43 h. ago UK court rejects Palestinian group’s claim London illegally arming Israel

UK court rejects Palestinian group’s claim London illegally arming Israel  New York Post

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45 h. ago Palestine Action spraying paint is not terrorism. As ministers abuse their powers, I feel a duty to speak out | Juliet Stevenson

We have laws to deal with crimes linked to protest. What this is really about is a government complicit in the Gaza atrocities seeking to silence dissentJuliet Stevenson is an award-winning actorStrongly worded emails are not doing it. Appeals to MPs are not doing it. Taking to the streets in our hundreds of thousands with banners and placards is not working. Elected representatives from every party in parliament have stood in the Commons and asked the government to act. Some government ministers themselves have condemned Israel’s starvation of Palestinians in Gaza. Every poll of public opinion shows that the nation demands we stop arming Israel, and wants to see an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire. But none of these things are working.Keir Starmer and his cabinet remain impervious to all calls for humanitarian intervention, and Israel is still killing children in Gaza with the support of the British government.Juliet Stevenson is an award-winning actor Continue read...

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51 h. ago Judges rule against Palestinian human rights group's claim that the UK is illegally arming Israel

A Palestinian human rights group lost a legal challenge against the U.K. government over supplying Israel with parts for F-35 fighter jets

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53 h. ago Palestinian human rights group loses legal challenge against UK government over arms exports to Israel

Al-Haq had challenged the Department of Business and Trade over its decision to continue supplying parts for F-35 fighter jets to Iraeli forces

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1 week ago Sex and the City icon Cynthia Nixon reveals her Jewish son is on hunger strike for Gaza

Seph Mozes, the 28-year-old son of Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon, is taking part in a hunger strike in solidarity with Palestine to call for an end to the US arming of Israel

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1 week ago Scots Doctor Who star and Dame Judi Dench join calls to end arms sales to Israel

Ncuti Gatwa and Dame Judi Dench have signed the open letter published by refugee charity Choose Love calling for the UK to suspend arms sales to Israel.

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1 week ago Doctor Who star and Dame Judi Dench join calls to end arms sales to Israel

The letter signed by celebrities also calls on Sir Keir Starmer to ‘use all available means’ to ensure humanitarian aid gets in to the territory.

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1 week ago The Guardian view on Israel, the US and Iran: you can’t bomb your way out of nuclear proliferation | Editorial

The age of disarmament is over. But military action only increases the dangers instead of ending the threatEighty years after the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and 40 years after the US and Soviet Union pledged to reduce their arsenals, the threat of nuclear war has resurged with a vengeance. The age of disarmament is over, a prominent thinktank warned this week: “We see a clear trend of growing nuclear arsenals, sharpened nuclear rhetoric and the abandonment of arms control agreements,” said Hans M Kristensen of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.The world’s nine nuclear-armed states have amassed the equivalent of 145,000 Hiroshima bombs. Israel’s illegal attack upon Iran is purportedly a last-ditch attempt to prevent it joining this club – as Israel did long ago, though does not admit it. While Tehran possesses the capacity to develop a nuclear weapon if it chose to, US intelligence believes it has not made that decision – and would stil...

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2 w. ago The Guardian view on Gaza’s engineered famine: stop arming the slaughter – or lose the rule of law | Editorial

As Palestinians starve amid the rubble, western governments defend Israel, fund armed aid and dismantle the very rules they claim to upholdGaza’s cries have been drowned out by Israel’s strikes on Iran, and the diplomatic pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu over the suffering has ebbed. Yet as the industrialised world urges de-escalation in the Middle East, the devastation continues. On Tuesday morning, witnesses described Israeli forces firing towards a crowd waiting for trucks loaded with flour, leaving more than 50 dead. These are not stray bullets in wartime chaos, they are the outcome of a system that makes relief deadly.As Médecins Sans Frontières declared this week, what is unfolding in Gaza is “the calculated evisceration of the very systems that sustain life”. That includes homes, markets, water networks and hospitals – with healthcare continually under attack. Last week, a UN commission found that more than 90% of the Gaza Strip’s schools and universities have be...

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2 w. ago Iran blitzes Israel for fourth day and calls for Islamic Army to wage war on Tel Aviv as IDF destroys its nuclear HQ and warns of 'regime change' in Tehran

Iran is looking to form an 'Islamic Army' with several other countries in the Middle East as it continues to wage war with Israel.

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2 w. ago Iran calls for Islamic Army to wage war on Israel and warns country will be 'uninhabitable' as it launches third night of strikes

Iran is looking to form an 'Islamic Army' with several other countries in the Middle East as it continues to wage war with Israel .

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2 w. ago British Army troops could be deployed to bolster RAF base near Israel as Middle East conflict explodes and Iran threatens UK

The potential move appears increasing likely tonight as Israel (pictured) steps up its bombardment of Iran and assassinates two of the country's intelligence chiefs.

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2 w. ago War explodes across Middle East: Israel wipes out head of Iranian army and nuclear scientists in massive air strikes as Tehran attacks Israel and vows to strike the US

Iran vowed to respond 'harshly' to Israel 's strikes on Tehran's nuclear facilities, which have taken out top Revolutionary Guard generals and nuclear scientists.

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2 w. ago Israel raids a Syrian village and detains suspected militants; 1 person is killed

Israel’s army has raided a village in southern Syria to arrest several alleged agents of the Palestinian militant group Hamas

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3 w. ago From Gaza prisoner to ‘the Israeli agent’: how rise of Abu Shabab could ignite new phase of war

In email exchange, leader of clan that Israel acknowledges arming blames Hamas for war and for looting of aid trucksOn 7 October 2023, Yasser abu Shabab was languishing in a Hamas-run jail in Gaza on charges of drug trafficking. With the outbreak of the conflict, the Palestinian from Rafah managed to leave prison, though the circumstances of his release remain unclear to this day.For a while, Abu Shabab vanished from sight. That changed last week when Israeli defence officials acknowledged they had begun arming a clan that calls itself the Anti-Terror Service. It consists of about 100 armed men who operate in eastern Rafah under the command of Abu Shabab, whose nickname is “the Israeli agent” and who is described as a “traitor” on social media in the territory. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Lebanese army warns Israeli airstrikes might force it to freeze cooperation with ceasefire committee

The Lebanese army has condemned Israel’s airstrikes on suburbs of Beirut, warning that such attacks are weakening the role of Lebanon’s armed forces that might eventually suspend cooperation with the committee monitoring the truce that ended the Israel-Hezbollah war

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3 w. ago Israel accused of arming Palestinian gang who allegedly looted aid in Gaza

Gang ‘of about 100 armed men’ operate in eastern Rafah with tacit approval of IDF in apparent attempt to counter HamasIsrael’s government has been accused of arming a Palestinian criminal gang whose members have allegedly looted humanitarian aid, in an apparent attempt to counter Hamas in Gaza.Satellite images and videos verified by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz showed on Thursday that a new Palestinian militia has expanded its presence in southern Gaza, and is operating inside an area under the direct control of the Israel Defense Forces. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Netanyahu confirms Israel arming Gaza clans to undermine Hamas

Prime minister’s comments come after opposition leader claims country is sending weapons to ‘criminals and felons’

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3 w. ago Two thirds of Brits want Keir Starmer to end arms sales to Israel, poll shows

Polling by campaign group Global Justice Now found 65% if voters support an arm sales ban until attacks on Gaza end, with just 11% opposing the move

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