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Israel eye history as final three Euro 2024 places up for grabs

Israel's footballers are aiming to make history by reaching the European Championship for the first time amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, with the final three places at Euro 2024 up for grabs over the next week.

Can nothing stop Netanyahu’s genocidal mission?

Israel must agree to a ceasefire immediately

Iran asks FIFA to ban Israel

The Iranian Football federation has called upon the world soccer’s governing body, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association FIFA, to suspend Israel’s soccer federation over the country’s war in Gaza.

Saudi says no Israel ties without Palestinian state

Saudi Arabia has told Washington it will not establish ties with Israel until an independent Palestinian state "is recognised", the Gulf kingdom's foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday

Attacks on Yemen could open Middle East’s pandora’s box

The US and UK strikes in Yemen have only aggravated the possibility of large-scale conflict in the already volatile Middle East.

99 days of Gaza carnage

Israel continues to pound the ‘blacked out’ Palestinian territory

Explainer / What is the genocide case against Israel at top UN court?

The ICJ, also called the World Court, is the highest United Nations legal body, established in 1945 to deal with disputes between states.

Israel faces Gaza ceasefire calls, US vows more arms

The UN Security Council was set to convene Tuesday to weigh a call for a ceasefire in the besieged Palestinian territory, after a previous bid was vetoed by the United States.

Israel faces mounting outrage over Gaza war

The deadliest ever Gaza war began with unprecedented attacks by Hamas on October 7, when the group killed 1,139 people, mostly civilians, and abducted around 250, according to updated Israeli figures.

December 6, 2023
December 6, 2023

US announces visa bans after warning Israel over West Bank violence

President Joe Biden and other senior US officials have warned repeatedly that Israel must act to stop violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank.

November 28, 2023
November 28, 2023

Disempowering voices of propaganda: The BDS movement in books

When millions of lives are at stake and indiscriminate violations of human rights are perpetuated, there is no longer space to entertain the debate on whether the art should be separated from the artist

November 26, 2023
November 26, 2023

A sweet and sour Thanksgiving

The relentless Israeli airstrikes appear to have but one mission: to bring Palestinians down to their knees.

November 24, 2023
November 24, 2023

For a diaspora soccer club in Chile, 'Palestine exists'

Thousands of miles from the Middle East, in a stadium in Santiago, Chile, the nation of Palestine exists, if only for the 90 minutes of a soccer match.

November 20, 2023
November 20, 2023

Will boycotting Israeli products bring peace for Palestinians?

Regardless of the tenacious systems of injustice the BDS movement works against, boycott has historically been a useful tool for advocacy and solidarity.

November 20, 2023
November 20, 2023

The lost children of Gaza

There is a generation of children growing up in Gaza without family, without love, without limbs, without food, without education, without basic human rights, in unspeakable depravity, scarred by the trauma of war.

November 19, 2023
November 19, 2023

Tentative Gaza deal reached to pause fighting: report

However, both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. officials said no deal had been reached yet.

November 18, 2023
November 18, 2023

India, Gaza, and the drift from non-alignment

For decades after independence, India’s approach to the world was shaped by its historical experience of colonialism.

November 13, 2023
November 13, 2023

Biden’s backing of Israel will come home to roost

The infrastructure of Gaza lies in ruins, leaving civilians to scramble for safety among the debris of their previous lives.

November 5, 2023
November 5, 2023

Israel-Hamas war: Latest developments

Gazans must not be 'forcibly displaced', Blinken tells Abbas

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