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Israel’s death penalty law marks a new phase in its dehumanisation of Palestinians | Yuli Novak
ByYuli Novak April 2, 2026

A government that openly embraces violence against Palestinians has now enshrined into law a policy of lethal forceYuli Novak is the executive director of B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights groupThis week, Israel passed a law that institutionalises the …

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‘Weak and pathetic’: why is the EU not using its leverage to stop Israel?
ByJennifer Rankin in Brussels April 2, 2026

Deep divisions on Israel mean the union has failed to act over Lebanon, Gaza, or settler violence in the West BankThe human costs of Israel’s attacks on Lebanon were plain to see when the Irish MEP Barry Andrews visited Beirut last month. He met people…

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Prominent UK pro-Palestine activists guilty of breaching protest conditions
ByAamna Mohdin Community affairs correspondent April 1, 2026

Judge says in verdict against Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham that conditions imposed were lawful and necessaryTwo prominent leaders in the Palestine solidarity movement in Britain have been found guilty of breaching protest conditions, in what campaigners…

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Tony Blair says the left is in ‘unholy alliance’ with Islamists. It’s a desperate last ploy to quell the anger over Gaza | Owen Jones
ByOwen Jones April 1, 2026

The former PM has no valid response when progressives raise a voice over war crimes, so he seeks to mute them. But we’ll take no moral lectures from himThe left, claims Tony Blair, has forged an “alliance with Islamists”. He goes further: this is simpl…

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The world cannot allow Gaza’s horrors to be replayed in Lebanon | Letter
ByGuardian staff March 31, 2026

The failure of the UK government to act now will have devastating human consequences, writes Steve CuttsYour editorial on Israel’s military escalation in Lebanon (25 March) rightly warns against a repeat of the devastating tactics unleashed on Pal…

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‘Discriminatory’ Israeli death penalty law would be war crime, says UN rights chief
ByPeter Beaumont Senior international correspondent March 31, 2026March 31, 2026

Volker Türk says bill, which applies to Palestinians convicted of terror charges but not Jewish extremists, ‘must be promptly repealed’A new Israeli law which would sanction the execution of Palestinians convicted on terror charges for deadly attacks, …

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Israel passes law to give death penalty to Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks
ByLorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem March 30, 2026March 30, 2026

Knesset approves measure that has been criticised by European countries and rights groupsIsrael’s parliament has passed a law imposing the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of fatal attacks, a measure sharply criticised as discriminatory by Europ…

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The Guardian view on Trump’s Iran war: escalation without end | Editorial
ByEditorial March 30, 2026

Without diplomacy or restraint, the economic shock will deepen and US soldiers may become embroiled in a quagmireThe fifth week of Donald Trump’s illegal war on Iran has confirmed the absence of any overarching strategy. The US continues to hit Iranian…

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We can’t look away from the horrors of war | Brief letters
ByGuardian staff March 30, 2026

Children killed by bombs | Museum charges | No explanations necessary | Trump’s measurements | Origins of ‘lashings’The report of a much-loved six-year-old girl killed in Lebanon by an Israeli bomb reduced me to tears (‘My heart is breaking’: Lebanese …

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Exhausted Palestinians struggle to put lives back together as world’s gaze fixes on Iran
BySeham Tantesh in Gaza and Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem March 29, 2026

Five months after a ceasefire was announced in Gaza, airstrikes are still killing civilians, and the humanitarian situation remains direThere is little left that connects Palestinians in Gaza with their prewar existence. The contours of life have becom…

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