Category: 1. Israel
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LIVE UPDATES: Pro-Palestine Protesters Begin Encampment in Harvard Yard | News
Pro-Palestine organizers began an encampment in Harvard Yard on Wednesday to protest the Monday suspension of the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee and demand the University divest from Israel’s war in Gaza. The encampment marks the largest protest on Harvard’s campus since former University President Claudine Gay resigned in early January. A smaller number of…
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Iranian women violently dragged from streets by police amid hijab crackdown | Iran
How Iran has intensified its crackdown on women under cover of war – video explainer Rights and freedom Video evidence shows multiple arrests after regime launched new draconian campaign against women and girls Wed 24 Apr 2024 15.10 CEST Harrowing first-hand accounts of women being dragged from the streets of Iran and detained by security…
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Israel’s tourism industry rises strong amid war crisis and evacuations – Israel News
After the Hamas assault on Israel on October 7, tens of thousands of Israelis were evacuated from towns around Israel’s borders with Lebanon and Gaza. At the onset of the war, the Israeli Tourism Ministry helped 125,000 displaced residents find temporary housing. Under the leadership of Tourism Minister Haim Katz, the ministry secured 50,000…
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Biden meets 4-year-old Abigail Edan, Israeli American freed from Hamas captivity
U.S. President Joe Biden met Wednesday with Abigail Edan, the 4-year-old American girl who was held hostage in Gaza for several weeks at the start of the war. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the White House meeting with Abigail and her family was “a reminder of the work still to do” to…
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College protests: Standoffs between students and universities grow tense over Gaza war
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Police tangled with student demonstrators in Texas and California while new encampments sprouted Wednesday at Harvard and other colleges as school leaders sought ways to defuse a growing wave of pro-Palestinian protests. At the University of Texas at Austin, dozens of local police and state troopers formed a line to prevent…
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‘We love you. Stay strong, survive’
John and Rachel Goldberg-Polin, the parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a 23-year-old dual U.S.-Israeli citizen held by Hamas in Gaza and featured in one of the terrorist group’s propaganda videos, issued Wednesday evening a plea to all parties involved in hostage negotiations to push for a prisoner swap deal and end the suffering of the captives.…
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Hagari: ‘No stone will be left unturned in our effots to find hostages’ – Israel News
IDF Spokesperson R.-Adm. Daniel Hagari released a statement on Wednesday, following the release of Hamas’ propaganda video showing Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin. In the statement, Hagari said “Hamas published a video of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23 years old, an Israel-American man who was celebrating with his friends at Nova Music Festival, where he was brutally…
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Latest Israel-Hamas war news and Gaza conflict updates: Biden signs foreign aid bill
President Biden signed a $95 billion foreign aid bill Wednesday after the Senate approved it in a 79-18 vote Tuesday night. The measure contains $26 billion in funds allotted for Israel as well as humanitarian aid for Gaza and other places. Top Israeli officials thanked the United States after the vote, which the White House…
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Israeli strikes hit southern Lebanon as cross-border fire escalates | Israel War on Gaza News
Hezbollah dismisses Israeli claim that it has killed half of the group’s commanders in southern Lebanon. The Israeli military says it hit dozens of targets in southern Lebanon while the Lebabese armed group Hezbollah said it fired dozens of rockets at an Israeli border village as fighting continues to escalate. The Israeli military said the…
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Iranian Revolutionary Guard official missing since 2007 defected to US, report says
Ali-Reza Asgari, a former senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps official who disappeared in 2007, has resurfaced in the United States under an assumed identity, London-based opposition channel Iran International reported Wednesday, citing three U.S. intelligence sources and a senior European diplomatic source. Asgari, who also served as deputy defense minister and was responsible for Hezbollah’s…