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  10.  <title>West Bank: Israeli soldiers shoot 14-year-old and prevent medical assistance reaching him</title>
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  27.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Israeli soldiers shot and killed a teenage boy in Yabad, a village in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said on Friday.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  28.  
  29. &lt;p&gt;Israeli soldiers gunned down 14-year-old Amro Kabah on the&amp;nbsp;street, and prevented ambulances from providing him with medical treatment, Haaretz reported citing local witnesses.&lt;/p&gt;
  30.  
  31. &lt;p&gt;Kabah's father tried to reach him, but soldiers violently assaulted and arrested him, witnesses added.&lt;/p&gt;
  32.  
  33. &lt;p&gt;The arrest of Kabah's father meant that the Red Crescent was able to swoop in and take Kabah to the hospital, but he was pronounced dead.&lt;/p&gt;
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  35. &lt;p&gt;The Israeli military have now sealed the main entrance to Yabad with concrete blocks.&lt;/p&gt;
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  43.    <dc:creator>Syma Mohammed</dc:creator>
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  47.  <title>US senator calls Israel's plans to enlist US support to displace Palestinians 'sickening'</title>
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  57. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;US senator calls Israel's plans to enlist US support to displace Palestinians 'sickening'&lt;/span&gt;
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  64.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p&gt;US Senator Chris Van Hollen has labelled Israel's request for the US to help them with forcible displacement of Palestinians “truly outrageous and sickening," in post on X on Friday.&lt;/p&gt;
  65.  
  66. &lt;p&gt;“The US should not be complicit in or use ANY governmental, American taxpayer resources to aid and abet what amounts to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian civilians from Gaza," he said. "We cannot stand for this”.&lt;/p&gt;
  67.  
  68. &lt;p&gt;His comments comes after Axios revealed that head of Israel's intelliegence agency Mossad is visiting the White House this week to solicit help in securing the consent of third countries to take hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza.&lt;/p&gt;
  69.  
  70. &lt;p&gt;David Barnea reportedly told Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff that Israel has been speaking to Ethiopia, Indonesia and Libya about taking in Palestinians.&lt;/p&gt;
  71.  
  72. &lt;p&gt;Both Trump and Netanyahu have previously discussed transferring Palestinians out of the Strip to create a "Riviera of the Middle East," sparking international condemnation about the proposed ethnic cleansing and forced displacement.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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  86.  <title>Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem and Greek Orthodox counterpart allowed to enter Gaza in rare solidarity visit</title>
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  96. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem and Greek Orthodox counterpart allowed to enter Gaza in rare solidarity visit&lt;/span&gt;
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  103.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Top Christian leaders in Jerusalem made a rare solidarity visit to Gaza&amp;nbsp;on Friday, a day after the Israeli military struck a&amp;nbsp;Catholic church in Gaza, killing three people and prompting international condemnation.&lt;/p&gt;
  104.  
  105. &lt;p&gt;The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, and his Greek Orthodox counterpart, Theophilos III, were allowed to enter Gaza - which has been closed to outsiders - and met with people at the Holy Family Church and walked around the damaged building.&lt;/p&gt;
  106.  
  107. &lt;p&gt;Few people have been allowed to enter or leave Gaza, except a trickle of aid workers or people being evacuated for medical care.&lt;/p&gt;
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  123.  <title>Palestinian Islamic Jihad group says GHF was established to 'trap' Palestinians seeking aid</title>
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  133. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Palestinian Islamic Jihad group says GHF was established to 'trap' Palestinians seeking aid&lt;/span&gt;
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  140.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Palestinian Islamic Jihad group said that the controversial US and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Fund was set up so that an armed group to trap Palestinians while they seek aid, Al Jazeera reported on Friday.&lt;/p&gt;
  141.  
  142. &lt;p&gt;More than 900 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid at GHF sites in the six weeks they have been operating. Israel has not allowed humanitarian groups that were previously operating in Gaza to provide aid.&lt;/p&gt;
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  154.  <title>MAGA acolyte Marjorie Taylor Greene votes alongside Tlaib and Omar to cut US funding for Israel</title>
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  182.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;House of Representatives rejected cutting $500m in US funding for Israel, hours after bombing the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza&lt;/div&gt;
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  190.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene joins House Republican Study Committee members as they hold a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on 14 July 2025 (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)&lt;/div&gt;
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  192.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hardline America Firster and staunch Trump supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene&amp;nbsp;voted alongside progressive Democrat Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar&amp;nbsp;to strip Israel of $500m in US funding, hours after it bombed the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza.&lt;/p&gt;
  193.  
  194. &lt;p&gt;The House of Representatives, however, rejected in a 422-6 vote on Thursday, to cut funding for the Israeli Cooperative Program - an agreement through which the US provides Israel with $500m to boost its missile programmes.&lt;/p&gt;
  195.  
  196. &lt;p&gt;It is a separate allocation from the $3.3bn the US sends Israel as "security assistance" every year.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  197.  
  198. &lt;p&gt;"Israel bombed the Catholic Church in Gaza, and that entire population is being wiped out as they continue their aggressive war in Gaza," Greene told her colleagues in a rare statement from a Republican.&lt;/p&gt;
  199.  
  200. &lt;p&gt;"My amendment would strike $500m in funding for nuclear-armed Israel's missile defence system. The US already provides Israel with $3.8bn annually in foreign aid. 3.8 billion. That's a lot of money," she said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  211.  
  212. &lt;p&gt;"Additionally, the April 2024 security supplemental included $8.7bn for Israel, even though Israel - nuclear-armed Israel - has universal healthcare for their citizens and subsidized college for their citizens," she added. "Here in America, we're $37tn in debt. My amendment will ensure an America First department of defence, and that is exactly what we need."&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  213.  
  214. &lt;p&gt;That &lt;a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8034"&gt;security supplemental&lt;/a&gt;, pushed by the Biden administration, provided increased support to Israel for its Iron Dome, David's Sling, and Iron Beam defence structures - among other military backing - in response to the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  215.  
  216. &lt;p&gt;Greene had altogether introduced six amendments to reduce foreign spending in the defence appropriations bill, a massive annual funding agreement that lawmakers must pass to fund the Pentagon's operations for the following year.&lt;/p&gt;
  217.  
  218. &lt;p&gt;All of them failed. Only six members of Congress voted to withhold $500m to Israel, after 21 months of its war on Gaza, which has left more than 58,000 Palestinians dead, most of them women and children.&lt;/p&gt;
  219.  
  220. &lt;p&gt;The House ultimately approved $832bn in 2026 US military spending.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  231.  
  232. &lt;h3&gt;'Loyalty to a foreign country'&lt;/h3&gt;
  233.  
  234. &lt;p&gt;Greene's comments on the House floor were not her first criticism of Israel's hold on Washington's policymaking.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  235.  
  236. &lt;p&gt;In an appearance on Conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson's online show last month, she shared her frustration with what she described as a consistent attempt to appease Israel in Congress.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  237.  
  238. &lt;p&gt;"Since I've become a member of Congress - since 2021 - we have voted on 22 resolutions for Israel," she said. "We never vote on resolutions proclaiming great things about America, or defending certain Americans."&lt;/p&gt;
  239.  
  240. &lt;p&gt;Carlson asked Greene what had changed her mind now.&lt;/p&gt;
  241.  
  242. &lt;p&gt;"It's coming to a point where it's so obvious all the time, in everyone's language, the social media posts they put out, the statements that they make. They have to proclaim Israel. They have to proclaim their faith and loyalty in Israel," she responded.&lt;/p&gt;
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  246.  
  247. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;Trump's pick for UN ambassador says he'll use aid as 'leverage' for African votes&lt;/div&gt;
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  250.  
  251. &lt;p&gt;"It's becoming like, wait a minute, what about our own country? What about our own people?"&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  252.  
  253. &lt;p&gt;Citing her own children, who are in their 20s, Greene&amp;nbsp;referred to the financial struggles of young Americans.&lt;/p&gt;
  254.  
  255. &lt;p&gt;"They can't afford rent. They can't afford to buy a house. They can't afford insurance. They can't buy a new car. They can't find a good-paying job," she said.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  256.  
  257. &lt;p&gt;"It seems hopeless for them, but then in Congress, everyone is chasing and pursuing and proclaiming their loyalty to a foreign country."&lt;/p&gt;
  258.  
  259. &lt;p&gt;Greene had disagreed with President Donald Trump's decision to bomb Iran's nuclear sites in June, and took to the online programme of another leading MAGA (Make America Great Again)&amp;nbsp;voice, Steve Bannon, where she insisted that "We are bombing Iran on behalf of Israel," and that "Fox News brainwashes all the baby boomers" as it cheerleads US wars.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  260.  
  261. &lt;p&gt;It has become clearer that the MAGA branch of the Republican Party is mounting an anti-war campaign that goes so far as to align itself with the progressive left.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  273. &lt;p&gt;Both Carlson and Bannon, both of whom have long had the president's ear, have recently made their critical&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-promised-not-go-war-his-ardent-supporters-want-him-to-keep-promise" target="_blank"&gt;views known&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and war with Iran to their combined millions of listeners.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  274.  
  275. &lt;p&gt;"I grew up in a world that espoused violence. That's what the US government does," Carlson told Bannon last month.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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  309.  <title>UN: Nearly one in three people in Gaza cannot access food for days</title>
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  319. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;UN: Nearly one in three people in Gaza cannot access food for days&lt;/span&gt;
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  326.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Almost a third of people in Gaza are unable to access a single meal for days at a time, the World Food Programme announced on X on Friday.&lt;/p&gt;
  327.  
  328. &lt;p&gt;"Thousands of people are on the verge of catastrophic hunger," the United Nations agency said. "Food aid is the only real way for people to eat".&lt;/p&gt;
  329.  
  330. &lt;p&gt;Israel has blocked humanitarian aid into Gaza since the beginning of March. Since the end of May, a new US- and Israel-backed agency has been providing food at several distribution points, but the food distribution is significantly less than other humanitarian agencies were providing, leading critics to say that starvation is being weaponised as a tool of war.&lt;/p&gt;
  331.  
  332. &lt;p&gt;Dozens of children have died of malnutrition in the last few weeks.&lt;/p&gt;
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  339.  <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:55:57 +0100</pubDate>
  340.    <dc:creator>Syma Mohammed</dc:creator>
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  344.  <title>Israel moves to solicit US's help with expelling Palestinians from Gaza</title>
  345.  <link>https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-moves-solicit-uss-help-expelling-palestinians-gaza</link>
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  354. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Israel moves to solicit US's help with expelling Palestinians from Gaza&lt;/span&gt;
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  361.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Israel is seeking the Trump administration’s help in forcefully displacing Palestinians out of Gaza, Axios reported on Friday.&lt;/p&gt;
  362.  
  363. &lt;p&gt;The head of Israel's intelligence agency, David Barnea, is visiting the White House this week in order to solicit help in securing the consent of third countries to take hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, two sources with knowledge of the issue told Axios.&lt;/p&gt;
  364.  
  365. &lt;p&gt;Barnea reportedly told Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff that Israel has been speaking to Ethiopia, Indonesia and Libya about taking in Palestinians.&lt;/p&gt;
  366.  
