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Settlers storm Al-Aqsa and West Bank villages
The News Line
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August 18, 2025
SCORES of extremist Israeli settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem on Sunday morning – while tight restrictions were imposed on the entry of Muslim worshippers to the Islamic holy site. Eyewitnesses said that dozens of settlers,...
Education instead of war! Skilled workers instead of austerity measures for our nurseries and day-care centres!
World Socialist Web Site
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August 19, 2025
In recent weeks, the rank-and-file “Action Committee, Nurseries & Education” has been founded in Berlin to take up the fight against the ongoing deterioration of conditions for nursery and day-care-centre workers, children and parents. One result...
Palestinian Authority moves to draft constitution
Middle East Eye
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August 18, 2025
The Palestinian Authority (PA) is moving to draft an interim constitution for a future Palestinian state. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday issued a decree to form a committee to draft the document. The statement said that...
Palestinians Start Evacuating Gaza City Ahead Of Israeli Offensive
StratNews Global
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August 18, 2025
Home west asia Gaza Palestinians Start Evacuating Gaza City Ahead Of Israeli Offensive Israel’s plan to take control of Gaza City has sparked alarm both internationally and domestically, prompting tens of thousands of Israelis to stage some of the...
Gaza City residents brace for the worst as Israeli assaults intensify
Middle East Eye
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August 18, 2025
A once bustling neighbourhood in Gaza City has become Israel's latest man-made inferno in its nearly two years'-long genocide in Gaza. Al-Zeitoun, the largest quarter of Gaza’s Old City, has become the target of a new military campaign aimed at...
Gaza priest says evacuation order issued for parish neighbourhood
Catholic News
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August 18, 2025
Fr Gabriel Romanelli IVE (CNA/Fr Gabriel Romanelli, Facebook) The parish priest of Gaza’s only Catholic church says “an evacuation order has been issued for the entire neighbourhood”, as Israel advances a plan to relocate Palestinians. Source:...
Israeli forces detain Palestinian culture minister after illegal settlers’ attack in occupied West Bank
Middle East Monitor
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August 18, 2025
Israeli forces on Monday detained Palestinian Culture Minister Imad Hamdan and members of his delegation during a visit to Kafr Ni’ma, west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, local media said. The incident followed an assault by illegal...
New Israeli settlement project to displace 7,000 Palestinians in occupied West Bank, authorities warn
Middle East Monitor
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August 18, 2025
A new Israeli settlement project will forcibly displace around 7,000 Palestinian residents in the occupied West Bank, the Jerusalem Governor’s Office warned Monday, Anadolu reports. Last week, far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich,...
Educational Activities in Khawlan & Bani Bahloul mark Prophet’s Birthday
Yemen News Agency SABA
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Sana’a - Saba: The educational sector in Khawlan District, Sana’a Governorate, in coordination with the local authority and the public mobilization office, organized student events and school activities to celebrate the Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH)...
Palestinian Ambassador Abdullah Abu Shawesh: ‘India there for us… can put pressure on Israel to end the conflict in Gaza’
The Indian Express
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August 18, 2025
With Israel announcing a plan to take control of Gaza — and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling it the “best way” to end the war — Palestinian Ambassador Abdullah Abu Shawesh spoke to The Indian Express about Tel Aviv’s decision, whether US...
Gaza survivor reunites with Motaz Azaiza, whose picture saved her life
The National News
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Nearly two years ago she was pinned under the rubble of her family home in Gaza when renowned photographer Motaz Azaiza spotted her and took the picture that ultimately saved her life. Nada Jwaifel, now 19, and Azaiza reunited in Washington at the...
Israelis in the West Bank
The Progressive magazine - Wisconsin
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August 18, 2025
Haifa is one of Israel’s largest cities, but as I walk down its streets on a late night in March, the typically bustling industrial area, home to one of the Mediterranean’s major seaports, is almost unnaturally still. At 4 a.m., the low hum from...
Palestinian president forms committee to draft interim constitution ahead of elections
Yeni Safak
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August 18, 2025
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday issued a decree forming a committee to draft an interim constitution aimed at transitioning from the Palestinian Authority to a full state. The move is part of preparations for upcoming general...
For the women on Hadassah’s 2025 list of Zionists to watch, Oct. 7 was a call to action
Jewish Herald-Voice - Texas
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By Suzanne Kurtz Sloan When Emily Austin was 16, a Holocaust education trip to Poland changed her life. The child of secular Israeli immigrants to New York, Austin grew up in Brooklyn and decided early on that being a Jew was important to her...
Palestinian Identity and Education in Germany
Unicorn Riot
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Germany’s crackdown on Palestinian solidarity has affected academic institutions, silencing dissent and targeting students and academics. Protests have been repressed, events and lectures critical of Israeli policy cancelled, smear campaigns...
Statement by the Palestinian Communist Party
Marxism-Leninism Today
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August 18, 2025
August 11, 2025 The Central Committee of the Palestinian Communist Party held its regular meeting amid escalating events in Palestine, particularly in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and the ongoing international and regional conspiracy against...
Israel Waging 'Deliberate Campaign of Starvation' in Gaza: Amnesty
Common Dreams
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August 18, 2025
Amnesty International on Monday published new testimonies of Palestinians suffering from Israel's "systemic and intentional" campaign of starvation in the Gaza Strip, where hundreds of people—including more than 100 children—have died of...
Greta Thunberg’s Gaza stance ignites debate on protest and denial
Independent Australia
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As Greta Thunberg joins the Gaza flotilla, her activism forces a global reckoning with denial — from climate to conflict, writes Lyn Bender. WHEN GRETA THUNBERG switched her visible activism from climate change to Gaza, many saw this as a betrayal...
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GhanaWeb
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August 18, 2025
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Gaza Tribunal calls for armed UN intervention to halt ‘most lethal phase of genocide’ in Gaza
Middle East Monitor
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August 18, 2025
The Gaza Tribunal on Monday called for an urgent international armed intervention to stop what it described as Israel’s “most lethal phase of genocide” in Gaza, warning that failure to act would mark “an historic failure of humanity,” Anadolu...