Retired Australian athlete Craig Foster is the latest figure in the football world to criticise Israel and call for its suspension, following its seven-month assault in Gaza. This comes as the world’s football body is set to meet on 17 May. Foster joined calls for Israel’s ban on Friday, supporting the Palestinian Football Association (PFA)'s request to FIFA made in March, ahead of the organisations annual Congress in Thailand. The PFA highlighted Israeli violations against Palestinians in Gaza, specifically targeting Palestinian footballers and football infrastructure. Foster, a former player...
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The wife of a detained Egyptian journalist has raised the alarm about the media worker's life-threatening heart condition and called on Egypt’s media union to lobby for his release. Iman Mahrous, the wife of Ahmed Subai, wrote a passionate plea on Facebook on Wednesday, calling for his freedom, saying the media worker's health was seriously deteriorating due to a lack of medical care by prison authorities. According to Mahrous, despite requests from the union, there have been no reports provide on the tests carried out on Subai’s heart condition. "If treatment is not available, release him and...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come under fire for conducting an interview with Dr Phil while seemingly ducking interviews to the Israeli press. In the interview, Netanyahu also admitted his government failed to defend Israel on 7 October, but stopped short of assuming personal responsibility. Netanyahu, whose interview with Dr Phil was released on Friday, hasn't conducted an interview with Israeli press since April 2023. The Prime Minister has faced criticism for his government's handling of the Hamas-led attack on Israel, which killed 1,200 people, as well as for controversial...
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to submit a report to Congress as soon as Friday on Israel's war on Gaza that stops short of concluding it has violated the terms for its use of US weapons, Axios said on Thursday. The report, citing three officials, added that the State Department was reviewing the use of weapons by Israel and six other countries engaged in different armed conflicts. On Tuesday, Reuters reported that the Biden administration was set to miss a Wednesday deadline to report to Congress on whether Israel is violating international humanitarian law in Gaza. A nation...
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The grandson of famed South African president Nelson Mandela has criticised the UK Labour Party's shadow secretary David Lammy for stating that his grandfather would not have supported the ongoing pro-Palestine college campus protests. Lammy, who made an appearance in Washington DC on Wednesday, shared his disagreement with the Gaza solidarity demonstrations during his speech at the Hudson Centre among US Republicans. The Labour politician stated that Mandela would have advocated for peaceful protesting instead of "violence and rioting". During the 30th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's presiden...
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The UN General Assembly voted by a wide margin on Friday to grant Palestine new “rights and privileges” and called on the Security Council to favourably reconsider its request to become the 194th member of the United Nations. The 193-member world body approved the Arab and Palestinian-sponsored resolution by a vote of 143-9, with 25 abstentions. The United States vetoed a widely backed council resolution on 18 April that would have paved the way for full United Nations membership for Palestine, a goal the Palestinians have long sought and Israel has worked to prevent. On Thursday, US Deputy Am...
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Arizona State University (ASU) announced that a postdoctoral research scholar would no longer be teaching at the university after a video of him verbally assaulting a woman in a hijab went viral. In a statement released on Thursday, ASU President Michael Crow said Jonathan Yudelman was "no longer permitted to be on campus and will never teach here again." The statement was issued after ASU had placed Yudelman on leave and launched an investigation into his harassment the Muslim woman at a pro-Palestine march, which he was counter-protesting. In the video, the woman is being followed by a group...
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Al-Rukban, a camp of about 10,000 displaced Syrians on the Syrian-Jordanian border, is on the brink of starvation after a month of no food or medicine shipments, residents told The New Arab on Thursday. The camp has been under siege since 2018, as both the Syrian and Jordanian authorities refuse to allow aid to enter the area. Residents of the camp rely on a few smugglers to transport food and other basic goods into the camp, creating a limited and costly supply for the impoverished IDPs. In the last month, however, the Syrian regime has further cracked down on smugglers, completely stopping t...
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At least 10,000 people marched through the streets in Sweden’s third-largest city, Malmö, during the second round of Eurovision’s semi-finals on Thursday. Draped in keffiyehs and Palestinian flags, their message was both loud and clear: boycott Israel and end the war in Gaza. The timing was carefully chosen; that same evening, Eden Golan, Israel's contribution to the contest, was scheduled to perform at the second semi-final with the song Hurricane. Critics have been clamouring for months, all over Europe; they want Israel excluded from the contest for its genocidal war on Gaza – the same way ...
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"We are escaping death in Rafah and rushing into hell in the central of Gaza and Khan Yunis," these words are often said by anyone you meet in the Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip. For months, about 1.5 million people were displaced to the city of Rafah, forced to leave their houses and head to the southernmost territory of the besieged coastal enclave by the Israeli army. "We thought that Rafah would be the last place we had to live in (...) the Israeli army is gambling with our lives and our children. We don't even have the luxury of choice. For the past seven months, it forces us to do...
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