UN Commission Finds 30 Percent of Those Killed in Gaza Genocide Were Children

About 30% of those killed by Israel in Gaza since October 7, 2023, have been children, according to a United Nations inquiry on Tuesday, which found the “deliberate” targeting of kids to have furthered a genocide against Palestinians. The report, authored by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, follows a previous finding in September…
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FIFA Is Legitimizing Israeli Clubs That Play in Illegal West Bank Settlements

If you take this long to investigate something, there is a good chance you are hiding something. FIFA and UEFA, it turns out, have been hiding several things. Ten, to be precise. That is the number of illegal Israeli settlement clubs now operating in the occupied West Bank, at least seven of them playing on land that should fall under the jurisdiction of the Palestine Football Association…
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UK to Sanction Israel Over Settlement Project That Would Cut West Bank in Half

The U.K., France, and other European states are preparing to announce sanctions on Israel this week in an attempt to prevent companies from becoming involved in Israel’s E1 settlement project. According to reports by The Guardian and Reuters, the U.K. in particular aims to prevent U.K. companies from becoming involved in the E1 settlement, which, if completed, will split the occupied…
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Israeli Military Kills 7-Month-Old Palestinian Baby in West Bank

Sam Abu Haikal was seven months old. On Friday night, Israeli soldiers opened fire on his family’s car in Hebron. He was pulled out of it dead. The family lives in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in Hebron’s old city, an area surrounded by Israeli soldiers, checkpoints, and settler outposts, and where Palestinians live under constant harassment and restrictions to their movement.
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Israel Escalates Siege on Qalandia Refugee Camp, Pursuing Settlement Plans

Iman Jahjouh was putting her daughters to bed when the soldiers came through the door early this week. A 33-year-old widow, Iman has been living in a house near her parents’ in the Qalandia refugee camp, close to the camp’s entrance and the airport road. She knows this makes her a target, since her husband’s family cut ties with her after his death. Her two daughters, eight and ten years old…
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EU Approves Sanctions on Violent Israeli Settlers. Critics Say It’s Not Enough.

Israeli settler groups committing violence against Palestinians in the West Bank could now be sanctioned by the European Union, after 27 foreign ministers of EU countries greenlit imposing sanctions on violent settlers and settler groups on Monday. The ministers also decided to sanction Hamas leaders. The decision came at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, which discussed major Middle…
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