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UK Government Says Israel Is Not Committed to Following International Human Rights Law
The admission came in a legal statement by Keir Starmer’s Government to the High Court, amid a challenge to the UK’s arms and F-35 exports to Israel
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Genocide: An Idea for our Times
After 80 years, Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin’s idea is more relevant than ever
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Ecocide and Genocide: What Trump Wants in Gaza and Why Jill Stein is No Answer
Trump plans to accelerate Israel’s violence in Gaza, male violence against women and industrial violence against the earth. He must be stopped.
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How aid Cuts Disproportionately Impact Women and why Israel’s Decision to ban UNRWA Will Have an ‘Unequally Cruel Impact on the Most Vulnerable’
Israel banned Gaza’s largest provider of humanitarian support on Monday in a decision UNICEF dubbed ‘a new way to kill children’
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Britain’s Failure to Stand up for International Law in Gaza is ‘Shameful’, Says Tony Blair’s Former International Development Secretary
Clare Short tells Keir Starmer’s Government to stand up for its principles and end Britain’s role as a “lieutenant” for the United States
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‘Bernard Henri Lévy’s ‘Israel Alone’ is Nationalism Dressed in Humanist Clothes’
The French intellectual’s book on October 7 and the Gaza war reveals the failure of some of Israel’s defenders to see Palestinian suffering
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Hunters and Hunted: The Terrible Truths About AI-Assisted Manhunts in Gaza
These technologies are removing accountability from warfare and making it harder to hold individuals or governments responsible for extrajudicial killings
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UK Sanctions on Israeli Settlers are ‘Wholly Insufficient’ – the Violence Should be ‘Treated as Terrorism Rather Than Criminality’
The Foreign Secretary David Lammy is being urged to go much further in response to violence by Israeli settlers
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Hezbollah Drone Attack Causes Panic Over Iron Dome as Israel’s war on UN Peacekeepers Accelerates
Hezbollah managed to breach the Iron Dome with an attack on a military base that resulted in the deaths of four soldiers and the wounding of over 60 – amid concerns Hamas may have found a way to breach the iron curtain dividing Gaza from Israel
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Israel and US Plot to Reshape Middle East as ‘Compensation Package’ Offered to Stop Strikes on key Iranian Targets
The growing conflict, an analyst suggests, ‘represents a real opportunity to redraw the political map… and dismantle the Axis of Resistance’
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Iran Preparing for ‘Imminent’ Missile Attack on Israel, US Official Warns
The warning comes as Israel began a ground incursion into southern Lebanon and after the US told Iran it will get directly involved if it attacks Israel
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Israel Gaza War: ‘Britain Can’t Shirk its Responsibility any Longer and Must Lead International Community to Stop Bloodshed’
As the anniversary of Hamas’ 7 October 2023 attack on Israel nears, the Muslim Association of Britain urges the UK not to be on the ‘wrong side of history’ and to act now
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‘How the West’s Blind and Unconditional Support for Israel is Leading to a Terrifying Regional War’
At a UN General Assembly, there was enormous sympathy for the Palestinians and strong criticism of Israel’s treatment of them. Wednesday marked the third day of a wave of new strikes on Lebanon
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As Israel Fights war Crime Claims, Questions Raised About Prosecutions of IDF’s Thousands of ‘Foreign Fighters’
An estimated 30,000 foreign-born soldiers are fighting for Israel – and many are leaving a questionable trail of evidence on social media
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What Gazans Really Think of the War, Who They Blame, and What They Want to Happen Next
An ‘extraordinary’ new poll reveals some uncomfortable truths about the war in Gaza
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Supply Chain Sabotage: The Explosive Plot Behind the Deadly Attacks in Lebanon
As funerals were held for the dead and the wounded filled hospitals, social media and the international press buzzed with the alarming question: Could smartphones be next?
