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US sends additional Patriot batteries to Saudi Arabia and Qatar: Report

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Iranian-American group sues Trump for 'unconstitutional' war on Iran

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Gaza students take Ireland to court over visa refusals

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Israeli settlers set Palestinian homes and cars alight in West Bank rampage

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Could Britain defy Israel's order to shut down its East Jerusalem consulate?

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Israel chokes West Bank movement amid Jewish holiday

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Israel shuts Palestinian shops to facilitate Jewish prayers in Jerusalem's Old City

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Israel versus the UN: How it got this bad

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'Mr Rogers was political, too': Ms Rachel challenges critics over Gaza and ICE detention

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Israel Football Association cites Nobel Prize winners in rant at Ireland coach

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Ms Rachel matches Macklemore with $1m donation for Palestinian children

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Kyrie Irving offers to pay NFL player's fine as Palestine solidarity defies corporate pressure

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Tommy Robinson backs Ed Sheeran as Paloma Faith and Ms Rachel side with Macklemore

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Norman Finkelstein calls Israel 'nation of child killers' in Tucker Carlson interview

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NAZA: Film exposing systematic killing in Gaza gets record 24-minute standing ovation at Venice

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Elyanna faces backlash over prison visuals in 'BOSA' music video

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Palestinian child killed by Israel on first day back at school in Gaza

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Macklemore calls for a 'free Palestine' during Ed Sheeran shows, prompting praise and backlash

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Ben Gvir deletes AI video showing emaciated Palestinian prisoners after backlash

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NAZA review: Portrait of Israel as a nation stuck in a moral abyss

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How Fauda season five rewrites the Gaza genocide

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Venice Film Festival 2026: American monsters dominate the 83rd edition

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Towards Palestinian Liberation: How resistance travels across borders

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Against erasure: The artists preserving south Lebanon's stories

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How the World Cup brought out the best and worst of America

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A vision of dissent: Tarik Saleh on his acclaimed Cairo trilogy

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The Renewal of Islam: An Oxford academic's antidote to bigoted narratives

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America's Middle East: How Washington brought ruin to the region

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Abu Hamid al-Ghazali: How one of Islam's most revered figures still speaks to the modern world

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Every Moment Is a Life: A Gaza anthology curated by Susan Abulhawa is a tour de force

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After 7 October: Five Israeli films that try to address the Palestinian elephant in the room

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The resurrection of Hezbollah

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Gideon Levy: Reporting on the Intifada changed how I see Israel

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Iyad el-Baghdadi: Israel as an ethno-nationalist state, won't last beyond the 2030s

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How can you look at the horrors in Palestine and feel nothing?

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Palestine is now the conscience of the world. No deal will change that

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Gaza flotilla: The tide of defiance against Israel is now an unbreakable wave

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Doha is a warning to all Arab autocrats: The US will not protect you. Stand against Israel

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Doha strike shows that no peace can be achieved by recognising Israel

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Anas al-Sharif was murdered for being Gaza's voice

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Not just Israel: The Arabs and Europe are complicit in starving Gaza

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From Damascus to Gaza, Israel's plan to fragment the region may end up uniting it

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Britain once jailed suffragettes. Now it jails Palestine activists

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Israel's failure to subdue Iran shows it can no longer dictate the regional order

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