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Israeli minister posts video online confronting Palestinian detainee in his prison cell – as it happened
ByYohannes Lowe August 15, 2025August 15, 2025

Far-right national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir posts video showing him confronting Marwan Barghouti, who has spent more than 20 years in Israeli custodyAt least 16 Palestinian people, including five aid seekers, have been killed in Israeli attack…

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Israeli minister says Sydney Harbour Bridge protesters ‘useful idiots’ who fell for terrorist propaganda
ByJosh Butler August 15, 2025

Sharren Haskel says she is disappointed at ‘people marching with terrorist organisations’ and denies starvation occurring in GazaFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAn Israeli…

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Israeli minister says Sydney Harbour Bridge protesters ‘useful idiots’ who fell for terrorist propaganda
ByJosh Butler August 15, 2025August 15, 2025

Sharren Haskel says she is disappointed at ‘people marching with terrorist organisations’ and denies starvation occurring in GazaFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAn Israeli…

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Israel appears set to approve highly controversial 3,400-home West Bank settlement
ByPeter Beaumont August 14, 2025

Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has said he believes E1 plan will ‘bury the idea of a Palestinian state’Israel appears set to give formal planning approval to a highly controversial settlement project for more than 3,400 new homes that has been froze…

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Israel appears set to approve highly controversial 3,400-home West Bank settlement
ByPeter Beaumont August 14, 2025

Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has said he believes E1 plan will ‘bury the idea of a Palestinian state’Israel appears set to give formal planning approval to a highly controversial settlement project for more than 3,400 new homes that has been froze…

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Palestinians struggle to secure water as heatwave hits Gaza – video
ByMiddle East and north Africa | The Guardian August 14, 2025

Thousands of displaced people living in tents face worsening conditions as they struggle to obtain enough water safe for drinking and sanitationAid groups say Israel’s new registration rules are ‘weaponising aid’ Continue reading…

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Aid groups say Israel’s new registration rules are ‘weaponising aid’
ByPeter Beaumont August 14, 2025

Lifesaving goods for starved people in Gaza blocked by vague rules on anti-Israeli activity, say humanitarian bodiesMiddle East crisis – live updatesMore than 100 aid organisations working in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have accused Israel of dang…

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Sudan cholera outbreak kills 40 in a week as health centres overwhelmed
ByKat Lay, Global health correspondent August 14, 2025

MSF charity calls situation ‘beyond urgent’ as thousands seeking refuge from war rely on contaminated waterThe “worst cholera outbreak in years” has killed at least 40 people in the last week in Sudan, according to the medical charity Médecins Sans Fro…

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Bezalel Smotrich outlines plan for 3,000 new housing units in controversial West Bank settlement, reports say – Middle East crisis live
ByCaolán Magee August 14, 2025August 14, 2025

Israel’s far-right finance minister claims Netanyahu and Trump have agreed to the plan although there has been no confirmation from either leaderThe health ministry in Gaza has just issued a statement, saying four more people have died from famine and …

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Truck drivers, doctors and bakers: ordinary Yemenis turn to veteran journalist when justice fails
BySaeed Al-Batati in Al-Mukalla, Yemen August 14, 2025

Fatehi Bin Lazreq has used social media, newspapers and radio to expose corruption and everyday injustices since the country’s civil war started a decade agoWhen dozens of gas tankers near Yemen’s southern city of Aden were held up at a checkpoint by s…

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