in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-war-gaza" target="_blank">Gaza</a>.</p> <p>Wearing press vests marked with symbolic red stains, the journalists lay on the steps of the Opera Bastille in the French capital as the names of colleagues killed since the start of the war in October 2023 were read aloud.</p> <p>They held placards featuring photos of the slain journalists alongside the slogan: “Gaza: faces, not just numbers.”</p> <p>In the southern city of Marseille, around 160 people gathered for a similar tribute, reading out the names of the victims and observing a minute's silence.</p> <p>“As journalists, it is our duty to express our solidarity with our Palestinian colleagues and to demand, time and again, the right to enter Gaza,” Reporters Without Borders said in a statement following the protest.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/france-journalists-stage-die-in-protest-israel-killing-reporters-gaza">French journalists stage die-in to protest Israel’s killing of reporters in Gaza</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Protesters wearing jerseys reading " stage a die-in during demonstration in support of palestinian journalists front the opera bastille on april kotan data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="3bfcd0e6-8661-44ae-b30a-157783198466" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/france-demonstration-Palestinian-journalists-Opera-Bastille-16-April-2025-Kotan-MEE.jpg" width="1400" height="933" alt="Protesters wearing jerseys reading " stage a die-in during demonstration in support of palestinian journalists front the opera bastille on april kotan typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Protesters stage a die-in in support of Palestinian journalists in front of the Opera Bastille in Paris, on 16 April (Bilge Kotan/MEE)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img alt height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>
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April 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Netanyahu takes longer route to Washington to dodge ICC warrant risk
<article data-history-node-id="420887" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/netanyahu-takes-longer-route-washington-dodge-icc-warrant-risk-0" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/netanyahu-takes-longer-route-washington-dodge-icc-warrant-risk-0" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Netanyahu takes longer route to Washington to dodge ICC warrant risk</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="74" data-start="0">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touched down in Washington on Sunday—after taking a detour of roughly 400 kilometres to avoid airspace over countries that might enforce the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant.</p> <p data-end="656" data-start="315">Israeli officials feared that if Netanyahu’s plane were forced into an emergency landing, nations like Ireland, Iceland, and the Netherlands could move to detain him, Haaretz reported.</p> <p data-end="656" data-start="315">The ICC warrant is linked to Israel’s war on Gaza and allegations of war crimes.</p> </div> </div> </article>
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April 7, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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"The report found that more civilians were killed in the first week of the Trump administration’s bombing campaign than were killed in the 12 months of US- UK strikes on Yemen that were conducted under the Biden administration from Jan 2024 to Jan 2025."

The Signal chat was bad. This is worse:
US Killed 25 Civilians in First Week of Renewed Bombing Campaign in Yemen - News From Antiwar.com
US airstrikes on Yemen killed at least 25 civilians and wounded 28 others in just the first week of the Trump administration's renewed bombing campaign against the Houthis, according to the Yemen Data...
news.antiwar.com
March 26, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Certainty and uncertainty, regardless of which side you are on, it’s difficult to not see the hypocrisy. @theguardian.com do better.
March 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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March 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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🚨David Lammy admitted yesterday Israel is in "breach of international law" given it's "been 15 days since aid got into Gaza".

What meaningful action will the UK government take? None, says Lammy.

Clip by @saulstaniforth.bsky.social.
March 18, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Keir Starmer’s government held a private meeting with Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms firm, Declassified has found.

The meeting occurred in December 2024 and was attended by 3 representatives from Elbit and 3 officials from the Home Office.

www.declassifieduk.org/labour-held-...
Labour held secret meeting with top Israeli arms firm
Exclusive: Home Office met with Elbit Systems amid crackdown on Palestine Action, documents reveal.
www.declassifieduk.org
March 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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UN experts accuse Israel of genocidal acts and sexual violence in Gaza
<span class="field field-title">UN experts accuse Israel of genocidal acts and sexual violence in Gaza</span> <span class="field field-uid"><a title="View user profile." href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/bilge-kotan" lang about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/bilge-kotan" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>Bilge Kotan</a></span> <span class="field field-created"><time datetime="2025-03-13T08:49:09+00:00" title="13 March 2025 08:49 GMT">Thu, 03/13/2025 - 08:49</time> </span> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israel carried out "genocidal acts" against Palestinians by systematically destroying women's healthcare facilities during its war on Gaza, and used sexual violence as a war strategy, United Nations experts said in a <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/03/more-human-can-bear-israels-systematic-use-sexual-reproductive-and-other?sub-site=HRC">new repor</a>t on Thursday.</p> <p>"Israeli authorities have destroyed in part the reproductive capacity of the Palestinians in Gaza as a group, including by imposing measures intended to prevent births, one of the categories of genocidal acts in the Rome Statute and the Genocide Convention," said the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and&nbsp;Israel.</p> <p>Those actions,&nbsp;in addition to causing a surge in maternity deaths due to restricted access to medical supplies, amounted to the crime against humanity of extermination,&nbsp;the commission said.</p> <p>The report accused&nbsp;Israel's security forces of using forced public stripping and sexual assault as part of their standard operating procedures to punish Palestinians since the beginning of the war.</p> </div>
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March 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Hamas urges international action against Israeli siege on Gaza
<span class="field field-title">Hamas urges international action against Israeli siege on Gaza</span> <span class="field field-uid"><a title="View user profile." href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/bilge-kotan" lang about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/bilge-kotan" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>Bilge Kotan</a></span> <span class="field field-created"><time datetime="2025-03-13T10:24:02+00:00" title="13 March 2025 10:24 GMT">Thu, 03/13/2025 - 10:24</time> </span> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Hamas has called on the international community to act to prevent famine in Gaza, where residents have been under siege for two weeks.</p> <p>The group's spokesperson, Abdel-Latif al-Qanou, described the Israeli blockade of food, medicine and fuel as a new form of "starvation" in a statement on Thursday.</p> <p>He warned that if action was not taken, Gaza would face famine during the holy month of Ramadan. Qanou also urged mediators to increase pressure on Israel to open the crossings, allow humanitarian aid in and end the collective punishment of Gaza's residents.</p> </div>
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March 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Meghan Sussex Instagram update- 03/07

“Oh, how I love ASMR!If you’re loving Season 1, just wait until you see the fun we cooked up on Season 2! Thanks for joining the party, and an endless thanks to the amazing team and crew who helped bring it all to life! @netflix”
March 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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🚨Yesterday | Israel’s public broadcaster, Kan News, reports that Gaza has enough food supplies for “four months,” so Israel has halted all fuel supplies and is considering cutting off water to all of Gaza.
March 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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… “Our children are dying of fear. We are helpless today in Asfi and Masafer Yatta. We do not want anything from the world. We only want to live in our land in peace and safety.”
March 4, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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We bring you an exclusive interview tonight with David Sherborne - the barrister who took on Murdoch and phone hacking to win Prince Harry a “ full and unequivocal apology “.
www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...
The News Agents - Podcast Episode | Global Player
Exclusive: Prince Harry's lawyer speaks out
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March 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Angie Stone, singer and member of the iconic hip hop trio The Sequence, has died at 63
Singer-Songwriter Angie Stone Dead at 63
Angie Stone -- a singer and member of the iconic hip hop trio The Sequence -- has died ... TMZ has confirmed.
www.tmz.com
March 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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This is scarier than any horror movie you’ll ever watch.
Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.
February 26, 2025 at 7:51 AM