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U.S role in escalating Gaza tensions under scrutiny

Amid escalating violence in Gaza, questions have emerged about the geopolitical tensions between Hamas and the United States, particularly during former President Donald Trump's administration. His past tweets, warning that Hamas would be "dead" if it did not release hostages, have been interpreted by some as foreshadowing the current crisis. Critics argue that these remarks overlook the reality of Palestinian political prisoners detained without charges or due process. Speaking on […]

today18 March 2025

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SA will approach UN Security Council to ensure Israel halts offensive in Rafah – DIRCO

The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) says South Africa will approach the United Nations (UN) Security Council to ensure Israel complies with Friday’s court order to stop its military offensive in Rafah. While the orders issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) are binding, it does not have the power to enforce them. On Friday, the court also ruled that Israel has to allow investigators into the […]

today26 May 2024

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Israel forces intensify Rafah strikes as diplomats seek to salvage Gaza truce

Israeli forces bombed areas in the southern border city of Rafah on Thursday, where more than half of Gaza’s population is sheltering, as diplomats sought to salvage ceasefire talks after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a Hamas proposal, Reuters reports. In a sign the diplomacy was not over in the biggest Washington-led push yet to quiet the guns, a Hamas delegation led by senior official, Khalil Al-Hayya, arrived in Cairo on Thursday […]

today9 February 2024

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Israeli strikes rock Gaza for second day after truce collapse

Israel carried out deadly bombardments in Gaza for a second day on Saturday after a week-long truce with Hamas collapsed despite international calls for an extension. Clouds of grey smoke from the strikes hung over Gaza, where the Hamas-run health ministry said nearly 200 people had been killed since the pause in hostilities expired early Friday. Both sides blamed each other for breaking the truce, with Israel claiming that Hamas […]

today3 December 2023

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Israel Embassy closes after Parliamentary Vote

By Loushe Jordaan Gilbert In what is deemed as a small victory, Parliamentarians voted in of a motion to close the Israeli Embassy in the capital Pretoria and suspend diplomatic ties with Tel Aviv. Speaking on VOC Breakfast on Wednesday morning Dr Firoz Osman, Executive Member of the Media Review Network said the motion marks a historic moment in democracy and can be described as a new dawn for the […]

today22 November 2023

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Israel to sever ‘all contact’ with Gaza and return labourers: Govt

Israel will return Gazans working inside the country to the besieged Palestinian territory, the government said, almost four weeks after it began striking Hamas targets there in response to a deadly cross-border attack. "Israel is severing all contact with Gaza. There will be no more Palestinian workers from Gaza," the Israeli security cabinet announced in a statement late Thursday. "Those workers from Gaza who were in Israel on the day […]

today4 November 2023

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Israel’s Jenin operation amounts to war crimes, say experts

Legal experts have said that Israel's military operation in Jenin earlier this month, which killed 12 Palestinians and wounded 100 others, fits into the parameters of war crimes under the Geneva Conventions. Susan Akram, a clinical professor at Boston University's School of Law, said the raid on Jenin clearly amounts to war crimes for a number of reasons, including intentionally attacking a civilian population and attacking medical units. "The Geneva Conventions include as war […]

today14 July 2023

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Five Palestinians killed as Israel launches air attacks on Jenin

Israel’s military has launched air raids on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank, carrying out an ongoing attack that involved a missile and the killing of at least four Palestinians, according to residents and officials. Residents said Israel launched at least 10 air attacks in Jenin early on Monday, sending smoke billowing from the wreckage of buildings. A convoy with dozens of Israeli armoured vehicles also […]

today3 July 2023

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Eyewitnesses call Israel military raid on West Bank a ‘war’

The Palestinians who witnessed the Israeli army raid on Monday in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, which killed six Palestinians and injured 91 others, likened it to a "war", Anadolu Agency reports. Mohammed Abu Hatab, 39, a resident of Jenin, told Anadolu on Tuesday that they woke up early in the morning to the sound of heavy gunfire, thinking "there was a war". "It lasted for almost 10 hours. Our house was […]

today21 June 2023

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