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  10.  <title>Morning update</title>
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  27.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom:11px"&gt;Good morning Middle East Eye readers,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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  29. &lt;p&gt;Here are some of the latest updates from the Israeli war on Gaza and developments in the occupied West Bank:&lt;/p&gt;
  30.  
  31. &lt;p&gt;- Many injuries were reported early Friday morning as Israeli forces bombed the tents of displaced people east of the Ghaith camp in the Mawasi area west of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.&lt;/p&gt;
  32.  
  33. &lt;p&gt;- The Israeli army said on Friday morning that a soldier in the Golani Brigade was killed in in southern Gaza. It is unclear whether he was killed in the bombing of a building in Khan Yunis on Thursday or not.&lt;/p&gt;
  34.  
  35. &lt;h5&gt;- Palestinian media outlets reported on Friday Israeli attacks in the eastern outskirts of the Shujaiyya neighborhood, located east of Gaza City and the Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City.&lt;/h5&gt;
  36.  
  37. &lt;p&gt;- Israeli forces stormed in the early hours of Friday the southern area of ​​the city of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank. It also carried out raids in Nablus, and opened fire at a vehicle in the vicinity of Balata al-Balad, in the northern occupied West Bank.&lt;/p&gt;
  38.  
  39. &lt;p&gt;- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the US’s Newsmax TV that a 60-day ceasefire agreement could be reached within a few days. He added that the agreement includes the release of half of the live captives and half of the dead.&lt;/p&gt;
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  47.    <dc:creator>Ethar Shalaby</dc:creator>
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  51.  <title>Evening recap</title>
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  61. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Evening recap&lt;/span&gt;
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  68.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.&lt;/p&gt;
  69.  
  70. &lt;p&gt;Here are the day's key developments:&lt;/p&gt;
  71.  
  72. &lt;p&gt;- More than 100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza since dawn on Thursday.&lt;/p&gt;
  73.  
  74. &lt;p&gt;- The journalists' death toll in Gaza has risen to 229 with the killing of Palestine Today's&amp;nbsp;Ahmad Salama Abu Aisha, the Gaza Media Office announced.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  75.  
  76. &lt;p&gt;-&amp;nbsp;A United Nations team got about 75,000 litres of fuel into Gaza on Wednesday, the first such delivery in 130 days, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Thursday.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  77.  
  78. &lt;p&gt;-&amp;nbsp;Mahmoud Khalil, the 30-year-old Columbia University student who was the first and most well-known immigration detainee in the US for his pro-Palestine views, has now sued the Trump administration for $20m in damages for the harm done to his reputation and livelihood.&lt;/p&gt;
  79.  
  80. &lt;p&gt;-&amp;nbsp;&lt;meta charset="UTF-8"&gt;The UN special rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, said she is undeterred by&amp;nbsp;sanctions&amp;nbsp;imposed on her by the US on Wednesday. “It looks like I've hit a nerve,” she told Middle East Eye’s live show.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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  87.  <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 01:51:15 +0100</pubDate>
  88.    <dc:creator>Yasmine El-Sabawi</dc:creator>
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  92.  <title>Weapons-grade uranium in Iran likely survived US bombing, Israel says</title>
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  120.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;While Trump's attacks may have taken out the centrifuges, some enriched uranium casks may still be accessible to Iranian engineers&lt;/div&gt;
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  128.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;A satellite overview shows excavators at tunnel entrances at the Fordow fuel enrichment facility near Qom, Iran, on 27 June 2025 (Maxar Technologies/Handout via Reuters)&lt;/div&gt;
  129.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-wide-photo-video"&gt;Off&lt;/div&gt;
  130.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some of the enriched uranium that could be used to make a nuclear weapon likely survived the US bombing campaign against Iran last month, The New York Times &lt;a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/us/politics/iran-attacks-damage.html"&gt;reported&lt;/a&gt; on Thursday, citing a senior Israeli official.&lt;/p&gt;
  131.  
  132. &lt;p&gt;US President Donald Trump and his cabinet have maintained the talking point that all three nuclear sites were "obliterated" by the unique, bunker-busting, 30,000 lb American bombs.&lt;/p&gt;
  133.  
  134. &lt;p&gt;&lt;meta charset="UTF-8"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  135.  
  136. &lt;p&gt;"We have degraded their programme by one to two years, at least intel assessments inside the Department (of Defence) assess that," Sean Parnell, a Pentagon spokesman, told reporters last week, without providing evidence to support that conclusion.&lt;/p&gt;
  137.  
  138. &lt;p&gt;Parnell said&amp;nbsp;the assessment indicates that the official estimate is "probably closer to two years".&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  150. &lt;p&gt;Now, the Israeli assessment is that the 18,000 spinning machines called centrifuges were indeed largely destroyed - but not all of the 60 percent-enriched uranium, which was stored away in casks and may still be accessible to Iranian scientists.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  151.  
  152. &lt;p&gt;Any attempt, however, to access the site in that manner will be detected by Israel and Iran will be attacked again, the official warned.&lt;/p&gt;
  153.  
  154. &lt;p&gt;Speaking to the Times on condition of anonymity, the official said that Israel had evidence to believe that Iran raced to make a nuclear bomb after Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah 10 months ago. Nasrallah was a key Iranian ally in the region.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  155.  
  156. &lt;p&gt;That evidence was shared with the US, the official said, and Israel hastened its own plans to start a wave of attacks on Iran.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  157.  
  158. &lt;p&gt;But&amp;nbsp;Rafael Grossi, the secretary general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is the United Nations nuclear watchdog, maintains the Iranians had moved out much of their stockpile before the attacks took place.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  170. &lt;p&gt;No so, the Israeli official told the Times, as it would have been too difficult.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  171.  
  172. &lt;h3&gt;The '12-day war'&lt;/h3&gt;
  173.  
  174. &lt;p&gt;Israel began attacking Iran on 13 June, and repeatedly targeted the country's military and nuclear facilities, as well as assassinated&amp;nbsp;high-profile security, intelligence and military commanders, and scientists.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  175.  
  176. &lt;p&gt;In response, Iran fired barrages of missiles towards Haifa, Tel Aviv and other major Israeli cities, striking several sensitive areas.&lt;/p&gt;
  177.  
  178. &lt;p&gt;Israel's military censor, as a matter of policy, has barred local and international media outlets from publishing the details of the exact locations targeted.&lt;/p&gt;
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  191.  
  192. &lt;p&gt;Trump's strikes on Iran's three nuclear facilities - the first such act by any US president - came just over a week after Israel began its assault.&lt;/p&gt;
  193.  
  194. &lt;p&gt;Within 48 hours, Iran&amp;nbsp;began firing several missiles as part of a choreographed retaliatory strike&amp;nbsp;against&amp;nbsp;the US's al-Udeid base in Qatar. Trump had called the Iranian attack a “very weak response” and said he would renew efforts to negotiate peace between Israel and Iran.&lt;/p&gt;
  195.  
  196. &lt;p&gt;In a post on his Truth Social account, Trump thanked Iran for "giving us early notice" of the missile strikes and said that no Americans had been killed or harmed in the attack.&lt;/p&gt;
  197.  
  198. &lt;p&gt;His remarks suggested that the Iranian response was carefully coordinated to allow Tehran and Washington an off-ramp. "Most importantly, they've gotten it all out of their 'system,' and there will, hopefully, be no further HATE," Trump wrote.&lt;/p&gt;
  199.  
  200. &lt;p&gt;"Perhaps Iran can now proceed to Peace and Harmony in the Region, and I will enthusiastically encourage Israel to do the same."&lt;/p&gt;
  201.  
  202. &lt;p&gt;This week Trump confirmed to reporters that US-Iran nuclear diplomacy is back on the table, and that talks have been "scheduled".&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  203.  
  204. &lt;p&gt;Israel's initial attack had disrupted five rounds of talks between the two sides.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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  238.  <title>Israel kills more than 100 Palestinians across Gaza on Thursday</title>
  239.  <link>https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-kills-more-100-palestinians-across-gaza-thursday</link>
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  248. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Israel kills more than 100 Palestinians across Gaza on Thursday&lt;/span&gt;
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  255.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Al Jazeera Arabic's Gaza correspondent is reporting that since dawn on Thursday, Israel has killed more than 100 people across the strip.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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  262.  <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 23:30:20 +0100</pubDate>
  263.    <dc:creator>Yasmine El-Sabawi</dc:creator>
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  267.  <title>‘I’ve hit a nerve’: Francesca Albanese defiant in face of Trump sanctions</title>
  268.  <link>https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ive-hit-nerve-francesca-albanese-defiant-face-trump-sanctions</link>
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  277. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;‘I’ve hit a nerve’: Francesca Albanese defiant in face of Trump sanctions&lt;/span&gt;
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  286. &lt;p&gt;The United Nations special rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, on Thursday said she is undeterred by&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/07/sanctioning-lawfare-that-targets-u-s-and-israeli-persons/" target="_blank"&gt;sanctions&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;imposed by the US on Wednesday.&lt;/p&gt;
  287.  
  288. &lt;p&gt;“It looks like I've hit a nerve,” she told Middle East Eye’s live show.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  289.  
  290. &lt;p&gt;“My concern is there are people dying in Gaza while you and I are speaking, and the United Nations are totally unable to intervene.”&lt;/p&gt;
  291.  
  292. &lt;p&gt;The sanctions follow Albanese's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session59/advance-version/a-hrc-59-23-aev.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;scathing report&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on 30 June in which she named over 60 companies, including major US technology firms like Google, Amazon and Microsoft, which she said were involved in "the transformation of Israel's economy of occupation to an economy of genocide".&lt;/p&gt;
  293.  
  294. &lt;h3&gt;Read more:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/francesca-albanese-defiant-face-trump-sanctions"&gt;Albanese is one of the most outspoken critics of Israel’s war on Gaza&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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  306.  <title>Number of journalists killed by Israel in Gaza rises to 229: Gaza Media Office</title>
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  323.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p&gt;The number of journalists in Gaza killed by Israel has risen to 229 since 7 October 2023, the Gaza Media Office announced on Thursday.&lt;/p&gt;
  324.  