  367. &lt;p&gt;Both Trump and Netanyahu have previously discussed transferring Palestinians out of the Strip to create a "Riviera of the Middle East," sparking international condemnation of ethnic cleansing and forced displacement.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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  374.  <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:24:04 +0100</pubDate>
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  379.  <title>Saudi Arabia told US that Syrian forces should deploy to Sweida despite Israeli objections, source says</title>
  380.  <link>https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-arabia-told-us-that-syrian-forces-should-deploy-sweida-despite-israeli-objections</link>
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  389. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Saudi Arabia told US that Syrian forces should deploy to Sweida despite Israeli objections, source says&lt;/span&gt;
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  407.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;Saudi Arabia, Turkey and other US allies have all condemned Israel's strikes on Damascus and Sweida &lt;/div&gt;
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  415.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (R) greets Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa as US President Donald Trump looks on, in Riyadh, on 14 May 2025 (Bandar al-Jaloud/Saudi Royal Palace/AFP)&lt;/div&gt;
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  417.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/saudi-arabia"&gt;Saudi Arabia&lt;/a&gt; told the &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/us"&gt;US&lt;/a&gt; that Syrian security forces should be allowed to deploy to the country's restive south despite Israeli objections, a US official told Middle East Eye.&lt;/p&gt;
  418.  
  419. &lt;p&gt;The official, who requested anonymity due to sensitivities around the topic, said that Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud told&amp;nbsp;US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday that the kingdom supported Syria’s military asserting control in the southern Syrian province of Sweida.&lt;/p&gt;
  420.  
  421. &lt;p&gt;A readout of the call provided by the State Department said the two sides "discussed regional security matters, including efforts to end the violence in Syria".&lt;/p&gt;
  422.  
  423. &lt;p&gt;It did not provide further details.&lt;/p&gt;
  424.  
  425. &lt;p&gt;The US official briefed on the call, and a second source familiar with the diplomacy, told MEE on Friday that the kingdom was "angry" about Israel attacking Syrian soldiers and dictating military deployments to Damascus.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  436.  
  437. &lt;p&gt;Sweida has been the site of sectarian violence between the majority Druze community and Sunni Bedouins. After bloody fighting broke out on Sunday, the Syrian government deployed troops to Sweida&amp;nbsp;at the request of local authorities, prompting Israel to launch severe strikes against the Syrian army.&lt;/p&gt;
  438.  
  439. &lt;p&gt;Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu then ordered Syria's government not to deploy troops south. When President Ahmed al-Sharaa did, Israel launched strikes on Syrian military convoys.&lt;/p&gt;
  440.  
  441. &lt;p&gt;On Wednesday, Israel bombed the Syrian defence&amp;nbsp;ministry and areas near the presidential palace.&lt;/p&gt;
  442.  
  443. &lt;p&gt;Current and former US, Arab and Israeli officials told MEE that Netanyahu was seeking to carve out a zone of influence in southern Syria, a development that was unnerving the US’s Arab allies and Turkey.&lt;/p&gt;
  444.  
  445. &lt;p&gt;In an about-turn on Friday, Israeli media reported, citing an unnamed Israeli official, that it had decided to "allow" the "limited entry" of internal Syrian security forces into Sweida for 48 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  456.  
  457. &lt;h3&gt;'Crystal clear'&lt;/h3&gt;
  458.  
  459. &lt;p&gt;A separate US official in the region who has been monitoring the Israeli strikes about the change in Israeli posture, told MEE that&amp;nbsp;Israel's push for a zone of influence in Syria's south clashed with a unitary, central Syria that Trump’s envoy to the country, and ambassador to Turkey, Tom Barrack, laid out just last week to reporters.&lt;/p&gt;
  460.  
  461. &lt;p&gt;"I think Potus and others in the administration have been crystal clear about the path for Syria," the official said, referring to President Trump.&lt;/p&gt;
  462.  
  463. &lt;div class="mee-readmore mee-readmore-article-story mee-readmore-type-image align-right"&gt;
  464.  &lt;a class="mee-readmore-img-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-doesnt-have-many-options-against-israel-syria"&gt;&lt;img class="mee-readmore-image" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/read_more/public/images-story/sweida%20fighter%20syria%20afp.jpg.webp?itok=5qnwJ3vY" width="400" height="250" alt loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image"&gt;
  465.  
  466. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;Turkey doesn't have many options against Israel in Syria&lt;/div&gt;
  467.    &lt;a class="mee-readmore-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-doesnt-have-many-options-against-israel-syria"&gt;Read More »&lt;/a&gt;
  468. &lt;/div&gt;
  469.  
  470. &lt;p&gt;A second regional source told MEE that the US was upset about the Israeli strikes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  471.  
  472. &lt;p&gt;Israel's intervention in Sweida has been especially inconvenient to the Trump administration because it comes as the US is pushing the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to submit to Damascus’s authority.&lt;/p&gt;
  473.  
  474. &lt;p&gt;The US and SDF were allies fighting against the Islamic State militant group, but now Washington wants the Kurdish-led forces to integrate into the Syrian army, as opposed to maintaining an autonomous zone in the northeast.&lt;/p&gt;
  475.  
  476. &lt;p&gt;Sharaa, a former leader of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham and before that al-Qaeda's Syrian branch, led the removal of the country's former president and strongman, Bashar al-Assad, in December 2024.&lt;/p&gt;
  477.  
  478. &lt;p&gt;Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and other Arab states issued a statement on Thursday reaffirming their “unwavering support for Syria’s security, unity, stability and sovereignty".&lt;/p&gt;
  479.  
  480. &lt;p&gt;The statement said Israel's strikes were a "flagrant assault on Syria’s sovereignty" and that they rejected "all forms of foreign intervention in its [Syrian] internal affairs".&lt;/p&gt;
  481.  
  482. &lt;h3&gt;'Vested in Sharaa'&lt;/h3&gt;
  483.  
  484. &lt;p&gt;Saudi Arabia's decision to back Sharaa and assert military authority in Sweida is not surprising. The kingdom&amp;nbsp;hosted a direct meeting between the Syrian president and Trump in Riyadh in May.&lt;/p&gt;
  485.  
  486. &lt;p&gt;Trump said that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman were responsible for convincing him to terminate all sanctions on Syria, again in opposition to what diplomats say Israel preferred.&lt;/p&gt;
  487.  
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  490.  
  491. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;With Damascus strikes, Israel seeks to tear up Trump's vision for Syria&lt;/div&gt;
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  493. &lt;/div&gt;
  494.  
  495. &lt;p&gt;Farhan also spoke with his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, on Wednesday.&lt;/p&gt;
  496.  
  497. &lt;p&gt;While Gulf states like Saudi Arabia and Qatar have the funds to support Syria’s reconstruction, Sharaa enjoys close ties to Ankara. In April, Israel bombed several Syrian air bases that Turkey was planning to take over to train Sharaa’s security forces.&lt;/p&gt;
  498.  
  499. &lt;p&gt;“Saudi Arabia is vested in Syrian stability and reconstruction. That includes in Sharaa,” the US official told MEE.&lt;/p&gt;
  500.  
  501. &lt;p&gt;This all comes as Trump says he still wants to broker a normalisation agreement between the US’s two partners.&lt;/p&gt;
  502.  
  503. &lt;p&gt;MEE was the first to &lt;a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;opi=89978449&amp;amp;url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-saudi-arabia-pressed-trump-stop-attacks-yemen-ahead-visit&amp;amp;ved=2ahUKEwiYs8mT88aOAxU997sIHdPAAWEQFnoECBUQAQ&amp;amp;usg=AOvVaw0caeVKDhZgBMNogetikZA6"&gt;report&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;that Saudi Arabia lobbied Trump to stop attacks on Yemen’s Houthis in May. Trump’s decision to do so was widely seen as going against Israel.&lt;/p&gt;
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  540.  <title>War on Gaza: Qassam spokesman Abu Obaida says Israel rejected deal to release all captives</title>
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  550. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;War on Gaza: Qassam spokesman Abu Obaida says Israel rejected deal to release all captives&lt;/span&gt;
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  568.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;In his first video appearance in more than four months, Abu Obaida criticises Arab leaders for their silence and for abandoning Palestinians&lt;/div&gt;
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  576.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;Hamas's armed wing spokesperson, Abu Obaida, speaks in this screen grab from a video released on 18 July 2025 (Hamas military handout/Reuters)&lt;/div&gt;
  577.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-wide-photo-video"&gt;Off&lt;/div&gt;
  578.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p&gt;The official spokesperson for Hamas's armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, announced on Friday that the Palestinian group repeatedly offered to release all the captives held in Gaza at once, as part of a comprehensive ceasefire deal, but Israel rejected the offer.&lt;/p&gt;
  579.  
  580. &lt;p&gt;In his first video appearance in more than four months, Abu Obaida said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet "rejected what we proposed".&lt;/p&gt;
  581.  
  582. &lt;p&gt;"War criminal Netanyahu and his ministers rejected our offer. It became clear they are not interested in the fate of their soldiers," he said, accusing the Israeli leadership of preparing the public for the possibility that all the captives will die.&lt;/p&gt;
  583.  
  584. &lt;p&gt;His comments came as indirect talks resumed in Qatar without any progress.&lt;/p&gt;
  585.  
  586. &lt;p&gt;If Israel disavows this round of talks, Abu Obaida said, Hamas "will not guarantee a return to the formula of partial [swap] deals or the proposal of the 10 prisoners".&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  597.  
  598. &lt;p&gt;Earlier this week, sources told Middle East Eye that the families of Israeli captives held in Gaza had reached out to Hamas through a representative to ask about the fate of the ceasefire talks.&lt;/p&gt;
  599.  
  600. &lt;p&gt;The sources told MEE that the representative reached out to Hamas after the captives' families feared Netanyahu was trying to torpedo a possible deal.&lt;/p&gt;
  601.  
  602. &lt;p&gt;A senior figure within Hamas told the representative to relay to the families that it was "serious" about reaching an agreement to end the war and release the captives, but that it was facing "intransigent Israeli positions", sources told MEE.&lt;/p&gt;
  603.  
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  606.  
  607. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;Exclusive: Families of Israeli captives reach out to Hamas over fate of ceasefire talks&lt;/div&gt;
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  610.  
  611. &lt;p&gt;According to sources, the Hamas official told the representative that the Palestinian movement had complied with "everything stipulated" in the first phase of the previous ceasefire, which was supposed to transition to phase two talks on ending the war.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  612.  
  613. &lt;p&gt;"Hamas is serious about reaching an agreement to end the war and establish arrangements that ensure calm and stability," the sources quoted Hamas as saying.&lt;/p&gt;
  614.  
  615. &lt;p&gt;"Israel has insisted on continuing the war, destroying the Gaza Strip, displacing its population, and imposing a state of hunger, suffering, and ongoing massacres that have not ceased for a single day."&lt;/p&gt;
  616.  
  617. &lt;p&gt;Hamas and Israel reached a brief three-stage ceasefire in January, but the deal collapsed in March after Israel took back several of its captives and resumed bombing Gaza, walking away from the deal before talks with Hamas on a permanent end to the war could start.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  618.  
  619. &lt;p&gt;Since then, the Trump administration has given Israel full backing to wage war on Gaza.&lt;/p&gt;
  620.  
  621. &lt;p&gt;For more than 21 months, Israel has relentlessly bombed the besieged Gaza Strip, displacing the entire 2.3 million population multiple times, and has killed more than 58,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.&lt;/p&gt;
  622.  
