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BREAKING: Greens to back no confidence motion in Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf

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Extraordinary scenes at UT Austin
as the student protests calling for ceasefire for Gaza spread from
Columbia, Harvard, NYU…
Texas State Troopers & local police sent in and this is what’s unfolded

Texas police are assaulting journalists

A British surgeon who has just returned from Gaza has spoken to ITV News' Martha Fairlie about the horrors he saw, the injured children he tried to save and moments 'he cannot take out his head’

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This doctor told us his appeal to Rishi Sunak & Joe Biden is:

Listen to the doctors coming out of Gaza,

Who are sharing the horrors they saw,

Or go & see for themselves,

So that they can act urgently.

200 days since this conflict began

76000 injured, majority children

Hostage's parents tell him 'stay strong' after video shows him missing part of arm

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For over 35 years, I have witnessed UNRWA operations in all 5 areas of operations – Gaza, West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. I have met with every single UNRWA CG since the early 1990s. My first boss was head of UNRWA operations in Gaza when the first Intifada broke out

'Disturbing reports continue to emerge about mass graves in Gaza in which Palestinian victims were reportedly stripped naked with their hands tied, prompting renewed concerns about possible war crimes.' --A new UN statement news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

PRESS RELEASE:
Columbia University Threatens Students with the National Guard After Refusing to Bargain in Good Faith.

We refuse to concede to cowardly threats and blatant intimidation by university administration. We will continue to peacefully protest. #cu4palestine

Breaking: NYU students and faculty are walking out and holding a mass rally in response to the school's violent crackdown and targeting of professors and students at the Gaza solidarity encampment.

The event is not due to start for an hour and regrettably officers are already dealing with disorder.
 
There is an area allocated for this event in Richmond Terrace. This group went past it and continued up Whitehall.

When officers formed a cordon and asked the group to turn…

British weapons exports to Israel: case set for UK High Court hearing

GLAN | Global Legal Action Network and Al-Haq الحق granted a full judicial review hearing.
They are calling for a stop to all arms exports to Israel

It might be helpful to walk through some issues related to reports that the USG is finally applying the Leahy laws to Israel--even though reports say it is just one unit.

BLUF: It is symbolically *significant*, but its impact will do *very little* to stem harm to Palestinians🧵

'My dad told me that it would be one or two months and we'd go back home - and we've been in Lebanon for 76 years.'

Mr Jamal sees many parallels between what's happening in Gaza and what he fears may happen in parts of Lebanon as daily explosions fuel fears of an escalating war

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Reports of a mass grave discovered in Gaza - this from Euro-Med Monitor human rights group …

BREAKING: An MP facing allegations of misusing campaign funds has quit the Conservative Party and says he won't stand at the next general election.

Nick Martin has the latest on Mark Menzies' resignation.

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BREAKING: The Palestinian Authority will reconsider bilateral relations with the US after Washington vetoed a motion to make Palestine a full UN member, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told WAFA news agency

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BREAKING: A man has set himself on fire outside Donald Trump's trial.

The man was in the designated protest area outside the courthouse, Sky News' US partner network NBC reports.

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