3 h. ago Unrwa says Israel has abused detained staff and used some as human shields

Accusation from UN agency comes as Red Crescent medic held since deadly Israeli attack on ambulances is freed The embattled UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, has accused Israel of abusing dozens of its staff in military detention and using some as human shields.The head of the agency, Philippe Lazzarini, said that more than 50 staff members, including teachers, doctors and social workers, had been detained and abused since the start of the 18 month-long war in Gaza. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Reform's mayoral candidate Andrea Jenkyns previously accused Nigel Farage's ally Aaron Banks of trying to bribe her to defect from Tories

Former Tory MP Dame Andrea Jenkyns privately claimed Aaron Banks had promised her a job in his company if she would join Reform UK, a leaked message shows

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26 h. ago Trump promised peace but brings rapid increase in civilian casualties to Yemen | Dan Sabbagh

Escalation from US military suggests previous restraints on causing civilian casualties have been relaxed“I am the candidate of peace,” Donald Trump declared on the campaign trail last November. Three months into his presidency, not only is the war in Ukraine continuing and the war in Gaza restarted, but in Yemen, the number of civilian casualties caused by US bombing is rapidly and deliberately escalating.Sixty-eight were killed overnight, the Houthis said, when the US military bombed a detention centre holding African migrants in Saada, north-west Yemen, as part of a campaign against the rebel group. In the words of the US Central Command (Centcom), its purpose is to “restore freedom of navigation” in the Red Sea and, most significantly, “American deterrence”. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago They staged protests for Palestine. The consequences have been life

Legal aid group says most students contacting them are Palestinian, Arab Muslim and other students of colorEK was completing a take-home exam on 6 March when the dean of student conduct at Swarthmore College emailed her about an urgent Zoom meeting. On the video call, she said, the dean told her that she would be suspended for one semester for staging a protest at the college’s trustees’ dinner in December 2023. Using a bullhorn, EK had interrupted the event to demand that the school divest from products that fuel Israel’s war on Gaza.A panel of students and school employees had found her responsible for assault, among other code of conduct violations for the incident. EK, a final-semester senior who is using a pseudonym out of fear of retaliation, recalled being in shock: “I’ve been really distraught by all of this,” EK said. “I used to be unhoused before I came to Swarthmore, so to be put into this situation again is very disturbing.” Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Challenge to Reform UK Lincolnshire mayor candidate is rejected

Dame Andrea Jenkyns, who served as a minister in the last Conservative government, is standing as Reform’s candidate in the Lincolnshire mayoralty.

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4 d. ago Nigel Farage under pressure over Reform candidate's vile Hitler post

Labour has said that unless Reform condones 'extreme views', voters will think that it shares them after campaign group Hope Not Hate claim to have unearthed a number of alarming cases

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4 d. ago ‘We have lost our humanity’: Holocaust survivors call for end to war in Gaza

Israelis are gathering on Holocaust Memorial Day to speak out against Palestinian starvation and sufferingFew days speak so profoundly to the soul of Israel than Holocaust Memorial Day. As the country sat in silence on Thursday to remember six million Jews exterminated by the Nazis, the same refrain was, as always, repeated by many: never again.But for some across Israel, as the war in Gaza continues to ravage the Palestinian people and wipe out entire families, never again had come to hold another meaning. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Israelis protest against Gaza war with rare decry over Palestinian casualties

Holocaust survivors gathering on Holocaust Memorial Day speak out against Palestinian starvation and sufferingFew days speak so profoundly to the soul of Israel than Holocaust Memorial Day. As the country sat in silence on Thursday to remember 6 million Jews exterminated by the Nazis, the same refrain was, as always, repeated by many: never again.But for some across Israel, as the war in Gaza continues to ravage the Palestinian people and wipe out entire families, never again had come to hold another meaning. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Israelis protest against Gaza war with rare outcry over Palestinian casualties

Holocaust survivors gathering on Holocaust Memorial Day speak out against Palestinian starvation and sufferingFew days speak so profoundly to the soul of Israel than Holocaust Memorial Day. As the country sat in silence on Thursday to remember 6 million Jews exterminated by the Nazis, the same refrain was, as always, repeated by many: never again.But for some across Israel, as the war in Gaza continues to ravage the Palestinian people and wipe out entire families, never again had come to hold another meaning. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Reform UK candidate at next week's local elections was last year convicted of £5,000 council tax fraud

Martyn Cubitt is standing for Nigel Farage 's party for the Burwell division of Cambridgeshire County Council next Thursday.