  623. &lt;h3&gt;'Everyone who can act must do so'&lt;/h3&gt;
  624.  
  625. &lt;p&gt;On Sunday, US President Donald Trump said talks on a Gaza ceasefire were going along well, repeating remarks he made a week earlier when Netanyahu visited Washington.&lt;/p&gt;
  626.  
  627. &lt;p&gt;In contrast, MEE reported on Saturday that Hamas negotiators were sceptical that a ceasefire agreement could be reached in the current round of talks in Doha, Qatar.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  637. &lt;/div&gt;
  638.  
  639. &lt;p&gt;Sources close to Palestinian negotiators said talks have remained deadlocked over at least two of four key issues.&lt;/p&gt;
  640.  
  641. &lt;p&gt;The first is the extent of the proposed Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip during a 60-day truce. The second is the method of aid distribution.&lt;/p&gt;
  642.  
  643. &lt;p&gt;The US has reportedly proposed postponing discussions on these two points, instead focusing on the names of Palestinian prisoners to be released by Israel in exchange for the remaining Israeli captives.&lt;/p&gt;
  644.  
  645. &lt;p&gt;In Friday's video, Abu Obaida said that Qassam fighters had killed or wounded hundreds of Israeli soldiers in recent months after it launched the operation, "Stones of David."&lt;/p&gt;
  646.  
  647. &lt;p&gt;According to Israeli media, at least 893 Israeli soldiers have been killed since the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, which sparked the war on Gaza.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  658.  
  659. &lt;p&gt;In the video, Abu Obaida thanked "all the free people around the world" who had shown solidarity with Palestinians and attempted to break the siege on the enclave. He also heaped praise on Yemen’s Houthis, calling them "truthful brothers" who "exposed the cowardice of those who remain passive".&lt;/p&gt;
  660.  
  661. &lt;p&gt;Abu Obaida also strongly criticised Arab leaders for failing to mobilise their armies in defence of Palestinians, saying: "The enemy would not have committed genocide in full view of the nation’s leaders unless it was assured of impunity, guaranteed silence, and bought betrayal."&lt;/p&gt;
  662.  
  663. &lt;p&gt;He stressed that no one was exempt from the responsibility of the bloodshed.&lt;/p&gt;
  664.  
  665. &lt;p&gt;"We do not absolve anyone. Everyone who can act, according to their ability and influence, must do so," he said.&lt;/p&gt;
  666. &lt;/div&gt;
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  675.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-landing-title"&gt;Qassam spokesman Abu Obaida issues first statement in over four months&lt;/div&gt;
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  700.  <title>At least 10 Palestinians killed while seeking aid</title>
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  710. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;At least 10 Palestinians killed while seeking aid&lt;/span&gt;
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  713.    
  714.  
  715.        
  716.    &lt;div class="content"&gt;
  717.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gaza's civil defence agency said that the Israeli military killed 10 aid seekers on Friday, as a hospital director in the south warned of an influx of patients with acute malnutrition, AFP reported on Friday.&lt;/p&gt;
  718.  
  719. &lt;p&gt;Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said that Israeli fire killed nine people "near the US aid centre in the Al-Shakoush area, northwest of Rafah city in southern Gaza"&amp;nbsp;on Friday.&lt;/p&gt;
  720.  
  721. &lt;p&gt;Bassal also said one person had been killed and eight injured as a result of Israeli gunfire at civilians gathered near an aid distribution point close to the Netzarim corridor, south of Gaza City, on Friday.&lt;/p&gt;
  722.  
  723. &lt;p&gt;The US- and Israel-backed&amp;nbsp;Gaza&amp;nbsp;Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began operations in late May after Israel imposed an 11-week blockade on humanitarian aid entering Gaza. It has been beset by controversy as starving Palestinians&amp;nbsp;with no other access to food are killed daily while seeking aid.&lt;/p&gt;
  724.  
  725. &lt;p&gt;The United Nations said on 13 July that 875 people had been killed seeking aid. The number now exceeds 900.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  726.  
  727. &lt;p&gt;Sohaib al-Hums, a medical doctor and director of the Kuwaiti Field Hospital in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis in the south, on Friday warned the medical facility was "witnessing an unprecedented influx of displaced persons".&lt;/p&gt;
  728.  
  729. &lt;p&gt;"We are receiving cases suffering from extreme exhaustion and complete fatigue, in addition to severe emaciation and acute malnutrition due to prolonged lack of food," he said in a statement.&lt;/p&gt;
  730.  
  731. &lt;p&gt;"We warn that hundreds whose bodies have completely wasted away are now facing imminent death, as their physical endurance has been surpassed," he added.&lt;/p&gt;
  732.  
  733. &lt;p&gt;The medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned last week that its teams in Gaza&amp;nbsp;were seeing surging levels of acute malnutrition and that levels had reached an "all-time high" at two of its facilities in the territory.&lt;/p&gt;
  734. &lt;/div&gt;
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  745.  <title>Colombia summit on Israeli accountability: What's next for The Hague Group?</title>
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  755. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Colombia summit on Israeli accountability: What's next for The Hague Group?&lt;/span&gt;
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  773.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;State representatives tell MEE what to expect after the Bogota conference concluded with 12 nations committing to six measures against Israel&lt;/div&gt;
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  781.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;(R-L) Palestine's UN envoy Riyad Mansour pictured next to Colombia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio, South African diplomat Zane Dangor and Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla, the coordinator of the Hague Group, in Bogota, on 16 July 2025 (Progressive International/Supplied)&lt;/div&gt;
  782.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-wide-photo-video"&gt;Off&lt;/div&gt;
  783.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p style="line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:16px; margin-bottom:16px"&gt;The two-day emergency summit of &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/holding-israel-accountable-what-hague-group"&gt;The Hague Group&lt;/a&gt; in Bogota concluded on Wednesday, culminating in a joint declaration by states demanding international sanctions against &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel"&gt;Israel&lt;/a&gt; and legal accountability for what participants described as "grave violations of international law" in Gaza.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  784.  
  785. &lt;p&gt;This gathering, bringing together representatives from more than 30 countries across Latin America, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, marks the most coordinated diplomatic effort yet by a coalition of states opposing Israel’s ongoing military onslaught in Gaza.&lt;/p&gt;
  786.  
  787. &lt;p&gt;"We came to Bogota to make history - and we did," said Colombian President Gustavo Petro. "Together, we have begun the work of ending the era of impunity. These measures show that we will no longer allow international law to be treated as optional, or Palestinian life as disposable."&lt;/p&gt;
  788.  
  789. &lt;p&gt;In their final declaration, 12 states specifically pledged to adopt a series of concrete measures aimed at increasing international pressure on Israel.&lt;/p&gt;
  790.  
  791. &lt;p&gt;These actions include suspending military exports to Israel, refusing the transit of Israeli weapons through their ports and airspace, reviewing all public contracts to prevent state institutions and pension funds from supporting Israeli companies or the occupation of Palestinian territories, and actively supporting universal jurisdiction cases and International Criminal Court (ICC) warrants to pursue accountability for alleged war crimes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  802.  
  803. &lt;p&gt;"There were concrete commitments from the delegates of the states that are here, and the most important thing is that we were able to demonstrate that we can move from speeches, which are very important (...) to urgent actions, and I believe the success of the conference lies in that," Mauricio Jaramillo Jassir, Colombia's vice minister of multilateral affairs, told Middle East Eye.&lt;/p&gt;
  804.  
  805. &lt;p&gt;Among the countries represented, approximately one-third of the attending nations formally endorsed the final declaration: Bolivia; Cuba; Colombia; Indonesia; Iraq; Libya; Malaysia; Namibia; Nicaragua; Oman; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; and South Africa.&lt;/p&gt;
  806.  
  807. &lt;p&gt;Proponents of this initiative indicated that the joint statement will remain open until 28 September, allowing more countries to endorse the declaration in the coming weeks.&lt;/p&gt;
  808.  
  809. &lt;p&gt;Zane Dangor, South Africa’s representative, described the event as "very successful", noting that some countries need to review the declaration internally before formally adhering.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  810.  
  811. &lt;p&gt;"In the room, they were very supportive of the spirit and the intention of the statement. Now some of them have to go back to capitals and take confirmation, and that's long in the diplomatic practice," the country's Department of International Relations and Cooperation director general told MEE.&lt;/p&gt;
  812.  
  813. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  814. &lt;p&gt;'What we now need is a multilateral implementation strategy'&lt;/p&gt;
  815.  
  816. &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;- Fillemon Wise Immanuel, Namibia's Minister of Justice&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  817. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  818.  
  819. &lt;p&gt;Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, urged other states to follow suit, calling on world leaders who will meet to discuss a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in New York at the end of the month to "commit to carrying out actions to force Israel to comply" with international law.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  820.  
  821. &lt;p&gt;"It is a significant moment in history beginning the process of action-oriented commitment by states in their national capacity, so that this is a spark that hopefully will be followed by tens of other countries to commit," he told MEE.&lt;/p&gt;
  822.  
  823. &lt;p&gt;The UN special rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, hailed the summit as a turning point in the global response to the war, urging other states to replicate the measures outlined in the Bogota declaration.&lt;/p&gt;
  824.  
  825. &lt;h3&gt;Questions about compliance&lt;/h3&gt;
  826.  
  827. &lt;p&gt;Despite the bold rhetoric, questions remain about the practical enforceability of these measures and the willingness of all signatory countries to follow through amidst potential political and economic constraints at home.&lt;/p&gt;
  828.  
  829. &lt;p&gt;Several states around the world have already taken unilateral measures, such as halting arms exports to Israel or blocking weapons shipments at their ports.&lt;/p&gt;
  830.  
  831. &lt;p&gt;Countries including Canada, Spain, Italy, and Japan have suspended arms sales to Israel. In May 2024, Spain further banned any ship carrying weapons to Israel from docking at its ports, and Colombia severed diplomatic relations with Israel last year, also suspending coal exports to Israeli power plants.&lt;/p&gt;
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  835.  
  836. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;UN's Albanese calls out 'appalling' EU failure to sanction Israel as 32-nation summit in Bogota kicks off&lt;/div&gt;
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  839.  
  840. &lt;p&gt;"What we now need is a multilateral implementation strategy to make sure that there's proper coordination and there is a collective voice toward implementations of those interventions that we have identified," Fillemon Wise Immanuel, Namibia's minister of justice and labour relations, told MEE at the closing press conference.&lt;/p&gt;
  841.  
  842. &lt;p&gt;However, the conference also underscored fragmented international consensus.&lt;/p&gt;
  843.  
  844. &lt;p&gt;Despite organisers expressing pleasant surprise at the overall turnout, key global powers from Europe notably remained absent from The Hague Group's core initiative.&lt;/p&gt;
  845.  
  846. &lt;p&gt;At a press conference following the opening speeches on Tuesday, Albanese sharply criticised the European Union's concurrent failure to reach a consensus on imposing new sanctions against Israel.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  847.  
  848. &lt;p&gt;"It is clear the EU, for whatever reasons - be it affinity with Israel and its ideology, political convenience, or other interests including those of companies, as Europe is a huge trade partner of Israel, is putting the right to life of millions of people to the side," Albanese said.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  849.  
  850. &lt;h3&gt;What next?&lt;/h3&gt;
  851.  