  325. &lt;p&gt;The latest casualty is Ahmad Salama Abu Aisha, a photojournalist and editor at Palestine Today, a local news agency.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  326.  
  327. &lt;p&gt;"Abu Aisha was martyred as a result of a direct targeting by an Israeli occupation drone in front of his home in the al-Sawwarha area, west of al-Nuseirat Camp in central Gaza Strip," the statement from the media office said.&lt;/p&gt;
  328.  
  329. &lt;p&gt;"The Government Media Office strongly condemns the deliberate, systematic targeting, killing, and assassination of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation. We call on the International Federation of Journalists, the Arab Journalists Union, and all journalist organizations around the world to denounce these systematic crimes against Palestinian journalists and media professionals in Gaza," it added.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  330.  
  331. &lt;p&gt;"We hold the Israeli occupation, the United States administration, and all states complicit in the genocide - such as the United Kingdom, Germany, and France - fully responsible for these heinous and brutal crimes," the media office said.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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  343.  <title>Pro-Israel website Canary Mission used to identify students for deportation, says ICE</title>
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  353. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Pro-Israel website Canary Mission used to identify students for deportation, says ICE&lt;/span&gt;
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  371.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;A senior official testified in court that the 'Tiger Team' compiled a list of pro-Palestinian voices, 'most of whom' came from the doxxing website &lt;/div&gt;
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  379.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;Demonstrators hold signs outside Columbia University in support of students and faculty targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for showing support for Palestine, in New York City, on 22 June 2025 (Kena Betancur/AFP)&lt;/div&gt;
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  381.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom:11px"&gt;A senior &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/search/content?keys=israel&amp;amp;f%5B0%5D=country_name%3AUS"&gt;US&lt;/a&gt; Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official on Wednesday told a federal court judge that its investigation of pro-Palestinian student protestors has been largely informed by a pro-&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/search/content?keys=israel"&gt;Israel&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;website that blacklists academics and students who are critical of Israel.&lt;/p&gt;
  382.  
  383. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;Peter Hatch, an assistant director for intelligence within ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), which is dedicated to dismantling transnational criminal organisations, testified in a Massachusetts district court&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;that his team had compiled 100 reports based on a list of 5,000 people, “most of whom” came from the doxing website Canary Mission, which is run anonymously.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  384.  
  385. &lt;p&gt;Hatch's testimony was on the Trump administration's third day of a first major trial of his second term, which has sought to&amp;nbsp;&lt;a data-id="https://thehill.com/homenews/5388445-professors-testify-trump-administration-campus-activism/" data-type="link" href="https://thehill.com/homenews/5388445-professors-testify-trump-administration-campus-activism/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"&gt;crack down on pro-Palestinian activists&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on US campuses.&lt;/p&gt;
  386.  
  387. &lt;p&gt;Hatch said the HSI team, dubbed the "Tiger Team", was comprised of officers who had been drafted from other departments to work on compiling reports.&lt;/p&gt;
  388.  
  389. &lt;p&gt;Trump's targeting of pro-Palestine voices has&amp;nbsp;led to arrests&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;efforts to deport&amp;nbsp;university faculty members and foreign-born students.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  401. &lt;p&gt;Hatch said the team obtained names from “many different sources”, which he did not elaborate on, adding that they focused on people who had been involved in student protests at Columbia University and other campuses. The investigations expanded beyond students and faculty to others “who may not have been associated with the university at all”, he said.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  402.  
  403. &lt;p&gt;At a briefing of HSI leadership in March, Hatch said that staff were instructed to look for “violations of US laws, including and specific to immigration and customs laws” that may relate to being violent, inciting violence, supporting terrorist organisations, and unlawful activity during protests.&lt;/p&gt;
  404.  
  405. &lt;p&gt;Hatch’s testimony marks the first time the US government has admitted it is relying on sites like Canary Mission.&lt;/p&gt;
  406.  
  407. &lt;p&gt;Hatch said the Tiger Team's focus was based on Trump’s executive order, "Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats".&lt;/p&gt;
  408.  
  409. &lt;p&gt;The executive order aims to deport any international students on university campuses who have expressed pro-&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank"&gt;Palestinian&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;sentiments or participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  420.  
  421. &lt;p&gt;The trial in Massachusetts is expected to end next week and seeks to challenge the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty who participate in pro-Palestinian activism.&lt;/p&gt;
  422.  
  423. &lt;p&gt;The Knight Institute filed the lawsuit against the Trump administration on behalf of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), AAUP’s Harvard, New York University and Rutgers campus chapters, and the Middle East Studies Association.&lt;/p&gt;
  424.  
  425. &lt;p&gt;The lawsuit argues "that the policy chills noncitizens from speaking and, by extension, robs these organizations and their US citizen members of noncitizens’ perspectives on a matter of significant public debate".&lt;/p&gt;
  426.  
  427. &lt;h3&gt;Censorship&lt;/h3&gt;
  428.  
  429. &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-centre-free-speech-battle-us-campuses-academics-say"&gt;Sites&lt;/a&gt; like Canary Mission, which have been introduced over the past 20 years, act as blacklists where students, activists, and academics with pro-Palestinian views or those who criticise Israel are levelled with accusations of antisemitism and supporting terrorism.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  430.  
  431. &lt;p&gt;Canary Mission says it "documents individuals and organizations that promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews on North American college campuses and beyond". But critics and pro-Palestinian voices say the site is used to censor or silence their freedom of speech by conflating antisemitism with criticism of Israel, including Israeli and Jewish voices who are critical of Israeli policies.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  442.  
  443. &lt;p&gt;Adina Marx-Apadi, an attorney and justice fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, told Middle East Eye that Canary Mission has been "notoriously doxxing, smearing, and seeking to punish the movement for Palestinian rights for years".&lt;/p&gt;
  444.  
  445. &lt;p&gt;Marx-Apadi has been a victim of the site, which targeted her for her legal work and activism.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  446.  
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  453.  
  454. &lt;p&gt;"DHS's use of Canary Mission as a source of information is an escalation of these tactics of punishment," she said. "The revelation confirms what we already suspected - complete alignment between this administration and these private groups, as well as coordination and information-sharing between them. And it confirms that the policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizens for their Palestine solidarity is ideologically motivated."&lt;/p&gt;
  455.  
  456. &lt;p&gt;The site is also used by Israel to prevent critics of Israel and pro-Palestinian advocates from entering Israel, including Palestinians and Jews.&lt;/p&gt;
  457.  
  458. &lt;p&gt;Katherine Franke, who served as a law professor at Columbia University for 25 years, was prevented from entering Israel in 2018 on a trip where she was leading a civil rights delegation.&lt;/p&gt;
  459.  
  460. &lt;p&gt;"I was stopped at Ben Gurion Airport [in Tel Aviv], profiled there, detained and interrogated for 14 hours," Franke told MEE.&lt;/p&gt;
  461.  
  462. &lt;p&gt;"The security officials were interrogating me. They had their phone open, and my Canary Mission profile was what they were looking at. I turned to the security guy who was doing this, and I told him: 'I worry for the Israeli people that you have outsourced your national security intelligence to a patently unreliable smear website. I understand that Israel faces serious security threats, but it's shocking to me that this is what you're looking at.' He just laughed at me".&lt;/p&gt;
  463.  
  464. &lt;p&gt;"I think it proves that what's really afoot here is a political project about punishing people for exercising constitutionally protected speech, rather than actually worrying about the safety of people in the US," she added.&lt;/p&gt;
  465.  
  466. &lt;p&gt;Both Franke and&amp;nbsp;Marx-Apadi said that erroneous information was published on the Canary Mission site.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  467.  
  468. &lt;h3&gt;Students targeted&lt;/h3&gt;
  469.  
  470. &lt;p&gt;Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national who is attending Tufts University and was picked up by ICE in March, is one student who is believed to have been targeted because she was listed on Canary Mission for writing an opinion article in a student newspaper.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  471.  
  472. &lt;p&gt;Back in January, the ultra-right-wing &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/betar-who-is-far-right-jewish-american-group-blood-gaza" target="_blank"&gt;Betar&lt;/a&gt;, which &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/betar-who-is-far-right-jewish-american-group-blood-gaza"&gt;describes itself&lt;/a&gt; as "loud, proud, aggressive and unapologetically Zionist", said it had sent&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-lays-out-blueprint-deport-pro-palestinian-foreign-nationals" target="_blank"&gt;a list&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;of names of 100 pro-Palestinian students and 20 faculty members that it believed Trump should deport from the US.&amp;nbsp;It is unclear whether ICE used this list to compile its target list.&lt;/p&gt;
  473.  
  474. &lt;p&gt;Multiple students, including &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/who-rumeysa-ozturk-turkish-national-deoprtation-us"&gt;Ozturk&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/profile/mahmoud-khalil-who-is-palestinian-student-columbia-facing-deportation-us"&gt;Mahmoud Khalil&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/lawyers-lament-treatment-detained-indian-academic-badar-khan-suri"&gt;Badar Khan Suri&lt;/a&gt;, Mohsen Mahdawi, and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/court-rule-student-suing-trump-not-detained-time-being"&gt;Yunseo Chung&lt;/a&gt;, were all targeted by ICE, with Khalil, Ozturk and Suri all being put into detention. They have all been freed since.&lt;/p&gt;
  475.  
  476. &lt;p&gt;Chung and Khalil are fighting ongoing deportation cases, with Khalil seeking restitution by filing on Thursday a $20m lawsuit against the Trump administration for false imprisonment, malicious prosecution and being smeared as an antisemite.&lt;/p&gt;
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  510.  <title>‘I’ve hit a nerve’: Francesca Albanese defiant in face of Trump sanctions</title>
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  538.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;UN special rapporteur on Palestine reacts to latest sanctions imposed by the US government over her latest report denouncing Israel's 'economy of genocide'&lt;/div&gt;
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  546.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;Italian human rights scholar and lawyer Francesca Albanese speaks during Middle East Eye's live show, on 10 July 2025 &lt;/div&gt;
  547.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-wide-photo-video"&gt;Off&lt;/div&gt;
  548.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p style="line-height:1.38"&gt;The United Nations special rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, on Thursday said she is undeterred by&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/07/sanctioning-lawfare-that-targets-u-s-and-israeli-persons/" target="_blank"&gt;sanctions&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;imposed by the US on Wednesday.&lt;/p&gt;
  549.  
