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Issued on: 23/02/2024 – 15:31 Palestinian Bedouin communities in the West Bank are used to aggression from Israeli settlers. Since Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, they have seen an increase in efforts by extremist settlers to take their land – and their sheep.  Since Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, violence by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank has multiplied, particularly against Palestinian Bedouin communities, who make their living by herding and farming. The Observers editorial team was able to contact a herder in the Jericho region who denounces a campaign of harassment aimed at forcing…

Back to homepage / Middle East LIVE More than 100 people were reported killed early Saturday in overnight strikes across Gaza, as Israel’s spy chief was in Paris for talks seeking to “unblock” progress towards a truce and the return of hostages held by Palestinian militants.Read our liveblog to see how all the day’s events unfolded.  Issued on: 24/02/2024 – 08:04Modified: 24/02/2024 – 08:49 2 min A man walks amid the debris of destroyed houses in the aftermath of Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 22, 2024, amid continuing battles between Israel and the Palestinian…

Angry French farmers stormed into a major Paris farm fair on Saturday ahead of a planned visit by President Emmanuel Macron amid growing rage over costs, red tape and green regulations. Issued on: 24/02/2024 – 09:05Modified: 24/02/2024 – 09:11 1 min Facing dozens of policemen inside the trade fair, the farmers were shouting and booing, calling for the resignation of Macron and using expletives aimed at the French leader.Macron, who is having breakfast with French farmers’ union leaders, was scheduled to walk within the alleys of the trade fair afterwards.In another sign of how tense relations between farmers and the…

 A Tunisian imam expelled from France for alleged hate speech said on Friday he would take legal action in a bid to overturn the decision.  Issued on: 23/02/2024 – 17:13 2 min Mahjoub Mahjoubi, from the town of Bagnols-sur-Ceze in the south of France, denounced his removal as “arbitrary”.The cleric’s decision came a day he was expelled from France for “radicalism” and “unacceptable remarks”, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said in a statement posted on X on Thursday.”The radical Imam Mahjoub Mahjoubi has just been expelled from the national territory, less than 12 hours after his arrest. We will not…

France believes that Russia’s security service FSB was behind a campaign in which Star of David graffiti were daubed on buildings in and around Paris last autumn, a French source said Friday. Issued on: 23/02/2024 – 18:03Modified: 23/02/2024 – 18:05 2 min French prosecutors reported in November that 60 such stars had been found in the capital and surrounding suburbs weeks into the war between Israel and Hamas, with the graffiti being interpreted as a threat to Jews.A Moldovan couple was arrested in the case and their alleged handler, a pro-Russian Moldovan businessman, was identified, according to the source who…

Back to homepage / Shows / arts24 Issued on: 23/02/2024 – 18:49 12:32 arts24 © FRANCE 24 Lina Soualem’s latest film looks back at four generations of Palestinian women, with her mother, actress Hiam Abbass, serving as a guide to their family history. “Bye Bye Tiberias” charts their displacement from the shores of the Sea of Galilee to the village of Deir Hanna, using home videos and archive footage to place this very personal story within its larger historical context. The mother and daughter duo tell us about the challenge of revisiting the aftermath of the Nakba, and about their…

Two years after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the lack of troops and ammunition and the depth of Russia’s field fortifications are forcing Kyiv to adopt a more defensive strategy. As it waits for more Western support, the Ukrainian army is holding out for better days. Is “defend now, attack better later” Ukraine’s best shot? Two years after Russian forces invaded its territory, Ukraine has officially adopted a new strategy focused on defence. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted that the situation on the front lines was “extremely difficult” in his daily address on February 19.Since the failure of Kyiv’s summer…

Back to homepage / Shows / The 51% Issued on: 23/02/2024 – 13:14 12:28 THE 51 PERCENT © FRANCE 24 A special report here in France on the con artists who prey on the women suffering from endometriosis; a painful disease that affects millions and can sometimes lead to fertility problems. Also the Spanish government seeks to increase the number of mixed gender prisons with the aim of helping prisoners to get used to being in a society where women and men co-exist. Plus the Italian blockbuster movie with a distinct feminist message. And no, it is not ‘Barbie’. ‘There’s…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed a plan for post-war Gaza that envisions local Palestinian officials without links to Hamas or its foreign backers governing the territory, Israeli media reported Friday. Issued on: 23/02/2024 – 12:05 2 min The proposal, which Netanyahu submitted to his security cabinet late Thursday, would also see the Israeli army persisting in its war on Hamas until it achieves key goals.Those include dismantling Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and securing the release of all hostages still held captive in Gaza.After the war ends, Gaza’s civil affairs would be run by “local officials with administrative experience”…

Since news broke on February 16, 2024 that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny had died while incarcerated in the Russian Arctic, there has been a resurgence of doctored images and fake news aiming to discredit Navalny and his family. We took a look at three of the most widely spread fake news items about Navalny. None of them are true. If you only have a minute…  A photo claiming to show Alexei Navalny doing a Nazi salute has been widely circulated on social media in the days since his death. But this image has been photoshopped. Moreover, it’s been circulating…