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[ad_1] Palestinian Authority security forces use tear gas and stun grenades to disperse protesters in Ramallah. Hundreds of protesters have rallied in the occupied West Bank after Palestinian officials said an Israeli air raid killed hundreds of people at a hospital in Gaza. The strike on Gaza’s Al-Ahli al-Arab Hospital, which officials said killed about…
[ad_1] Israel is getting ready to attack and Palestinian fighters are preparing to defend Gaza. Both sides are determined and experienced and both have announced that they will ultimately prevail. Leaving aside for the moment the very important question of what would constitute victory for either of the warring sides, it is pertinent at this…
[ad_1] More than $9bn would be set aside for humanitarian assistance in Ukraine, Israel, and Gaza. US President Joe Biden has submitted a request to Congress for more than $105bn to provide humanitarian and military aid to Israel and Ukraine, humanitarian assistance for Gaza and for immigration enforcement on the United States border with Mexico….
[ad_1] Protesters from Jakarta to Tunis have taken to the streest to demand an end to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza after nearly two weeks of intense air and artillery attacks that Palestinian authorities say have killed 4,100 people. Some Western governments have voiced support for Israel’s military campaign, which has come after the Palestinian group…
[ad_1] The captain of Egypt’s national football team has been criticised for not speaking out in defence of the Palestinians.
[ad_1] Beirut, Lebanon – Protesters, waving Palestinian and Lebanese party flags, threw rocks, water bottles and firecrackers at the security barricade, constructed on the road leading to the United States Embassy in a northern suburb of Beirut on Wednesday. Security forces responded with tear gas that pushed the protesters back. Overlooking the protest from the…
[ad_1] Demonstrators from anti-war group Jewish Voice for Peace rallied against ‘Israel’s ongoing oppression of Palestinians’. Some 500 people have been arrested during a sit-in at the United States Congress in Washington, DC, where they protested against “Israel’s ongoing oppression of Palestinians”, according to Jewish Voice for Peace, the group that organised the demonstration. The…
[ad_1] Black residents of a tiny island enclave founded by their enslaved ancestors off the Georgia coast have filed suit seeking to halt a new zoning law that they say will raise taxes and force them to sell their homes in one of the South’s last surviving Gullah-Geechee communities . The civil lawsuit was filed…
[ad_1] President Joe Biden visits Tel Aviv a day after hundreds were killed in an explosion at a hospital in Gaza. The United States has firmly backed Israel in its war against Hamas in the besieged Gaza Strip. Israel launched a campaign of intense air raids on the Palestinian territory after fighters from Hamas attacked…