  550. &lt;p&gt;“It looks like I've hit a nerve,” she told Middle East Eye’s live show.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  551.  
  552. &lt;p&gt;“My concern is there are people dying in Gaza while you and I are speaking, and the United Nations are totally unable to intervene.”&lt;/p&gt;
  553.  
  554. &lt;p&gt;The sanctions follow Albanese's &lt;a href="https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session59/advance-version/a-hrc-59-23-aev.pdf"&gt;scathing report&lt;/a&gt; on 30 June in which she named over 60 companies, including major US technology firms like Google, Amazon and Microsoft, which she said were involved in "the transformation of Israel's economy of occupation to an economy of genocide".&lt;/p&gt;
  555.  
  556. &lt;p&gt;The report called for the International Criminal Court (ICC) and national judicial systems to pursue investigations and prosecute corporate executives and companies. It also called on United Nations member states to pursue sanctions and asset freezes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  567.  
  568. &lt;p&gt;US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the sanctions in a statement on Wednesday, accusing the special rapporteur of “illegitimate and shameful efforts to prompt ICC action against US and Israeli officials, companies, and executives”.&lt;/p&gt;
  569.  
  570. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  571. &lt;p&gt;'There are 193 members of the United Nations, and we are called the United Nations, not the United States'&lt;/p&gt;
  572.  
  573. &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;- Francesca Albanese&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  574. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  575.  
  576. &lt;p&gt;Albanese is one of the most outspoken critics of Israel’s war on Gaza, which she has labelled a genocide, and has backed international justice efforts over the past 20 months seeking to hold Israel accountable for its actions.&lt;/p&gt;
  577.  
  578. &lt;p&gt;She is the latest target of US sanctions linked to the work of the ICC, which issued arrest warrants for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant in November. The chief prosecutor of the ICC, Karim Khan, and four ICC judges have also been sanctioned by Trump over investigations into the US and its ally, Israel.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  579.  
  580. &lt;p&gt;Albanese has also backed South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice.&lt;/p&gt;
  581.  
  582. &lt;p&gt;Commenting on Rubio’s statement, she said that she is not personally taking legal action against Israel or the US, but that she has recommended legal measures in her capacity as a UN expert.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  583.  
  584. &lt;h3&gt;The US 'blowing up the system'&lt;/h3&gt;
  585.  
  586. &lt;p&gt;Asked what she expects from the UN, she said: “To behave like the United Nations and not like the United States of America.”&lt;/p&gt;
  587.  
  588. &lt;p&gt;She accused the Trump administration of “blowing up the system that protects all of us” and of “eroding the foundation of the multilateral order”.&lt;/p&gt;
  589.  
  590. &lt;p&gt;“There are 193 members of the United Nations, and we are called the United Nations, not the United States.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  591.  
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  594.  
  595. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;Francesca Albanese: Who is she, and why is the US sanctioning her?&lt;/div&gt;
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  598.  
  599. &lt;p&gt;At a press conference on Thursday, UN secretary general Antonio Guterres's spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, said that "the imposition of sanctions on special rapporteurs is a dangerous precedent".&lt;/p&gt;
  600.  
  601. &lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, the UN’s high commissioner for human rights, Volker Turk, called for reversing the sanctions against Albanese.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  602.  
  603. &lt;p&gt;"I urge the prompt reversal of US sanctions against a special rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Council, Francesca Albanese, in response to work she has undertaken under the mandate on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory," Turk said in a statement.&lt;/p&gt;
  604.  
  605. &lt;p&gt;The sanctions announcement coincided with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington, DC, this week. Rubio and Netanyahu met on Wednesday.&lt;/p&gt;
  606.  
  607. &lt;p&gt;In addition to her criticism of Israeli actions, Albanese has also levelled broadsides against the policies of Trump, particularly his plan announced in early February to "take over" the Gaza Strip and forcibly displace Palestinians.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  608.  
  609. &lt;p&gt;The US, earlier this month, requested that the UN remove Albanese from her post.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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  646.  <title>Jordan targets organisations over alleged links to Muslim Brotherhood</title>
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  674.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;Jordan recently banned the group and announced it was closing its offices and confiscating assets&lt;/div&gt;
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  682.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;Protesters in the Jordanian capital Amman fly the national and Palestinian flags as well as flags of the Muslim Brotherhood, as they rally in support of Palestinians, on 27 January 2023 (Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)&lt;/div&gt;
  683.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-wide-photo-video"&gt;Off&lt;/div&gt;
  684.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/jordan"&gt;Jordan&lt;/a&gt; launched legal action on Wednesday against organisations accused of links to the Muslim Brotherhood, as part of its increasing crackdown on the group.&lt;/p&gt;
  685.  
  686. &lt;p&gt;The government referred one organisation, the Forum for the Training and Empowerment of Women and Children, a family support organisation, to the public prosecutor for allegedly failing to submit its 2024 financial statements and for not disclosing its owner, according to Jordan’s Petra News Agency.&lt;/p&gt;
  687.  
  688. &lt;p&gt;Another three organisations - the Green Crescent Charity, a children's charity named Al Urwah Al Wuthqa Association and the Sawaed Al Ata Initiative - were referred to Jordan’s public prosecutor for alleged administrative violations and unauthorised fundraising, Petra reported.&lt;/p&gt;
  689.  
  690. &lt;p&gt;Jordan banned the Muslim Brotherhood in April and announced it was closing the group’s offices and confiscating its assets.&lt;/p&gt;
  691.  
  692. &lt;p&gt;The ban came after Jordan accused the Muslim Brotherhood of planning to carry out attacks in the country, an announcement which came&amp;nbsp;a week after security services&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/world/middleeast/jordan-plot-arrests.html"&gt;said&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;they had arrested 16 people in possession of weapons and explosives.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  703.  
  704. &lt;p&gt;The Muslim Brotherhood denied any involvement in the alleged plot.&lt;/p&gt;
  705.  
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  708.  
  709. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;Muslim Brotherhood rallies around Iran, calls for Islamic unity against Israel&lt;/div&gt;
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  712.  
  713. &lt;p&gt;The crackdown came as the group’s popular support appeared to be growing, measured by its success at the ballot box. In September, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic Action Front,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-jordans-elections-sent-message-defiance-israel"&gt;won the most votes&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;in Jordan’s parliamentary elections.&lt;/p&gt;
  714.  
  715. &lt;p&gt;The Muslim Brotherhood’s popularity has surged amid Israel’s war on Gaza.&lt;/p&gt;
  716.  
  717. &lt;p&gt;The group was founded in Cairo in 1928 and is one of the world's largest and best-known political Islam groups.&lt;/p&gt;
  718.  
  719. &lt;p&gt;The Muslim Brotherhood has long maintained it is a peaceful organisation that wishes to participate in politics democratically, but is considered a major threat by many autocratic governments in the Middle East and North Africa.&lt;/p&gt;
  720.  
  721. &lt;p&gt;The organisation is banned in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  722.  
  723. &lt;p&gt;Saudi Arabia and the UAE have long led efforts to undermine the Muslim Brotherhood in the region.&lt;/p&gt;
  724.  
  725. &lt;p&gt;Both backed the Egyptian military's 2013 overthrow of the Brotherhood-led government and have continued to support the subsequent crackdown, which has left thousands of its members imprisoned.&lt;/p&gt;
  726.  
  727. &lt;p&gt;Some analysts believe Jordan's campaign is being carried out under coordinated pressure from Saudi Arabia, the UAE and &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel"&gt;Israel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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  779.  
  780. &lt;p&gt;An&amp;nbsp;Israeli air strike hit Palestinians near a medical centre in&amp;nbsp;Gaza&amp;nbsp;on Thursday, killing 10 children and six adults, local health authorities said, as ceasefire talks dragged on with no immediate deal expected.&lt;/p&gt;
  781.  
  782. &lt;p&gt;Verified video footage from the strike in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip showed the bodies of women and children lying in pools of blood, screaming amid dust. One clip showed several motionless children lying on a donkey cart.&lt;/p&gt;
  783.  
  784. &lt;p&gt;"She didn't do anything, she was innocent, I swear. Her dream was for the war to end and that they announce it today, to go back to school," said Samah al-Nouri, sitting by the body of her daughter, who was killed in the blast.&lt;/p&gt;
  785.  
  786. &lt;p&gt;"She was only getting treatment in a medical facility. Why did they kill them?" she said, with other bodies laid out around her at a nearby hospital.&lt;/p&gt;
  787.  
  788. &lt;p&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Reporting by Reuters&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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  800.  <title>Israel has hundreds of Patriot interceptors to give Ukraine, former senior US official says</title>
  801.  <link>https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-has-hundreds-patriot-interceptors-give-ukraine-former-senior-us</link>
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  805. &lt;article data-history-node-id="425598" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-has-hundreds-patriot-interceptors-give-ukraine-former-senior-us" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"&gt;
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  810. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Israel has hundreds of Patriot interceptors to give Ukraine, former senior US official says&lt;/span&gt;
  811. &lt;/a&gt;
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  815.        
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  817.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;meta charset="UTF-8"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  818.  
  819. &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank"&gt;Israel&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;has more than half a dozen retired Patriot missile batteries and hundreds of interceptors in its reserves that could be sent to Ukraine, as the US looks to beef up Kyiv’s air-defences from Russian attacks, a former senior Pentagon official wrote on X.&lt;/p&gt;
  820.  
  821. &lt;p&gt;“Trump has made clear he wants to provide Ukraine with more air defense assets. With that in mind, I think the best place to get them from with the least amount of trade offs against US and allied readiness is from Israel's stocks of retired Patriot PAC-2 missiles/batteries,” Dan Caldwell, a former senior advisor to US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, wrote.&lt;/p&gt;
  822.  
