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Israel's genocide in Gaza

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Live: Israel kills over 90 Palestinians in heavy Gaza air strikes

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Israel discards waste and rubble in Gaza despite risk of environmental crisis

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Trump is only postponing Israeli annexation

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As Israel devours the West Bank, Abbas clings on to a sinking PA

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Ms Rachel's activism on Gaza lauded in Glamour Women of the Year nod

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RSF fighters film themselves massacring Sudanese fleeing el-Fasher

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Qatar's US ambassador rebukes Congressman Randy Fine after Laura Loomer interview

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UAE increasing support to Sudan's RSF with new Chinese drones: Report

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Ben & Jerry's co-founder creating watermelon-flavoured ice cream to support Palestine

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'Absurd': India's widespread crackdown on Muslims saying 'I Love Muhammad'

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Thousands to defy UK ban on Palestine Action in 'historic' mass civil disobedience

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UK judges clarify limits on intelligence agencies' complicity in foreign torture

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Israeli lawmakers demand release of convicted killers of Palestinians

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Maccabi Tel Aviv row reveals Starmer's cover story for colluding in genocide

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Sudan crisis: Can the Quad forge a sustainable peace?

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I gave birth as Gaza burned. What world will greet our next child?

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The ticking bomb of European rearmament

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Gaza 'scholasticide': We mourn our universities as one mourns an old friend

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My son was love and light, snuffed out by Israel's machinery of death

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Gaza genocide: Why we seek to have a British-Israeli soldier prosecuted

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Mocking Gaza has become another way to threaten Indian Muslims

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From Maccabi fans row to charity runs, UK media is conjuring a Muslim threat

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In Gaza, healing begins with truth, not false symmetry between victim and perpetrator

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How Britain's far right learned to love Israel

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Amid Gaza's nightmare, a quiet genocide has been unfolding in the West Bank

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Maccabi Tel Aviv: Why Keir Starmer is stirring the politics of hatred

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How the Gaza genocide is redefining world cinema

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Why the Gaza Tribunal is still needed after Trump's ceasefire

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Trump's Gaza ceasefire exposes the Democrats' moral and political failure

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Gaza genocide: On the moral collapse of Germany's elite

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Trump's Knesset speech was a celebration of war crimes, not a vision for peace

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Gaza ceasefire: The world must ensure Israel does not resume a slow genocide

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It was never a Gaza 'war'. The 'ceasefire' is a lie cut from the same cloth

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Stolen lives: Every freed Palestinian carries the weight of their people's struggle

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Gaza ceasefire: This is not a 'new dawn'. The war is not over

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Saudi and Emirati rulers' Sharm el-Sheikh no-show reveals tensions with Egypt over Gaza

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Exclusive: ICC senior officials accused of 'prejudice' over Karim Khan probe

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Satellite images reveal new UAE bases circling Gulf of Aden

26 days ago

Billionaires, Zionists and a UN official: Tony Blair's proposed team for Gaza

25 days ago

The 15 reasons why UN legal experts say Trump's Gaza plan breaks international law

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'Colonial thinking': The pitfalls of Trump's 20-point Gaza plan

27 days ago

Exclusive: Albania asked to arrest chief rabbi over alleged war crimes in Gaza

1 month ago

Ten things Tom Barrack said in wild interview on Israel, Lebanon and Muslims

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Syria's Sharaa distances himself from Abraham Accords in surreal interview with former CIA foe

1 month ago

Exclusive: Egypt's Nato-style Arab defence force proposal rejected at Doha summit

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Exclusive: Neil Kinnock says Palestine Action are not terrorists in split with Starmer

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'For peace, prepare for war': How Turkey sees Israel's attack on Qatar

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Exclusive: Hamas says Israel's 'indiscriminate' destruction of Gaza behind delay in locating captives' bodies

14 days ago

'Are my kids alive?' The Palestinian freed from Israeli detention to find his family killed

14 days ago

'My joy was shattered': Journalist grieves killing of third son as ceasefire arrives too late

15 days ago

Full text of the agreement signed by Israel and Hamas to 'end the war' on Gaza

18 days ago

Gaza's children face genetic harm 'for generations to come' from Israel's genocide

21 days ago

Growing up amid genocide: Gaza's girls navigate puberty under siege and scarcity

24 days ago

They fled to south Gaza as ordered. Then Israel killed them

25 days ago

Final goodbye: MEE reporters on the pain of being forced out of Gaza City

1 month ago

Steve Witkoff stepping back from Trump administration after Gaza deal, sources say

14 days ago

Trump's Gaza victory lap: A Nobel prize, lots of money and 'a beautiful woman'

15 days ago

Trump declares 'peace in the Middle East' during Egypt speech

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World leaders descend on Egypt to sign Trump's Gaza ceasefire deal

13 days ago

Mamdani, AOC and Sanders rally huge crowd ahead of New York City mayoral election

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'Disqualifying': Cuomo's last-ditch attacks on Mamdani condemned as racist and Islamophobic

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Trump's pick for US ambassador to Kuwait grilled by lawmakers on Israel

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Why were Israeli flags erected along Hastings' seafront?