  852. &lt;p&gt;The Hague Group plans to reconvene in the future to evaluate the implementation of these commitments and explore additional diplomatic and economic measures.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  863.  
  864. &lt;p&gt;Its overarching message intends to keep the Gaza crisis at the top of the international agenda and to "reduce Israel's military scope of action as soon as possible", Vice Minister Jaramillo explained.&lt;/p&gt;
  865.  
  866. &lt;p&gt;"The '48 Genocide Convention obliges us not to provide anything, nothing, to the perpetrators of a genocide," Jaramillo added. "This is not a conference against Israel. It is a conference against the genocide in Palestine."&lt;/p&gt;
  867.  
  868. &lt;p&gt;The Hague Group is a bloc of eight founding states, launched on 31 January in the eponymous Dutch city, with the stated goal of holding Israel accountable under international law.&lt;/p&gt;
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  918.    &lt;div class="content"&gt;
  919.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p&gt;A new&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://newyorkwarcrimes.com/dossier" target="_blank"&gt;dossier&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;released by a&amp;nbsp;coalition of media workers has&amp;nbsp;accused The New York Times of systemic pro-&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank"&gt;Israel&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and anti-&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank"&gt;Palestinian&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;bias, and alleged that nearly two dozen of its top journalists, editors and executives have extensive ties to pro-Israel lobbying groups.&lt;/p&gt;
  920.  
  921. &lt;p&gt;"The New York Times is an accomplice to the genocide in Gaza, serving as a mouthpiece for American imperialism and shaping elite consensus around foreign policy," a statement from the group Writers Against the War on Gaza (Wawog) reads.&lt;/p&gt;
  922.  
  923. &lt;p&gt;Like several mainstream news outlets, the NYT&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;has come under intense scrutiny over its reporting of the war on Gaza, with several human rights activists and analysts accusing the publication of providing&amp;nbsp;cover for Israeli war crimes.&lt;/p&gt;
  924.  
  925. &lt;p&gt;The dossier, released on Wednesday, argues that the NYT's&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;coverage could be explained by the extensive material, financial and ideological connections between several current and former employees at the paper and the Israeli state or the army.&lt;/p&gt;
  926.  
  927. &lt;p&gt;You can read more &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-war-new-york-times-accused-accomplice-to-genocide"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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  967.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;Dossier released by a&amp;nbsp;coalition of media workers accuses The New York Times of systemic pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian bias&lt;/div&gt;
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  975.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;Activists protesting in the lobby of The New York Times in March 2024 (Writers Against the War on Gaza) &lt;/div&gt;
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  977.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p style="line-height:1.38"&gt;A new &lt;a href="https://newyorkwarcrimes.com/dossier"&gt;dossier &lt;/a&gt;released by a&amp;nbsp;coalition of media workers has&amp;nbsp;accused The New York Times of systemic pro-&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel"&gt;Israel&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and anti-&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine"&gt;Palestinian&lt;/a&gt; bias, and alleged that nearly two dozen of its top journalists, editors and executives have extensive ties to pro-Israel lobbying groups.&lt;/p&gt;
  978.  
  979. &lt;p style="line-height:1.38"&gt;"The New York Times is an accomplice to the genocide in Gaza, serving as a mouthpiece for American imperialism and shaping elite consensus around foreign policy," a statement from the group Writers Against the War on Gaza (Wawog) reads.&lt;/p&gt;
  980.  
  981. &lt;p style="line-height:1.38"&gt;Like several mainstream news outlets, the NYT&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;has come under intense scrutiny over its reporting of the war on Gaza, with several human rights activists and analysts accusing the publication of providing&amp;nbsp;cover for Israeli war crimes.&lt;/p&gt;
  982.  
  983. &lt;p style="line-height:1.38"&gt;The dossier, released on Wednesday, argues that the NYT's&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;coverage could be explained by the extensive material, financial and ideological connections between several current and former employees at the paper and the Israeli state or the army.&lt;/p&gt;
  984.  
  985. &lt;p style="line-height:1.38"&gt;The dossier also outlined other levels of ideological and material ties, including relationships with the pro-Israel lobbying groups and think tanks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  996.  
  997. &lt;p style="line-height:1.38"&gt;The dossier alleged that news editors at the NYT had ordered reporters to avoid so-called "inflammatory terms" - including "genocide", "ethnic cleansing", and "occupied territory", and even to avoid saying "Palestine".&lt;/p&gt;
  998.  
  999. &lt;p style="line-height:1.38"&gt;"Our dossier so far covers mostly material ties to occupation and apartheid, but we also include and discuss ideological ties, which we've updated the dossier to reflect," a spokesperson for Wawog told Middle East Eye.&lt;/p&gt;
  1000.  
  1001. &lt;p style="line-height:1.38"&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;The group said its findings, extracted from the archives of Mondoweiss and The Electronic Intifada, as well as through interviews with Palestinian journalists, demonstrate "how the Times'&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;vaunted code of conduct amounts to a racist double standard".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  1002.  
  1003. &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 30px;"&gt;'New York War Crimes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 30px;"&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  1004.  
  1005. &lt;p&gt;Wawog, a group made up of writers and creatives, &lt;a href="https://spectrejournal.com/writers-against-the-war-on-gaza/"&gt;emerged&lt;/a&gt; in the weeks following Israel's bombardment of Gaza after the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel on 7 October 2023.&lt;/p&gt;
  1006.  
  1007. &lt;p&gt;The group has routinely held protests outside and at times in the lobby of the NYT's building&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;in the borough of Manhattan.&lt;/p&gt;
  1008.  
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  1011.  
  1012. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;Western media enabling Gaza genocide and rewriting history, say experts&lt;/div&gt;
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  1015.  
  1016. &lt;p&gt;The group has routinely referred to the paper as "The &lt;a href="https://newyorkwarcrimes.com/"&gt;New York War Crimes"&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;as a means to communicate the NYT's complicity in war crimes in Gaza.&lt;/p&gt;
  1017.  
  1018. &lt;p&gt;More than 58,000 Palestinians have been killed as a result of Israel’s war on Gaza, which several countries, as well as many international rights groups and experts, now qualify as an act of genocide.&lt;/p&gt;
  1019.  
  1020. &lt;p&gt;In Wednesday's dossier, Wawog describes the deep entanglements between the NYT and Israel as fuelling the paper's biased coverage.&lt;/p&gt;
  1021.  
  1022. &lt;p&gt;Wawog said the omission of the journalists' connections to Israel - be it through personal or &lt;a href="https://fair.org/home/new-conflict-of-interest-at-nyt-jerusalem-bureau/"&gt;immediate family&lt;/a&gt; ties - in the reporter profiles on the NYC website contradicted the basic tenets of journalistic ethics.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1023.  
  1024. &lt;p&gt;It said that the NYT "would offer bullhorns to people with clear allegiances to the Zionist project demonstrates its commitment to and support of Israel's fantasy of annihilation".&lt;/p&gt;
  1025.  
  1026. &lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="515" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JnzEUrPfoXI" title="How does western media ‘whitewash’ genocide? | Assal Rad | Real Talk" width="916"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  1027.  
  1028. &lt;p&gt;Media analysts and human rights groups have repeatedly accused mainstream media of contributing to both the erasure and distortion of Israel's war crimes in Gaza.&lt;/p&gt;
  1029.  
  1030. &lt;p&gt;Several observers have argued that the reporting on Israel's war on Gaza, as well as the student movement for Palestine in the US, hasn't merely been inaccurate but has ventured close to journalistic malpractice.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1031.  
  1032. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  1033. &lt;p&gt;'Palestinians and allies have been silenced and marginalised in the media for decades'&lt;/p&gt;
  1034.  
  1035. &lt;p&gt;-&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Joyce Ajlouny,&amp;nbsp;American Friends Service Committee&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  1036. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  1037.  
  1038. &lt;p&gt;Western media in particular have come under fire for obfuscating in their headlines and for the explicit use of the passive voice in narrating the murder of Palestinians.&lt;/p&gt;
  1039.  
  1040. &lt;p&gt;Advocates' concerns over the use of language and terminology have also been backed up by data.&lt;/p&gt;
  1041.  
  1042. &lt;p&gt;An &lt;a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/01/09/newspapers-israel-palestine-bias-new-york-times/"&gt;Intercept study &lt;/a&gt;published in January 2024 found that the&amp;nbsp;NYT, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times’ reporting of Israel’s war on Gaza demonstrated consistent bias against Palestinians, offered disproportionate coverage of antisemitism in the US and downplayed anti-Muslim racism after the events of 7 October 2023.&lt;/p&gt;
  1043.  
  1044. &lt;p&gt;Likewise, in October 2024, several journalists from the BBC and CNN &lt;a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/5/failing-gaza-pro-israel-bias-uncovered-behind-the-lens-of-western-media"&gt;told&lt;/a&gt; Al Jazeera's Listening Post that their newsrooms routinely failed to&amp;nbsp;hold Israeli officials to account. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the journalists accused senior editorial staff&amp;nbsp;of attempting to minimise Israeli excesses in news coverage.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1045.  
  1046. &lt;p&gt;Whereas the Wawog dossier details several members of staff who have either served in the Israeli army or have had children serve in the army, it also includes those who have consistently produced what Wawog describes as lies and justifications for war crimes.&lt;/p&gt;
  1047.  
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  1050.  
  1051. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;War on Gaza: How western media favours Israel on Instagram&lt;/div&gt;
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  1053. &lt;/div&gt;
  1054.  
  1055. &lt;p&gt;In January, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker organisation that advocates for peace, cancelled a planned advertisement in the paper after it refused to allow it to refer to Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide.&lt;/p&gt;
  1056.  
  1057. &lt;p&gt;"The refusal of The New York Times to run paid digital ads that call for an end to Israel's genocide in Gaza is an outrageous attempt to sidestep the truth," said Joyce Ajlouny, general secretary for the AFSC.&lt;/p&gt;
  1058.  
  1059. &lt;p&gt;"Palestinians and allies have been silenced and marginalised in the media for decades, as these institutions choose silence over accountability. It is only by challenging this reality that we can hope to forge a path toward a more just and equitable world," Ajlouny said.&lt;/p&gt;
  1060.  
  1061. &lt;p data-end="1160" data-start="862"&gt;A spokesperson for the NYT rejected the arguments raised in the dossier, telling MEE that the report was "a vile campaign aimed at intimidating journalists and media executives because of fair-minded reporting and news coverage.&lt;/p&gt;
  1062.  
  1063. &lt;p data-end="1160" data-start="862"&gt;"Rather than criticize the specifics of our journalism, this campaign is choosing to make personal attacks and innuendo based on a person's faith or ties to a group or country, all of which are public knowledge, and some of which are inaccurate. All to try to discredit our reporting. A group of writers should know better."&lt;/p&gt;
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  1097.  <title>Saudi Arabia's Neom weighs deep layoffs and relocations: Report</title>
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  1125.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;Kingdom's premier gigaproject could slash an estimated 20 percent of its workforce amid cost cutting, Semafor reports&lt;/div&gt;
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  1133.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;Neom is known for its outlandish and lavish plans (promotional material)&lt;/div&gt;
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  1135.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-arabia-neom-executives-accused-racism-misogyny-corruption"&gt;Neom&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is considering laying off up to 1,000 employees - an estimated 20 percent of its full-time staff - in another sign that &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/saudi-arabia"&gt;Saudi Arabia&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is scaling back its premier giga-project,&amp;nbsp;Semafor &lt;a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/07/18/2025/saudi-considers-neom-job-cuts-relocations-amid-cost-pressures"&gt;reported&lt;/a&gt; on Friday.&lt;/p&gt;
  1136.  