  823. &lt;h3&gt;Read more:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-has-hundreds-patriot-interceptors-give-ukraine-former-senior-us-official-says"&gt;Trump has grown frustrated with Putin as peace talks stall, saying earlier this week he was full of “bullshit”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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  830.  <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:40:25 +0100</pubDate>
  831.    <dc:creator>Yasmine El-Sabawi</dc:creator>
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  835.  <title>Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil sues Trump administration for $20m in damages</title>
  836.  <link>https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/mahmoud-khalil-sues-trump-administration-20m-damages</link>
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  845. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil sues Trump administration for $20m in damages&lt;/span&gt;
  846. &lt;/a&gt;
  847.    &lt;/h2&gt;
  848.    
  849.  
  850.        
  851.    &lt;div class="content"&gt;
  852.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mahmoud Khalil, the 30-year-old Columbia University student who was the first and most well-known immigration detainee in the US for his pro-Palestine views, has now sued the Trump administration for $20m in damages for the harm done to his reputation and livelihood.&lt;/p&gt;
  853.  
  854. &lt;p&gt;Khalil was held in detention, in a room with 70 other men, for more than three months, in what he described as very difficult conditions. He was released on bail after a federal judge ruled last month that the government had not proven its case to justify keeping him detained.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  855.  
  856. &lt;p&gt;His deportation case is ongoing.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  857. &lt;/div&gt;
  858.      
  859.  &lt;/div&gt;
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  863.  <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:13:07 +0100</pubDate>
  864.    <dc:creator>Yasmine El-Sabawi</dc:creator>
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  868.  <title>Former US official says Israel should give Patriot interceptors to Ukraine</title>
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  878. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Former US official says Israel should give Patriot interceptors to Ukraine&lt;/span&gt;
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  896.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;Dan Caldwell, a former Pentagon official, says US should go into Israel's air-defence stockpile to boost Ukraine's defences amid Russian attacks&lt;/div&gt;
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  903. &lt;/div&gt;
  904.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;US and Israeli army officers walk in front of a US Patriot missile defence system during the joint Israeli-US military exercise 'Juniper Cobra' at the Israeli Hatzor Air Force Base, on 8 March 2018 (Jack Guez/AFP)&lt;/div&gt;
  905.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-wide-photo-video"&gt;Off&lt;/div&gt;
  906.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p&gt;A former Pentagon official has said&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel"&gt;Israel&lt;/a&gt; has more than half a dozen retired Patriot missile batteries and hundreds of interceptors in its reserves that could be sent to Ukraine, as the US looks to beef up Kyiv's air-defences from Russian attacks.&lt;/p&gt;
  907.  
  908. &lt;p&gt;Dan Caldwell, a former senior advisor to US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, &lt;a href="https://x.com/dandcaldwell/status/1943080278383063450"&gt;wrote&lt;/a&gt; on X that: "Trump has made clear he wants to provide Ukraine with more air defense assets. With that in mind, I think the best place to get them from with the least amount of trade offs against US and allied readiness is from Israel's stocks of retired Patriot PAC-2 missiles/batteries."&lt;/p&gt;
  909.  
  910. &lt;p&gt;"Israel has already provided one Patriot battery and about 90 missiles to the U.S. for refurbishment, which was then reportedly sent on to Ukraine. According to open source data, Israel probably has about eight batteries and several hundred missiles left in storage," he said.&lt;/p&gt;
  911.  
  912. &lt;p&gt;"Considering the significant amount of THAAD and SM-3/6 interceptors expended in defense of Israel during the 12 day war the U.S. has more than enough standing to ask Israel to send a portion of its retired Patriot stockpile back to the U.S. which can then be provided to Ukraine," he added.&lt;/p&gt;
  913.  
  914. &lt;p&gt;US President Donald Trump has grown frustrated with his Russian counter-part Vladimir Putin as peace talks stall, saying earlier this week he was full of “bullshit”.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  925.  
  926. &lt;p&gt;Trump promised to send defensive weapons to Ukraine in a U-turn after the administration had ordered a pause on weapons shipments that included Patriot interceptors. Axios news reported that Trump promised to send 10 interceptors to Ukraine, underscoring how precious a commodity patriots have become.&lt;/p&gt;
  927.  
  928. &lt;p&gt;The war in Ukraine, the US campaign against the Houthis and the Israel-Iran conflict have exhausted the supply of interceptors.&amp;nbsp;Patriot batteries are also in short supply.&lt;/p&gt;
  929.  
  930. &lt;p&gt;Middle East Eye was the first to &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-and-us-exhausting-supplies-ballistic-missile-interceptors-source-says"&gt;reveal&lt;/a&gt; during the recent&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-attacks-iran"&gt;Israel-Iran &lt;/a&gt;conflict&amp;nbsp;that US officials were concerned about the pace at which they were using interceptors to defend Israel from ballistic missile attacks.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  931.  
  932. &lt;p&gt;The Guardian later &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-only-has-25-percent-patriot-interceptors-needed-pentagon-planning-report"&gt;reported&lt;/a&gt; that it only has about 25 percent of the Patriot missile interceptors that planners at the Pentagon assess are needed for all the US’s military operations globally. A US official confirmed that classified number to MEE.&lt;/p&gt;
  933.  
  934. &lt;div class="mee-readmore mee-readmore-article-story mee-readmore-type-image align-right"&gt;
  935.  &lt;a class="mee-readmore-img-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-receives-chinese-surface-air-missile-batteries-after-israel-ceasefire-say-sources"&gt;&lt;img class="mee-readmore-image" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/read_more/public/images-story/China-air-defence-AFP.jpg.webp?itok=X6kY25U_" width="400" height="250" alt loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image"&gt;
  936.  
  937. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;Iran receives Chinese surface-to-air missile batteries after Israel ceasefire deal&lt;/div&gt;
  938.    &lt;a class="mee-readmore-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-receives-chinese-surface-air-missile-batteries-after-israel-ceasefire-say-sources"&gt;Read More »&lt;/a&gt;
  939. &lt;/div&gt;
  940.  
  941. &lt;p&gt;During the recent conflict with Iran, the US joined directly in Israel’s defence using Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (Thaad) batteries and guided-missile destroyers firing SM-3/6 ship-based missiles to shoot down Iranian ballistic missiles.&lt;/p&gt;
  942.  
  943. &lt;p&gt;The Trump administration has already pulled at least one older Patriot battery from Israel, a US official told MEE. The US planned to refurbish the system before sending it to Ukraine. It’s unclear if that delivery has taken place.&lt;/p&gt;
  944.  
  945. &lt;p&gt;According to leaked classified documents, Ukraine received the newer Pac-3 interceptors from the US, the Netherlands and Germany in the early years of Russia’s invasion. Israel maintains a stockpile of Pac-2 interceptors, which would also meet Ukraine’s needs and address shortages.&lt;/p&gt;
  946.  
  947. &lt;p&gt;Israel decommissioned its Pac-2 air-defence systems when it developed its three-tiered air defence of the Iron-dome, David’s Sling and Arrow 2 and 3 systems. These systems are co-produced and co-developed with the US.&lt;/p&gt;
  948.  
  949. &lt;p&gt;The US is informed of Israeli supplies and production, but one US official familiar with the programme told MEE that it’s likely Israel does not disclose its entire production capabilities to the US. Israel, like the US and its other partners, has a motivation to keep its stockpile high.&lt;/p&gt;
  950.  
  951. &lt;p&gt;Israel has been reluctant to meet all of Ukraine’s demands for weaponry and ammunition since Russia’s 2022 invasion. One of Israel’s main points was that it could not afford to irk Moscow, which had air defence systems in Syria, but allowed Israeli warplanes freedom of action to bomb Iranian targets. However, Bashar al-Assad, Russia and Iran’s ally, was toppled from power in December 2024.&lt;/p&gt;
  952.  
  953. &lt;p&gt;Russia has also demurred on providing the Islamic Republic of Iran with S-400 air defence systems, instead selling it the S-300, &lt;a href="https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/what-does-iran-get-for-sending-ballistic-missiles-to-russia/"&gt;experts &lt;/a&gt;say.&lt;/p&gt;
  954.  
  955. &lt;p&gt;“Israel also needs to take into account its own relations with Russia - who so far has held back supplying certain advanced weapons to Iran,” Caldwell said.&lt;/p&gt;
  956. &lt;/div&gt;
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  989.  <title>Fuel delivered into Gaza after 130 days, United Nations confirms</title>
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  999. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Fuel delivered into Gaza after 130 days, United Nations confirms&lt;/span&gt;
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  1008. &lt;p&gt;A United Nations team got about 75,000 litres of fuel into Gaza on Wednesday, the first such delivery in 130 days, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Thursday.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1009.  
  1010. &lt;p&gt;"The amount entered yesterday isn’t sufficient to cover even one day of energy requirements. Fuel is still running out and services will shut down if far greater volumes do not enter immediately," Dujarric told reporters.&lt;/p&gt;
  1011.  
  1012. &lt;p&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Reporting by Reuters&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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  1024.  <title>Exclusive: Spain and Ireland to join more than 20 states to declare ‘concrete measures’ against Israel</title>
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  1034. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Exclusive: Spain and Ireland to join more than 20 states to declare ‘concrete measures’ against Israel&lt;/span&gt;
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  1052.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;Turkey, Portugal, China and Qatar also among countries that will be attending The Hague Group’s ‘emergency summit’ in Colombia next week&lt;/div&gt;
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  1059. &lt;/div&gt;
  1060.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;Ireland's Prime Minister Simon Harris (R) shakes hands with Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in the Taoiseach's office in Dublin on 12 April 2024 (Paul Faith/pool/AFP)&lt;/div&gt;
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  1062.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p&gt;More than 20 countries are convening in Bogota next week to declare “concrete measures against Israel’s violations of international law”, diplomats told Middle East Eye.&lt;/p&gt;
  1063.  
