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TIMELINE - US establishes Gaza pier to try to boost aid to hungry enclave
The United States anchored a temporary floating pier to a beach in Gaza on Thursday to boost aid deliveries. US President, Joe Biden, announced the plan for the pier in March as aid officials implored Israel to improve access for relief supplies into Gaza over land routes. By opening a route...
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What is South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the ICJ again?
The International Court of Justice is holding hearings this week in a case brought by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide in its war on Gaza and seeking an emergency halt to its Rafah offensive. What is the ICJ? The ICJ, also called the World Court, is the highest United Nations...
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Palestinians in Gaza strive to study even as Israel’s war destroys their education system
Pupils sitting cross-legged on the sand take classes in a tent near Khan Younis in Gaza. Two sisters connect online to a West Bank school from Cairo. A professor in Germany helps Palestinian students link up with European universities. After watching their schools and universities be closed, damaged or destroyed...
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Who are Israel’s main weapons suppliers and who has halted exports?
The United States has suspended a shipment of weapons to Israel, including heavy, bunker-busting bombs Israeli forces have used in their war against Hamas in Gaza, that has killed nearly 35,000 Palestinians in seven months. US President, Joe Biden, acted in the face of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to pursue...
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Why the US is stopping some bomb shipments to Israel
The United States has suspended a shipment of weapons to Israel, including heavy bombs that America’s ally has used in its military campaign in Gaza which has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians. The suspension comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues a military assault on the Palestinian city of...
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Gaza war cools Israel's once red-hot business ties with UAE
The war in Gaza has cooled Israeli business activity with the United Arab Emirates, with the once-celebrated relationship now conducted away from public scrutiny amid anger in the Arab world over the conflict. The UAE became the most prominent Arab state in 30 years to establish formal ties with Israel...
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Who's in control of Gaza's Rafah Crossing and why is it important to Gaza?
The Israeli military said on Tuesday it had taken control of the Palestinian side of Gaza’s southern Rafah Crossing, which borders Egypt and which has been central for the delivery of aid and the exit of injured people in the Gaza war. What could that mean for Gazans? Throughout the seven-month conflict, Rafah, the only...
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US surgeon in Gaza says nothing prepared him for scale of injuries
A US vascular surgeon who left Gaza after a stint as a volunteer said on Wednesday that nothing had prepared him for the scale of injuries that he faced there. Dozens of patients a day. Most of them young. Most facing complicated injuries caused by shrapnel. Most ending up...
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FACTBOX - Columbia building barricaded by students has long history of occupation
The building that Columbia University protesters seized early on Tuesday morning, Hamilton Hall, has a history of student takeovers over the decades. The current demonstration on the Ivy League campus in Manhattan echoes those past protests, almost all of which took place in April as well. Some activists have said they studied them...
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Gaza truce or Rafah assault? Netanyahu faces political dilemma
Far-right allies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are putting pressure on the embattled leader to reject a new Gaza ceasefire proposal, jeopardising his government’s stability if he backs away from an assault ostensibly against Hamas in Rafah. Hamas representatives were due in Cairo on Monday as mediators step up...
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FACTBOX - What is the International Criminal Court?
Israel is voicing concern that the International Criminal Court could be preparing to issue arrest warrants for government officials on charges related to its war against Palestine in the Gaza Strip. The ICC is investigating Hamas’s 7 October cross-border attack and Israel’s shattering military assault on Gaza, now in its seventh month. Here are some...
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How US allies are preparing for a possible second Trump term
Germany is waging a charm offensive inside the Republican Party. Japan is lining up its own Trump whisperer. Mexican government officials are talking to Camp Trump. And Australia is busy making laws to help Trump-proof its US defence ties. Everywhere, US allies are taking steps to defend or advance their...
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Widowed Palestinian does not expect much from US action against Israel
Omar Assad’s 81-year-old widow still hopes to see justice served against the Israeli soldiers she blames for his death two years ago in the Occupied West Bank, but is not pinning hope on any action the United States might take against their battalion. Assad, a dual Palestinian-US citizen, died from...
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Why is the US looking to sanction Israel’s Netzah Yehuda battalion?
Israeli leaders said they will fight against sanctions being imposed on any Israeli military units for alleged human rights abuses after media reports said Washington was planning its first sanctions against the country’s defence forces. The United States will impose sanctions on Israel’s Netzah Yehuda battalion over its treatment of...
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After surviving an Israeli air strike, Palestinian boy dies seeking aid
When an Israeli air strike destroyed his family’s home in November, Zein Oroq was pinned under rubble. He was wounded but survived, while 17 members of his extended family died. But Zein, 13, would later suffer a cruel fate in Gaza, where Palestinians face severe shortages of medicine, food and...
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Gaza's IVF embryos have been destroyed by an Israeli air strike, killing hopes and dreams
When an Israeli shell struck Gaza’s largest fertility clinic in December, the explosion blasted the lids off five liquid nitrogen tanks in a corner of the embryology unit. As the ultra-cold liquid evaporated, the temperature inside the tanks rose, destroying more than 4,000 embryos plus 1,000 more specimens of...
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Sudan's humanitarian crisis explained
A year of war between rival military factions in Sudan has pushed parts of the country to the brink of famine, and left 25 million people — about half the population — in need of humanitarian aid, according to aid agencies. Sudan was already burdened with rising hunger, a collapsing...
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Who is fighting in Sudan?
Here are some facts about Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group which have been fighting each other for a year, devastating their country, reigniting ethnically-targeted killings in the Darfur region, and displacing millions of people. The army and RSF were uneasy partners in the toppling of...
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FACTBOX - Airlines suspend flights due to Middle East tensions
Global airlines faced disruptions to flights on Monday after Iran’s missile and drone retaliation on Israel further narrowed options for planes navigating between Europe and Asia. While Israel, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon reopened their airspaces on Sunday, some routes continue to be affected. Below airlines have provided an update: Cancelled/Rerouted Germany’s Lufthansa suspended its regular flights to and from...
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Sudan's year-old war: The build-up and the turmoil
15 April marks the first anniversary of the start of the Sudanese Civil War, which began when a militia affiliated with the Sudanese government began attacking the Sudanese Army over plans to integrate the militia into the armed forces. Since then Sudan has become the largest refugee population of...
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What is the UK’s Rwanda migrant deportation plan?
Britain’s Parliament is set to pass legislation that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hopes will pave the way for the Government to send asylum seekers to Rwanda if they arrive in Britain without permission. Last November, the UK Supreme Court declared the policy unlawful, but Sunak says the new law overrides any legal...
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Are Iran drones turning the tide of Sudan civil war?
A year into Sudan’s civil war, Iranian-made armed drones have helped the army turn the tide of the conflict, halting the progress of the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Force and regaining territory around the capital, a senior army source told Reuters. Six Iranian sources, regional officials and diplomats – who,...
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What military support does the US provide Israel?
The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza has prompted calls for Washington to put conditions on the billions of dollars in military funding and other assistance it provides to Israel, which has received more US foreign aid since World War Two than any other country. The following are details of US support...
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FACTBOX - What we know so far about the seven aid workers killed in Gaza by Israel
An Israeli airstrike on an aid convoy in Gaza on Monday killed seven workers from the Charity, World Central Kitchen, including citizens of Australia, Britain and Poland. Israel said it mistakenly killed the air workers and promised a full investigation. Here is what we know about those killed. Saifeddin Issam Ayad Abutaha –...