  1137. &lt;p&gt;The website reported that Neom was weighing the layoffs as part of a broader overhaul that could also see more than 1,000 employees leave Neom's construction site on the kingdom's northwestern Red Sea coast, and relocate to Riyadh.&lt;/p&gt;
  1138.  
  1139. &lt;p&gt;The plans are not finalised and could change, Semafor said.&lt;/p&gt;
  1140.  
  1141. &lt;p&gt;The report is the latest in a string of articles that indicate Saudi Arabia is curbing its ambitions when it comes to Neom, the gigaproject designed to remake Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast with luxury beach hotels, a ski resort, a 170km-long, futuristic city called "The Line", and an industrial park.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1142.  
  1143. &lt;p&gt;Bloomberg reported earlier this week that &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/saudi-arabia"&gt;Saudi Arabia&lt;/a&gt; asked consulting firms to review the feasibility of "The Line”.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  1154.  
  1155. &lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, The Financial Times reported earlier this year that the kingdom had launched a "comprehensive review" of Neom.&lt;/p&gt;
  1156.  
  1157. &lt;p&gt;The practicality of Neom has long been a source of debate, including among investors who doubt whether the kingdom can attract people to live in the futuristic, remote city.&lt;/p&gt;
  1158.  
  1159. &lt;p&gt;Saudi Arabia’s $ 1 trillion Public Investment Fund, known as PIF, is funding Neom’s construction. The project has faced setbacks due to lower energy prices and limited interest from foreign investors.&lt;/p&gt;
  1160.  
  1161. &lt;p&gt;Neom is the most ambitious part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s efforts to reduce the kingdom’s dependency on oil revenue and diversify its economy.&lt;/p&gt;
  1162.  
  1163. &lt;p&gt;He has been more successful pushing through liberalising social reforms, investing PIF money in startups and expanding Riyadh. At the same time, he has cracked down on dissent.&lt;/p&gt;
  1164.  
  1165. &lt;div class="mee-readmore mee-readmore-article-story mee-readmore-type-image align-right"&gt;
  1166.  &lt;a class="mee-readmore-img-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/why-saudi-arabia-can-spend-more-money-it-makes-oil-prices-drop"&gt;&lt;img class="mee-readmore-image" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/read_more/public/images-story/Saudi-ministers-AFP-2025.jpg.webp?itok=2B7zKOII" width="400" height="250" alt loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image"&gt;
  1167.  
  1168. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;Why Saudi Arabia can spend more money than it makes, even as oil prices drop&lt;/div&gt;
  1169.    &lt;a class="mee-readmore-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/why-saudi-arabia-can-spend-more-money-it-makes-oil-prices-drop"&gt;Read More »&lt;/a&gt;
  1170. &lt;/div&gt;
  1171.  
  1172. &lt;p&gt;For now, the kingdom is still reliant on oil revenue to fund its ambitious projects. Oil accounts for roughly 61 percent of Saudi Arabia’s revenue, according to its 2025 budget. Brent crude, the international benchmark, has been trading below $70 per barrel for most of this year, well below the $100 per barrel level that economists say Saudi Arabia needs to balance its budget.&lt;/p&gt;
  1173.  
  1174. &lt;p&gt;Neom has also been plagued by internal challenges.&lt;/p&gt;
  1175.  
  1176. &lt;p&gt;Nadhmi al-Nasr, who managed &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-arabia-neom-executives-accused-racism-misogyny-corruption"&gt;Neom’&lt;/a&gt;s construction from 2018 to 2024, departed from his post in November. He earned a chilling reputation, reportedly &lt;a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/expatriate-executives-flee-saudi-arabias-bad-bosses-crown-prince-mohammed-mbs-neom-nasr-11654008823"&gt;bragging&lt;/a&gt; that he put everyone to work “like a slave” and “When they drop down dead, I celebrate. That’s how I do my projects.”&lt;/p&gt;
  1177.  
  1178. &lt;p&gt;Nasr &lt;a href="https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/642862"&gt;said&lt;/a&gt; last year that Neom had 5,000 full-time staff and 140,000 contractors.&lt;/p&gt;
  1179.  
  1180. &lt;p&gt;Semafor reported that Neom is considering ending Nasr’s policy that Neom staff be based at the desolate construction site. The employees who move to Riyadh will lose current benefits that include housing and meals paid for by Neom. Workers - mainly western expats - who &lt;a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/influencers-vloggers-showing-off-lives-191749236.html?guccounter=1&amp;amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACtRs4MSwRTH-KOc9bGiuKcF_1rMmj-Ar2smJlzJ-Rw0uuPsg7CYoowfoy63OyrbiYJ-gD89QOvRMSHdh7c9Z-WywBvsW-KzGriTUUs40jLdLwZLIcNxa4bFig4txBnjf2WjW-9lkOPdwjy9_kuqMvVwkrba5WZZodN3ok70Tjlt"&gt;vlogged&lt;/a&gt; their lives at the camp showed ultra-modern but bland housing complexes in barren landscapes.&lt;/p&gt;
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  1214.  <title>US strips $1bn in funding for PBS, NPR for 'woke' news coverage</title>
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  1242.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;Funds had already been set aside for the public broadcasters by Congress, but the Trump administration made weakening them a priority&lt;/div&gt;
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  1252.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/us"&gt;US&lt;/a&gt; Congress on Friday pulled more than $1bn from the&amp;nbsp;Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which provides funding for the two major public broadcasters, PBS and NPR, as well as 1,500 local stations across the country.&lt;/p&gt;
  1253.  
  1254. &lt;p&gt;The amount now being withheld would have covered up to several years' worth of grants for all those newsrooms, US media watchdog Poynter &lt;a href="https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/trump-defunds-npr-pbs-cpb-public-broadcasting/"&gt;said&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1255.  
  1256. &lt;p&gt;Federal funding only makes up roughly 16 percent of the PBS budget, and one percent of NPR's budget, Poynter noted, so it's the local stations in rural areas that are heavily reliant on federal support.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1257.  
  1258. &lt;p&gt;Those stations are sometimes the only source for life-threatening weather alerts and guidance in those communities.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1259.  
  1260. &lt;p&gt;The decision was part of a $9.4bn rescissions package that strips taxpayer funding from both public broadcasting and foreign aid projects, all of which were previously approved by Congress for those purposes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  1271.  
  1272. &lt;p&gt;The latest move came at the behest of the White House, which is scrambling to push through as many bills as possible to fund President Donald Trump's agenda before the November 2026 midterm elections, when Republicans could lose their majority.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1273.  
  1274. &lt;p&gt;The package had already been advanced in the House of Representatives before being approved with slight amendments in the Senate, meaning the House had to push it through one more time before it goes to the president's desk.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1275.  
  1276. &lt;p&gt;On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Republicans were "finally ending taxpayer funding for PBS and NPR, two media organisations that have ridiculously used federal dollars to push a partisan left-wing agenda for many years".&lt;/p&gt;
  1277.  
  1278. &lt;p&gt;That "left wing agenda" was highlighted in a lengthy thread on &lt;a href="https://x.com/rapidresponse47/status/1945563760694817227?s=61"&gt;X&lt;/a&gt; by the administration's dedicated "rapid response" social media account, which intends to "hold fake news media accountable".&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1279.  
  1280. &lt;p&gt;Among the accusations is that "PBS staff used 162 variations of 'far right' labels and only six 'far left' labels, an astounding ratio of 27 to 1," the administration said, citing the anti-liberal media monitoring site, Newsbusters.&lt;/p&gt;
  1281.  
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  1284.  
  1285. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;Trump's pick for UN ambassador says he'll use aid as 'leverage' for African votes&lt;/div&gt;
  1286.    &lt;a class="mee-readmore-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-nominee-un-ambassador-use-aid-leverage-african-nations-votes"&gt;Read More »&lt;/a&gt;
  1287. &lt;/div&gt;
  1288.  
  1289. &lt;p&gt;PBS also "produced an entire movie celebrating a transgender teenager’s so-called 'changing gender identity'," the account said, as part of its reasoning to defund the news outlet.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1290.  
  1291. &lt;p&gt;However, there were also examples of critical, rather than positive, PBS coverage of Trump's first term, suggesting that, where possible, the administration is indeed trying to shut down or weaken coverage that does not flatter the president.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1292.  
  1293. &lt;p&gt;NPR was similarly attacked for its coverage of immigration, given that back in 2021, it apologised for calling certain immigrants "illegal" rather than "undocumented".&lt;/p&gt;
  1294.  
  1295. &lt;p&gt;In 2013, the Associated Press style guide, which governs most US news outlets, said it no longer sanctioned the term "illegal immigrant" because only actions, not people, are illegal, it said.&lt;/p&gt;
  1296.  
  1297. &lt;p&gt;The Ad Fontes Media &lt;a href="https://app.adfontesmedia.com/chart/interactive"&gt;bias chart&lt;/a&gt; from January 2024 places both PBS and NPR squarely in the middle, whereas it shows outlets like CNN and Al Jazeera both skew left.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1298.  
  1299. &lt;p&gt;The other&amp;nbsp;$7.9bn cut to US government spending in the package is set to impact refugee and development programmes, as well as international disaster response. Much of that work was done by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), but the organisation has been defunct since early this year, and only some of its programmes survived and have been rolled into the diplomatic arm of the US government: the State Department.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  1310.  
  1311. &lt;p&gt;In a last-minute change in the Senate, Republicans voted to keep $400m in funding for the president’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a resoundingly successful initiative begun by former president George W Bush to combat HIV and AIDS around the world.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1312.  
  1313. &lt;p&gt;US foreign aid may very well be conditioned differently from here on out, and with the likely confirmation of &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-nominee-un-ambassador-use-aid-leverage-african-nations-votes"&gt;Trump's pick&lt;/a&gt; for US ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, who told lawmakers he would tie foreign assistance decisions to whether or not countries vote with the US at the international body.&lt;/p&gt;
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  1347.  <title>Hamas says no interim truce without permanent ceasefire deal</title>
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  1363.    &lt;div class="content"&gt;
  1364.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hamas's armed wing spokesperson has said the group will not agree to a temporary truce if a permanent ceasefire agreement is not reached during ongoing negotiations.&lt;/p&gt;
  1365.  
  1366. &lt;p&gt;Hamas had repeatedly offered to release all the Israeli captives held in&amp;nbsp;Gaza&amp;nbsp;and conclude a ceasefire agreement, Abu Ubaida said in a televised speech on Friday. He also accused Israel of intransigence.&lt;/p&gt;
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  1378.  <title>How the BBC obscures UK complicity in Gaza genocide</title>
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  1388. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;How the BBC obscures UK complicity in Gaza genocide&lt;/span&gt;
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  1406.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;Manufactured 'scandals' over Gaza coverage are designed to browbeat the corporation into ever-greater cravenness to Israel&lt;/div&gt;
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  1414.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;A protester holds up a placard with an anti-BBC message during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in central London on 23 March 2025 (Benjamin Cremel/AFP)&lt;/div&gt;
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  1416.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p&gt;After months of a confected furore over a BBC documentary supposedly demonstrating pro-Hamas bias, followed by the shelving of a second film on Gaza, an independent review recently found that the broadcaster did not breach impartiality guidelines.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1417.  