  1064. &lt;p style="line-height:1.38"&gt;The “emergency summit” is due to be held on 15-16 July, co-hosted by the governments of Colombia and South Africa as co-chairs of The Hague Group, to coordinate diplomatic and legal action to counter what they describe as “a climate of impunity” enabled by Israel and its powerful allies.&lt;/p&gt;
  1065.  
  1066. &lt;p&gt;The Hague Group is a bloc of currently eight states, launched on 31 January in the eponymous Dutch city with the stated goal of holding Israel accountable under international law.&lt;/p&gt;
  1067.  
  1068. &lt;p&gt;“The Hague Group's formation in January marked a turning point in the global response to exceptionalism and the broader erosion of international law,” Roland Lamola, South Africa’s minister of international relations and cooperation, told Middle East Eye.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1069.  
  1070. &lt;p&gt;“That same spirit will animate this Bogota conference, where the assembled states will send a clear message: no nation is above the law, and no crime will go unanswered,” he added.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  1080. &lt;/div&gt;
  1081.  
  1082. &lt;p&gt;“Together, we will work to introduce concrete legal, diplomatic and economic measures that can urgently halt Israel’s destruction of the Palestinians.”&lt;/p&gt;
  1083.  
  1084. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  1085. &lt;p&gt;'The assembled states will not only reaffirm our commitment to resist the genocide, but devise a series of specific measures to move from words to collective action'&lt;/p&gt;
  1086.  
  1087. &lt;p&gt;-&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Mauricio Jaramillo Jassir, Colombia's vice-minister of multilateral affairs&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  1088. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  1089.  
  1090. &lt;p&gt;Israel's war on Gaza, increasingly condemned by experts and governments as a genocide, has&amp;nbsp;killed more than 57,000 Palestinians and displaced almost the entire population since October 2023. The onslaught has left the Palestinian enclave barely habitable and left two million people starving.&lt;/p&gt;
  1091.  
  1092. &lt;p&gt;“The Palestinian genocide threatens our entire multilateral system,” Mauricio Jaramillo Jassir, Colombia's vice-minister of multilateral affairs, told MEE.&lt;/p&gt;
  1093.  
  1094. &lt;p&gt;“Colombia cannot be indifferent in the face of apartheid and ethnic cleansing.&lt;/p&gt;
  1095.  
  1096. &lt;p&gt;"In Bogota, the assembled states will not only reaffirm our commitment to resist the genocide, but devise a series of specific measures to move from words to collective action.”&lt;/p&gt;
  1097.  
  1098. &lt;p&gt;The founding members of the group included Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal and South Africa.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1099.  
  1100. &lt;p&gt;States due to take part in the summit include Algeria, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, Djibouti, Honduras, Indonesia, Ireland, Lebanon, Malaysia, Namibia, Nicaragua, Oman, Portugal, Spain, Qatar, Turkey, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Uruguay, and Palestine.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1101.  
  1102. &lt;p&gt;Officials attending include UN special rapporteur for Palestine Francesca Albanese; the head of the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees Philippe Lazzarini; UN special rapporteur on the right to health, Tlaleng Mofokeng; the chair of the UN working group on discrimination against women and girls, Laura Nyirinkindi; and Andres Macias Tolosa, UN working group on mercenaries mandate holder.&lt;/p&gt;
  1103.  
  1104. &lt;h3&gt;Concrete steps&lt;/h3&gt;
  1105.  
  1106. &lt;p&gt;Members of The Hague Group have already taken major steps over the past 20 months to defend and enforce international law.&lt;/p&gt;
  1107.  
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  1110.  
  1111. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;Holding Israel accountable: What is The Hague Group?&lt;/div&gt;
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  1114.  
  1115. &lt;p&gt;South Africa, for example, brought a &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/icj-genocide-case-south-africa-files-750-page-evidence-against-israel"&gt;landmark case&lt;/a&gt; against Israel at the International Court of Justice for alleged violations of the Genocide Convention in Gaza.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1116.  
  1117. &lt;p&gt;Several states in the coalition later joined South Africa’s case at the ICJ, including Bolivia, Colombia and Namibia.&lt;/p&gt;
  1118.  
  1119. &lt;p&gt;Additionally, &lt;a href="https://neweralive.na/namibia-blocks-israeli-weapon-carrying-vessel/"&gt;Namibia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/20/malaysia-bans-israeli-affiliated-and-israel-bound-ships-from-its-ports"&gt;Malaysia&lt;/a&gt; blocked ships carrying arms to Israel from docking at their ports, while &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/colombia-israel-gaza-cuts-diplomatic-ties"&gt;Colombia&lt;/a&gt; has cut diplomatic ties with the Israeli government.&lt;/p&gt;
  1120.  
  1121. &lt;p&gt;Since these efforts have been taken independently, The Hague Group aims to coordinate action amongst its member states and supporters for a stronger impact.&lt;/p&gt;
  1122.  
  1123. &lt;p&gt;According to the group's coordinator Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla, the group has been formed in part as a reaction to the non-compliance of states with binding international legal obligations.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1124.  
  1125. &lt;p&gt;This is a reference to the pushback by a number of western states against the International Criminal Court’s&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/icc-issues-arrest-warrants-israels-benjamin-netanyahu-and-yoav-gallant" target="_blank"&gt;arrest warrants&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant in November 2024, and Israel's failure to comply with multiple orders by the ICJ to ensure the Genocide Convention is not violated in Gaza.&lt;/p&gt;
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  1159.  <title>Francesca Albanese: Who is she, and why is the US sanctioning her?</title>
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  1187.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;The Italian human rights lawyer, who has over two decades' experience, just published a report on big corporations 'getting rich out of the genocide'&lt;/div&gt;
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  1190.                  &lt;img loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/article_page/public/images-story/francesca-albanese-un-special-rapporteur-palestine-afp.jpg.webp?itok=rix4cCwS 1x" width="1400" height="788" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/images-story/francesca-albanese-un-special-rapporteur-palestine-afp.jpg.jpg?itok=VFiMlZwR" alt="United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese holds a press conference in Geneva on 11 December 2024 (AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)" typeof="foaf:Image"&gt;
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  1195.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;Francesca Albanese, United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, holds a press conference in Geneva on 11 December 2024 (AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)&lt;/div&gt;
  1196.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-wide-photo-video"&gt;Off&lt;/div&gt;
  1197.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p&gt;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/us"&gt;US&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;government of President Donald Trump&amp;nbsp;has sanctioned Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine"&gt;Palestine&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1198.  
  1199. &lt;p&gt;The move means that any assets Albanese has in the &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/us"&gt;US&lt;/a&gt; will be frozen, and that her ability to travel to America will likely be restricted.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1200.  
  1201. &lt;p&gt;Announcing the sanctions on Wednesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/07/sanctioning-lawfare-that-targets-u-s-and-israeli-persons/"&gt;said&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;the Italian lawyer had launched “political and economic warfare against the United States and Israel”.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1202.  
  1203. &lt;p&gt;Albanese, born in Ariano Irpino in 1977, is a human rights lawyer with over two decades of experience in international law and human rights.&amp;nbsp;She has a degree in law from the University of Pisa, as well as a master's in human rights law from the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) in London.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1204.  
  1205. &lt;p&gt;The 48-year-old is an affiliate scholar at the &lt;a href="https://isim.georgetown.edu/profile/francesca-p-albanese/"&gt;Institute for the Study of International Migration&lt;/a&gt; at Georgetown University in Washington.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  1216.  
  1217. &lt;p&gt;She also teaches a course she designed herself on “humanitarian, legal and political responses to the Palestinian forced displacement” as a non-resident professor at a number of universities, including in Bethlehem, Birzeit and Salento.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1218.  
  1219. &lt;p&gt;Albanese has held a number of UN positions during her career. These have included&amp;nbsp;two years working with the UN Development Programme in &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/morocco"&gt;Morocco&lt;/a&gt;, as well as four years in Geneva as a human rights officer with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.&lt;/p&gt;
  1220.  
  1221. &lt;p&gt;She also worked as a legal officer in Jerusalem for Unrwa, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1222.  
  1223. &lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="315" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UXITQ-Zjnps?si=Him6T1HToVNGjeYp" title="YouTube video player" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  1224.  
  1225. &lt;p&gt;Throughout her career, Albanese has written extensively about the legal situation in &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel"&gt;Israel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine"&gt;Palestine&lt;/a&gt;. She is the co-author of the books&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/palestinian-refugees-in-international-law-9780198784050?cc=gb&amp;amp;lang=en&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Palestinian Refugees in International Law&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(2020), and &lt;a href="https://www.abebooks.com/9791222500027/ACCUSE-Francesca-Albanese-Christian-Elia/plp"&gt;&lt;em&gt;J’Accuse&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/a&gt;(2024).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1226.  
  1227. &lt;p&gt;Outside of the UN, she provides research and legal assistance on migration and asylum seekers for the think tank Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development, and co-founded the Global Network on the Question of Palestine, a group of experts and scholars engaged in the issue of Israel and Palestine.&lt;/p&gt;
  1228.  
  1229. &lt;p&gt;Since May 2022, she has been the UN special rapporteur on human rights in occupied Palestine. In that role, she has published a number of legal opinions and reports.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1230.  
  1231. &lt;p&gt;These include reports on the violation of the law of self-determination in Palestine, the mass deprivation of liberty of Palestinians, the violation of childhood in Palestine, and two publications on acts of genocide committed by Israel against Palestinians.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1232.  
  1233. &lt;p&gt;In March last year, she presented &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-rights-expert-reasonable-grounds-believe-israel-committing-genocide"&gt;a report&lt;/a&gt; to the UN Human Rights Council, in which she said there were reasonable grounds to believe that Israeli actions in Gaza amounted to genocide.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1234.  
  1235. &lt;p&gt;Albanese cited mass killings, the destruction of civilian infrastructure, and the creation of conditions that could lead to the physical destruction of Palestinians in the enclave.&lt;/p&gt;
  1236.  
  1237. &lt;h3&gt;Report on 'economy of genocide'&lt;/h3&gt;
  1238.  
  1239. &lt;p&gt;The Italian lawyer's most recent publication was cited by Rubio as a key reason for her sanctioning by the US.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  1250.  
