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Israel Intercepts Freedom Flotilla Bound for Gaza

“One of their strategies in the event of interception is to prevent the media from covering what is happening.”

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Israel yesterday intercepted a Norwegian ship sailing with the Freedom Flotilla en route to the besieged Gaza Strip. The ship, called Al-Awda or Return, was attempting to break the naval blockade of Gaza, which has been imposed on the enclave by Israel and Egypt since 2007. The Israeli navy intercepted the ship some 60 nautical miles from the

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Iran’s Special Forces Chief Warns Trump: ‘If You Begin the War, We Will End It’

He mocked Trump as using the language of “night clubs and gambling halls.”

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A powerful commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards said on Thursday that Donald Trump should address any threats against Tehran directly to him, and mocked the US president as using the language of “night clubs and gambling halls”, Reuters reports. The comments by Major-General Qassem Soleimani, who heads the Quds Force of the Guards, were

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UN: Gaza Needs Support to Prevent Renewed Conflict

The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nikolay Mladenov, said in a statement yesterday that the besieged Gaza Strip is on the verge of total economic and social collapse.

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In this Saturday, April 16, 2016 photo, A Palestinian boy uses a homemade wagon made from a plastic crate to wheel bottles full of drinking water in front of a water supply station in Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip. Poor sewage treatment is a feature of life in Gaza, a result of infrastructure damaged during Israel's bombing campaigns and ongoing blockade.

The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nikolay Mladenov, said in a statement yesterday that the besieged Gaza Strip is on the verge of total economic and social collapse. Mladenov stressed that half of Gaza’s population is unemployed and that basic services are severely overstretched. The UN envoy welcomed a

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Rights Group Slams Israel’s New ‘Jewish Nation-State’ Law

By passing the nation-state bill, Israel has entrenched and exacerbated 70 year of inequality and discrimination against non-Jews in a law with constitutional status.

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The global human rights watchdog, Amnesty International, has condemned the passing of a controversial law by the Israeli parliament that recognizes the country as a Jewish state and risks alienating other religious and ethnic minorities, Anadolu reports. “At the moment we are not commenting further than this as we are investigating the full extent

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Calling Israel Racist Is Not Anti-Semitic, Insists International Jewish Coalition

Forty Jewish organizations from around the world have issued a joint statement dispelling the notion that calling Israel a racist country is anti-Semitic.

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Forty Jewish organisations from around the world have issued a joint statement dispelling the notion that calling Israel a racist country is anti-Semitic. The group denounced sections of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism saying that it stifles criticism of Israel with false accusations of racism

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Yemen Close to Famine After Port Offensive, Aid Groups Warn

The war has caused the world’s most urgent humanitarian crisis, with 22 million Yemenis dependent on aid.

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Yemen is close to famine after a 25-percent increase in levels of severe hunger this year and an offensive on the main port city of Hodeida, a lifeline for millions, humanitarian organisations warned on Monday. The Thomson Reuters Foundation reports, thousands more people have been displaced by the conflict and many are having to skip meals and

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UN Court: UAE Violated Qatar Nationals’ Basic Rights

The International Court of Justice demanded that Qatari nationals should be given access to judicial services in the UAE.

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A traditional dhow floats in the Corniche Bay of Doha, Qatar. Saudi media reported, April 9, 2018, a proposal to dig a maritime canal along the kingdom's closed border with Qatar, turning the peninsula-nation into an island and further isolating it. Saudi Arabia's state-linked Sabq and al-Riyadh newspapers carried nearly identical reports on Monday saying that the so-called Salwa Marine Canal project would be funded by Saudi and Emirati investors and carried out by Egyptian developers. (AP/Saurabh Das)

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) today issued a provisional ruling for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to immediately reunite Qatari families and end its racial discrimination against them. The UAE, joined Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt in levying an air, land and sea blockade against Qatar over terrorism and extremism allegations in June

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