  1418. &lt;p&gt;A long list of complaints against &lt;i&gt;Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone&lt;/i&gt; - pushed for months by pro-&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel"&gt;Israel&lt;/a&gt; lobbying groups, and amplified by the &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/uk"&gt;British&lt;/a&gt; establishment media - &lt;a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/documents/report-peter-johnston-review-gaza-how-to-survive-a-warzone.pdf"&gt;were dismissed&lt;/a&gt; one after another by Peter Johnston, director of the editorial complaints and review body that reports to the BBC director general.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1419.  
  1420. &lt;p&gt;Not that you would know any of this from the eagerness of BBC executives to &lt;a href="https://x.com/David75234833/status/1944739856644493524"&gt;continue&lt;/a&gt; apologising profusely for the &lt;a href="https://x.com/Basement_Films/status/1944750835029725427"&gt;failings&lt;/a&gt; the corporation had just been cleared of. It almost sounded as if they wanted to be found guilty.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1421.  
  1422. &lt;p&gt;The row is now set to drag on for many months more after Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, announced it too would &lt;a href="https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/bbc/ofcom-opens-investigation-into-bbcs-gaza-how-to-survive-a-warzone"&gt;investigate&lt;/a&gt; the programme.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1423.  
  1424. &lt;p&gt;All of this is exactly what pro-Israel lobbying groups and the billionaire-owned media had hoped for.&amp;nbsp;The aim of manufacturing this protracted storm in a teacup was twofold.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  1435.  
  1436. &lt;p&gt;Firstly, the furore was designed to distract from what the documentary actually showed: the horrors facing children &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-war-gaza"&gt;in Gaza&lt;/a&gt; as they have had to navigate a tiny strip of land where Israel has trapped them, bombed their homes, levelled their schools and hospitals, exposed them to relentless carnage for 21 months, and starved their loved ones.&lt;/p&gt;
  1437.  
  1438. &lt;p&gt;Secondly, it aimed to browbeat the BBC into adopting an even more craven posture towards Israel than it had already. If it was reluctant before to give &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine"&gt;Palestinians&lt;/a&gt; a voice, it will now avoid doing so at all costs.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1439.  
  1440. &lt;p&gt;True to form, executives hurriedly removed &lt;i&gt;How to Survive a Warzone&lt;/i&gt; from its iPlayer catch-up service the moment the lobby went into action.&lt;/p&gt;
  1441.  
  1442. &lt;h3&gt;Dangerous consequences&lt;/h3&gt;
  1443.  
  1444. &lt;p&gt;The BBC’s ever-greater spinelessness has dangerous real-world consequences.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1445.  
  1446. &lt;p&gt;Israel will feel even freer to intensify what the International Court of Justice already suspected back in January 2024 was a genocide, and what leading &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/meaning-definition-what-genocide-israel-gaza"&gt;genocide&lt;/a&gt; and Holocaust scholars have subsequently concluded &lt;a href="https://archive.ph/0dpn2"&gt;is a genocide&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  1457.  
  1458. &lt;p&gt;There will be even less pressure on the British government to stop partnering with Israel in its genocide by &lt;a href="https://caat.org.uk/news/new-figures-reveal-massive-increase-in-uk-arms-exports-to-israel-as-government-defends-f-35-exemption-in-court/"&gt;supplying weapons&lt;/a&gt;, intelligence and diplomatic cover.&lt;/p&gt;
  1459.  
  1460. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  1461. &lt;p&gt;This is about Israel - and the Starmer government - dictating to the BBC the terms of what can be said about Israel's treatment of Palestinians&lt;/p&gt;
  1462. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  1463.  
  1464. &lt;p&gt;The enduring row will also hand a bigger stick to Rupert Murdoch and other media moguls with which to beat the BBC, making it cower even further.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1465.  
  1466. &lt;p&gt;Signs of the BBC’s defensiveness were already all too evident. While it was waiting for the Johnston report, the corporation ditched a separate documentary, &lt;i&gt;Gaza: Doctors Under Attack&lt;/i&gt;, on Israel’s systematic destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and killing of some &lt;a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-07-08/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-killing-of-hundreds-of-gaza-medical-workers-deepens-health-system-crisis/00000197-e994-d0a0-a1df-edfd79680000"&gt;1,600 health workers&lt;/a&gt;. It has since been &lt;a href="https://www.channel4.com/programmes/gaza-doctors-under-attack"&gt;shown&lt;/a&gt; by Channel 4.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1467.  
  1468. &lt;p&gt;The BBC argued that - even though this second programme had passed its editorial checks - airing it risked &lt;a href="https://x.com/alexnunns/status/1944850836431024548"&gt;contributing&lt;/a&gt; to a “perception of partiality”.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1469.  
  1470. &lt;p&gt;What that bit of BBC gobbledygook actually meant was that the problem was not “partiality”. It was the perception of it by vested interests - Israel, its apologists, the Starmer government and British corporate media - who demand skewed BBC coverage of Gaza, so that Israel can carry on with a genocide in which the British establishment is utterly complicit.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1471.  
  1472. &lt;p&gt;In other words, truth and accuracy be damned. This is about Israel - and the Starmer government - dictating to the BBC the terms of what can be said about Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.&lt;/p&gt;
  1473.  
  1474. &lt;h3&gt;Caving to pressure&lt;/h3&gt;
  1475.  
  1476. &lt;p&gt;This brings us back to the Johnston report. The only significant finding against the BBC was on a single issue in its documentary on Gaza’s children,&lt;i&gt; How to Survive a Warzone&lt;/i&gt;. The film had not disclosed that its 13-year-old narrator was the son of an official in Gaza’s Hamas-run government.&lt;/p&gt;
  1477.  
  1478. &lt;p&gt;Even in the current febrile atmosphere, Johnston found no grounds to uphold the manifold accusations of a breach by the BBC of impartiality rules. Nothing in the film, he concluded, was unfair to Israel.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1479.  
  1480. &lt;p&gt;Instead, he stated that it was a breach of “full transparency” not to have divulged the child narrator’s tenuous connection to Hamas through his father’s governmental work.&lt;/p&gt;
  1481.  
  1482. &lt;hr&gt;
  1483. &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/israel-kills-palestinians-truce-talks-stall"&gt;Follow Middle East Eye's live coverage of the Israel-Palestine war&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  1484.  
  1485. &lt;hr&gt;
  1486. &lt;p&gt;Paradoxically, the BBC’s coverage of Johnston’s findings has been far more inaccurate about the child narrator than the original documentary. But there has been no uproar, because this particular inaccuracy from the BBC squarely benefits Israel.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  1495. &lt;/div&gt;
  1496. &lt;/div&gt;
  1497.  
  1498. &lt;p&gt;The News at Ten, &lt;a href="https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1944888725474857310"&gt;reporting&lt;/a&gt; on the Johnston findings, asserted that the film’s narrator was “the son of an official in the militant group Hamas”.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1499.  
  1500. &lt;p&gt;He is nothing of the sort. He is the son of a scientist who directed agricultural policy in Gaza’s government, which is run by Hamas.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1501.  
  1502. &lt;div class="mee-readmore mee-readmore-article-opinion mee-readmore-type-image align-right"&gt;
  1503.  &lt;a class="mee-readmore-img-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/graver-israels-atrocities-gaza-quieter-bbc-grows"&gt;&lt;img class="mee-readmore-image" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/read_more/public/images-story/palestine-gaza-paramedics-mourn-january-2025-omar-al-qattaa-afp.jpg.webp?itok=2j_7jXR9" width="400" height="250" alt loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image"&gt;
  1504.  
  1505. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;The graver Israel's atrocities in Gaza, the quieter the BBC grows&lt;/div&gt;
  1506.    &lt;a class="mee-readmore-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/graver-israels-atrocities-gaza-quieter-bbc-grows"&gt;Read More »&lt;/a&gt;
  1507. &lt;/div&gt;
  1508.  
  1509. &lt;p&gt;There is zero evidence that &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-minister-heart-bbc-doc-row-worked-uae-and-studied-uk-universities"&gt;Ayman Alyazouri&lt;/a&gt; was ever a member of the militant wing of Hamas. He doesn’t even appear to have been a member of its political wing.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1510.  
  1511. &lt;p&gt;In fact, since 2018, Israel had set up a system to vet most officials in Gaza, like Alyazouri, to ensure they &lt;a href="https://ecfr.eu/publication/dealing-with-trump-israel-and-hamas-the-path-to-peace-in-the-middle-east/"&gt;did not have such links&lt;/a&gt; before they were able to receive salaries funded by &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/qatar"&gt;Qatar&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1512.  
  1513. &lt;p&gt;Johnston himself concedes as much, noting that the programme makers failed to inform the BBC of the 13-year-old’s background because their checks showed Alyazouri was a civilian technocrat in the government, not involved in its military or political arms.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1514.  
  1515. &lt;p&gt;The team’s only failing was an astounding ignorance of how pro-Israel lobbying groups operate, and how ready the BBC is to cave to its pressure tactics.&lt;/p&gt;
  1516.  
  1517. &lt;p&gt;In reality, Johnston’s finding against the BBC was over little more than an editorial technicality, one intentionally blown up into a major scandal.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1518.  
  1519. &lt;p&gt;Johnston himself gave the game away when he &lt;a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/documents/report-peter-johnston-review-gaza-how-to-survive-a-warzone.pdf"&gt;noted&lt;/a&gt; in his executive summary the need for “full transparency” when the BBC makes programmes “in such a contested setting”. In other words, special, much stricter editorial rules apply when the corporation intends to make programmes likely to upset Israel.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1520.  
  1521. &lt;p&gt;From now on, that will likely mean that, in practice, such programmes are not made at all.&lt;/p&gt;
  1522.  
  1523. &lt;h3&gt;Obvious double standard&lt;/h3&gt;
  1524.  
  1525. &lt;p&gt;The double standard is glaring.&amp;nbsp;The BBC made a &lt;a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31556612/"&gt;documentary&lt;/a&gt; last year offering eyewitness testimony from Israeli survivors of the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack at the Nova music festival, where hundreds of Israelis were killed.&lt;/p&gt;
  1526.  
  1527. &lt;p&gt;Did the BBC insist that the backgrounds of the Israelis interviewed were checked and disclosed to the audience as part of the broadcast? Were viewers told whether festival-goers had served in the Israeli military, which for decades has been enforcing an illegal occupation and a system of apartheid over Palestinians, &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/icj-clears-fog-hiding-western-support-israel-rogue-state"&gt;according&lt;/a&gt; to a ruling last year by the world’s highest court?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1528.  
  1529. &lt;p&gt;And what would it have indicated to audiences had the BBC included such contextual information about its Israeli eyewitnesses? That their testimonies had less validity, or that they could not be trusted?&lt;/p&gt;
  1530.  
  1531. &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/YZzeaMAeO2s?si=j0qNI9E0i3DQIA7t" title="YouTube video player" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  1532.  
  1533. &lt;p&gt;If it was not necessary to include such background details for Israeli eyewitnesses, why is it so important to do this for a 13-year-old Palestinian?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1534.  