  1251. &lt;p&gt;On 30 June, Albanese wrote a &lt;a href="https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session59/advance-version/a-hrc-59-23-aev.pdf"&gt;report&lt;/a&gt; naming over 60 companies, including major US technology firms such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft, which she said were involved in "the transformation of Israel's economy of occupation to an economy of genocide".&lt;/p&gt;
  1252.  
  1253. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  1254. &lt;p&gt;'There is an oligarchy connected to the defence industry, including in Europe and in the US, getting rich out of the genocide'&lt;/p&gt;
  1255.  
  1256. &lt;p&gt;-&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Francesca Albanese&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  1257. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  1258.  
  1259. &lt;p&gt;The report called for the International Criminal Court (ICC) and national judicial systems to pursue investigations and prosecutions of corporate executives and companies. It also called on UN member states to pursue sanctions and asset freezes.&lt;/p&gt;
  1260.  
  1261. &lt;p&gt;Rubio accused Albanese of writing “threatening letters” to entities worldwide, including major US firms, “making extreme and unfounded accusations and recommending the ICC pursue investigations and prosecutions of these companies and their executives”.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1262.  
  1263. &lt;p&gt;“We will not tolerate these campaigns of political and economic warfare, which threaten our national interests and sovereignty,” he said.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1264.  
  1265. &lt;p&gt;Rubio also cited Albanese engaging with the ICC and recommending it issue arrest warrants to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, his former defence minister. The indictments were handed out in November.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1266.  
  1267. &lt;p&gt;Last month, the US government &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-sanctions-four-icc-judges-over-israel-and-afghanistan-investigations"&gt;issued sanctions&lt;/a&gt; on four ICC judges over their roles in issuing Israeli arrest warrants and investigating US crimes committed in &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/tags/afghanistan"&gt;Afghanistan&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1268.  
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  1270.  &lt;a class="mee-readmore-img-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-israel-corporations-economy-genocide-report-reveals"&gt;&lt;img class="mee-readmore-image" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/read_more/public/images-story/UN-FrancescaAlbanese-AFP-2025.jpg.webp?itok=S3K-kz45" width="400" height="250" alt loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image"&gt;
  1271.  
  1272. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;UN rapporteur: Tech firms and corporations profiting from Israeli 'economy of genocide'&lt;/div&gt;
  1273.    &lt;a class="mee-readmore-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-israel-corporations-economy-genocide-report-reveals"&gt;Read More »&lt;/a&gt;
  1274. &lt;/div&gt;
  1275.  
  1276. &lt;p&gt;Also last month, the Trump administration wrote a letter to Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary-general, calling on him to remove Albanese from her post.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1277.  
  1278. &lt;p&gt;Rubio has accused the special rapporteur of “unabashed antisemitism, expressed support for terrorism, and open contempt for the United States, Israel, and the West”. Albanese denies these accusations.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1279.  
  1280. &lt;p&gt;In an &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXITQ-Zjnps"&gt;interview with Middle East Eye&lt;/a&gt; this week, shortly before the sanctions were announced, she heavily criticised multinational companies for profiting from Israel’s war on Gaza.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1281.  
  1282. &lt;p&gt;“There is an oligarchy connected to the defence industry, including in Europe and in the US, getting rich out of the genocide,” she said.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1283.  
  1284. &lt;p&gt;“Today… we have a legal framework that makes 100 percent crystal clear that any engagement with the occupation is unlawful - because we have criminal proceedings for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, against either the state of Israel or Israeli officials,” she told MEE.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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  1318.  <title>US threatens ICC: Drop Israel war crimes probe or 'all options on the table'</title>
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  1346.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;State Department legal adviser calls on court to terminate all investigations and arrest warrants against Israel or face unspecified consequences&lt;/div&gt;
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  1353. &lt;/div&gt;
  1354.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;Reed Rubinstein addresses the Assembly of State Parties (ASP), the ICC's oversight body, in New York on Tuesday (Screengrab/United Nations)&lt;/div&gt;
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  1356.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p&gt;A senior legal adviser to the &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/united-states"&gt;US&lt;/a&gt; State Department has issued a dramatic threat to the International Criminal Court's oversight body, warning that "all options are on the table" if the court does not drop investigations and arrest warrants against the US and &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel"&gt;Israel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  1357.  
  1358. &lt;p&gt;Reed Rubinstein made the threat on Tuesday during a meeting of the Assembly of State Parties (ASP), the ICC's oversight body, in New York.&lt;/p&gt;
  1359.  
  1360. &lt;p&gt;"We will use all appropriate and effective diplomatic, political and legal instruments to block ICC overreach," the US representative warned.&lt;/p&gt;
  1361.  
  1362. &lt;p&gt;"Our additional sanctions of June 5 should underscore our resolve," he added, referencing the US's recent move to &lt;a href="https://omny.fm/shows/kan-english-podcast/israel-welcomes-us-sanctions-on-icc-judges"&gt;sanction&lt;/a&gt; four ICC judges who issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant last November.&lt;/p&gt;
  1363.  
  1364. &lt;p&gt;Rubinstein went on to threaten the ICC: "To be clear, we expect all ICC actions against the United States and our ally Israel - that is, all investigations and all arrest warrants - to be terminated," he said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  1372.  &lt;/div&gt;
  1373. &lt;/div&gt;
  1374. &lt;/div&gt;
  1375.  
  1376. &lt;p&gt;"If not, all options remain on the table."&lt;/p&gt;
  1377.  
  1378. &lt;p&gt;The ASP was meeting to discuss a potential &lt;a href="https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/international/switzerland-wants-to-give-criminal-court-in-the-hague-more-powers-2772259.html"&gt;amendment&lt;/a&gt; to the Rome Statute, the ICC's founding treaty, to expand the court's jurisdiction over the "crime of aggression".&lt;/p&gt;
  1379.  
  1380. &lt;p&gt;The court has jurisdiction in the 125 countries that recognise its authority.&lt;/p&gt;
  1381.  
  1382. &lt;div class="mee-readmore mee-readmore-article-story mee-readmore-type-image align-right"&gt;
  1383.  &lt;a class="mee-readmore-img-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/david-cameron-threatened-withdraw-uk-icc-over-israel-war-crimes-probe"&gt;&lt;img class="mee-readmore-image" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/read_more/public/images-story/000_34WK9PQ.jpg.webp?itok=D3GO6SNn" width="400" height="250" alt loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image"&gt;
  1384.  
  1385. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;Exclusive: David Cameron threatened to withdraw UK from ICC over Israel war crimes probe&lt;/div&gt;
  1386.    &lt;a class="mee-readmore-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/david-cameron-threatened-withdraw-uk-icc-over-israel-war-crimes-probe"&gt;Read More »&lt;/a&gt;
  1387. &lt;/div&gt;
  1388.  
  1389. &lt;p&gt;But the amendment would empower it to prosecute the crime of aggression if it was commited on the territory of an ICC member state, as is already the case with crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide.&lt;/p&gt;
  1390.  
  1391. &lt;p&gt;Neither the US nor Israel are parties to the Rome Statute and have long rejected the authority of the court.&amp;nbsp;Rubinstein was permitted to attend and speak at the meeting as an observer.&lt;/p&gt;
  1392.  
  1393. &lt;p&gt;The court has previously investigated alleged war crimes committed by American forces based in &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/tags/afghanistan"&gt;Afghanistan&lt;/a&gt;, which is a signatory to the Rome Statute.&lt;/p&gt;
  1394.  
  1395. &lt;p&gt;Rubinstein claimed that "the ICC has engaged in illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally Israel".&lt;/p&gt;
  1396.  
  1397. &lt;p&gt;He added that the ICC "has wrongfully abused its power and that its malign conduct threatens to infringe US sovereignty and undermine our critical national security and foreign policy work".&lt;/p&gt;
  1398.  
  1399. &lt;p&gt;And he reminded the ASP of the financial and visa sanctions the US &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-lobbying-us-against-sanctioning-international-criminal-court"&gt;imposed&lt;/a&gt; on ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan in February.&lt;/p&gt;
  1400.  
  1401. &lt;p&gt;Khan, a British citizen, has had his American visa revoked and his wife and children have been banned from travelling to the US. His bank accounts have been frozen in the UK.&lt;/p&gt;
  1402.  
  1403. &lt;p&gt;Rubinstein, the State Department adviser, has been widely criticised in the US for &lt;a href="https://www.jns.org/if-confirmed-state-dept-legal-adviser-would-enforce-immigration-law-on-those-who-support-hamas/"&gt;claiming&lt;/a&gt; on social media in February 2024 that the Biden administration&amp;nbsp;had a "massive program to overthrow the Israeli government".&lt;/p&gt;
  1404.  
  1405. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  1406. &lt;p&gt;'[The ICC's] malign conduct threatens to infringe US sovereignty and undermine our critical national security and foreign policy work'&lt;/p&gt;
  1407.  
  1408. &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Reed Rubinstein&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;, State Department legal adviser&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  1409. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  1410.  
  1411. &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.jns.org/if-confirmed-state-dept-legal-adviser-would-enforce-immigration-law-on-those-who-support-hamas/"&gt;Challenged&lt;/a&gt; on the post during a Senate foreign relations hearing in March, Rubinstein said: "During the Obama administration, the State Department was running money to fund an anti-government operation inside of Israel.&lt;/p&gt;
  1412.  
  1413. &lt;p&gt;"Many of the same people, who were involved in the Obama administration State Department, came back under President Biden, and it appears to me, based on emails that I obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and that we read, that the same playbook was being run."&lt;/p&gt;
  1414.  
  1415. &lt;p&gt;Senator&amp;nbsp;Jeanne Shaheen, the committee ranking member, said his statements constituted "conspiracy theories".&lt;/p&gt;
  1416.  
  1417. &lt;h3&gt;Escalating US sanctions&lt;/h3&gt;
  1418.  
  1419. &lt;p&gt;Rubinstein's message to the ASP came a day before the Trump administration &lt;a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/9/us-sanctions-un-expert-albanese-over-israel-criticism"&gt;announced&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on Wednesday that it was imposing sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the UN's special rapporteur for Palestine.&lt;/p&gt;
  1420.  
