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In the last five months of Israel’s ferocious assault on Gaza, Jewish settlers have been intensifying the illegal construction of outposts in the occupied West Bank, whether by force, threat, or military decree. Between October and January, settlers in the Palestinian territory built at least 15 outposts and 18 roads that only Jewish Israelis are permitted to use, along with hundreds of meters of fences and multiple roadblocks. Outposts consist of makeshift encampments built without government approval by members of Israel's settler movement seeking to enforce an Israeli presence on occupied P...
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On 15 December 2023, the Israeli cabinet announced that it would allow the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip through the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing. The announcement overturned a previous decision by Israel to put Gaza under total siege in retaliation for the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023. Allowing the entry of humanitarian aid, however, did not sit well with some families of the captives taken on 7 October. Claiming they had lost faith in Netanyahu, they organised a convoy of 30 people on 9 January 2024, demanding that the delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza be co...
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Jordan is one of the most water-scarce countries in the world, with an annual renewable water deficit of around 400 cubic meters (m3) per person. In 2021, the Kingdom signed a water-for-energy deal with Israel which would have seen Amman build 600 megawatts of solar power capacity to export to Israel in return for 200 million cubic meters of desalinated water. The deal was due to be ratified in October 2023, but as tensions soared between Amman and Tel Aviv amid Israel’s devastating war on Gaza, the deal was put on hold. The agreement was itself an extension of the US-sponsored peace deal sign...
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Last week, five British special forces soldiers were arrested for alleged war crimes during their deployment in Syria two years ago. They stand accused of using excessive force in the killing of a suspected militant, found with a suicide vest nearby, although the suspect was reportedly not wearing it when killed. The five soldiers deny these charges, saying they believed he posed a genuine threat. The soldiers will be investigated by the Defence Serious Crime Unit (DSCU), which focuses on allegations of criminal activity by British armed forces. In the past, Britain’s record of investigating a...
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Last week, Israel's Chief Sephardic Rabbi declared that if a bill to draft all ultra-Orthodox men into the Israeli military materialises, they would leave the state. "If they force us to go to the army, we'll all go abroad," Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said. "They need to understand this, all these secular people don't get it." Hitting a nerve in Israeli society, Yosef’s remarks come as the state nears a 24 March deadline to explain to Israel’s Supreme Court why it doesn’t draft ultra-Orthodox into the army. The High Court issued the order on 26 February after petitions were heard against the governme...
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This article was co-published with Responsible Statecraft Close watchers of Israel’s war in Gaza have faced a question in recent months: If the US is rushing weapons to Israel, then why hasn’t the public heard of any arms sales besides two relatively small transfers late last year? The Washington Post delivered an answer last week. Reporter John Hudson revealed that the Biden administration has approved over 100 smaller weapons packages for Israel since 7 October that fell under the $25 million threshold for formally notifying Congress - and thus the public - about the transfers. In total, the...
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On Tuesday, millions of US voters from across 15 states and one US territory took to the polls in what is considered a pivotal set of primaries in the trajectory of the 2024 general election. Historically, Super Tuesday has been the point at which the presidential candidates from both parties are chosen after voting in some of the biggest states with the highest delegate count of any election day. This year, however, saw almost no suspense in who would be their party's contender, with Tuesday's election essentially solidifying President Biden and former president Donald Trump as their parties'...
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The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan are reportedly recruiting children to fight in their battle against the Sudanese army, exploiting tribal customs in its power base in Darfur after the phenomenon - which had accompanied the group's establishment in 2003 - had declined. Umm Kulthum Mohamed (a pseudonym for security concerns) has lived in constant fear since her 15-year-old brother left to join the RSF in June 2023. The family have had no news of him until now. "Our neighbour - the sheikh of the tribe in Daein city (the capital of East Darfur state) convinced my father that his son Faris h...
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With the smell of caramel corn in the air and cotton candy in their hands, around 500 Israelis gathered at the Israeli Nitzana border crossing with Egypt on Tuesday to protest against sending aid into Gaza. “You cannot expect the country to fight its enemy and feed it at the same time,” Rachel Touitou of Tzav 9, an Israeli movement formed in December to block aid to Gaza, told The New Arab. Tzav 8 refers to the alert code sent to Israeli army reservists when a draft is initiated. Over the last two months, Israelis have gathered at Nitzana and Kerem Shalom - which borders Gaza and is roughly ei...
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Financial institutions across Denmark are facing increasing pressure from the Danish public to withdraw their investments from Israel, as demonstrations continue for the fourth month running in protest at the continuing assault on Gaza and the stance of the Danish government regarding the war. In different cities across Denmark, people have been asking their pension funds whether their savings are helping to finance illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. While it is true that these questions from Danish retirees are not new – and nor have they reached the level seen in Norway, where No...
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