Google Fires More Staffers Following Protests Over $1.2 Billion Israel Deal
'The Independent' reports that Google has fired at least 20 more workers following protests over the company supplying Israel with technology amid the Gaza war.
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Sky NewsBenjamin Netanyahu rejects ceasefire demands that would 'leave Hamas intact' - as Israeli cabinet votes to close Al Jazeera office
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected ceasefire proposals because he says Hamas's call for a withdrawal of all troops from Gaza and an end to the war is unacceptable. Mr Netanyahu said agreeing such proposals would "leave Hamas intact" and leave the possibility of another attack in future. Mediated negotiations for a pause in the fighting in return for the release of hostages held by Hamas have been going on in Egypt, but a deal appears some way off.
- The Guardian
Israel tells Hamas to accept ceasefire terms or risk new onslaught ‘in near future’
Netanyahu refuses demands of permanent ceasefire and also moves to shut down Al Jazeera network
- Reuters
Israel attacks Rafah after Hamas claims responsibility for deadly rocket attack
CAIRO (Reuters) -Three Israeli soldiers were killed in a rocket attack claimed by Hamas armed wing, near the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, where Palestinian health officials said at least 19 people were killed by Israeli fire on Sunday. Hamas's armed wing claimed responsibility on Sunday for an attack on the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza that Israel said killed three of its soldiers. Israel's military said 10 projectiles were launched from Rafah in southern Gaza towards the area of the crossing, which it said was now closed to aid trucks going into the coastal enclave.
- The Telegraph
Armenia a ‘big loser of war in Ukraine’ thanks to Kremlin-backed Azerbaijan
Vladimir Shahinyan is a proud Armenian but he says he has been betrayed.
- Euronews
Russian army executed at least 15 surrendering Ukrainian soldiers since December, HRW report says
In its analysis of footage from five incidents since December 2023, HRW said Ukrainian soldiers were "gunned down in cold blood", constituting a clear breach of the Geneva Conventions.
- The Telegraph
Revealed: Iran’s rapidly expanding top secret drone factory where Hezbollah is trained
Iran is training Hezbollah fighters to carry out drone attacks on northern Israel at a rapidly-expanding top secret base, The Telegraph can reveal.
- Evening Standard
Israel shuts Kerem Shalom crossing after Hamas fires rockets
The crossing is one of the few routes to get humanitarian aid into Gaza
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Israeli forces kill Hamas gunmen in West Bank raid
STORY: Israeli forces killed five Palestinians in an overnight raid in the occupied West Bank, including four fighters from the militant group Hamas.That’s according to Israeli and Palestinian officials on Saturday.Hamas confirmed that four of the men killed during the raid near the city of Tulkarm were from its al-Qassam armed wing. The Palestinian health ministry said their bodies had been taken by the Israeli military.There was no information about the fifth man, whose body was too disfigured for immediate identification.During the raid, the Israeli army leveled a two-story house with a bulldozer in an operation that lasted more than 12 hours.According to Palestinian Health Ministry records, nearly 500 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces or Jewish settlers in the West Bank or East Jerusalem since Oct. 7.That’s when Hamas militants attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and abducting 252 others, according to Israeli tallies. Health authorities in the Hamas-ruled enclave say more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's seven-month-old assault on the Gaza Strip. Palestinians want the West Bank and Gaza, which Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war, as the core of an independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital.U.S.-backed talks to reach an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians have been stalled for the past decade but the Gaza war has raised pressure for a revival of efforts to reach a two-state solution.
- The Guardian
University of Mississippi: ‘abhorrent’ counter-protesters condemned
Largely white, male group taunts pro-Palestinian protesters on campus and one man makes racist gesture towards Black woman
- Associated Press
Australian police shoot dead a boy, 16, armed with a knife after he stabbed a man in Perth
A 16-year-old boy armed with a knife was shot dead by police after he stabbed a man in the Australian west coast city of Perth, officials said Sunday. The teen attacked the man and then rushed at police officers before he was shot, Western Australian Premier Roger Cook told reporters on Sunday. Police and Australian Security Intelligence Organization agents have been conducting a counterterrorism investigation in the east coast city of Sydney since another 16-year-old boy stabbed an Assyrian Orthodox bishop and priest in a church on April 15.
- BBC
Israel-Gaza war: Three soldiers killed in Kerem Shalom rocket attack
Israel has closed the Kerem Shalom crossing - one of few Gaza aid routes - after the rocket attack.
- The Independent
Charity chief blasts ‘shameful’ comparisons between Nazi crimes and modern day Israel
Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) on Sunday, Karen Pollock has warned that the memory of the Nazis’ victims is being ‘distorted’
- Reuters
Israeli forces kill Hamas gunmen in overnight raid near West Bank's Tulkarm
TULKARM, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed five Palestinians, including four fighters from the militant group Hamas, in an overnight raid near the city of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian and Israeli officials said on Saturday. Hamas confirmed that four of the men killed during the raid in Deir al-Ghusun village were from its al-Qassam armed wing. The Palestinian health ministry said their bodies had been taken by the Israeli military.
- Euronews
Israelis rally to demand Gaza ceasefire and PM Netanyahu's resignation
"We hope the world hears us and knows that the people of Israel are not the government of Israel," said one protester.
- The Telegraph
Pro-Palestine university groups are ‘radicalising’ US students
Some pro-Palestine US university groups are co-opting the nationwide campus protests and “radicalising” America’s students, it has been claimed.
- France 24
Israel closes Gaza's key Kerem Shalom border crossing after deadly attack claimed by Hamas
Israel’s army announced on Sunday that it had closed Kerem Shalom, a key border crossing used to deliver humanitarian aid to southern Gaza, after an attack for which Hamas claimed responsibility. Three soldiers and a dozen others were wounded in the attack, the Israeli army told AFP. Read our blog to see how the day's events unfolded. This blog is no longer being updated. For more coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, please click here.Summary: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday sharpened h
- The Telegraph
Student protesters disrupt University of Michigan graduation
Pro-Palestine demonstrators disrupted a graduation ceremony at the University of Michigan as protests over the war in Gaza continued to rock campuses across the US.
- The Guardian
‘They’re sending a message’: harsh police tactics questioned amid US campus protest crackdowns
More than 1,400 people have been arrested as police dismantle campus encampments – but are the tactics used too brutal?
- Associated Press
The Latest | Israeli military orders evacuation of parts of Rafah ahead of possible ground invasion
Israel's military has ordered tens of thousands of people in the southern Gaza city of Rafah to begin evacuating, signaling that a long-promised ground invasion could be imminent. Hamas and Qatar, a key mediator, have warned that an invasion of Rafah could derail the talks. Israel has described Rafah as the last significant Hamas stronghold after seven months of war, and its leaders have repeatedly said they need to carry out a ground invasion to defeat the Islamic militant group.
- The Guardian
Hopes of Gaza ceasefire rise as Hamas delegation arrives in Cairo
Egyptian and US mediators report signs of compromise, but many analysts remain pessimistic