  1535. &lt;p&gt;And even more to the point, if the BBC needs to give details of 13-year-old Abdullah Alyazouri’s background before he can be allowed to read a script written by the programme makers, why is the BBC not also required to give important background about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he appears in reports - such as the fact that he is &lt;a href="https://www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/netanyahu"&gt;wanted for arrest&lt;/a&gt; by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity?&lt;/p&gt;
  1536.  
  1537. &lt;p&gt;Exactly how trustworthy a narrator of events in the devastated enclave does the BBC consider Netanyahu to be, that it does not think this context needs including?&lt;/p&gt;
  1538.  
  1539. &lt;h3&gt;Both-sidesing genocide&lt;/h3&gt;
  1540.  
  1541. &lt;p&gt;The gains from this manufactured row for pro-Israel lobbyists - and for a Starmer government desperate to silence criticism of its complicity in genocide - were recently set out in stark detail by the makers of the second documentary on Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s health sector.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1542.  
  1543. &lt;p&gt;In an &lt;a href="https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/bbc-bosses-pulled-our-film-on-israel-attacking-gazas-medics-heres-why"&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; in the Observer newspaper, they recounted a series of startling admissions and demands from BBC executives made in script meetings.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1544.  
  1545. &lt;p&gt;The corporation insisted that &lt;i&gt;Doctors Under Attack&lt;/i&gt; could not be aired so long as the award-winning investigative reporter leading the programme, Ramita Navai, was given top billing. They demanded that she be downgraded to a mere “contributor” - her role effectively disappeared - because she had supposedly made “one-sided” social media posts criticising Israel for breaking international law.&lt;/p&gt;
  1546.  
  1547. &lt;p&gt;She was considered unacceptable, according to the BBC, because she had not been “supportive enough of the other side”: that is, Israel and its military carrying out systematic war crimes by destroying Gaza’s hospitals, as documented in great detail in her film.&lt;/p&gt;
  1548.  
  1549. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  1550. &lt;p&gt;Offering apologias for genocide - as the BBC has been doing for the past 21 months - is apparently a requirement before the corporation is willing to give journalists a platform to criticise Israel&lt;/p&gt;
  1551. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  1552.  
  1553. &lt;p&gt;In a statement to Middle East Eye on its decision to shelve the documentary, the BBC said after Navai appeared on its Today radio programme and “called Israel a ‘rogue state that’s committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing and mass murdering Palestinians’”, it was impossible for the BBC to broadcast the material without risking its own impartiality: “The BBC holds itself to the highest standards of impartiality and it would never be acceptable for any BBC journalist to express a personal opinion in this way.”&lt;/p&gt;
  1554.  
  1555. &lt;p&gt;Seen another way, offering apologias for genocide - as the BBC has been doing for the past 21 months - is apparently a requirement before the corporation is willing to give journalists a platform to criticise Israel.&lt;/p&gt;
  1556.  
  1557. &lt;p&gt;Also revealing is who the state broadcaster looks to when deciding how to apply its editorial standards.&amp;nbsp;BBC executives reportedly &lt;a href="https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/bbc-bosses-pulled-our-film-on-israel-attacking-gazas-medics-heres-why"&gt;told the filmmakers&lt;/a&gt; they should not reference the United Nations or Amnesty International because they were supposedly not “trusted independent organisations”.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1558.  
  1559. &lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, the corporation openly and obsessively worried to the filmmakers about what pro-Israel lobbyists - such as social media activist David Collier and Camera, a pro-Israel media monitoring group - would say about their film on Gaza.&amp;nbsp;The team was told that BBC News executives were “very jumpy and paranoid” about coverage of Gaza.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1560.  
  1561. &lt;p&gt;This follows a long and dishonourable tradition at the state broadcaster. In their 2011 book &lt;i&gt;More Bad News From Israel&lt;/i&gt;, media scholars Greg Philo and Mike Berry reported a BBC producer &lt;a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/may/23/bbc-israeli-conflict-coverage"&gt;telling them&lt;/a&gt;: “We all fear the phone call from the Israeli embassy.”&lt;/p&gt;
  1562.  
  1563. &lt;p&gt;If you had been wondering why the BBC has been reflexively both-sidesing a genocide, here is a large part of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;
  1564.  
  1565. &lt;h3&gt;Skewed coverage&lt;/h3&gt;
  1566.  
  1567. &lt;p&gt;A damning &lt;a href="https://cfmm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/CfMM-report-2023-24-ePDF-1.pdf"&gt;report&lt;/a&gt; by the Centre for Media Monitoring last month analysed in detail the BBC’s Gaza coverage in the year following Hamas’s 7 October attack. It found a pattern of bias, double standards and silencing of Palestinian voices.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1568.  
  1569. &lt;p&gt;These included the BBC giving &lt;a href="https://cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-israel-one-story-double-standards/"&gt;33 times&lt;/a&gt; more coverage to Israeli deaths as compared with Palestinian deaths; interviewing more than twice as many Israelis as Palestinians; asking 38 interviewees to condemn Hamas, but asking no one to condemn Israel’s mass killing of civilians, or its attacks on hospitals and schools; and shutting down more than 100 interviewees who tried to refer to events in Gaza as a genocide.&lt;/p&gt;
  1570.  
  1571. &lt;p&gt;Only 0.5 percent of BBC articles provided any context for what was happening before 7 October 2023: that Israel had been illegally occupying the Palestinian territories for decades and besieging the enclave for 17 years.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1572.  
  1573. &lt;div class="mee-readmore mee-readmore-article-opinion mee-readmore-type-image align-right"&gt;
  1574.  &lt;a class="mee-readmore-img-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/bbc-bias-attack-watchdog-skewered-gaza-coverage-feeble-hit-job"&gt;&lt;img class="mee-readmore-image" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/read_more/public/images-story/andrew-gilligan-gb-news-screengrab.jpg.webp?itok=-DAtqLo4" width="400" height="250" alt loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image"&gt;
  1575.  
  1576. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;BBC bias: Attack on watchdog that skewered Gaza coverage is a feeble hit job&lt;/div&gt;
  1577.    &lt;a class="mee-readmore-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/bbc-bias-attack-watchdog-skewered-gaza-coverage-feeble-hit-job"&gt;Read More »&lt;/a&gt;
  1578. &lt;/div&gt;
  1579.  
  1580. &lt;p&gt;Similarly, the BBC has barely reported the endless stream of genocidal statements from Israeli political and military leaders - a crucial ingredient in legally determining whether military actions constitute genocide.&lt;/p&gt;
  1581.  
  1582. &lt;p&gt;Nor has it mentioned other vital context, such as Israel’s invocation of the Hannibal Directive on 7 October 2023, licensing it to kill its own citizens to prevent them from being taken captive; or its military’s long-established Dahiya Doctrine, in which the mass destruction of civilian infrastructure - and with it, the likelihood of slaughtering civilians - is viewed as an effective way to deter resistance to its aggression.&lt;/p&gt;
  1583.  
  1584. &lt;p&gt;In the specified time period, the BBC &lt;a href="https://cfmm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/CfMM-report-2023-24-ePDF-1.pdf"&gt;covered Ukraine&lt;/a&gt; with twice as many articles as Gaza, even though the Gaza story was newer and Israeli crimes even graver than Russian ones. The corporation was twice as likely to use sympathetic language for Ukrainian victims than for Palestinian victims.&lt;/p&gt;
  1585.  
  1586. &lt;p&gt;Palestinians were usually described as having “died” or been “killed” in air strikes, without mention of who launched those strikes. Israeli victims, on the other hand, were “massacred”, “slaughtered” and “butchered”.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1587.  
  1588. &lt;p&gt;None of these were editorial slip-ups. They were part of a systematic, long-term skewing of editorial coverage in Israel’s favour - a clear breach of the BBC’s impartiality guidelines and one that has created a permissive environment for genocide.&lt;/p&gt;
  1589.  
  1590. &lt;h3&gt;BBC 'performing PR'&lt;/h3&gt;
  1591.  
  1592. &lt;p&gt;Journalists at the BBC are known to be in rebellion. More than 100 &lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n3926pSPNwXd8j7I716CBJEzqT_vJjdab6cOQkFCCXk/edit?tab=t.0"&gt;signed a letter&lt;/a&gt; - anonymously for fear of reprisals - condemning the decision to scrap the documentary about Gaza doctors, saying it reflected a mix of “fear” and “anti-Palestinian racism” at the corporation.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1593.  
  1594. &lt;p&gt;The BBC told MEE: “Robust discussions amongst our editorial teams about our journalism are an essential part of the editorial process. We have ongoing discussions about coverage and listen to feedback from staff, and we think these conversations are best had internally.”&lt;/p&gt;
  1595.  
  1596. &lt;p&gt;The journalists, it seems, would prefer that these discussions are had out in the open. They wrote: “As an organisation we have not offered any significant analysis of the UK government’s involvement in the war on Palestinians. We have failed to report on weapons sales or their legal implications. These stories have instead been broken by the BBC’s competitors.”&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1597.  
  1598. &lt;p&gt;They added: “All too often it has felt that the BBC has been performing PR for the Israeli government and military.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1599.  
  1600. &lt;p&gt;They could have added, even more pertinently, that in the process, the BBC has been doing PR for the British establishment too.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1601.  
  1602.  &lt;figure role="group" class="media-block"&gt;
  1603.  &lt;div class="group-inner"&gt;
  1604.    &lt;div alt="British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during an interview with the BBC in London on 6 September 2024 (Benjamin Cremel/AFP)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="a306897a-20ba-409c-a68f-3da6a0c3345b" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"&gt;  &lt;img loading="lazy" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/uk-starmer-bbc-london-september-2024-benjamin-cremel-afp.jpg" width="1024" height="576" alt="British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during an interview with the BBC in London on 6 September 2024 (Benjamin Cremel/AFP)" typeof="foaf:Image"&gt;
  1605.  
  1606. &lt;/div&gt;
  1607.  
  1608.    &lt;figcaption&gt;British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during an interview with the BBC in London on 6 September 2024 (Benjamin Cremel/AFP)&lt;/figcaption&gt;
  1609.  &lt;/div&gt;
  1610. &lt;/figure&gt;
  1611.  
  1612.  
  1613. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="background: url(&amp;quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&amp;quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  1614.  
  1615. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="background: url(&amp;quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&amp;quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img alt height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;A former BBC press officer, Ben Murray, recently gave broader context to the meaning of the corporation’s famed editorial “impartiality”. His role, &lt;a href="https://savageminds.substack.com/p/beware-confected-outrage-aimed-at"&gt;he wrote&lt;/a&gt;, had been a rearguard one to placate the Times, Telegraph, Sun, and most of all, the Daily Mail.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1616.  
  1617. &lt;p&gt;These establishment outlets are owned by corporations and billionaires heavily invested in the very fossil fuel, “defence” and tech industries Israel is central to lubricating.&lt;/p&gt;
  1618.  
  1619. &lt;p&gt;BBC executives, Murray noted, “were rightfully fearful of these publications’ influence, and often reacted in ways to appease them. Their task was to protect the BBC’s funding model, and by extension, their prestigious jobs and generous salaries.”&lt;/p&gt;
  1620.  
  1621. &lt;p&gt;None of this went against the grain. As Murray points out, many senior BBC staff enjoyed private educations, have Oxbridge degrees, and have been “fast-tracked up the corporate ladder”. They see their job as being “to reinforce and maintain establishment viewpoints”.&lt;/p&gt;
  1622.  