  1421. &lt;p&gt;The sanctions follow Albanese's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-israel-corporations-economy-genocide-report-reveals"&gt;scathing report&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on 30 June, in which she named over 60 companies, including major US technology firms like Google, Amazon and Microsoft, which she said were involved in "the transformation of Israel's economy of occupation to an economy of genocide".&lt;/p&gt;
  1422.  
  1423. &lt;p&gt;US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday evening that "Albanese’s campaign of political and economic warfare against the United States and Israel will no longer be tolerated."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  1434.  
  1435. &lt;p&gt;The sanctions will freeze any assets Albanese, an Italian citizen, has in the US and would likely restrict her ability to travel to the US.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1436.  
  1437. &lt;div class="mee-readmore mee-readmore-article-story mee-readmore-type-image align-right"&gt;
  1438.  &lt;a class="mee-readmore-img-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-sanctions-un-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-over-israel-criticism"&gt;&lt;img class="mee-readmore-image" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/read_more/public/images-story/Albanese-2025-AFP.jpg.webp?itok=HBG7WuxS" width="400" height="250" alt loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image"&gt;
  1439.  
  1440. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;US sanctions UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese following 'economy of genocide' report&lt;/div&gt;
  1441.    &lt;a class="mee-readmore-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-sanctions-un-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-over-israel-criticism"&gt;Read More »&lt;/a&gt;
  1442. &lt;/div&gt;
  1443.  
  1444. &lt;p&gt;On Thursday, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk urged the "prompt reversal" of the sanctions on Albanese. He said that "attacks and threats against Special Procedures mandate holders, as well as key institutions like the International Criminal Court, must stop".&lt;/p&gt;
  1445.  
  1446. &lt;p&gt;The ICC is increasingly beleaguered and many experts believe the court itself could soon be targeted by US sanctions if the arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant are not dropped.&lt;/p&gt;
  1447.  
  1448. &lt;p&gt;Khan, its British chief prosecutor, is currently on leave after attempts failed to suspend him, and pending a United Nations investigation into sexual assault allegations against him, which he denies.&lt;/p&gt;
  1449.  
  1450. &lt;p&gt;He went on leave in May&amp;nbsp;as he was reportedly preparing new arrest warrants for far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich over their promotion of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.&lt;/p&gt;
  1451.  
  1452. &lt;p&gt;The warrants are now in the hands of two deputy prosecutors, and the court recently &lt;a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/apr/28/icc-judges-order-that-arrest-warrant-requests-in-palestine-case-be-kept-secret"&gt;ordered&lt;/a&gt; that any further warrants cannot be publicised.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1453.  
  1454. &lt;h3&gt;'Warning shot over the bows'&lt;/h3&gt;
  1455.  
  1456. &lt;p&gt;A prominent ICC defence counsel, Nicholas Kaufman, told Israel's Kan public radio in a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://omny.fm/shows/kan-english-podcast/israel-welcomes-us-sanctions-on-icc-judges"&gt;podcast&lt;/a&gt; on 8 June that recent US sanctions on four ICC judges were “meant to be designed to encourage the dropping of the arrest warrants for Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Gallant”.&lt;/p&gt;
  1457.  
  1458. &lt;p&gt;Kaufman added: “Accordingly, most commentators believe that [the imposition of sanctions] is a further warning shot over the bows, if I can put it that way, before the sanctioning of the deputy prosecutors who've now taken over from Karim Khan, who has gone out on self-imposed leave because of the allegations of sexual misconduct.”&lt;/p&gt;
  1459.  
  1460. &lt;p&gt;MEE &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-lobbying-us-against-sanctioning-international-criminal-court"&gt;revealed &lt;/a&gt;on 16 June that the British government was&amp;nbsp;lobbying the US against sanctioning the court itself.&lt;/p&gt;
  1461.  
  1462. &lt;p&gt;Diplomatic sources said&amp;nbsp;the US informed its allies that to avoid facing further sanctions, the court has to permanently close all actions against the US and Israel.&lt;/p&gt;
  1463.  
  1464. &lt;p&gt;The US also said the ICC must commit to not targeting US nationals and US allies who have not consented to the court's jurisdiction.&lt;/p&gt;
  1465.  
  1466. &lt;p&gt;If the US sanctions the court as an institution, this would prevent banks and software companies from dealing with it, which could prove an existential threat to the ICC, as it could destroy its ability to function.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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  1495.  <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:39:41 +0100</pubDate>
  1496.    <dc:creator>Imran Mulla</dc:creator>
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  1500.  <title>UK Home Office rejects Hamas application to overturn terror list ban</title>
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  1510. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;UK Home Office rejects Hamas application to overturn terror list ban&lt;/span&gt;
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  1528.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;The Palestinian group, which was banned in 2021, can now appeal against proscribed status &lt;/div&gt;
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  1536.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;Britain's Home Secretary Yvette Cooper addresses the House of Commons on 16 June 2025 (Reuters)&lt;/div&gt;
  1537.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-wide-photo-video"&gt;Off&lt;/div&gt;
  1538.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/uk"&gt;British&lt;/a&gt; government has rejected an application by the &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine"&gt;Palestinian&lt;/a&gt; group Hamas to remove it from the UK's list of banned terrorist organisations.&lt;/p&gt;
  1539.  
  1540. &lt;p data-end="422" data-start="312"&gt;A Home Office spokesperson confirmed on Thursday that Hamas remains on the government's list of proscribed groups.&lt;/p&gt;
  1541.  
  1542. &lt;p data-end="718" data-start="424"&gt;“The government keeps the list of proscribed organisations under regular review," the spokesperson said in a statement.&lt;/p&gt;
  1543.  
  1544. &lt;p data-end="718" data-start="424"&gt;"While we do not routinely comment on individual groups that are proscribed, we can confirm that Harakat al-Muqawamah (Hamas) is still listed as a proscribed organisation.”&lt;/p&gt;
  1545.  
  1546. &lt;p data-end="920" data-start="720"&gt;Earlier this year, Mousa Abu Marzouk, head of Hamas' Foreign Relations Office, instructed lawyers to appeal against the decision by former UK Home Secretary Priti Patel in 2021 to proscribe the group in its entirety.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  1557.  
  1558. &lt;p data-end="1179" data-start="922"&gt;Hamas' military wing, the Qassam Brigades, was proscribed by the UK more than two decades ago. However, Patel extended the ban to include the entire organisation, arguing there was no longer a meaningful distinction between its political and military wings.&lt;/p&gt;
  1559.  
  1560. &lt;p data-end="1606" data-start="1181"&gt;Fahad Ansari, director of Riverway Law - which has since rebranded as Riverway to the Sea - led the challenge.&lt;/p&gt;
  1561.  
  1562. &lt;p data-end="1606" data-start="1181"&gt;Daniel Grutters, a barrister at One Pump Court Chambers, and Franck Magennis, a barrister at Garden Court Chambers, submitted a 106-page application to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.&lt;/p&gt;
  1563.  
  1564. &lt;p data-end="1606" data-start="1181"&gt;The application argued that the 2021 decision "pursued explicitly political objectives by a politically compromised Secretary of State".&lt;/p&gt;
  1565.  
  1566. &lt;p data-end="1813" data-start="1608"&gt;The legal team stressed that Hamas did not pay them or any of the experts and lawyers who contributed evidence to the submission, as it is illegal to receive funds from a designated terrorist organisation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  1577.  
  1578. &lt;p data-end="2062" data-start="1815"&gt;In its application, Hamas argued that the proscription hinders the group's ability to broker a political solution to the conflict, stifles discussions aimed at securing a long-term settlement, and criminalises ordinary Palestinians living in Gaza.&lt;/p&gt;
  1579.  
  1580. &lt;div class="mee-readmore mee-readmore-article-story mee-readmore-type-image align-right"&gt;
  1581.  &lt;a class="mee-readmore-img-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/avi-shlaim-slams-uk-government-over-shameful-legacy-support-israel"&gt;&lt;img class="mee-readmore-image" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/read_more/public/images-story/000_Nic518847.jpg.webp?itok=qZMPE9MH" width="400" height="250" alt loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image"&gt;
  1582.  
  1583. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;Avi Shlaim slams UK government over 'shameful legacy' of support for Israel&lt;/div&gt;
  1584.    &lt;a class="mee-readmore-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/avi-shlaim-slams-uk-government-over-shameful-legacy-support-israel"&gt;Read More »&lt;/a&gt;
  1585. &lt;/div&gt;
  1586.  
  1587. &lt;p data-end="2062" data-start="1815"&gt;Its submission included expert testimony from Oxford-based &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel"&gt;Israeli&lt;/a&gt; academic Avi Shlaim, who urged the UK to take a "more nuanced position on Hamas" by delisting it as a terror organisation.&lt;/p&gt;
  1588.  
  1589. &lt;p data-end="2241" data-start="2064"&gt;The group can now appeal to the Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission, which has the power to overturn the Home Office’s decision if it finds the rejection legally unsound.&lt;/p&gt;
  1590.  
  1591. &lt;p data-end="2512" data-start="2243"&gt;When a proscribed group challenges its designation, the home secretary has 90 days to respond. Under Section 4 of the Terrorism Act, any organisation designated as a terrorist group may appeal to have its name removed from the government's list of banned organisations.&lt;/p&gt;
  1592.  
  1593. &lt;p data-end="2512" data-start="2243"&gt;Individuals who have been impacted by a group's proscription can also apply to the home secretary to have it deproscribed.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1594.  
  1595. &lt;p data-end="2635" data-start="2514"&gt;The home secretary also has the discretion to add or remove any group engaged in armed conflict from the proscribed list.&lt;/p&gt;
  1596.  
  1597. &lt;p data-end="2635" data-start="2514"&gt;Last week, the High Court upheld the government's decision to proscribe Palestine Action, a direct-action protest group, as a terrorist organisation.&lt;/p&gt;
  1598.  
