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Hamas pledges to dissolve Gaza government, offers no timeline
Cairo: Hamas said Sunday, January 11, it will dissolve its existing government in Gaza once a Palestinian technocratic leadership committee takes over the territory, as mandated under the US-brokered peace plan. But…
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Stanford students face trial over pro-Palestinian office takeover
San Francisco: A trial began on Friday for five current and former Stanford University students who occupied the university president’s offices during a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024, in a rare instance of…
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Arab nations condemn Israel FM visit to Somaliland
Days after Israel Foreign Minister Gideon Saar visited Somaliland, 22 Islamic countries and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (IOC) on Friday, January 9, condemned Saar’s visit to Somalia’s breakaway region. In a joint…
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Israeli strikes kill 13 in Gaza as Trump expected to announce Board of Peace
Deir al-Balah: Israeli strikes across Gaza killed at least 13 people, according to health officials, as US President Donald Trump was expected to announce the Board of Peace to oversee the fragile…
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Israel kills 11-year-old at home in Gaza as post-ceasefire deaths mount
Deir Al-Balah: A relative said Israeli gunfire on Thursday, January 8, killed an 11-year-old girl whose family had returned to a designated safe zone, adding to more than 400 deaths reported since…
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Unlike Palestine, Somaliland not a virtual state: Israel FM
Israel Foreign Minister Gideon Saar on Tuesday, January 6, visited Somaliland and said that the country is “not a virtual state like Palestine.” Saar made the remarks while addressing a joint press…
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Israel attacks Palestinian university in West Bank, 11 students injured
Ramallah: Eleven Palestinian students were injured, including five suffered from gunshot wounds, when Israeli military raided the Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, January 6. The military men stormed…
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Negotiations ongoing to open Rafah crossing, says Qatar
As humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip struggles to trickle in, the Qatari Foreign Ministry on Tuesday, January 6, said that negotiations are underway to open the Rafah crossing into the besieged…
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Britain opens Palestinian embassy in a historic moment
London: In a historic moment, Britain opened a Palestinian embassy on Monday, January 5, after it formally recognised the State of Palestine last September, marking a significant development in UK-Palestinian relations. Speaking…
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Celebs recite Palestinian, Sudanese poetry in show of solidarity
World-renowned celebrities, including seven-time Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton, came together in a video featuring Palestinian and Sudanese poems in a show of solidarity with the two nations in conflict. The virtual…
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Israeli tech company to turn ‘burdensome’ rubble into profit
Amid the rubble in Gaza due to the over two-year-long Israeli military action, a new tech company has come to the fore promising to turn construction waste from a “discarded liability” into…
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International aid groups grapple with what Israel’s ban will mean for their work
Tel Aviv: Israel’s decision to revoke the licenses of more than three dozen humanitarian organisations this week has aid groups scrambling to grapple with what this means for their operations in Gaza…
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Web hosting platform seizes domain documenting Israeli war crimes
Namecheap.com, a major domain and web hosting platform, on January 1, seized the Genocide.live domain documenting over 16,000 videos of Israeli war crimes in Palestine, citing “violent content.” The archive, previously known…
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Grandmother, her grandson burn to death in Gaza tent as humanitarian crisis deepens
Deir Al Balah: A grandmother and her 5-year-old grandson burned to death in Gaza when their tent caught fire, as thousands of Palestinians battle harrowing winter conditions in flimsy makeshift housing and…
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Saudi Foreign Minister, Palestine VP discuss Gaza, West Bank developments
Saudi Arabia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan met Vice President of Palestine and Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Hussein Al-Sheikh in Riyadh…