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House Democrats sign on to letter urging Trump to recognise Palestinian statehood
ByShrai Popat August 5, 2025

Draft backed by over a dozen Democrats says Palestinian rights ‘as a people and nation’ must be urgently upheld More than a dozen Democratic members of Congress have signed on to a letter that urges the Trump administration to recognise Palestinian sta…

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House Democrats sign on to letter urging Trump to recognise Palestinian statehood
ByShrai Popat August 5, 2025

Draft backed by over a dozen Democrats says Palestinian rights ‘as a people and nation’ must be urgently upheld More than a dozen Democratic members of Congress have signed on to a letter that urges the Trump administration to recognise Palestinian sta…

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Speaker Mike Johnson visits occupied West Bank to support Israeli settlers
ByRichard Luscombe August 4, 2025

Palestinian foreign ministry condemns Republican visit for ‘undermining efforts to stop the war and cycle of violence’Mike Johnson became the highest ranked US official to visit the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Republican House speaker drawing mea…

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Speaker Mike Johnson visits occupied West Bank to support Israeli settlers
ByRichard Luscombe August 4, 2025

Palestinian foreign ministry condemns Republican visit for ‘undermining efforts to stop the war and cycle of violence’Mike Johnson became the highest ranked US official to visit the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Republican House speaker drawing mea…

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British couple craig lindsay foreman held in Iran moved to separate prisons
ByAFP August 4, 2025

Lindsay and Craig Foreman were detained seven months ago on espionage charges while on global motorbike trip A British couple detained in Iran for seven months on espionage charges have been moved to separate prisons in and near Tehran, heightening fea…

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Social media images of Gaza cafes can’t hide truth: Israel is starving Palestinians
ByJohana Bhuiyan August 4, 2025

Pro-Israel posts point to a handful of cafes to claim 2 million people are not suffering hunger – despite Israel’s own dataIsrael’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his supporters have variously argued that there is no starvation in Gaza, or tha…

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‘No one should act surprised,’ says UN expert who warned of starvation in Gaza last year
ByNina Lakhani August 4, 2025

Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, who sounded the alarm in early 2024, says: ‘Israel is starving Gaza. It’s genocide’The UN expert who first warned that Israel was orchestrating a campaign of deliberate mass starvation in Gaza…

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Hundreds of ex-Israeli security officials urge Trump to help end war in Gaza
ByWilliam Christou in Jerusalem August 4, 2025

Open letter calls on US president to pressure Israel to end conflict as Netanyahu mulls expanding offensiveAbout 600 former Israeli security officials, including previous heads of the Mossad and the military, have urged Donald Trump to pressure Israel …

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Hundreds of ex-Israeli security officials urge Trump to help end war in Gaza
ByWilliam Christou in Jerusalem August 4, 2025

Open letter calls on US president to pressure Israel to end conflict as Netanyahu mulls expanding offensiveAbout 600 former Israeli security officials, including previous heads of the Mossad and the military, have urged Donald Trump to pressure Israel …

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UK’s Royal Ballet and Opera withdraws Tosca production in Tel Aviv
ByNadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent August 4, 2025

Show scheduled for next year pulled after 182 members of UK company sign letter criticising RBO’s stance on GazaThe Royal Ballet and Opera has pulled its 2026 production run of Tosca at the Israeli National Opera in Tel Aviv.The internal announcement b…

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