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‘BBC, Bias and Gaza: A Partial Study of Impartiality’
A new much publicised report that claims the BBC is “heavily biased against Israel” flies in the face of other specialist and academic studies
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How a Lack of Support for the International Criminal Court may Have Emboldened Israel and Hamas
‘It may be that Israel was able to believe that pressure on the ICC was working and that its eight years of impunity from international law since 2014 would continue’
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‘David Lammy’s Token Move on Israel Arms Licences is no Answer to Genocide – It’s a Form of Denial’
‘You do not respond to genocide with gestures; you do not continue to treat a state that is suspected of committing genocide as an ally; and cancelling a number of export licences does not cancel Britain’s complicity’
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FIFA Urged to Ban Israel this Week for Killing Hundreds of Footballers and Destroying Almost Every Sporting Space in Gaza
The governing body is due to make a decision before the end of August. Israeli football officials claim FIFA will find ‘all our arguments justified’
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Israel Accused of Killing Palestinian Journalists in ‘Unprecedented Numbers and Targeting Their Families’
A report last week suggested 115 journalists and media workers had been killed since 7 October 2023, but others say the number is as high as 171
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‘Investigation into Israeli Soldiers’ Sexual Assault of Palestinian Detainee is the Tip of the Iceberg’
CCTV footage has emerged allegedly showing Israel Defence Forces (IDF) soldiers sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee. Human rights groups say the abuse has been ‘going on for decades’
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Israel Accused of Carrying Out Campaign of Accelerated Ethnic Cleansing in the Israeli-Occupied Palestinian West Bank
Over 600 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since Hamas’ deadly attack – but residents fear a worse wave of violence lies ahead as tensions between Israel and Hezbollah and Iran intensify
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‘UK’s Pursuit of Closer Trade Ties With Israel Risks Rewarding it for War Crimes’
The UK is acting as if the bombing of hospitals, starvation of civilians, and razing of entire neighbourhoods was just a disappointing but ultimately anomalous spell of bad behaviour
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A Young Family’s Heartbreaking Escape From Gaza – in Their own Words
From giving birth at a refugee camp as bombs rained down, to the daily struggle of finding food and water; taking refuge in Rafah to paying smugglers to help them escape to Egypt. A harrowing story of survival
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An Unthinkable War Between Israel and Hezbollah Could Ignite the Middle East
For the past seven months, Israel and Hezbollah have resorted to low-level fighting with tit-for-tat strikes on one another but concerns are increasing that a full-scale war may occur
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Israel Inches Closer to All-Out Regional War as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Fights for Political Survival
‘Netanyahu is really the biggest danger to the state of Israel’
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British Doctor Bombed in Gaza by Israeli Planes Fitted with UK-Made Weaponry Speaks out for First Time
The attack occurred in a building that the Israel Defense Forces knew contained medics so constitutes a violation of International Humanitarian Law. So why are UK officials doing nothing about it?
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IDF Lies About ‘Independent’ Army Investigator Ties to AI-Targeted Killing Technology in Rafah and Gaza
The head of Israel’s probe into the Rafah bombing helped create the cutting-edge drone technology disproportionately killing civilians across Gaza – and the IDF is lying about it
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Demands to Halt UK Trade Talks and Arms Sales with Israel As Netanyahu Faces Potential Arrest Over War Crimes Claims
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces arrest if he visits the UK, if the warrants are issued
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Government ‘Independent Adviser’ Who ‘Backs Ban’ on Climate and Palestine Groups has Paid Roles with Defence and Business Lobbyists
The Conservatives’ domestic extremism adviser Lord John Walney is accused of conflicts of interest over a proposed ban of groups such as Palestine Action and Just Stop Oil
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‘Kill Zones’, Body Bags and Starvation: Gaza aid Workers on The Devastating Reality of Life in the World’s Most Dangerous Place
It’s the “most dangerous place in the world to be an aid worker” – and every day it gets worse
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Collateral Genocide: Inside Israel’s Official ‘Legalisation’ of Mass Civilian Killings
Israel’s key defence is that it is not intending to destroy Gazans, but to destroy Hamas – so whatever happens is therefore not intentional
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Leaked Documents Expose how Israeli War Ministers Created IDF Policy of Mass Killing With US Support
US State Department documents show just how involved America is – and how they coached Israeli officials on how to undermine findings and defend themselves
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Israeli Aid Worker Inquiry Compromised by Ties to IDF Mass Killing Doctrine
Yoav Har-Even’s direct involvement in supporting the IDF operation in Gaza, despite also being tasked to lead the investigation into the conduct of the operation, is an obvious conflict of interest
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The Dilemma Facing Civil Servants Over the UK’s Arms Sales to Israel
Former British diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall, who resigned from the Foreign Office in 2019 as she felt unable to represent the Government’s Brexit stance, unpicks the questions of law and morality facing those working inside Whitehall
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Machine Learning and the Carnage in Gaza
The Israeli army is using an AI-assisted targeting system called Lavender in Gaza. Are we really willing to entrust an algorithm with the lives and deaths of human beings?
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‘Keir Starmer’s Condemnation of “Terror” in Gaza is a Step Forward — But Just the Beginning’
Starmers speech at a recent Iftar in London is a seismic shift in the Labour Party’s approach to both the Middle East conflict and anti-Muslim prejudice in the UK
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BAE Systems CEO Made Almost £1m Extra in Share Sale After Hike In Price Since Gaza war
Charles Woodburn sold over 330,000 personal shares in BAE Systems, earning £4,163,035
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Israel is ‘Disappearing’ Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza – and Their Families May Never Get Answers
Palestinians are vanishing without a trace into secret prisons and detention centres, and authorities are stonewalling their families
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Jewish Londoners Slam Government Advisor’s ‘No-Go Zone’ Claim About Pro-Palestine Marches
‘I’m sick to death of this idea that Jews think in a singular way’ one Jewish Londoner responded to Government adviser Robin Simcox
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‘Who Are the Extremists Who Would Tear Us Apart?’
Mustafa Al-Dabbagh argues that it is the Government, not those calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, which is using extremist and divisive rhetoric
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UK News Coverage of Conflict in Israel and Gaza Showed ‘Overwhelming’ Bias, Report Finds
The Centre for Media Monitoring found that, in the month after the 7 October attacks, pro-Israeli sources were quoted more often and challenged less frequently than Palestinians