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Starmer says 'intifada' chant is 'call to attack' Jewish people

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Top European human rights official urges UK to review protest laws over Palestine Action arrests

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Starmer hails 'great leader' Blair but avoids endorsing him for possible Gaza role

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Corbyn demands Lisa Nandy retract 'misleading' Maccabi Tel Aviv smears against MPs

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Ayoub Khan on Maccabi Tel Aviv ban: 'False smears put my family in danger'

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Cambridge University to consider divesting from arms industry amid Gaza protests

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Maccabi Tel Aviv declines tickets to UK game after Tommy Robinson vows to defend fans

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Why Maccabi Tel Aviv fans with record of violent rampages were really banned

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Green MP raises case of Marwan Barghouti's release from prison in UK parliament

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ICC convicts Janjaweed commander in 'landmark' Sudan case

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Sudan PM visits village following MEE coverage of fight against RSF

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From Sudan to Ukraine: Why Colombian mercenaries keep fighting foreign wars

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Sudan landslide erases entire village, with hundreds feared dead

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'I learnt to fire an RPG with YouTube': How one Sudanese village fought the RSF - and won

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Sudan's RSF traps el-Fasher inside network of earth walls

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How Sudan and Libya's triangle border region became a hotbed of crime and war

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UAE and Haftar behind RSF capture of Sudan's triangle border region

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Blood splatter from RSF massacres in Sudan visible from space

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Sudan militia implicated in war crimes used UK military equipment, UN told

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Israeli captives in Gaza: How many were there and what happened to them?

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What's happened in the West Bank since October 2023?

21 days ago

Champions League football: Why Israel competes in Europe - and what Uefa could do

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Israel and Eurovision: Why do countries want to boycott a song contest?

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UN General Assembly 2025: Which Middle East leaders are speaking and when?

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Whatever happened to South Africa's case at the ICJ?

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The Gaza flotilla: What you need to know about 'sumud'

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Lebanon: What will it take to disarm Hezbollah?

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Sequoia COO resigns amid row over partner's 'Islamist liar' attack on Mamdani

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Viral video of West Bank settler attack sparks outrage and accusations of US hypocrisy

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'Mocking dead Palestinians': Bollywood director under fire for likening Gaza genocide to Diwali

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Tommy Robinson schooled by social media over 'propaganda' tour in Jerusalem

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'Luxurising the sacred': New Mecca mega project sparks debate

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Trump's ambassadors drop cringe-fest music video for 'Greater Israel'

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Israel knocked out of World Cup in match with Italy marked by protests and boycott

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Trump's Gaza ceasefire summit turns into viral spectacle of gaffes and awkward diplomacy

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Gaza: Tributes pour in for slain Palestinian journalist Saleh al-Jafarawi

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Gaza ceasefire: Obama is criticised for 'bothsides-ing' genocide

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The Future of the Occupation: What now for Palestine after Gaza?

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How Israel lost Hollywood: The changing face of western art on Palestine

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Before the boom: Memories of Qatar's Bedouin tradition survive in a unique Danish exhibition

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A Grain of Sand: Elias Matar on the responsibility to mourn Gaza's martyred children

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The Dream Journey: Coming to terms with music in Pakistan's Indo-Islamic culture

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'Songs of Paradise': Bollywood's latest attempt to depoliticise the Kashmir Valley

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'After Savagery' by Hamid Dabashi detonates the West's moral alibi on Gaza

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Venice Film Festival 2025: Hind Rajab and western cinema's Palestine 'awakening'

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Venice Film Festival: Normally apolitical event struggles to shake the spectre of Gaza

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What the Bollywood classic Umrao Jaan teaches us about the lost heritage of India's courtesans

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Kenneth Roth's Righting Wrongs: A life on the frontlines of human rights advocacy

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Joaquin Phoenix and Brad Pitt join film about Hind Rajab as executive producers

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Gaza, Lebanon, and a controversial Tunisian auteur dominate at the Locarno film festival