  1599. &lt;p data-end="2635" data-start="2514"&gt;This decision was later upheld again by the UK Court of Appeal in a late-night court hearing.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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  1628.  <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:50:19 +0100</pubDate>
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  1633.  <title>Over 200 culture workers demand British Museum apologise for Israeli embassy event</title>
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  1643. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Over 200 culture workers demand British Museum apologise for Israeli embassy event&lt;/span&gt;
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  1654. &lt;span class="field field-created"&gt;&lt;time datetime="2025-07-10T14:01:31+01:00" title="10 July 2025 14:01 BST"&gt;Thu, 07/10/2025 - 14:01&lt;/time&gt;
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  1661.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;Correspondence between the Israeli embassy and UK Secretary of State Peter Kyle suggest event was not intended as private function as the museum claimed&lt;/div&gt;
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  1669.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely contacted Secretary of State for Science Peter Kyle requesting he attend the event as a 'UK government representative' (X/Screengrab)&lt;/div&gt;
  1670.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-wide-photo-video"&gt;Off&lt;/div&gt;
  1671.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Over 200 historians and artists including William Dalrymple, Paloma Faith and Juliet Stevenson have denounced the &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/disgusted-and-betrayed-british-museum-ignores-mounting-staff-anger-over-israel-event"&gt;British Museum’s decision to host an event&lt;/a&gt; for the &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel"&gt;Israeli&lt;/a&gt; embassy in May, and have demanded that its management issue an apology.&lt;/p&gt;
  1672.  
  1673. &lt;p&gt;The event commemorated "Israeli independence day" and was held on the eve of anniversary of the &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/nakba-palestine-catastrophe-explained"&gt;Nakba&lt;/a&gt; on 15 May - when 750,000 &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine"&gt;Palestinians&lt;/a&gt; were expelled from their homes by Zionist militias to make way for the creation of &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel"&gt;Israel&lt;/a&gt; in 1948.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1674.  
  1675. &lt;p&gt;Speakers included the Israeli ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, and the UK minister for defence procurement and industry, Maria Eagle, with Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and comedian Jimmy Carr&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/kemi-badenoch-nigel-farage-and-jimmy-carr-attended-secret-israeli-embassy-party-british-museum"&gt; reported to have attended&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  1676.  
  1677. &lt;p&gt;“Israel is committing genocide and apartheid. Inviting Israeli representatives, guests, British politicians to celebrate these crimes openly enables them to continue,” the letter read.&lt;/p&gt;
  1678.  
  1679. &lt;p&gt;The letter, jointly organised by Energy Embargo for Palestine (EEFP), Artists for Palestine, and White Kite Collective, was sent amid mounting staff anger in the aftermath of the event and reiterated their calls for an apology from management.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  1690.  
  1691. &lt;p&gt;In addition to an apology, the letter demanded the museum disclose the approval process for the event.&lt;/p&gt;
  1692.  
  1693. &lt;p&gt;British Museum staff &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/disgusted-and-betrayed-british-museum-ignores-mounting-staff-anger-over-israel-event"&gt;previously told Middle East Eye&lt;/a&gt; that they were kept in the dark about the event. They were simply informed it was a “corporate function” and instructed to leave early on the day “with minimal notice”. Many staff members only discovered the true nature of the event in the aftermath.&lt;/p&gt;
  1694.  
  1695. &lt;p&gt;An anonymous worker told MEE that the event was “really disturbing” and that “a lot of members of staff, especially Muslim members, felt really unsafe” in the aftermath.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1696.  
  1697. &lt;p&gt;Actor and author Jassa Ahluwalia, another signatory of the letter, &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DJ1aJZMsHkO/?hl=en&amp;amp;img_index=1"&gt;refused to attend&lt;/a&gt; the British Museum’s opening reception for "Ancient India: Living Traditions" in protest of its decision to host the event.&lt;/p&gt;
  1698.  
  1699. &lt;h3&gt;Strong bilateral links&lt;/h3&gt;
  1700.  
  1701. &lt;p&gt;Staff said they received “absolute non-responses” to two letters voicing their concerns to the museum’s management, one of them garnering over 250 signatures.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  1711. &lt;/div&gt;
  1712.  
  1713. &lt;p&gt;The museum’s director Nicholas Cullinan circulated an internal memo arguing that, as an arm’s length body, the museum “cannot deviate or undermine the UK government’s foreign policy”.&lt;/p&gt;
  1714.  
  1715. &lt;p&gt;In response to a request for comment by MEE, the British Museum &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/disgusted-and-betrayed-british-museum-ignores-mounting-staff-anger-over-israel-event"&gt;said&lt;/a&gt;: "Fundamentally, this was a commercial event – and as such is different to activities or events the Museum generates or hosts itself.&lt;/p&gt;
  1716.  
  1717. &lt;div class="mee-readmore mee-readmore-article-story mee-readmore-type-image align-right"&gt;
  1718.  &lt;a class="mee-readmore-img-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/disgusted-and-betrayed-british-museum-ignores-mounting-staff-anger-over-israel-event"&gt;&lt;img class="mee-readmore-image" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/read_more/public/images-story/Tzipi%20Hotovely%20x%20.jpg.webp?itok=q2QBE3og" width="400" height="250" alt loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image"&gt;
  1719.  
  1720. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;'Disgusted and betrayed': British Museum ignores mounting staff anger over Israel event&lt;/div&gt;
  1721.    &lt;a class="mee-readmore-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/disgusted-and-betrayed-british-museum-ignores-mounting-staff-anger-over-israel-event"&gt;Read More »&lt;/a&gt;
  1722. &lt;/div&gt;
  1723.  
  1724. &lt;p&gt;"All decisions about commercial events are taken on a non-political basis and the Museum, as an arms length, can’t deviate from, or undermine, the UK government’s foreign policy,” the spokesperson added.&lt;/p&gt;
  1725.  
  1726. &lt;p&gt;However an FOI request response seen by MEE from the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS), the museum’s sponsoring department, reveals that as of 16 April, the British Museum had corresponded with the DCMS about the event.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1727.  
  1728. &lt;p&gt;According to the ex-civil servant who made the request, it is irregular for a non-departmental government body to engage with its sponsoring department concerning private events or anything at the level of day-to-day operational detail.&lt;/p&gt;
  1729.  
  1730. &lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, a separate FOI request to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology revealed an email from Hotovley requesting the department’s secretary of state, Peter Kyle, attend the event as the “UK government’s representative” delivering the evening’s “keynote speech”.&lt;/p&gt;
  1731.  
  1732. &lt;p&gt;In her email, Hotovley’s framing of the event suggests it was not a corporate function but a joint effort by the UK and Israeli governments “to highlight the strong bilateral links” and to endorse “the existence, safety and security of the State of Israel”.&lt;/p&gt;
  1733.  
  1734. &lt;p&gt;The correspondence further reveals that the embassy secured the booking at the museum as soon as 12 March, suggesting that management had hidden it from staff for two months,.&lt;/p&gt;
  1735.  
  1736. &lt;h3&gt;A ‘veneer of legitimacy’&lt;/h3&gt;
  1737.  
  1738. &lt;p&gt;The letter also condemned the &lt;a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/dec/19/british-museum-bp-sponsorship-deal-astonishingly-out-of-touch"&gt;10-year £50m partnership between the museum and British Petroleum (BP),&lt;/a&gt; which has a lecture theatre in their name at the museum.&lt;/p&gt;
  1739.  
  1740. &lt;p&gt;It noted BP’s role in Israel’s war on Gaza, with the company’s Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline accounting for 30 percent of Israel’s oil imports, which an Energy Embargo for Palestine&lt;a href="https://www.tni.org/en/article/pipeline-to-genocide"&gt; report revealed&lt;/a&gt; are used to fuel Israeli tanks and military infrastructure powering its assault on the territory.&lt;/p&gt;
  1741.  
  1742. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  1743. &lt;p&gt;'The British Museum cannot allow both Israel and BP to use the status of the Museum as a venerated public institution to construct a veneer of legitimacy for its activities'&lt;/p&gt;
  1744.  
  1745. &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;- open letter&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  1746. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  1747.  
  1748. &lt;p&gt;It further noted that BP is among&lt;a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/israel-awards-natural-gas-exploration-licences-bp-socar-newmed-2025-03-17/"&gt; several major companies&lt;/a&gt; to have been awarded licences by Israel to explore for gas off Gaza’s coast.&lt;/p&gt;
  1749.  
  1750. &lt;p&gt;“The British Museum cannot allow both Israel and BP to use the status of the Museum as a venerated public institution to construct a veneer of legitimacy for its activities,” the letter said.&lt;/p&gt;
  1751.  
  1752. &lt;p&gt;In a report released in June, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese &lt;a href="https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025/"&gt;named BP&lt;/a&gt; as one of the corporations involved in "the transformation of Israel's economy of occupation to an economy of genocide".&lt;/p&gt;
  1753.  
  1754. &lt;p&gt;The letter further demanded the museum sever all ties with BP, including the sponsorship, and asked it to "set up a committee with staff and union representatives for democratic decision-making on future funding opportunities, public-private partnerships, and political events taking place at the museum”.&lt;/p&gt;
  1755. &lt;/div&gt;
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  1783.  <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:46:08 +0100</pubDate>
  1784.    <dc:creator>Katherine Hearst</dc:creator>
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  1788.  <title>Israeli man shot dead in West Bank, shooters killed</title>
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  1805.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p&gt;An Israeli man was shot dead in the occupied West Bank on Thursday with the military and first responders saying that two attackers were also killed.&lt;/p&gt;
  1806.  
  1807. &lt;p&gt;The shooting took place in the car park of a shopping centre in Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem.&lt;/p&gt;
  1808.  
  1809. &lt;p&gt;"Paramedics pronounced a 22-year-old man dead at the scene with gunshot wounds," Israel's Magen David Adom said in a statement.&lt;/p&gt;
  1810.  
  1811. &lt;p&gt;"The two terrorists were eliminated by IDF forces and other security personnel at the scene."&lt;/p&gt;
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  1818.  <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:39:22 +0100</pubDate>
  1819.    <dc:creator>Alex MacDonald</dc:creator>
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