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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...
Non-profit feeding millions of Gazans caught in storm of Hamas propaganda, ‘falsely smeared’ by UN: sources
New York Post
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July 15, 2025
Hamas and international aid groups, including the United Nations, have ganged up against a US-backed non-profit, reframing its record-breaking delivery of aid to civilians in Gaza as providing “nothing but starvation and gunfire,” according to a...
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...
International Protection Group: Children in Gaza lose limbs daily as humanitarian situation worsens
Middle East Monitor
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July 16, 2025
The International Protection Group revealed on Tuesday alarming figures highlighting the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip. According to the group, around 10 children lose one or both legs each day as a result 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...
Letters: If Taoiseach Micheál Martin wants to make Ireland more ‘democratic’, then the Triple Lock must stay
Irish Independent
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It would be good if that same logic applied when he is addressing a bill currently before the Dáil, on the removal of the Triple Lock. Successive opinion polls have demonstrated the wish of the Irish people to be peacemakers, and not to be a...
‘Diplomatic intoxication’: Ireland slammed by US Ambassador to Israel over Palestine stance
Sky News Australia
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July 17, 2025
Ireland’s Parliament looks set to formally recognize an independent Palestinian state in a move that would alienate Washington and Tel Aviv. The bill, which is currently in pre-legislative scrutiny, would also seek to impose sanctions on Israeli...
Edward Said and the Question of Palestine
NPR
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July 17, 2025
Edward Said brought the question of Palestine into the American mainstream. He taught at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, and today, more than two decades after his death, pro-Palestine student protesters on that campus and others have...
Scots planning Palestine Action demo to break the law in support of banned group
Daily Record & Sunday Mail
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July 17, 2025
Activists are planning to break the law in Glasgow tomorrow to show their support for the banned Palestine Action group. The Record understands a small rally is planned for Nelson Mandela Place in the city centre at noon to protest what one...
Students and Academics testify on USyd campus for the People’s Inquiry into Campus Free Speech on Palestine
Honi Soit
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July 17, 2025
On 15th July, the People’s Inquiry into Campus Free Speech on Palestine heard public testimonies from staff and students across NSW on the USyd campus. Over four sessions, students and academics, activists, and community organisers from NSW...
Protest Against Muslim Mayor In New York
India Herald
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A group of protesters gathered on the steps of New York City Hall in Manhattan to voice their opposition to socialism, communism, and the mayoral candidacy of Zohran Mamdani. The rally, organized under the banner "New Yorkers Say No to Communism,"...
20 Palestinians die in stampede at Gaza food distribution center
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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July 17, 2025
TEL AVIV, Israel -- Twenty Palestinians were killed at a food distribution center run by an Israeli-backed American organization in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, mostly from being trampled, the group said. They were the first deaths reported at one...
President Sisi expresses appreciation over Trump’s statements on GERD
Egypt Independent
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July 16, 2025
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi expressed his appreciation towards US President Donald Trump’s position on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) dispute. “Egypt values the statement by President Donald Trump, which demonstrates the...
Crowd surge at Gaza aid site run by Israeli-backed group kills 20 Palestinians
United News of Bangladesh
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A stampede at a food distribution center in Gaza, operated by an Israeli-supported American aid group, left 20 Palestinians dead on Wednesday, most of them crushed in the crowd, according to the organization. These are the first fatalities...
Ireland close to passing occupied Palestinian territories bill
Seven News
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July 17, 2025
Ireland appears closer to passing a bill that will ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements in occupied territories in the West Bank, sparking sharp criticism from US officials who have signalled the move could harm Dublin’s relationship with...
Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag
The Guardian
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July 17, 2025
Armed police threatened a peaceful protester with arrest under the Terrorism Act for holding a Palestinian flag and having signs saying “Free Gaza” and “Israel is committing genocide”, accusing her of supporting a proscribed organisation. Officers...
Hamiltonians call on Canada to speed up Palestinian family reunification
CBC/Radio-Canada
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July 17, 2025
When Mahmoud Fares calls his family in Gaza, "I don't even have the guts to ask them, 'How are you doing?'" he says. "We know how they are doing. They're doing bad." The Hamilton man said he has 16 family members — 10 of them children — in the...
Israeli strikes on Gaza kill more than 90 Palestinians in past day — TV
TASS
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July 17, 2025
DUBAI, July 17. /TASS/. More than 90 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip or died in a stampede at a humanitarian aid distribution site in the enclave in the past day, Al Jazeera reported citing medics. At least 93 people...
Iran honors silent force behind Palestine support
Press TV
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Gisoo Misha Ahmadi Press TV, Tehran In Tehran, officials, military commanders, and members of the public gathered to honor the memory of a key figure in Iran’s Quds Force: Major General Mohammad Saeed Izadi, known as “Haj Ramezan.” Revered for his...