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Adviser to Khamenei says Iran will have ‘no choice’ if nuclear facilities targeted by Israel.Iran could be pushed into building a nuclear weapon if Israel threatens its existence, an adviser to the country’s supreme leader has warned. “We have no decision to build a nuclear bomb but should Iran’s existence be threatened, there will be no choice but to change our military doctrine,” said Kamal Kharrazi, an adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Thursday. “In the case of an attack on our nuclear facilities by the Zionist regime, our deterrence will change,” he was reported as saying by Iran’s…

On May 10, all member states should vote to admit the State of Palestine as the 194th member of the United Nations.On May 10, the United Nations’ 193 member states can end the Gaza war and the longstanding suffering of the Palestinian people by voting to admit Palestine as the 194th UN member state. The Arab world has repeatedly declared its readiness to establish relations with Israel within the context of the two-state solution. This goes back to the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative and has been reiterated in the 2023 Arab-Islamic Extraordinary Summit. On May 16, leaders of the region…

Police say arrests made in Washington, DC, as US-wide crackdown continues on student-led demonstrations in support of Palestinians in Gaza.Police in the United States capital have broken up a student protest encampment at George Washington University, one of dozens of tent camps set up on campuses across the country in support of Palestinians in Gaza. The Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, said in a statement that it “moved to disperse” demonstrators on Wednesday morning after “a gradual escalation in the volatility of the protest”. It did not elaborate on what exactly that means. “During the course of the operation,…

Israel’s isolation deepens as Turkey halts bilateral trade with the Middle Eastern nation.Many nations are accusing Israel’s prime minister of committing genocide in Gaza. And pressure is growing globally on Benjamin Netanyahu to end the conflict – even pressure from his closest allies. Turkey has become the first country to halt all trade with Israel worth $7bn – until a permanent ceasefire is reached. Ankara’s boycott could further harm the Israeli economy battered by the war. But Netanyahu has rejected a ceasefire deal with Hamas, saying it does not meet the nation’s demands, despite its growing international isolation. And the…

There is enough fuel to run hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip for only three more days, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warns after Israeli forces seized control of the Rafah border crossing. Israel on Tuesday sent ground troops and tanks into the city of Rafah and seized the nearby crossing into Egypt that is the main conduit for aid into the besieged Palestinian territory. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said fuel that the United Nations health agency had expected to be allowed in on Wednesday had been blocked. Israeli authorities control the flow of humanitarian aid…

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NewsFeedNearly 400 people are now homeless after Israel demolished the homes of a Bedouin community in the Negev desert. Palestinian-Israeli members of parliament criticised the decision but attempts to stop the demolition failed.Published On 8 May 20248 May 2024 Source link

Israeli army kills more Palestians in Gaza after takeover of crossing on vital route for aid deliveries.Israel’s seizure of the Rafah crossing worsens an already dire situation for the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. Why has Israel defied the US and taken over the crossing? And what could the consequences be for all sides? Presenter: Tom McRae Guests: Salman Sheikh – Founder of peacebuilding organisation The Sheikh Group Nour Odeh – Political analyst and public diplomacy specialist H A Hellyer – Senior associate fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Royal United Services Institute in London Source…

New Orleans, Louisiana, US – Student protests against the Israeli war on Gaza have rocked the United States over the past few weeks, prompting a police crackdown on many campuses and more than 2,000 arrests. Students who have set up protest encampments at universities across the country are calling for their institutions to withdraw all investments from firms complicit in Israeli abuses against Palestinians. While the focus has been on Columbia University in New York and other elite Ivy League institutions, students are also organising for Palestine in the US South. Smaller Southern cities were at the heart of the…

On May 5, the breaking news that Hamas had accepted a ceasefire deal spread like wildfire across Gaza, sending people to the streets celebrating. Their joy was short-lived, however, as Israel pressed forward with a deadly ground assault on Rafah. After weeks of facing accusations from Israel and the US that its stance was impeding progress in ceasefire negotiations, Hamas made a strategic decision with which it effectively outmanoeuvred its enemy. The ball is now in Israel’s court and by extension, the court of its main backer, the United States. If a deal for a lasting ceasefire is not concluded,…