🔴 LIVE DAY 217 #Israel #Palestine

- Unrwa office closes after Israeli settler arson attack
- Netanyahu says country ready to "fight with fingernails" after US warns arms could be halted

Follow our live coverage here ⤵️ middleeasteye.net/live/gaza-live… UTS trustees, affiliate college to Columbia University, endorse divestment from ‘companies profiting from the war in Palestine’

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🔴 LIVE DAY 214 #Israel #Palestine

- Israeli forces storm Rafah border crossing
- 12 Palestinians killed in overnight Israeli attacks on Rafah
= Two Israeli soldiers killed in Hezbollah drone attack

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🧵: In his latest column, MEE’s editor-in-chief David Hearst writes that the anti-Gaza war protest movement has revived the Palestinian national cause and a new generation of American Jews are challenging the claim that Zionism owns their narrative⤵️
middleeasteye.net/opinion/campus… The parallels between the 1968 protest movement against the Vietnam War and today’s global protest against the Gaza War are many, writes Hearst

🧵: An investigation by MEE reveals that a company owned by an influential Egyptian businessman and ally of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is making around $2m a day from Palestinians fleeing Israel's war on Gaza ⤵️ Hala for Consulting and Tourism Services, the company owned by Sinai tribal leader and business tycoon Ibrahim al-Organi, has been charging Palestinians crossing Rafah to Egypt at least $5,000 per adult and $2,500 per child under 16

🧵: Palestinians have accused Israel’s far-right government and army of complicity following devastating weekend assaults by Israeli settlers.

The attacks, which were undeterred by US sanctions, mark a troubling escalation of violence in the West Bank ⤵️
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On Friday, Amer Jabr was shot in the thigh during an assault by Israeli settlers on his home in the village al-Mughayyir.

His home is one of the many that were destroyed in the latest surge in settler violence, triggered by the disappearance and death of a teenage settler

🔴 LIVE DAY 186 #Israel #Palestine

- Hamas to study Israeli truce proposal despite disagreements
- Scores of dead bodies recovered in Khan Younis after Israeli withdrawal
- France, Egypt, Jordan warn against Rafah invasion

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Speaking to the conservative Real America’s Voice network, Donald Trump said that "any Jewish person that votes for Biden does not love Israel and frankly, should be spoken to."

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🔴 LIVE DAY 175 #Israel #Palestine

- Israeli strikes on Syria's Aleppo kill 38 people
- Japan to restore funding to Unrwa
- Israel preparing to enter Rafah, Netanyahu says

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Palestinian journalist killed near al-Shifa hospital

Muhammad Abu Sakhil, a journalist for the local al-Quds Radio, has been shot and killed by Israeli forces, according to Al Jazeera.

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🔴 LIVE DAY 172 #Israel #Palestine

- US Secretary of State: "alternatives exist" to Rafah invasion
- UN rapporteur says genocide threshold may have been crossed in Gaza
- Hamas to stick to permanent ceasefire position

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The head of Hamas's political bureau Ismail Haniyeh will head to Tehran today and meet with Iranian officials, according to Iranian media.

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🔴 LIVE DAY 171 #Israel #Palestine

- Palestinian death toll tops 32,226
- Blocked aid for Gaza is a moral outrage, says UN chief
- US announces new airdrops over Gaza, but UN warn that air aid is not enough

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The UN Security Council will vote on a new draft resolution on an "immediate" ceasefire in Gaza.

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The European Union's top humanitarian aid official said he had seen no evidence from Israel to back its accusations against staff from the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (Unrwa) Israel alleges that 12 Unrwa staff members took part in the Hamas-led 7 October attacks. Upon learning of the allegations, the agency dismissed 10 of the employees (two others were dead) in a process that the head of the agency admitted amounted to "reverse due process"

🔴 LIVE DAY 160 #Israel #Palestine

- At least 3 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Jabalia and Rafah
- Israeli forces conduct raids across West Bank
- US may support limited Rafah operation

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An Israeli air strike on the al-Attar family home in al-Bureij refugee camp, central Gaza killed at least 9 people.

