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Items by Motasem A Dalloul
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Will Netanyahu win the battle of Rafah?
The Israeli military has repeatedly said that all preparations for the ground invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah were complete, Israel Hayom reported on Tuesday. According to the Israeli newspaper, the Israeli army is waiting for the kick-off order from the political leadership, pointing out that the invasion...
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Mr Cameron, do the Palestinians have the right to defend themselves?
Speaking to Sky News, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron described Iran’s response to the Israeli attack on its consulate in Damascus as “a reckless and dangerous thing”. When the presenter asked him: “What would Britain do if a hostile state flattened one of our consulates?” Cameron replied: “We will take...
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Iran saves Netanyahu, allows world to sympathise with Israel again
For about five hours on Saturday night, Iran launched a very large and unprecedented attack on Israel saying it came in retaliation for the Israeli attack on Tehran’s diplomatic mission in Syria in which a senior Iranian official was killed. The attack consisted of more than 350 projectiles – including...
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6 months on, where do Israel and the Palestinian resistance stand?
Six months have now passed since the start of Israel’s war on the Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip. From day one, Israel has been killing innocent civilians under the pretext of fighting the Palestinian resistance, which it says carried out a brutal massacre against Israeli troops and settlers living...
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MEMO inspects extensive destruction of Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital as Israeli forces withdraw
MEMO's correspondent Motasem Dalloul inspects the wide-scale damage and destruction of Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital after an intensive Israeli raid of the complex and its vicinity which lasted just over two weeks. The complex, the largest and most sophisticated medical and health structure in the besieged Gaza Strip, has been...
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Israel has lost the world, as not even its lies can save it
The occupation state of Israel has a propaganda machine that reproduces lie after lie in order to generate sympathy around the globe. For more than 75 years, it has generally succeeded in gaining the sympathy of the Western world and the full support of its leaders, as well as...
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Netanyahu knows that in the US, what Israel wants, Israel gets
The Israeli cabinet approved on Sunday a proposal that blocks any acceptance of international pressure to create an independent Palestinian state. The most far-right cabinet in Israel’s history, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and extremist ministers including Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, has been taking decisions so outrageous...
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Palestinians are at the end of the queue when it comes to international law
In a 45-minute phone call between US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the former reiterated the importance of the release of the remaining 136 Israeli prisoners held by the Palestinian resistance in Gaza. According to Israeli media reports, Biden’s relations with Netanyahu have reached their lowest...
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Hamas response to proposed ceasefire has embarrassed Netanyahu
The Palestinian Resistance Movement, Hamas, has handed over its response to the initial ceasefire deal recommended by a Qatari, Egyptian, French, Israeli and American summit held in Paris last week. Media reports stated that the proposed deal stipulated a temporary truce for a certain time, during which Hamas, which also...
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Starving family killed in Gaza just hours after getting food aid
Omar Selma, a 38-year-old father of six, had exerted much effort to get a package of flour from the humanitarian aid delivery which entered the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The family had not eaten bread for three weeks due to the lack of food in the besieged enclave....
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Has Israel achieved its goals after many massacres and now genocide in Gaza?
Even since 7 October, Israeli occupation leaders have mounted local and international defamation campaigns against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which has been under a strict Israeli and Egyptian siege backed by the international community for 17 years. From the beginning, the occupation state’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared...
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Hamas embarrasses Israel, sends a strong message to the occupation
After 50 days of relentless Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip and more than 20 days of ground operations, Israel was shocked to see Hamas release its captives from the besieged and occupied coastal enclave. While passing through the city centre, which was destroyed before the start of the ground...
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The truth damages the Israeli narrative built on lies
Israel launched its genocidal bombing of civilians in the Gaza Strip on a false narrative backed by the US and its other Western allies. This narrative claimed that Palestinians killed innocent Israelis, decapitated children and raped women when Hamas broke out of the besieged enclave and attacked military positions...
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What help is 20 truckloads of aid to Gaza?
At the beginning of the brutal Israeli war on the besieged Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that his government would cut Gaza’s electricity, water and food. The next day, his Defence Minister Yoav Gallant issued orders to the different sides to implement the decision of his prime...
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Netanyahu and Biden lie to justify their crimes against the Palestinians
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the Palestinian fighters from the besieged Gaza Strip who entered the occupation state at the weekend as “savages” who “celebrate the murder of women, children and the elderly.” He made his claim when trying to justify the ongoing campaign of Israeli air strikes...
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End Israel’s brutal military occupation, and legitimate resistance won’t be necessary
Israel has attacked Palestinian villages, town and cities; homes and holy sites; and crops, as well as people for decades. The occupation state and its “democratic” allies around the world ignore human rights and international law, allowing Israel to act with impunity. Losing loved ones and facing human rights...
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Why do Palestinians not deserve support for their self-defence?
Israeli occupation forces raid Palestinian cities, villages and refugee camps in the occupied West Bank almost every day. They storm Palestinian homes, detain whoever they want and most times kill Palestinians, including women, children and elderly. As the whole world watches, the Israeli occupation authorities claim that they target wanted...
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Saudi has become partner of Zionists in the occupation of Palestine
At the Saudi-Indian Investment Forum held following the G20 meeting in India, Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammad Bin Salman, said that the creation of the Economic Corridor had been announced by New Delhi, which will connect India, Middle East and Europe together, would achieve the common interests of “our countries...
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The Israeli government’s judicial overhaul has benefitted the Gaza Strip
Israel’s far-right coalition government, the most extreme in Israel’s history of extreme governments, has started a controversial process to reform the judicial system in the occupation state. The intention is to weaken the power of the Supreme Court to oversee legislation passed by the politicians, and to give more...
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Netanyahu used his UN speech to embarrass Saudi leaders and sell illusions of victory
In his address to world leaders at the UN General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to embarrass Saudi leaders by revealing plans not yet in the public domain. He disclosed what has been going on behind closed doors regarding the normalisation of ties between the apartheid state...
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Saudi Arabia does not care about Palestine or Jerusalem; it cares about Israel
The normalisation of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israeli is in the news again, in what has become a will they-won’t they situation. Israel is eager to have formal ties with Saudi Arabia as it is the richest Arab country in the Middle East and has the weight and...
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The PA is an Israel instrument to crack down on Palestine Resistance
The American administration has recently sent arms supplies to the Palestinian Authority (PA), including armoured vehicles, batons and teargas canisters in order to boost the ability of its security services in their crackdown on the Palestinian Resistance across the Occupied West Bank cities. Senior sources from the PA confirmed the...
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Arab collaboration with Israel has been going on for decades
As a young boy, I loved to hear stories about the past from my parents. I once asked my father, who was then in his 60s, why he had left his two-storey house and large olive grove in the city of Lod. He put his hands on his eyes...
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Are Palestinians facing Israel’s brutality alone?
Israeli occupation forces have increased their bloody incursions into the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, killing and wounding scores of Palestinians including women, children and the elderly. According to the UN, since the start of 2023, Israeli occupation forces have killed more that 200 Palestinians. In a briefing to...
