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Israel has cut off electricity supplies to Gaza a week after blocking delivery of food, fuel and medicines to the area of over two million people, sending prices soaring and humanitarian groups scrambling to distribute dwindling stocks to the most vulnerable www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

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21 Palestinian women face systematic abuse in Israeli prisons. The 21 female prisoners include a three-month pregnant woman, a cancer patient, and a 12-year-old girl. www.newarab.com/news/21-pale...

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Based on data from Ir Amin ‘2024 saw a record number of Palestinian home demolitions in East Jerusalem. Most of the 255 structures (including 181 homes) were destroyed for being built without a permit, which is almost impossible for Palestinians to obtain’ www.972mag.com/israeli-demo...

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Britain joins France and Germany in warning that Israel could be in breach of international law by halting the entry of aid into Gaza, which is facing a catastrophic humanitarian crisis www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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The doctors detained in Gaza: ‘He was dragged from the operating theatre’ – podcast www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

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🎉 No Other Land Wins the Oscar for Best Documentary! 🎉 Congratulations to +972 Magazine’s very own reporter, Yuval Abraham, and long-time contributor, Basel Adra, on winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for their powerful film, No Other Land. #NoOtherLand #Oscars2025

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Israel has broken the ceasefire agreement, by halting all aid going into the Gaza Strip, and by resuming drone attacks. Four people are said to be dead.

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Israel has cut off humanitarian supplies to Gaza in an effort to pressure Hamas into accepting a change in the ceasefire agreement to allow for the release of hostages without an Israeli troop withdrawal www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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‘So far this year about two children a week have been killed’ in the West Bank. ‘What sets Ayman al-Hammouni’s case apart is the clarity of the evidence, illustrated by footage from two security cameras, that tells the story of the child’s last moments’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Israel has systematically targeted Palestinian healthcare workers in Gaza, arbitrarily detaining them without charge or access to legal counsel, and submitting them to torture and abuse, according to a new report by Physicians for Human Rights Israel www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/m...

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‘No rules’: seven of Gaza’s most senior doctors have given harrowing testimonies of the torture, beatings, starvation and humiliation they report suffering during months of detention, all stating they were targeted because they were doctors www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Israeli tanks have moved into the Occupied West Bank for the first time since 2002, shortly after the defence minister declared an escalation of its operation - ordering troops to remain there "for the coming year" news.sky.com/story/tanks-...

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British doctors who worked in Gaza have issued dire predictions over the long-term health of Palestinian civillians, warning large numbers will continue to die given prevalence of disease, malnutrition, destruction of hospitals and killing of medical experts www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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As Israel uses US-made AI models in war, concerns arise about tech’s role in who lives and who dies apnews.com/article/isra...

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U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly called for a plan to resettle the entire Palestinian population of Gaza to Egypt and Jordan. Professor @eliavl.bsky.social writes that the idea undermines core principles of the international legal order and threatens U.S. interests.

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Israeli forces killed Mohammad Ghassan Khader Abed, a 16-year-old Palestinian boy, during the ongoing “Iron Wall” operation in the northern occupied West Bank then desecrated his body on February 12 www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forc...

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Israeli forces strapped explosives around the neck of an elderly Palestinian man in Gaza and forced him to act as a human shield before killing him and his wife, an investigation by the Israeli news website HaMakom has revealed www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-is...

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Israel is using an apartheid law designed to detain Gaza residents without charge and no meaningful judicial review or due process rights to hold Dr. Abu Safiya and hundreds of other Palestinians. We again call for their immediate and unconditional release. mezan.org/en/post/46652

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We’re taking the Canadian government to court over Gaza. In November 2024, we filed a lawsuit accusing Canada of violating the Genocide Convention and our plaintiffs’ Charter rights. Learn more and donate here: bit.ly/StatementofC...

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Israel’s military offensive in the West Bank has killed at least 44 Palestinians since Jan 21,including children and women. Nearly 40,000 have been displaced amid widespread violence and destruction. Many killed were unarmed and posed no threat. #WestBank news.un.org/en/story/202...

