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ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE ON DISPLACED TENTS IN RAFAH
Posted by Middle East Eye.
reuters.com (2024-04-21). US Senate votes to reauthorize surveillance program, Biden to sign swiftlyThe U.S. Senate voted late on Friday night to approve the reauthorization of a controversial surveillance program, narrowly missing the midnight expiration of the program, and the White House said President Joe Biden would swiftly sign it.
US vetoes resolution backing full UN membership for Palestine
Posted by TRT World.
apnews.com (2024-04-18). Inside the $95B House package focused on aiding Ukraine, IsraelThe package totals $95.3 billion in spending towards Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan, which matches the total that the Senate passed in mid-February. But there are also a few differences with the Senate bill designed to win over some House conservatives.
yenisafak.com (2024-04-17). UN Security Council expected to vote on Palestine's UN bid soon The UN Security Council is expected to vote soon on a draft resolution prepared by Algeria recommending Palestine's admission as a member of the UN. "Draft resolution on the State of Palestine membership to the United Nations put in blue by @AlgeriaUN on behalf of the Arab Group," Palestine's mission to the UN said Tuesday.
apnews.com (2024-04-17). UN pleads for end to 'increasingly horrific human rights and humanitarian crisis in Gaza'The UN on Tuesday called "on all states with influence" to bring the conflict in Gaza to an end.
wsws.org (2024-04-18). Tehran warns of "massive and harsh" response if Israel again bombs IranIranian President Ebrahim Raisi warned that new Israeli strikes on Iran would provoke a massive and harsh response. He was responding to Israeli threats to again bomb targets in Iran, as regional tensions surge over Israels genocidal onslaught against Gaza.
Journalist Grills US State Dept Over Delay In Determining Israel's Attack On Iran | Dawn News English
Posted by DawnNews English.
washingtonexaminer.com (2024-04-18). Anti-Israel protesters tried to keep Biden up at night with 'Genocide Joe' chantsThe group gathered around 9 p.m. and stayed until just after midnight, chanting a serious of slogans including "Genocide Joe has got to go," "murder," "Wake up sleepy Joe," and "I am your nightmare, Biden."
menafn.com (2024-04-18). US Concerned By Reports Of Human Rights Abuses Against UNRWA StaffersThe US Department of State said they are aware of reports that some UNRWA staff members and other people detained by Israeli forces in Gaza were subjected to ill treatment, including severe beatings and being forced to strip naked.
washingtonexaminer.com (2024-04-18). Anti-Israel protesters tried to keep Biden up at night with 'Genocide Joe' chantsThe group gathered around 9 p.m. and stayed until just after midnight, chanting a serious of slogans including "Genocide Joe has got to go," "murder," "Wake up sleepy Joe," and "I am your nightmare, Biden."

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radiohc.cu (2024-04-21). Activists prepare to set sail on a New Gaza Freedom FlotillaA coalition of human rights advocates has arrived in Istanbul, Turkey, as they prepare to set sail to Gaza on a civilian flotilla carrying urgently needed food and medicine. Hundreds will participate in the humanitarian aid mission.
The Freedom Flotilla is expected to set sail later this month.
washingtonpost.com (2024-04-21). Gaza aid flotilla to challenge Israel's blockade, organizers say A flotilla of ships bound for the Gaza Strip is preparing to sail from Turkey in the coming days, organizers say, on a mission aimed at breaching Israel's naval blockade and highlighting the lack of aid reaching Palestinians in the besieged enclave.
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theconversation.com (2024-04-18). An Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear weapons programme is unlikely – here's why According to a report by the Arms Control Association in Washington, Iran's nuclear programme is now too advanced and widely distributed to be effectively nullified by military action. There are several reasons for this.
kare11.com (2024-04-18). Minnesotans heading to Gaza to help deliver food, water, medical suppliesFor the last six months, the world has watched the war in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas. For a former FBI agent and veteran in Minnesota, it got to be too much.
"I told people that I can't help but seeing the faces of my own grandchildren in the faces of these poor Gaza children that are being starved and murdered," Coleen Rowley, an activist from Women Against Military Madness said.
United Nations Regional Information Centre (2024-04-18). Children in conflict: portraying light amid darkness Organised in collaboration with the UN Office for Children and Armed Conflict, the exhibition shines a light on the complexities of the lives of children amid conflict, including their aspirations for a peaceful future.
gmanetwork.com (2024-04-18). Picture of Gaza grief wins World Press Photo of the Year The picture was taken on Oct. 17, 2023, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, where families were searching for relatives killed during Israeli bombing of the Palestinian enclave.
counterpunch.org (2024-04-18). A Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to Lavender BY MEDEA BENJAMIN - NICOLAS J. S. DAVIES
Lavender assigns a numerical score, from one to a hundred, to every man in Gaza, based mainly on cellphone and social media data, and automatically adds those with high scores to its kill list of suspected militants. Israel uses another automated system, known as "Where's Daddy?", to call in airstrikes to kill these men and their families in their homes.
codepink.org (2024-04-18). "MY CHILD IS HUMAN!" Palestinian-American Mother Confronts Genocide-Denying Lloyd Austin A protester from the group CODEPINK holds up a child and disrupts U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (L) as he speaks at a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on April 17, 2024 in Washington, D.C.
wsws.org (2024-04-17). New York City universities step up purge of pro-Palestinian facultyThe victimization of academics opposed to the US-backed genocide in Gaza has intensified in recent weeks, with two New York City universities at the forefront of the assault on democratic rights.
counterpunch.org (2024-04-17). Israel's Blowback Genocide Words can't express the horrors of Israel's genocide in Gaza. To actually feel the nightmare, you would have to be there under the bombs, fleeing with Palestinians desperately seeking a safe place that doesn't exist; seeing building after building destroyed; treading through blood in one of the few, only partially standing hospitals; and witnessing children and other patients sprawled on hospital floors, limbs amputated without anesthesia (Israel having blocked all medical supplies).
morningstaronline.co.uk (2024-04-17). The double standards of the West are on full display at the ICJ Essentially, Germany is accused of aiding and abetting genocide and violating international humanitarian law with its political, financial, and military support for Israel as well as by ceasing to fund the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). In view of the urgency of the situation, Nicaragua requested five interim measures to prevent the facilitation of genocide.