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5 d. ago Kehlani performance at Cornell University canceled over singer’s explicit anti

The R&B singer has previously blasted fellow celebrities for their ‘silence’ over the war in Gaza

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5 d. ago Spain scraps €6.6m arms order from Israeli company after outcry

Coalition allies of Pedro Sánchez said the purchase of millions of bullets jeopardised country’s efforts to hold Israel to account over war in GazaSpain has scrapped a €6.6m (£5.7m) order for millions of bullets from an Israeli company after the junior partners in its coalition government denounced it as a “flagrant breach” of the alliance agreement that jeopardised the country’s sustained efforts to hold Israel accountable for its actions in Gaza.The country’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has been one of the most outspoken critics of Israel’s conduct during the war in Gaza, questioning whether it is following international humanitarian law and calling the number of Palestinian deaths “truly unbearable”. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Spanish deputy PM’s party calls for cancellation of Israeli arms order

Leftwing party says €6.6m order for bullets from Israeli firm breaches coalition government agreementsThe leftwing junior partners in Spain’s socialist-led coalition government have called on the interior ministry to cancel a €6.6m (£5.7m) order for millions of bullets from an Israeli company, claiming the deal breaches coalition agreements and undermines efforts to hold Israel to account over its actions in Gaza.Spain’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has been one of the most outspoken critics of Israel’s prosecution of the war in Gaza, questioning whether it is following international humanitarian law and calling the number of Palestinian deaths “truly unbearable”. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Reform UK council candidate helps Nigerians get UK study visas

Christopher Adegoke is standing as Reform's candidate for the Hucknall West ward on Nottinghamshire County Council at next month's local elections .

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6 d. ago Dozens of members of UK Jewish body facing disciplinary action over criticism of Israel

Members of Board of Deputies who signed open letter about war in Gaza are now ‘subject to a complaints procedure’Three dozen members of the largest body representing British Jews are facing disciplinary action after signing an open letter criticising Israel over the war in Gaza.Amid signs of deepening divisions among British Jews over the 18-month-old war, the Board of Deputies announced this week that all 36 signatories to the letter were now “subject to a complaints procedure” after “multiple complaints”. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Reform UK names Tory defector Ross Lambie as candidate for Hamilton by

Nigel Farage's right-wing populist party hopes it can leapfrog the Scottish Conservatives when voters in South Lanarkshire go to the polls in June.

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6 d. ago Lawyers ask federal judge in Vermont for immediate release of detained Palestinian activist

A federal judge is scheduled to consider a request to immediately release a Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University and was arrested during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship

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7 d. ago Israel ends mention of humanitarian zones as Gaza war grinds on

International aid workers fear for Palestinians who have fled their homes in search of safetyIsrael has quietly stopped designating areas of Gaza as humanitarian zones since it resumed its strikes on the Palestinian territory last month.The move has heightened fears among aid workers for the safety of civilians sheltering in places previously deemed protected. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Detained Palestinian activist in Vermont prison says he's 'in good hands,' focused on peacemaking

A Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University and was recently arrested during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship says he’s “in good hands” at the Vermont prison where he's being held

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7 d. ago ‘He felt our pain’: Catholic church in Gaza grieves Pope Francis’s death

Pope made nightly phone calls to the Holy Family Catholic church from the start of the war in October 2023Latest updates after death of Pope FrancisThe first time he spoke to Pope Francis during the pontiff’s nightly calls to the Holy Family Catholic church in Gaza City, the congregant George Antone, 44, found himself at a loss for words.It was October 2023, a few weeks after Hamas ignited a devastating war in the Gaza Strip by attacking Israel. The Palestinian territory’s tiny Christian community had taken shelter in the strip’s three churches, but that didn’t mean they were safe. An Israeli airstrike had just hit the Greek Orthodox church, killing 18 people; soon, snipers and bombs would also kill civilians at the Holy Family. Continue reading...

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