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Ministers to enshrine UK charities’ right to peaceful protest in new ‘covenant’
The Guardian
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July 16, 2025
The right to engage in political activity and protest peacefully is to be enshrined in a new agreement between the government and UK charities and campaigners aimed in part at ending years of damaging “culture wars”. The agreement is intended to...
IDF reveals new photo of Hamas military wing commander: 'Dramatic change in his face'
Ynet
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July 17, 2025
A new photograph of Izz al-Din al-Haddad, currently considered the head of Hamas' military wing, was released on Thursday by IDF Arabic-language spokesperson Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee. The image shows Haddad—previously seen in interviews and other...
Lebanese pro-Palestine activist to be freed after 40 years in French jail
Middle East Eye
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July 17, 2025
A French appeals court has ordered the release of Lebanese pro-Palestine activist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah after four decades in prison. The former guerrilla with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) was sentenced to life...
More Than a Label: The Politics of ‘Settler’ in Israel and Palestine
Media Line
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July 17, 2025
In my latest explainer for The Media Line, I take a hard look at a deceptively simple word: settler. Following the killing of Palestinian American Saif Musalat in the West Bank, and the arrest of two Israeli suspects described by most media as...
DFLP urges Arab states to make Palestinian cause benchmark in relations with Europe
Yemen News Agency SABA
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July 17, 2025
DFLP urges Arab states to make Palestinian cause benchmark in relations with Europe [Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:11:17 +0300] Gaza – Saba: The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) on Thursday called on Arab countries—particularly those...
FM holds high-level talks to advance regional de-escalation as per President Sisi’s directives
Egypt Independent
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July 17, 2025
CAIRO, July 16 (MENA) – In line with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s directives to intensify diplomatic efforts toward de-escalating regional tensions, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigration Badr Abdelatty held a series of high-level talks...
Countries where UN rights body has offices
The Business Standard
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July 18, 2025
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) operates in numerous countries around the world to promote and protect human rights in accordance with international law. Currently, the OHCHR has 18 country or...
Colombia’s President Urges Exit from NATO
MENAFN
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July 17, 2025
(MENAFN) Colombian President Gustavo Petro has stated that his country should withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), asserting that the bloc's leaders endorse the “genocide” of the Palestinian people. Colombia, long...
Opinion: The law is not enough to stop war crimes
The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
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Friday was the 30th anniversary of the deadliest massacre in Europe since World War II, when Bosnian Serb forces under Gen. Ratko Mladic overran an area meant to be protected by the United Nations. Soon after, they proceeded to execute more than...
“Israelisation of America” | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
Middle East Monitor
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July 17, 2025
In this week’s episode of Palestine This Week, we begin with the so-called “Humanitarian City”, which is now clearly emerging as a strategy to build concentration camps in Israel’s plan to ethnic cleansing Gaza. We examine how Israel is enforcing...
Egypt moves to block ‘tent city’ project in Gaza following presidential directive
Middle East Monitor
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July 17, 2025
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has instructed Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty to launch intensive diplomatic talks with international and regional officials in an effort to de-escalate tensions in the region. According to a statement from...
Iran Slams US Pressures Leading to Sudden Resignation of UN Palestine Inquiry Members
Tasnim News Agency
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July 17, 2025
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The resignation of members of the UN commission investigating crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories following the US sanctions on the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Palestine is an alarming sign of erosion of...
Hamas’ military wing say they targeted Israeli Troops, vehicles in Gaza
Middle East Monitor
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July 17, 2025
The military wing of Hamas, the al-Qassam Brigades, said Wednesday that its fighters recently targeted Israeli troops and military vehicles in the eastern and southern Gaza Strip, Anadolu reports. The group reported shelling a concentration of...
President Trump attends energy summit in Pittsburgh amid protests in city
WTAJ - Pennsylvania
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July 15, 2025
PITTSBURGH, Pa. (WTAJ) — President Donald Trump met with Senator Dave McCormick Tuesday afternoon for the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit in Pittsburgh as protesters showed their displeasure about the event. WTAJ’s Olivia Bosar made the...
Clashes at West Bank march against settler outpost
Naharnet
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Palestinians and the Israeli army clashed on Friday during a march in a village in the northern occupied West Bank against a newly established Israeli settlement outpost. "We came to this area to express our protest and say: 'this land is ours,...
Palestine warns of ‘grave repercussions' from settlers' control over Ibrahimi Mosque in West Bank
Yeni Safak
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Palestine warned of “grave repercussions” on Wednesday from an Israeli decision to transfer the authority over the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron to a settler council. According to Israeli media, Tel Aviv had abolished the...
Dublin artist Spicebag leads Irish-Palestinian art show in London
Irish Independent
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A battered car door, three hundred bullet holes and a child’s final words — “I’m afraid of the dark” — scrawled across the metal in Arabic. This is the centrepiece of a striking new Irish-Palestinian art exhibition in London, where some of...
Chilean mayor defies most anti-Israel South American nation to visit Israel
Israel Hayom
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July 17, 2025
In late December 2024, an evangelical clergy organization erected a tall metal Hanukkah menorah near the waterfront in Puerto Montt, southern Chile, to commemorate the Jewish holiday. The city of 250,000 residents houses a small Jewish community...
Palestinian children’s trip to Ireland to play GAA cancelled
DonegalLive
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July 16, 2025
GAA Palestine has confirmed that a tour of a group of Palestinians who were to visit Ireland will no longer go ahead. The group, which included 33 Palestinian children and young teenagers, were scheduled to arrive in Dublin on Friday, however they...
Jonathan Cook: Britain’s Repressive Defense of Genocide
Consortium News
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July 18, 2025
The British establishment is creating a climate of fear about protesting in any meaningful way against Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. Prime Minister Keir Starmer in June . (No. 10 Downing/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) By Jonathan Cook...