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🚨 UPDATE ON DR. ABU SAFIYA Our lawyer has been informed that the Commander of the Southern Command of the Israeli army has issued an order to detain Dr. Abu Safiya under the Unlawful Combatants Law. 1/4

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US officials could face international warrants if steps are taken to displace Palestinians in Gaza, and even if it's unlikely Trump would take illegal action in Gaza, his proposal could normalize forced displacement as an acceptable path of action Nadine El-Bawab abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

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Two Jerusalem booksellers detained this week on charges their books were causing “public disorder” have said the experience reflected an intensifying campaign by the Israeli government against Palestinian culture and free speech www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Egypt to host emergency Arab summit on Palestinian displacement - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-set-host-emergency-arab-summit-palestinian-displacement

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‘Last nail in the coffin’: Israeli settlers push ahead with a de facto annexation of rural West Bank land, displacing Bedouin communities almost entirely. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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‘An attack on global rule of law’ - UN experts express grave concern after the U.S. President signed an Executive Action authorising sanctions on the International Criminal Court, its personnel and individuals or entities who cooperate with it www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

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We firmly condemn France, Italy, & Greece for failing to uphold their legal obligations under the Rome Statute by allowing Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to cross their airspace twice—on 2 and 9 Feb—without executing the arrest warrant issued against him by the ICC. mezan.org/public/en/po...

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The Israeli military has expanded its assaults in the occupied West Bank, killing two women – one of which was eight months pregnant, during a raid in the Palestinian territory’s Nur Shams refugee camp. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...

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Britain’s system for controlling arms exports is broken, subject to political manipulation and has seen conduct that crossed the threshold into complicity with war crimes, says former UK diplomat Mark Smith www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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“It became clear that no one was willing to address the fundamental question: how could continued arms sales to Israel possibly be legal? The Foreign Office’s handling of these issues is nothing short of a scandal. Officials are bullied into silence.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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@lphr-lawyers.bsky.social; barhumanrights.org.uk/the-bar-huma...

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The sanctions against the International Criminal Court imposed by President Trump betray the international justice system. No one responsible for crimes under international law should be protected in their attempts to escape individual accountability 👇

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79 States Parties respond to U.S. sanctions on the International Criminal Court:

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🚨 UPDATE ON DR. ABU SAFIYA After more than 40 days of arbitrary detention without access to legal counsel, Israeli authorities lifted the ban on Dr. Abu Safiya meeting his lawyers. We have formally requested immediate access for our lawyers to visit him & assess his conditions. #Gaza #Palestine

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Palestinians react with fury, resignation to Trump’s Gaza displacement plan. “I would rather die where I stand. Even if they cut me and my children into pieces, I will not leave.” www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...

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Event organised by LSE Conflict & Civicness Research Group on the Middle East crisis and strategies for peace and justice, with panel discussion on Syria, Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen - Monday 10 February 2025 at 6.15pm www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/projec...

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Following Trump's comments on 'taking over' the Gaza Strip and resettling Palestinians, we are re-sharing our November 2023 briefing on the substantial risk of mass deportation of civilians from Gaza. The statement requires factual updating, but /1 lphr.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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The Israeli army’s continued presence in Rafah along the border with Egypt and its ongoing attacks on returning civilians means that only a small number have attempted to make their way back, despite the ceasefire www.972mag.com/rafah-ruins-...

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Israel has destroyed multiple buildings in the occupied West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp, hours after its forces killed a 73-year-old Palestinian man, says the Palestinian Ministry of Health ⤵️

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NEW: High Court allows our challenge with Al-Haq over UK arms exports to Israel to progress to full hearing. #BreakingNews‌ #Israel #Palestine #Gaza www.middleeasteye.net/news/high-co...

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UN chief urges evacuation of 2,500 children from Gaza as doctors warn of ‘imminent risk’ of death. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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As hundreds of thousands of Palestinians move back to N. Gaza, violence & displacement continue to afflict both Gaza and the West Bank, raising more concerns about violations of international law and renewing calls for an immediate end to all violence and accountability reliefweb.int/report/occup...

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‘Israeli forces are holding 112 Palestinian children in administrative detention as of December 31, according to information shared by the Israel Prison Service. This number is an all-time high since DCIP began monitoring child administrative detainees in 2008.’ www.dci-palestine.org/palestinian_...

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‘I’m coming to a place that looks like hell’: the long road home for Gaza’s displaced. After 15 months of war, many people in north Gaza know they are returning to a wasteland. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Al Mezan unequivocally rejects any proposal or notion of forcibly transferring the Palestinian population out of Gaza and reaffirms rights of return for Palestinian IDPs and refugees mezan.org/en/post/46642

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"Palestinian Presidency condemns and rejects the displacement of the Palestinian people from the Gaza Strip and calls on President Trump to continue his efforts to sustain ceasefire"

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The return of the displaced people through the Netzarim corridor to the northern Gaza Strip has begun

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The children of Gaza are not collateral damage. They are as deserving as children everywhere of security, education and hope. www.unocha.org/news/un-reli...

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2024 West Bank olive harvest: Israel furthers land grab through tighter restrictions on Palestinians and extreme state violence. B’Tselem’s field researchers documented dozens of cases of harvesters attacked and driven off land at gunpoint by soldiers and settlers www.btselem.org/video/202501...

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