Author: ALJAZEERA

Yehuda Fox said that the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank, is in Israel’s security interest.An Israeli general has condemned the government’s decision to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank and criticised rising levels of settler violence in the region, according to Israeli media reports. Major General Yehuda Fox, the outgoing head of Israel’s central command,  said at a departure ceremony on Monday that Israeli settlers have engaged in “nationalist crime” through violence in the occupied West Bank, which he said has “sowed chaos and fear in Palestinian residents who did not pose any threat.” “This is not…

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Report says famine has spread throughout the enclave after nine months of war.United Nations human rights experts have accused Israel of carrying out a “targeted starvation campaign” that has resulted in the deaths of children in Gaza. “Israel’s intentional and targeted starvation campaign against the Palestinian people is a form of genocidal violence and has resulted in famine across all of Gaza,” 10 independent UN experts said in a statement on Tuesday. Israel’s diplomatic mission to the UN in Geneva dismissed the statement and accused the experts of “spreading misinformation” and “supporting Hamas propaganda”. Gaza health authorities have said at…

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Since October 7, Palestinians held by Israel have described horrific treatment and torture, especially in military detention centres.Even in regular times, Palestinians accuse the Israeli government of weaponising arbitrary arrests and say they face discrimination and abuse in the Israeli penal system. But after October 7, the scale and severity of abuse and lack of accountability have increased massively. With government ministers boasting of putting prisoners on “starvation diets” and some inmates even dying from torture, being arrested as a Palestinian – often without charge or trial – seems to be more dangerous than ever. Presenter: Anelise Borges Guests:Barca Odeh…

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Football became a means of resistance to French colonial rule in Algeria and a counter to British colonialism in Sudan.Football was a means of resistance in the fight for independence in French colonial Algeria and British-ruled Sudan. The European powers introduced their sports to their colonies for their own recreation, as well as a way of controlling the local population. French authorities allowed local football clubs in Algeria on condition that they had a mix of Algerian and French settler players. As the nationalist movement grew, its relationship with football became closer. In 1958, 15 Algerian professionals based in France…

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The Israeli army did deploy its so-called Hannibal Directive, which allows the military to use all necessary force to prevent the capture of soldiers, during the October 7 Hamas-led attacks on Israel, resulting in the loss of both civilian and military lives, an investigation by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz has found. Here is what we know so far: What is the Hannibal Directive and how did it come about? For nearly two decades, military censorship kept the directive, also known as the Hannibal Procedure or Hannibal Protocol, under wraps. It allows the Israeli military to use any force necessary to…

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Deir el-Balah, Gaza – Rima Khamis, a 34-year-old mother of three, had just gotten to her parents’ house for a visit on Sunday evening. She lived in the north of Gaza City and had come to the Daraj neighbourhood in the centre to see her sick mother. Then Israeli orders to leave Daraj, Tuffah and the Old City came like a thunderclap, sowing panic everywhere. ‘Just started running’ “I started trying to call my husband to tell him what happened, to no avail,” Rima told Al Jazeera over phone messages. Not knowing what was going to happen, she grabbed her…

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