2 months ago

Laleh Khalili's Extractive Capitalism: A beautiful map of the entangled global economy

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From el-Obeid to the Arctic: The secret mission that saved over 2,000 seeds from Sudan

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Displaced in Gaza: Recounting stories from the Gaza genocide

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Massive Attack, Kneecap and others form musician alliance against 'silencing' by pro-Israel groups

3 months ago

'The Rebel's Clinic': Frantz Fanon's legacy in a new era of colonial genocide

3 months ago

'The President's Cake': Hasan Hadi on Iraq, sanctions and his Cannes-winning debut

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I left Gaza with guilt, sorrow and tears for the son Israel took from me

25 days ago

'Relentless': How UK Lawyers for Israel targets pro-Palestinian voices

1 month ago

How disability can become a death sentence in Gaza today

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Exclusive: How Karim Khan's Israel war crimes probe was derailed by threats, leaks and sex claims

2 months ago

In Ilford North, Leanne Mohamad and the British left set their sights on Labour

3 months ago

How America's entertainment industry manufactured silence on Gaza

3 months ago

How independent MPs transformed British politics

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Gaza genocide: How Arab regimes became the enemy within

5 months ago

The Nakba: Jaffa's erasure is a warning to Gaza - but history is yet to be written

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A dangerous mind: The legacy of Bijan Jazani and Iran's 1975 Evin executions

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Kenize Mourad: The Ottoman princess boycotted in France for supporting Palestine

6 months ago

Ten years after the air strikes began, Yemenis hope for an end to 'journey of suffering'

6 months ago

'I believed I could save her': Inside the making of The voice of Hind Rajab | Motaz Malhees

18 days ago

'Cowardice': Have Democrats lost to MAGA on Gaza? | Ayman Mohyeldin

28 days ago

Israel wanted me to back down by killing my family | Wael al-Dahdouh

1 month ago

Valerie Zink: Why I quit and cut up my Reuters press card over Gaza

1 month ago

Has Gaza made the UN irrelevant? | Jeffrey Sachs

1 month ago

Mahmoud Khalil fled Syria fearing persecution. Now the US wants to send him back

1 month ago

'They used my chain to choke me': Chris Smalls speaks out after Israeli prison assault

28 days ago

'Gross betrayal': Indya Moore breaks silence on Hollywood's double standards on Gaza

2 months ago

How large parts of Israeli society have come to justify war crimes

9 months ago

What exactly happened in Syria's 13-year civil war

9 months ago

Azzam Tamimi on Yahya Sinwar's legacy, Israel and the likelihood of a regional war

1 year ago

Joseph Massad: How Israel functions as an extension of US interests

7 months ago

Jill Stein: The woman trying to upend the US political system

1 year ago

Cornel West on his life and what inspired him to run for US president

27 days ago

Andrew Feinstein: The anti-apartheid activist trying to stop Keir Starmer

1 year ago

Mads Gilbert: The doctor who's witnessed Israel's wars against Palestinians since 1982

1 year ago

Palestine is now the conscience of the world. No deal will change that

27 days ago

The great betrayal: Why Arab and Muslim rulers backed Trump's Gaza plan

27 days ago

Gaza flotilla: The tide of defiance against Israel is now an unbreakable wave

1 month ago

Doha is a warning to all Arab autocrats: The US will not protect you. Stand against Israel

1 month ago

Doha strike shows that no peace can be achieved by recognising Israel

1 month ago

Anas al-Sharif was murdered for being Gaza's voice

21 days ago

Not just Israel: The Arabs and Europe are complicit in starving Gaza

21 days ago

From Damascus to Gaza, Israel's plan to fragment the region may end up uniting it

21 days ago

Britain once jailed suffragettes. Now it jails Palestine activists

21 days ago

'Death to the IDF' is not antisemitic. Where is the outrage over Israeli crimes in Gaza?

21 days ago

Israel's failure to subdue Iran shows it can no longer dictate the regional order

21 days ago

A colonial reckoning: How Israel's war on Iran reopens old wounds

21 days ago

Gaza flotilla: The Madleen shows us the world as it could be

4 months ago

War on Gaza: How Israel is replicating Nazi starvation tactics

4 months ago

The West made us pay for its guilt - and now watches as Israel delivers the final Nakba

5 months ago

On Israel's fatal illusion in Syria

5 months ago

Why Hamas will not surrender

6 months ago

Why did UK media ignore Lammy's secret meeting with Israeli foreign minister?

6 months ago