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After years on hold, Israel revives settlement project that will split the West Bank in two
Mondoweiss
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August 19, 2025
Israel is reviving a settlement plan that would annex a strategic tract of land east of Jerusalem and build 3,400 new housing units on top of it. Known as the E1 settlement project, the plan would effectively split the West Bank in two and “bury”...
Israeli settlers attack Palestinian father and son in occupied West Bank
Middle East Eye
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August 19, 2025
A Palestinian father and his son were attacked on Tuesday in eastern Hebron in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa. Shaker Hamed al-Zaro told Wafa that settlers assaulted him and his son Faraj while they were...
EU, France condemn Israeli demolition of EU-funded school in West Bank
Al Mayadeen
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August 19, 2025
EU and France condemn "Israel" for demolishing an EU-funded Palestinian school in Aqqaba, West Bank, sparking protests and Palestinian outrage. The European Union issued a statement on Tuesday expressing its “strong displeasure” over the...
West Bank E1 settlement is ‘final nail in the coffin’ for Palestinian state
People's World
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August 18, 2025
Israeli Finance Minister and West Bank colonial governor Bezalel Smotrich holds up a map of the proposed E1 settlement at a press conference on Aug. 14. If completed, the illegal settlement would make the establishment of contiguous Palestinian...
'Israel' escalates West Bank raids, arrests, and demolitions
Al Mayadeen
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August 19, 2025
As "Israel" expands its genocide in Gaza, occupation forces and settlers expand attacks across the West Bank, targeting towns from Beit Lahm to Nablus. As "Israel" carries out its genocidal war on Gaza, Israeli occupation forces and settlers...
In Occupied Palestine – 17 August 2025
The Daily Blog
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August 19, 2025
In Occupied Palestine Zionism in practice Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land 08:00, 17 August 2025 until 08:00, 18 August 2025 Gaza Strip Sanction Israel Merciless blitz on starving Gaza — growing numbers of dead and...
“Without Parallel”: UN Commissioner Exposes Systematic Erasure of Palestinian Heritage
Honi Soit
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August 20, 2025
The systematic destruction of Gaza’s cultural heritage represents “extreme episodes in a 100-year war,” United Nations Commissioner Chris Sidoti told a packed audience at the Chau Chak Wing Museum Tuesday night, presenting evidence that Israel’s...
Australian university and high school students strike against the Gaza genocide
World Socialist Web Site
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August 20, 2025
Students from universities and high schools around Australia struck earlier this month in opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the complicity of the Australian Labor government of Anthony Albanese. While the strikes, held on August 7,...
In Our Thousands, In Our Millions. We Are Not All Palestinians
Honi Soit
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August 20, 2025
In our thousands, in our millions, in our billions, in our trillion — Every Sunday, hundreds march down the Sydney CBD. In (semi-stuttered) unison, the streets echo: “In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians!” I am struck by a...
New Zealand government “considering” recognition of Palestine, as it continues to back Gaza genocide
World Socialist Web Site
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August 20, 2025
New Zealand’s right-wing coalition government announced last week that it is “considering” formally recognising the state of Palestine at next month’s United Nations General Assembly meeting. The Australian, British, Canadian and French...
Israel’s war on truth: the systematic killing of Palestinian journalists
Morning Star
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THE killing of seven Palestinian journalists and media workers in Gaza on August 10 has prompted verbal condemnations, yet has inspired little to no substantive action. This has become the predictable and horrifying trajectory of the international...
Exclusive: Powerful Libyan official in talks with Israel to resettle Palestinians from Gaza
Middle East Eye
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August 19, 2025
A senior official in Libya's internationally recognised government has held talks with Israeli officials over a proposal to resettle hundreds of thousands of Palestinians expelled from Gaza, multiple sources have told Middle East Eye. Speaking on...
Barco con 1.200 toneladas de alimentos para Gaza se acerca a puerto israelí tras salir de Chipre
Los Angeles Times
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August 20, 2025
LIMASSOL, Chipre — Un barco que partió de Chipre cargado con 1.200 toneladas de suministros alimentarios para la Franja de Gaza se acercaba el martes al puerto israelí de Ashdod, en un renovado esfuerzo por aliviar la crisis que se agrava en el...
Paul Weller sues former accountants after being dropped over Gaza statements
The Irish News
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Musician Paul Weller is suing his former accountants after they stopped working with the singer after public statements alleging Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, according to a legal letter. The former frontman of The Jam has filed a...
Ship ferrying 1,200 tons of food aid for Gaza nears Israel after departing from Cyprus
The Times of Israel
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August 20, 2025
A ship that set off from Cyprus loaded with 1,200 tons of food supplies for the Gaza Strip approached the Israeli port of Ashdod on Tuesday in a renewed effort to alleviate the worsening crisis in the Palestinian territory, where food security...
“Glad You’re Here”: On Latecomers to the Palestine Solidarity Movement
Honi Soit
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August 20, 2025
The march for Gaza across the Sydney Harbour Bridge drew hundreds of thousands into Palestinian solidarity — celebrities, families, and thousands of first-time participants. One of them was a friend of mine — politically engaged in conversation...
Financing agriculture pathway to curbing $10bn food import bill – Kyari
The Sun Nigeria
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August 20, 2025
By Chinyere Anyanwu The Minister for Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari, has stated that rethinking the country’s module of agricultural financing is critical to building a sustainable non-oil export economy. The minister stated this...
Israel says it has retrieved body of kidnapped Thai hostage from Gaza
Frontier Media - Alaska
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Israel says it has retrieved the body of a Thai hostage kidnapped into Gaza on 7 October. The prime minister's office said that the body of Nattapong Pinta was returned to Israel "in a special military operation". Mr Pinta, who had a wife and son,...
Where is the Food Going? Understanding the Gaza Food Security Situation
Camera
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While media claims of a “famine” in Gaza appear overwrought, unreliable, and in some cases fabricated, there is hunger in the Gaza Strip. What is the extent of hunger? There is simply not enough information to know with any certainty. So what are...
Large union meeting endorses August 24 national day of action for Palestine
Green Left
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August 19, 2025
A well-attended meeting at the Victorian Trades Hall on August 14 discussed how the labour movement can better stand with Palestine and sanction Israel, after the historic Sydney Harbour Bridge mobilisation. More than 150 people were in the room...