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US Muslim leaders who backed Trump unhappy with his pro-Israel cabinet picks: Report

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US Muslim leaders who supported Republican Donald Trump to protest against the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza and attacks on Lebanon have been deeply disappointed by his cabinet picks, they tell Reuters. “Trump won because of us and we’re not happy with his secretary of state pick and others,” said Rabiul Chowdhury, […]

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US tells Qatar to expel Hamas leaders after ceasefire talks fail: Report

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The US has told Qatar that the presence of Hamas in Doha is no longer acceptable in the weeks since the Palestinian militant group rejected the latest proposal to achieve a ceasefire and a hostage deal, a senior administration official told Reuters on Friday. The tiny Gulf state Qatar, alongside the US and Egypt, has

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17 killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza as Antony Blinken looks to broker peace

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An Israeli strike on a school where displaced people were sheltering in the central Gaza Strip killed at least 17 people on Thursday, nearly all women and children, Palestinian medical officials said. The strike came as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Israel had accomplished its objective of “effectively dismantling” Hamas, and that negotiations

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Israel needs to urgently address ‘catastrophic conditions’ in Gaza, says ally US

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Israel needs to address urgently “catastrophic conditions” among Palestinian civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip and stop “intensifying suffering” by limiting aid deliveries, its ally the United States told the UN Security Council on Wednesday. Referring to reports of squalid conditions in south and central Gaza, US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said: “These

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Israel Minister threatens to topple government over any ‘foolhardy’ Gaza deal

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Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir threatened on Saturday to bring down the coalition government if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enters a Gaza deal that would entail ending the war without the elimination of Hamas. Such a deal would be “foolhardy, constituting a victory for terrorism and a threat to Israel’s national security,” the ultranationalist

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US teacher threatens to slit throat of student offended over Israeli flag, arrested

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Benjamin Reese, a 51-year-old social studies teacher in United States’ Georgia, was arrested, for allegedly threatening to kill a student who said she was “offended” by the Israeli flag hanging in the classroom. According to the incident report, Reese is said to have also stated that he would “drag the student into the parking lot

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Israel uncovers 'biggest Hamas tunnel' near Gaza border

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  Israeli forces battling Hamas said they had uncovered an unusually large concrete and iron-girded tunnel, designed to carry carloads of militant fighters from Gaza right up to the border. Razing or disabling hundreds of kilometres of underground passages and bunkers is among the aims of the offensive Israel launched after Hamas gunmen went on

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Harvard student targeted over Palestinian scarf by professor's wife, video goes viral

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A video of a Harvard graduate student being targeted for wearing a keffiyeh, a traditional scarf from West Asia that has come to be identified with the Palestinian struggle for a homeland, has gone viral on social media. According to the Middle East Eye, Harvard professor Jason Furman’s wife, Eve Gerber, criticised a student over

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