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Israeli attacks, forced starvation have killed 62,000 Palestinians in Gaza
Al Jazeera
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August 18, 2025
More than 62,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel in its nearly two-year genocidal war on Gaza, with the population suffering relentless bombardment with nowhere safe in the besieged enclave, Israeli-induced starvation and the daily killing...
More Western Activists Are Traveling to Palestine — and Israel Is Deporting Them
Truthout
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August 18, 2025
Part of the Series Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! As settler violence continues to escalate in Palestine, including the killing of activist and documentary filmmaker Awdah Hathaleen...
Israel cancels visas for Australian representatives to the Palestinian Authority
SBS
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Israel's foreign affairs minister says the visas of Australia's representatives to the Palestinian Authority have been revoked over Australia's recognition of a Palestinian state and for refusing entry to Israeli figures. Gideon Sa'ar announced...
Sally Rooney vows to use book sales and BBC royalties to support Palestine Action
The London Economic
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August 18, 2025
Best-selling novelist Sally Rooney has vowed to support Palestine Action ‘in whatever way she can’ by donating her British book sale profits and royalties from BBC adaptations of her books. Rooney, 34, publicly reaffirmed her support for the...
The Trump administration’s halt on medical evacuations from Gaza is a death sentence for Palestinian children
Mondoweiss
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August 18, 2025
The U.S. State Department’s decision this weekend to halt all visitor visas for people from Gaza, which includes the medical-humanitarian visas that have brought injured children to American hospitals, will cost Palestinian lives. Officials say...
Israel to forcibly displace Palestinians from Gaza City, Putin courts Trump, Bolivia’s right-wing gains, U.S. stops medical treatment for Gaza’s children
Drop Site
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August 18, 2025
Since dawn, Israeli forces have killed at least 17 people in Gaza, with the Ministry of Health reporting five more deaths from starvation. Israel announces plans to forcibly displace hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza southwards as part...
Did Bosnia hotel staff throw passports of Israeli tourists away?
The New Arab
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August 18, 2025
Forty-seven Israelis were stranded in Bosnia after their passports ended up in the trash in their hotel in what is now being described as an accident. The tourists, left stranded in their hotel in Sarajevo, were meant to return home on Saturday,...
Misguided Protests Against Israeli Tourists
The National Herald
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August 18, 2025
Over the weekend, hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets to demonstrate against the war and Prime Minister Netanyahu. It was yet another sign that a growing segment of Israeli society is weary of the fighting and its atrocities and...
Heal Palestine slams US for blocking Gaza kids’ lifesaving visas
Al Mayadeen
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August 18, 2025
A far-right campaign led by Laura Loomer has pushed the Trump administration to suspend medical visas, leaving Gaza’s injured children without care abroad. A US aid organization that arranges lifesaving treatment for severely injured children from...
‘We have no choice’: Palestinian women reveal exploitation working in Israeli settlements
The Irish Times
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“Did the Irish fall into a vat of Guinness and propose something so stupid that it would be attributed to [an] act of diplomatic intoxication?” wrote US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on X in July last, referring to Ireland’s proposed Occupied...
Israel revokes visas of Australian representatives to the Palestinian Authority
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 18, 2025
Israel's Foreign Minister has revoked the visas of Australian representatives to the Palestinian Authority, in response to the Albanese government's decision to recognise Palestinian statehood. In a post on social media, Gideon Sa'ar said the...
Sally Rooney to keep supporting Palestine Action, despite terror ban
Dazed & Confused
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August 18, 2025
Novelist Sally Rooney has reiterated her support for Palestine Action, the direct action group which is now proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK. She made this intervention following a protest last weekend, during which several hundred...
Israel revokes visas of Australian diplomats to Palestine after Canberra bars far-right lawmaker
Xinhua News Agency
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JERUSALEM, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Israel on Monday revoked the visas of Australian representatives to the Palestinian Authority, citing Australia's earlier decision to cancel the visa of an Israeli lawmaker from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's...
Hundreds attend Palestine protest in Belfast city centre
Belfast Media
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HUNDREDS of people attended a protest in support of Palestine in Belfast city centre on Sunday The 'Defend the Right to Protest' rally saw the arrival of dozens of cyclists who travelled to Belfast from Dublin to show solidarity with those...
Nadeen Ayoub on representing Palestine at Miss Universe: 'We should never be silenced'
The National News
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This November, as Nadeen Ayoub steps on to the Miss Universe stage alongside contestants from over 120 countries, she will do more than make history as Palestine’s first participant – she will carry the courage and spirit of her people on a global...
Sally Rooney to use BBC royalties to support Palestine Action
The Spectator
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August 18, 2025
The UK government’s proscription of campaign group Palestine Action saw over more than 500 protestors arrested this month – the greatest number of arrests made by the Met Police on a single day – after they took signs of support to Parliament...
Starmer wades into flag row after SECOND woke council vows to remove St George’s Cross as he backs patriotic locals
The Scottish Sun
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August 18, 2025
SIR Keir Starmer “absolutely” supports people putting up English flags amid a row over councils tearing them down, a spokesperson said. It comes as residents have hit out after Tower Hamlets Council in east London announced the patriotic displays...
Cape Town journalists protest against Israel for killing Palestinian reporters
African Insider
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August 18, 2025
Protesters, many of them journalists, marched in Sea Point on Sunday to protest against Israel’s killing of journalists in Gaza. Photos: Ashraf Hendricks Hundreds of people, including many journalists, marched on the Sea Point Promenade in Cape...
Top US teachers' union supports Palestinian counterpart with terror-linked leader
Jewish World Review
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Reality Check Published August 18, 2025 SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY JWR UPDATE. IT'S FREE. (AND NO SPAM!) Just click here. It's no secret that the National Education Association, the largest teachers' union in America, has an antisemitism problem. But...
Recognising Palestine now is ‘virtue signalling’, says veteran Middle East negotiator
Brisbane Times
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August 18, 2025
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that France’s decision to recognise Palestine emboldened Hamas to play hardball in negotiations to secure a ceasefire in the war in Gaza. Asked about Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s stated desire for...