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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday lavished praise on his country's candidate for the Eurovision Song Contest. The 20-year-old Eden Updated with photoswas met with some hostility in the Swedish city of Malmö, where the final of the competition took place on Saturday. Protests against Israel's participation because of the Gaza war overshadowed the usual party atmosphere this year. During the performance of her song "Hurricane" - which echoes unspoken grief over the killings of civilians in Israel by the Palestinian militant organization Hamas on October 7 - Golan endured whistl...
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Shortly before the start of the Eurovision Song Contest final, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz backed Israeli participant Eden Golan. "Eden proudly stands against immense hate and anti-Semitism. Tonight, let's show all the haters who's leading the way!" Katz wrote on the social media platform X. Israel's participation and contribution had faced enormous headwinds in the run-up to and during the music festival. Due to the war in Gaza, there were calls for Israel to be excluded from the competition. Thousands gathered at demonstrations in the Swedish host city of Malmö to protest against th...
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Syria said Sunday that the Iranian retaliation for the strike on its consulate in Damascus is a "legitimate right," state media reported. Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal al-Mokdad during a telephone call with his Iranian counterpart stressed that the Iranian "response to the Zionist entity is a legitimate right to self-defense." Meanwhile, the state-run Syrian News Agency (SANA) cited a Foreign Ministry statement as saying that "the Iranian strikes on Israeli military targets came within the framework of Iran exercising its right to self-defence," a statement by the Syrian Foreign Ministry said...
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The bodies of foreign aid workers killed in an Israeli bombing in the Gaza Strip were transferred to Egypt's Rafah border crossing, an Egyptian broadcaster reported on Wednesday, as Israel's allies kept up their demands for explanations. State-linked al-Qahera News TV said ambulances carrying the bodies of a number of the relief workers arrived at the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing near Gaza. Seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) employees were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip on Monday as they were returning from a full day's mission. They were three Britons, one Australian, ...
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The bodies of foreign aid workers killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip were transferred to Egypt's Rafah border crossing, an Egyptian broadcaster reported on Wednesday. State-linked al-Qahera News TV said ambulances carrying the bodies of a number of the relief workers arrived at the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing near Gaza. Seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) employees were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip on Monday as they were returning from a full day's mission, the US-based aid organization said. They were three Britons, one Australian and one Polish nationa...
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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has once again called on Israel not to launch a ground offensive in the Palestinian city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, while on yet another trip to the Middle East to hold crisis talks. "There must be no large-scale offensive on Rafah," she said in Cairo on Monday after a meeting with her Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry. "People cannot disappear into thin air," she said after another round of talks amid the increasingly catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Palestinian coastal strip. According to estimates, 1.5 million of the 2.2 million inhabita...
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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has once again called on Israel not to launch a ground offensive in the Palestinian city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, while on yet another trip to the Middle East to hold crisis talks. "There must be no large-scale offensive on Rafah," she said in Cairo on Monday after a meeting with her Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry. "People cannot disappear into thin air," she said after another round of crisis talks amid the increasingly catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Palestinian coastal strip. According to estimates, 1.5 million of the 2.2 million i...
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Germany and Malaysia must both use their influence to reach an amicable solution to the war in Gaza, despite their opposing views on the conflict, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Friday. Anwar credited German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for being “very accommodating” in seeking to understand the position of Malaysia – a predominantly Muslim country - towards Gaza and the Islamist Hamas organization, which Kuala Lumpur refuses to recognize as a terrorist group. “I don’t buy this propaganda,” Anwar said in an interview with dpa, adding: “We see freedom fighters. The West see terrorists...
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Several hundred people demonstrated against anti-Semitism in Berlin on Sunday and showed solidarity with Israel, some five months into the war in Gaza. Under the banner "Together against left-wing, right-wing and Islamist anti-Semitism - solidarity with Israel," the marchers headed through central Berlin to the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe near the Brandenburg Gate. Many carried Israeli flags or posters showing photos of kidnapped hostages, chanting "Never again is now!" and carried posters saying "Solidarity with Israel." The rally had 300 attendees according to the German-Israeli ...
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“Vote blue no matter who” was Madelyn Shick’s mantra before she could even vote after former US president Donald Trump's rise in 2016. She argued with people supporting third party candidates, but now she’s on the other side of that dispute. Shick, 22, said she can’t vote for any candidate who hasn’t already called for a permanent ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, including President Joe Biden. “It’s hard to say that Trump will be much worse, and that’s coming from someone who wore Biden shirts, wore Biden pins, and really, really, really, thought we had to keep Trump out,” said Shick, a rece...
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