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Scotland bans arms companies that supply IDF from receiving financial aid
BySeverin Carrell Scotland editor September 3, 2025September 3, 2025

Devolved government says contractors seeking support must prove products will not be used by Israeli military The Scottish government has banned arms companies which supply the IDF from getting grants and investment support, and will freeze support for…

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Democrats blast state department for lack of ‘basic oversight’ of controversial Gaza food organization
ByAndrew Roth in Washington September 3, 2025

Letter by senior Democrats asks state department to reveal details behind financing of Gaza Humanitarian FoundationSenior Democratic senators have called on the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, to reve…

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Gaza is becoming ‘graveyard of international humanitarian law’, says Unrwa boss – Middle East crisis live
ByAmy Sedghi September 3, 2025

Philippe Lazzarini says Unrwa has been ‘sounding alarm bells for months’ over famine and violence in Gaza but law has been ‘blatantly disregarded’Europe and the west’s double standards over the wars in Ukraine and Gaza threaten to undermine its global …

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Middle East crisis: at least 21,000 children disabled in Gaza during war, says UN committee – as it happened
ByAmy Sedghi September 3, 2025September 3, 2025

More than 40,000 have suffered ‘new war-related injuries’ with more than half left disabled, says UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesYemen’s Houthis have claimed responsibility for a missile launched at Israel (see 8.17am BST), sayi…

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In Yemen as in Gaza, bombs and starvation are stealing the lives of our children | Elham Al-Oqabi
ByElham Al-Oqabi September 3, 2025

As a mother living in Sana’a, I’ve seen how war devastates hopes, dreams and futures, and I share the desperation of Gaza’s mothers“Mom, why are they bombing us?” my oldest daughter asked me in 2019, as the Saudi coalition committed crimes with US weap…

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In Yemen as in Gaza, bombs and starvation are stealing the lives of our children | Elham Al-Oqabi
ByElham Al-Oqabi September 3, 2025

As a mother living in Sana’a, I’ve seen how war devastates hopes, dreams and futures, and I share the desperation of Gaza’s mothers“Mom, why are they bombing us?” my oldest daughter asked me in 2019, as the Saudi coalition committed crimes with US weap…

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‘We are dying for no reason’: Israeli reservists face fresh call-up for a war dividing their nation
ByJason Burke September 2, 2025

Soldiers express doubts about serving in Gaza but few will refuse to fightTens of thousands of reservists in Israel will return to active service in the coming weeks amid an intense debate in their ranks over the war in Gaza, which reflects wider divis…

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‘We are dying for no reason’: Israeli reservists face fresh call-up for a war dividing their nation
ByJason Burke September 2, 2025

Soldiers express doubts about serving in Gaza but few will refuse to fightTens of thousands of reservists in Israel will return to active service in the coming weeks amid an intense debate in their ranks over the war in Gaza, which reflects wider divis…

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Five children in Gaza among those killed by Israeli strike while fetching water
ByWilliam Christou in Beirut September 2, 2025

Latest attack comes as Israel’s military urges people to leave Gaza City with 60,000 more reservists to be called upAt least nine people, including five children, have been killed in an Israeli strike while fetching water in al-Mawasi, an area of south…

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Please don’t succumb to hopelessness over Palestine. Your voice can still make a difference | Arwa Mahdawi
ByArwa Mahdawi September 2, 2025

As the war gets livestreamed to our phones, it is easy to be overwhelmed and feel helpless. But even small acts of activism add upI don’t know if Frankenstein star Christoph Waltz is normally a man of few words but he didn’t have much to say at a recen…

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