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Northern Ireland to ‘play its part’ treating children injured in Gaza
The Roscommon Herald
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August 18, 2025
By Rebecca Black, PA Stormont will “play its part” in a UK effort to provide medical treatment for children injured in Gaza. The first group of critically ill and injured Gazan children, said to be between 30 and 50 patients, will reportedly be...
Leaked audio reveals Israeli general calling for 50-to-1 death ratio for Palestinians, including children
Natural News
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August 18, 2025
Leaked audio reveals Israeli general calling for 50-to-1 death ratio for Palestinians, including children A leaked recording reveals Israel’s ex-military intelligence chief admitting 50,000 Palestinian deaths, including children, are "necessary"...
Thousands forced to flee Gaza as brutal new phase begins
Socialist Worker
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August 18, 2025
News Thousands of families have fled Zeitoun, Gaza's city's southern neighbourhood, after days of continuous strikes that have left the neighbourhood devastated. By Arthur Townend Downloading PDF. Please wait... Monday 18 August 2025 Issue...
Israel kicks out Australia's representatives to Palestinian Territory
9News
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August 18, 2025
Israel has kicked out Australia's representatives to the Occupied Palestinian Territories, accusing Australia of fuelling antisemitism in a move labelled "unjustified" by Foreign Minister Penny Wong. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar announced...
The trauma of childhood in Gaza: No school, few toys, little hope
The Straits Times
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August 18, 2025
JERUSALEM – To numb the traumas of wartime in the Gaza Strip, Rahma Abu Abed, 12, plays a game with her friends. They ask one another: What did you eat before the war? What did your home look like before the war? What would you wear if you had new...
AP News: Hamas accepts an Arab ceasefire proposal on Gaza as Palestinian death toll passes 62,000
EdGlenToday - Illinois
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RAFAH, Egypt (AP) — Hamas said Monday it has accepted a new proposal from Arab mediators for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip that would still need Israel's approval, as Gaza's Health Ministry said the Palestinian death toll from 22 months of war has...
The Assassination of Palestinian Journalists – interview w/ Richard Falk
Brave New Europe
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August 18, 2025
There is nothing comparable in any other war to the murder of journalists in Gaza. Genocide requires eliminating the truth. Daniel Falcone is a teacher, journalist, and PhD student in the World History program at St. John’s University in Jamaica,...
Legal experts eye UN General Assembly action on Gaza
GEO TV
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Monday Aug 18 2025 | 09:22 PM Legal experts eye UN General Assembly action on Gaza By: AFP The UN General Assembly must be empowered to urgently intervene in Gaza and send a protective military force to help its devastated population, said the...
Israel Cancels Visas Of Australian Diplomats Following Palestinian State Recognition
StratNews Global
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August 18, 2025
Home Australia Israel Cancels Visas Of Australian Diplomats Following Palestinian State Recognition The Australian government said it had cancelled the visa of a lawmaker from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's governing coalition who has...
Israel's long history of rejecting peace with Palestinians
The New Arab
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August 18, 2025
For more than half a century, the greatest obstacle to Middle East peace has not been the absence of bold Palestinian overtures, but the relentless Israeli determination to bury them before they can take root. Time and again - from the Palestine...
Israel revokes visas of Australian diplomats to Palestine
Press TV
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Israel has revoked the residency visas of Australia’s representatives to Palestine after Canberra barred the entry of the regime’s far-right figures and announced its intention to recognize Palestinian statehood. In an X post on Monday, Israeli...
Death toll in Gaza tops 62,000 amid ongoing Israeli aggression
The Peninsula
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August 18, 2025
Palestinian families arrive with their belongings in the Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on August 18, 2025, as they flee their homes in Gaza City heading toward the south. (Photo by Eyad Baba / AFP) Gaza: The death toll from the ongoing...
Hamas signals progress in Gaza ceasefire talks, Israel’s approval needed
Global News
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August 18, 2025
Hamas said Monday it has accepted a new proposal from Arab mediators for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip that would still need Israel’s approval, as Gaza’s Health Ministry said the Palestinian death toll from 22 months of fighting has passed 62,000....
United Methodist Church divests from Israel bonds
Mondoweiss
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August 18, 2025
The United Methodist Church (UMC) has announced that it will divest from the bonds of governments that are maintaining illegal military occupations. It is the first church in the world to make such a pledge. Wespath, the church’s...
MSF: Humanitarian Sites Have Become ‘Killing Fields’ in Gaza
Al-Thawra
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August 18, 2025
Palestinian and international organizations have once again condemned Israel’s “deliberate” starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) saying that humanitarian sites have become “killing fields.” The organizations on...
How many must die before Gaza’s famine is called a crime?
Prism
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August 18, 2025
Before Oct. 7, 2023, Gaza was filled with traffic congestion due to the number of students attending United Nations Relief and Works Agency universities and schools. These training companies and language learning centers were filled with ambitious...
263 starved to death, 62,000 killed and 156,230 wounded in Gaza
Muscat Daily
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August 18, 2025
Gaza, Palestinian Territories – The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza on Monday stated that 60 people were killed and 344 injured in the last 24 hours as a result of ongoing Israeli attacks. In its daily update, the ministry said ‘a number of...
Israel receives Hamas' response on Gaza ceasefire proposal, no formal reply made
Xinhua News Agency
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GAZA/CAIRO/JERUSALEM, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- An anonymous Israeli official told Xinhua on Monday that Israel has received Hamas' response to a Gaza ceasefire proposal, which includes provisions on the release of hostages, but a formal reply to the...
Hamas accepts cease-fire proposal as Netanyahu signals escalation in Gaza
Haaretz
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August 18, 2025
Here are the updates from day 682 of the war: ■ Hamas and Palestinian factions have accepted a cease-fire proposal mediated by Egypt and Qatar, including partial IDF withdrawal from northern and eastern Gaza, a prisoner exchange, and the immediate...
Irish literary star Sally Rooney pledges UK TV fees to banned pro-Palestinian group
The Times of Israel
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August 18, 2025
Irish author Sally Rooney has vowed to give fees generated by two BBC adaptations of her books to Palestine Action, an anti-Israel group that was recently banned in the UK as a terrorist organization. The star writer, whose 2018 second novel...