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🔴 LIVE DAY 146 #Israel #Palestine

- Gaza death toll nears 30,000
- Hezbollah says it will halt attacks on Israel if Hamas agrees to truce
- At least 30 killed in separate attacks in the Nuseirat, Bureij and Khan Younis camps

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The amount of aid delivered in airdrops is so “negligible” that it helps “perpetuate the overall blockade strategy,” Jeremy Konyndyk, the president of Refugees International, has said.

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🧵: Disturbing posts from Israeli Telegram channels depicting Palestinians being mocked and abused have been widely shared online.

MEE’s @mayanoraa offers a glimpse into these Telegram groups ⤵️
“[Telegram] has been a hotbed for hate speech and incitement to violence against Palestinians”

Jalal Abukhater, advocacy manager at 7amleh, a non-profit advocating for Palestinian digital rights, told MEE in December that Telegram is "notorious" for its policy of not moderating any content
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🔴 LIVE DAY 138 #Israel #Palestine

- UN suspends food aid in northern Gaza
- Air strikes continue to pound Rafah and central camps
- Israeli troops launch late-night attack in "safe area" sheltering displaced people

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Israel's statements on Brazil's Lula are unacceptable, says foreign minister

"For a foreign ministry to address a head of state from a friendly country in this way is unusual and revolting."

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🔴 LIVE DAY 125 #Israel #Palestine

- Around 100,000 Palestinians killed, wounded or missing
- Over 14 Palestinians killed by Israeli air strikes in Rafah
- Norway transfers $26m to Unrwa

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Hillary Clinton has said that Netanyahu “absolutely needs to go” for his handling of Israel’s war on Gaza.

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🔴 LIVE DAY 112 #Israel #Palestine

- Palestinian death toll in Gaza stands at almost 26,000, the vast majority women and children

- ICJ to deliver ruling on provisional measures requested by South Africa

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Netanyahu’s right-wing government is starving the Palestinian people, says US Senator Bernie Sanders.

"The US must use all of its leverage to end this horrific war”

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🔴 LIVE DAY 105 #Israel #Palestine

- Over 40 killed in Gaza in latest round of Israeli attacks
- Israeli raid on Tulkarm continues
- Families of Israeli captives to block Gaza aid if government fails to do enough

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- Death toll from Israeli air strike near al-Shifa Hospital rises to 12

- An attack on Lebanon would be a 'strategic error' says Israeli minister

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🔴 LIVE DAY 97 #Israel #Palestine

- ICJ hearings in response to South Africa’s accusation of genocide against Israel to begin
- UN Security Council adopts resolution calling for halt to Houthi attacks in the Red Sea

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has called the much anticipated trial at the International Court of Justice a "sham" in an outburst on X.

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🔴 LIVE DAY 91 #Israel #Palestine

- Israeli defence minister reveals next phase of Gaza war

- US senator wants to 'make Iran's worst nightmare real'

- Over 400,000 cases of infectious diseases have been reported in Gaza

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An entire family was killed in Rafah which has been designated as a safe area, but has continued to come under attack by Israel forces with as much ferocity as any other part of Gaza

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🔴 LIVE DAY 56 #Israel #Palestine

On Friday morning, after Israel and Hamas failed to extend a seven-day truce, Israel's military began an intense bombing campaign all across Gaza

The Palestine Health Ministry has reported that the bombardment has already killed 21 Palestinians in the first two hours of the truce ending

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🔴 UPDATE #Israel #Palestine

Pictures posted by AFP showed thousands of Palestinians back on the street walking to safer areas after Israel renewed its bombing campaign of the Gaza Strip on Friday morning

🧵: Did you know that the keffiyeh has been described as Palestine’s unofficial flag?

We delve into the rich history and symbolism behind this iconic black-and-white chequered scarf and how it transcended borders ⤵️ Long synonymous with the Palestinian cause, the simple square-metre fabric traditionally worn over the head of rural Palestinian men, is today found around the necks of rights activists, anti-war protesters and celebrities; transcending gender, religion and nationality