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Pro-Palestinian students hold a sit-in at Melbourne University's Arts West building, in Melbourne, Australia on May 15, 2024
Australian university orders pro-Palestinian protesters to leave building
BRISBANE — Pro-Palestinian protesters occupying a building at the University of Melbourne have been told to leave by university officials, who say they’ve “crossed a line” by entering the building and disrupting class for thousands of students.“Students have a right to protest but that is not a blank check,” said the university’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor Michael Wesley in a video message distributed to media on Thursday.“They have crossed a line when they have occupied the Arts West building ... the university’s patience is now at an end.”On Wednesday, students at the university were among thousands who rallied across the country to remember the 1948 al-Nakba or “catastrophe,” when around 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes by armed Jewish...
May 16, 2024

Australian university orders pro-Palestinian protesters to leave building

Israeli forces have gone back in Jabalia months after pulling outIsraeli forces have gone back in Jabalia months after pulling out
Israeli tank fire kills own soldiers in north Gaza
GAZA — Israel's military says five soldiers have been killed by Israeli tank fire in northern Gaza, in one of the deadliest incidents of its kind since the war against Hamas began in October.An initial probe found that two tanks fired at a building in Jabalia refugee camp where the troops had gathered.Troops went back into the area this week after previously pulling out, saying Hamas had regrouped there.Tens of thousands of Palestinians have fled the fighting and bombardment.Both the Israeli military and Hamas's military wing said on Wednesday that battles in Jabalia camp and the surrounding town of Jabalia were intensifying.Battles also raged around the southern city of Rafah, from where nearly 600,000 people have fled since the start of an Israeli operation 10 days ago. More...
May 16, 2024

Israeli tank fire kills own soldiers in north Gaza

Yoav Gallant (L) has been in charge of Israel's war in Gaza
Israeli minister attacks Netanyahu over Gaza future
JERUSALEM — Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has voiced open frustration at the government’s failure to address the question of a post-war plan for Gaza.In a rare public sign of divisions over the direction of the military campaign within Israel’s war cabinet, Gallant urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare publicly that Israel has no plans to take over civilian and military rule in Gaza.“Since October, I have been raising this issue consistently in the Cabinet,” he said, “and have received no response.”Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded harshly, saying he was "not ready to exchange Hamastan for Fatahstan," in reference to rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah.Indecision, he warned, would leave only two bad options in Gaza: Hamas rule or...
May 16, 2024

Israeli minister attacks Netanyahu over Gaza future

An Israeli tank near the Gaza Strip
Biden administration plans $1bn arms shipment to Israel
WASHINGTON — The White House has told Congress it wants to send more than $1bn (£800m) in weapons to Israel, despite pressure over Israel's Rafah offensive.The package would include tank rounds, mortars and armored tactical vehicles, according to Reuters news agency.The plan -- confirmed by a congressional aide to CBS, -- must still be approved by lawmakers.Last week President Biden said he would halt weapons shipments if Israel launched a major invasion of Rafah.On Tuesday, Israeli tanks advanced deeper into residential areas the south-east of the Gazan city, Palestinians told Reuters.Biden said last week that he had delayed the shipment of 2,000lb (900kg) bombs to Israel because of how they might be used in such a ground operation.Asked by CNN about the delay, Biden said:...
May 15, 2024

Biden administration plans $1bn arms shipment to Israel

More than a million displaced Palestinians had been sheltering in Rafah before the Israeli operation began
Almost 450,000 people have fled Rafah in a week, UN says
GAZA — Almost 450,000 Palestinians have fled from Rafah over the past week, the UN says, as Israeli tanks reportedly push deeper into the southern Gaza city."People face constant exhaustion, hunger and fear," warned the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa.Israel's military says it is continuing "operations against terror targets" in the east of the city, where more than a million people had been sheltering.New Israeli operations in northern Gaza have displaced another 100,000 people.Israeli troops have gone back into the areas of Zeitoun and Jabalia, where the military says Hamas has regrouped only five months after it claimed to have dismantled the group's local battalions.The military ordered civilians to evacuate eastern Rafah and Jabalia for their...
May 14, 2024

