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#SaveTheChildren doesn’t seem to apply to Palestinian kids. Fox News host Sean Hannity and Republican senator Lindsey Graham agreed on Hannity’s Fox show Tuesday night that Israel should keep doing what they’re doing.On Monday, a single Israeli strike killed 42 people, including ten children.

appearing to defend slavery (he called it a “necessary evil,” something actual slaves and their descendants would almost certainly disagree with) and for urging a violent crackdown on lawful protesters in a 2020 New York Times Op-Ed, including support for the idea of police committing war crimes.

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday he hasn't yet seen any evidence supporting Israel's claim that Hamas operated in a Gaza building housing The Associated Press and other media outlets that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike.

according to the AP — and reflected a new escalation in violence as Israel mounted its sixth straight day of bombings in the Gaza Strip.The attack also came one day after the Israeli military issued a false report of a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip to numerous foreign journalists, including the New York Times, The Washington Post and Agence France-Presse — which several Israeli media outlets reported was a deliberate effort to deceive Hamas fighters who have fired hundreds of rockets into

Manori Ravindran International EditorIsrael’s air force on Saturday attacked a tower block in Gaza housing the offices of the Associated Press (AP), Al Jazeera and the Middle East Eye.The airstrikes came six days into renewed conflict between Israel and Hamas.

issued an apocalyptic statement to the international media, saying that an Israeli ground invasion in the Gaza Strip was underway. “[Israel Defense Forces]’s air and ground troops are currently attacking in the Gaza Strip,” the tweet read.Wall Street Journal reporter Felicia Schwartz confirmed that she had been told of the military act first-hand.

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Rage Against The Machine, Halsey and Rihanna are among the artists to have spoken out over the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict.It comes after a series of attacks which started at the weekend after Israel police blocked off the Damascus Gate, where Palestinian Arabs typically gather for Ramadan.That led to an attack on Orthodox Jews, which in turn led to the Israeli police raiding the al-Aqsa Mosque, according to various news outlets including Vox.A series of airstrikes and rocket attacks followed

Gal Gadot is making a statement.

Tom Morello, Brian Eno, Roger Waters and more are all set to play a special livestream fundraiser gig today (April 10).Live For Gaza aims to raise funds for musicians in the Gaza Strip in Palestine.Waters is set to perform his 1992 track ‘The Bravery of Being Out of Range’ at the event, while Eno has created a special audiovisual piece specifically for the concert.

Ed Meza @edmezavarPalestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir’s Gaza-set drama “The Oblivion Theory” has won the top prize at the Berlinale Co-Production Market.Presented by Paris-based Incognito Films and Berlin’s One Two Films, the film is based on José Eduardo Agualusa’s novel “A General Theory of Oblivion,” although the book’s story has been moved from Angola to Palestine during the First Intifada, the sustained protests by Palestinians against Israel occupation that lasted from 1987 to 1993.The

Tamer Nafar “My mom can hardly see, so I want the whole world to see us.”That’s what MCA Abdul, the 12-year-old from Gaza who recently went viral when a video of him rapping while flanked by his schoolmates was posted to Instagram, told me when we first got on the phone to talk. He was describing how his mother suffered from CNV bleeding in both eyes and had surgery to treat it in Egypt around 2007.

In 2013, a fisherman from Gaza netted a 2000-year-old statue of the ancient Greek god Apollo from the waters near the Egyptian border. Sensing the opportunity to drag themselves out of destitution, the fisherman’s family put the 300kg bronze relic on eBay for $500,000, only for the ruling Hamas authorities to confiscate it for themselves.

A minimalist deadpan dramedy with serious political undertones, Gaza Mon Amour offers up a vision of the Palestinian situation at once realistic and absurdist, revealing how even the simplest of love stories can be thwarted by a repressive government, collective human foibles and an ancient Greek statue with a major erection.