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Breaking News Gaza Infant Twin Clings To Life After Israeli Attack Kills Brother
The 3-week-old baby boy who survived a missile strike which killed nine family members — including his identical twin — in Gaza on Sunday, seems to be on the mend. Post by Asmaa Alghoul. Journalist Asmaa al-Ghoul, a columnist for Al-Monitor, posted a photo of her nephew Ibrahim al-Ghoul to her Facebook page with the…
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Breaking News Young People Trapped in Gaza Yearn for Escape
(Reuters) — After spending most of the month-long Gaza war trapped at home watching the news for hours, Palestinian Salam al-Bayid returned to her university for the first time on Thursday to find the administration building with its facade in pieces. With the ceasefire that started on Tuesday still holding, the 18-year-old architecture student had…
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Breaking News Gaza Talks Race for Deal To Extend Truce
Mediators worked against the clock on Thursday to extend a Gaza truce between Israel and the Palestinians as the three-day ceasefire went into its final 24 hours. Israel has said it is ready to agree to an extension as Egyptian mediators pursued talks with Israelis and Palestinians on an enduring end to a war that…
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Breaking News University of Illinois Rescinds Offer to Professor After Anti-Israel Tweets
The University of Illinois rescinded a job offer to an incoming professor who harshly criticized Israel on Twitter. Steven Salaita, who was offered a job at the Champaign-Urbana campus in the American Indian studies program, will not be hired, according to a report by the website Inside Higher Education. The move reportedly was made in…
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News Israel Ambassador Slams United Nations For ‘Complicity’ In Hamas Existence
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations slammed its members for “their complicity in allowing organizations like Hamas to continue to exist in the Middle East.” Ron Prosor spoke Wednesday at a special General Assembly session on Gaza. “This institution was founded to stand for truth, for justice, and for moral clarity. This is no longer…
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Breaking News Gaza Truce Holds for Day 2 — War Looks Done
A Gaza truce was holding on Wednesday as Egyptian mediators pursued talks with Israeli and Palestinian representatives on an enduring end to a war that has devastated the Hamas Islamist- dominated enclave. Egyptian intelligence officials met in Cairo with a high-level Israeli delegation late on Tuesday, a day after conferring with Palestinians who included envoys…
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Breaking News London Times Rejects Elie Wiesel Anti-Hamas ‘Child Sacrifice’ Ad
The London Times refused to run an ad featuring Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel speaking out against Hamas’ use of children as human shields. The ad sponsored by The Values Network, which was founded by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, has run in The New York Times, Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, among other U.S….
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Breaking News U.S. Attitudes Towards Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Haven’t Changed Since 2002
Americans’ attitudes on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are little changed from 2002, a new Gallup poll found. The poll published Tuesday and conducted Aug. 2-3 found that Americans’ views of the conflict have changed little over the past 10 days — or the past 12 years. Respondents are about evenly divided over whether Israel’s actions in…
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