Almost 450,000 people have fled Rafah in a week, UN says

A UN car pictured in the Gaza Strip in April this year
UN says staff member killed in Gaza strike
NEW YORK — The United Nations says one of its staff members was killed and another injured as they traveled to a hospital in southern Gaza on Monday.It said the workers were traveling in a UN vehicle to the European Hospital near Rafah when it was struck.The UN did not mention who it thought was responsible for the attack.The Israeli military said an initial inquiry indicated the vehicle was struck in an active combat zone and it had not been made aware of its route.Footage posted on social media and verified by the BBC shows a marked UN vehicle with multiple bullet holes outside the European Hospital.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed it had received a report from the UN Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) that said two of its workers were injured in the Rafah area — in...
May 14, 2024

UN says staff member killed in Gaza strike

Sabha Al-Soury comforts her daughter Ola at the hospital in Doha. In addition to having lost members of their family, they worry about the fate of those still left behind
Injured Palestinian mothers grieve for babies killed in Gaza
DOHA — Raneem Hijazi remembers how tightly she held her one-year-old son Azzouz before the Israeli airstrike hit. The drone flying over their building in Gaza was getting louder and she had a feeling that something bad was about to happen. “Whatever happens to me, happens to him,” she says of her reasoning in holding him so close to her baby bump.She does not remember the moment of impact, but the memory of the aftermath is imprinted in her brain. “You don’t feel the strike itself, you just open your eyes and you are under the rubble,” she says.She immediately started feeling around, searching for Azzouz, until her mother-in-law screamed. “She found him over my belly. She picked him up. His body was in her hands and his head dropped on my belly,” she recalls.Since that...
May 14, 2024

Injured Palestinian mothers grieve for babies killed in Gaza

A UN agency said the operations in northern Gaza had created more displacement and fear for thousands of families
Fierce fighting as Israeli forces go back into Jabalia
GAZA — Fierce fighting has been reported in Jabalia in northern Gaza, after the Israeli military went back into areas where it said Hamas had regrouped.Residents who fled said they had seen tanks advancing towards Jabalia's refugee camp, which has come under heavy bombardment since Saturday.Hamas's military wing also said it was battling troops east of the camp.Meanwhile, the UN has said 360,000 people have fled Rafah, in the south, since an offensive began a week ago.The Israeli military has ordered the evacuation of the eastern third of the city, which is swollen with more than a million Palestinians taking refuge.Those now displaced by the fighting around Rafah have been told to head towards the nearby coastal area of al-Mawasi and the city of Khan Younis, but the UN has...
May 13, 2024

Fierce fighting as Israeli forces go back into Jabalia

Joe Biden
Biden faces bipartisan backlash on Capitol Hill over Israel ultimatum
WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden is facing backlash from lawmakers in both parties over his ultimatum that a major Israeli offensive in the city of Rafah would result in a shut-off of some US weapons.Biden’s decision to go public with the ultimatum in an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett last week was greeted with pointed criticism across the GOP spectrum on Sunday, and vocal concern among Democrats.“On the one hand, they’re saying too many Palestinian civilians have been killed. With the other hand, they’re depriving us of the precision guided weapons that actually cut down on civilian casualties,” Republican Sen. JD Vance of Ohio told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union,” though Biden specifically mentioned withholding bombs and artillery shells deemed by the...
May 13, 2024

Biden faces bipartisan backlash on Capitol Hill over Israel ultimatum

A leaked photograph of an enclosure where detainees in gray tracksuits are seen blindfolded and sitting on paper-thin mattresses. CNN was able to geolocate the hangar in the Sde Teiman facility
Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center
SDE TEIMAN, Israel — At a military base that now doubles as a detention center in Israel’s Negev desert, an Israeli working at the facility snapped two photographs of a scene that he says continues to haunt him.Rows of men in gray tracksuits are seen sitting on paper-thin mattresses, ringfenced by barbed wire. All appear blindfolded, their heads hanging heavy under the glare of floodlights.A putrid stench filled the air and the room hummed with the men’s murmurs, the Israeli who was at the facility told CNN. Forbidden from speaking to each other, the detainees mumbled to themselves.“We were told they were not allowed to move. They should sit upright. They’re not allowed to talk. Not allowed to peek under their blindfold.”Guards were instructed “to scream uskot” – shut up...
May 10, 2024

Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center

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