  1623. &lt;h3&gt;Editorial smokescreen&lt;/h3&gt;
  1624.  
  1625. &lt;p&gt;If this weren’t enough, senior BBC staff also have to look over their shoulders to the British government, which sets the corporation’s funding through the TV licence fee.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1626.  
  1627. &lt;p&gt;The government, no less than the BBC, needs to keep its main constituencies happy.&amp;nbsp;No, not voters. Ministers, keen for favourable coverage, similarly dare not antagonise Israel-aligned media moguls. And equally, they cannot afford to alienate powerful &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/us"&gt;US&lt;/a&gt; administrations that pledge an undying, unshakeable bond with Israel while projecting western power into the oil-rich Middle East.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1628.  
  1629. &lt;p&gt;This is precisely why Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy was only too keen to jump on the Daily Mail bandwagon &lt;a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jul/05/lisa-nandy-questions-lack-of-bbc-sackings-over-gaza-war-documentary"&gt;in calling&lt;/a&gt; for heads to roll at the BBC over the supposed “failings” in its Gaza coverage.&lt;/p&gt;
  1630.  
  1631. &lt;p&gt;In response to the Johnston report, a spokesperson for the broadcaster told MEE: “The BBC is taking fair, clear and appropriate action, based on the Review’s findings to ensure accountability.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1632.  
  1633. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  1634. &lt;p&gt;The BBC has not failed. It has done exactly what it is there to do: help the British government conceal the fact that there is a genocide going on in Gaza&lt;/p&gt;
  1635. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  1636.  
  1637. &lt;p&gt;Another of Nandy’s comments is worth noting.&amp;nbsp;“It makes me angry on behalf of the BBC staff and the whole creative industries in this country,” she said, apparently oblivious to the fact that many BBC journalists’ fury is not over the confected scandals generated by pro-Israel lobbying groups and billionaire-owned media.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1638.  
  1639. &lt;p&gt;They are appalled at the corporation’s refusal to hold Israel or Nandy’s own government accountable for the genocide in Gaza. In such circumstances, the BBC’s professed commitment to “impartiality” serves as nothing more than a smokescreen.&lt;/p&gt;
  1640.  
  1641. &lt;p&gt;In reality, the corporation acts as an echo chamber, amplifying and legitimising the interests of media tycoons, the British government and the Washington consensus, however much they flout the foundational principles of international law, human rights and basic decency.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1642.  
  1643. &lt;p&gt;Anybody who stands outside that circle of influence - such as Palestinians and their supporters, anti-genocide activists, human rights advocates, and increasingly the UN and its legal organs, such as the ICC - is assumed by the BBC to be suspect.&amp;nbsp;Such voices are likely to be marginalised, silenced or vilified.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1644.  
  1645. &lt;p&gt;The BBC has not failed. It has done exactly what it is there to do: help the British government conceal the fact that there is a genocide going on in Gaza - one that the UK is knee-deep in assisting.&lt;/p&gt;
  1646.  
  1647. &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  1648. &lt;/div&gt;
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  1669.  <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:33:51 +0100</pubDate>
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  1674.  <title>Israeli settlers slaughter dozens of sheep in attack on Palestinian Bedouins</title>
  1675.  <link>https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-slaughter-dozens-sheep-attack-palestinian-bedouins</link>
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  1677.  
  1678.  
  1679. &lt;article data-history-node-id="425960" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-slaughter-dozens-sheep-attack-palestinian-bedouins" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"&gt;
  1680.  
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  1684. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Israeli settlers slaughter dozens of sheep in attack on Palestinian Bedouins&lt;/span&gt;
  1685. &lt;/a&gt;
  1686.    &lt;/h2&gt;
  1687.    
  1688.  
  1689.        
  1690.    &lt;div class="content"&gt;
  1691.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p&gt;At dawn on Friday, groups of Israeli settlers slaughtered dozens of sheep and beat and stole several others in al-Miteh in the Jordan Valley, in the occupied West Bank.&lt;/p&gt;
  1692.  
  1693. &lt;p&gt;The attack forced two Palestinian families to evacuate their homes and relocate to al-Auja, near the city of Jericho.&lt;/p&gt;
  1694.  
  1695. &lt;p&gt;This incident is part of a growing pattern of settler violence targeting Bedouin communities, aimed at driving them from lands coveted by Israeli settlers. The settlers frequently attack livestock as a way to destroy the livelihood of Palestinian families and facilitate the seizure of their lands.&lt;/p&gt;
  1696.  
  1697. &lt;p&gt;Mahmoud Kaabneh, one of the residents forced to flee, told Middle East Eye that on Thursday evening, settlers attacked the home of his brother Salem and attempted to steal donkeys. When the family intervened to stop them, more settlers arrived and began assaulting the homes of Salem and his cousin Suleiman, along with their families.&lt;/p&gt;
  1698.  
  1699. &lt;p data-end="1238" data-start="1112"&gt;The settlers then opened the sheep pen and stole around 350 sheep. Residents quickly gathered to try to recover the livestock.&lt;/p&gt;
  1700.  
  1701. &lt;h3 data-end="1238" data-start="1112"&gt;Read more:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-settlers-slaughter-dozens-sheep-attack-palestinian-bedouins"&gt;Israeli settlers slaughter dozens of sheep in attack on Palestinian Bedouins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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  1705.    &lt;div alt="Palestinian shepherds lead their flock near the village of al-Jiftlik in the Jordan Valley, east of Nablus, in the north of the occupied West Bank on 11 May 2025 (AFP)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="af52486a-0832-4c50-90fd-e25ad1e9d4e9" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"&gt;  &lt;img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/palestinian%20shepherds%20%20al-Jiftlik%20in%20the%20Jordan%20Valley%2C%20east%20of%20Nablus%2C%20may%202025%20%28AFP%29.jpeg" width="1400" height="787" alt="Palestinian shepherds lead their flock near the village of al-Jiftlik in the Jordan Valley, east of Nablus, in the north of the occupied West Bank on 11 May 2025 (AFP)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"&gt;
  1706.  
  1707. &lt;/div&gt;
  1708.  
  1709.    &lt;figcaption&gt;Palestinian shepherds lead their flock near the village of al-Jiftlik in the Jordan Valley, east of Nablus, in the north of the occupied West Bank, on 11 May 2025 (AFP)&lt;/figcaption&gt;
  1710.  &lt;/div&gt;
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  1714. &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="background: url(&amp;quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&amp;quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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  1725.  <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:29:59 +0100</pubDate>
  1726.    <dc:creator>Rayhan Uddin</dc:creator>
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  1730.  <title>Israeli settlers slaughter dozens of sheep in attack on Palestinian Bedouins</title>
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  1740. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Israeli settlers slaughter dozens of sheep in attack on Palestinian Bedouins&lt;/span&gt;
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  1758.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;Groups of settlers attacked Palestinians in Jordan Valley, forcing two families to flee their homes&lt;/div&gt;
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  1766.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;Palestinian shepherds lead their flock near the village of al-Jiftlik in the Jordan Valley, east of Nablus, in the north of the occupied West Bank on 11 May 2025 (AFP)&lt;/div&gt;
  1767.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-wide-photo-video"&gt;Off&lt;/div&gt;
  1768.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p&gt;At dawn on Friday, groups of Israeli settlers slaughtered dozens of sheep and beat and stole several others in al-Miteh in the Jordan Valley, in the occupied West Bank.&lt;/p&gt;
  1769.  
  1770. &lt;p&gt;The attack forced two Palestinian families to evacuate their homes and relocate to al-Auja, near the city of Jericho.&lt;/p&gt;
  1771.  
  1772. &lt;p&gt;This incident is part of a growing pattern of settler violence targeting Bedouin communities, aimed at driving them from lands coveted by Israeli settlers. The settlers frequently attack livestock as a way to destroy the livelihood of Palestinian families and facilitate the seizure of their lands.&lt;/p&gt;
  1773.  
  1774. &lt;p&gt;Mahmoud Kaabneh, one of the residents forced to flee, told Middle East Eye that on Thursday evening, settlers attacked the home of his brother Salem and attempted to steal donkeys. When the family intervened to stop them, more settlers arrived and began assaulting the homes of Salem and his cousin Suleiman, along with their families.&lt;/p&gt;
  1775.  
  1776. &lt;p data-end="1238" data-start="1112"&gt;The settlers then opened the sheep pen and stole around 350 sheep. Residents quickly gathered to try to recover the livestock.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  1786. &lt;/div&gt;
  1787.  
  1788. &lt;p&gt;"The Israeli army was present with the settlers and did nothing," Kaabneh said. "But when the residents tried to rescue the livestock, the soldiers attacked the Palestinians instead and chased us down. They arrested 20 men and beat them severely for four hours."&lt;/p&gt;
  1789.  
  1790. &lt;h3&gt;'We were left with nothing'&lt;/h3&gt;
  1791.  
  1792. &lt;p&gt;In the early morning hours, residents continued searching for their sheep and discovered that settlers had slaughtered dozens of them.&lt;/p&gt;
  1793.  
  1794. &lt;p&gt;"More than 100 sheep were killed - some slaughtered with knives, others beaten to death, and many left with deep wounds. Some of them were stolen," Kaabneh said.&lt;/p&gt;
  1795.  
  1796. &lt;p&gt;He added that a man from the area was hit on the head with an iron pipe while trying to fend off the settlers. When an ambulance arrived, Israeli soldiers detained him for hours at the Hamra checkpoint near Tubas, preventing him from being transported to hospital.&lt;/p&gt;
  1797.  
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  1799.  &lt;a class="mee-readmore-img-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinians-left-without-shelter-and-water-settlers-empty-occupied-west-bank-village"&gt;&lt;img class="mee-readmore-image" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/read_more/public/images-story/A%20Palestinian%20Bedouin%20stands%20inside%20his%20home%20as%20others%20flee%2C%20while%20settler%20violence%20surges%2C%20near%20Jericho%20in%20the%20Israeli-occupied%20West%20Bank%2C%20July%204%2C%202025.jpg.webp?itok=wEFs9EMh" width="400" height="250" alt loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image"&gt;
  1800.  
  1801. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;Palestinians left 'without shelter and water' as settlers empty West Bank village&lt;/div&gt;
  1802.    &lt;a class="mee-readmore-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinians-left-without-shelter-and-water-settlers-empty-occupied-west-bank-village"&gt;Read More »&lt;/a&gt;
  1803. &lt;/div&gt;
  1804.  
  1805. &lt;p&gt;Kaabneh and his brothers, who live nearby, were forced to leave their homes and leave the area after the attack - the fifth time they've been displaced due to settler violence.&lt;/p&gt;
  1806.  
  1807. &lt;p&gt;"We've been displaced since 13 October 2023,” he said. "Each time we're attacked, our children and women are beaten, our sheep stolen. Once, they took everything we owned - our homes, belongings - and we were left with nothing but the clothes on our backs."&lt;/p&gt;
  1808.  
  1809. &lt;p&gt;According to local residents, settler attacks are a near-daily occurrence in the area, but this latest assault was among the most violent, spreading fear among Bedouin families.&lt;/p&gt;
  1810.  
  1811. &lt;p&gt;Aref Daraghmeh, a local anti-settlement activist, said at least 30 Bedouin families have been forced to leave the Jordan Valley due to increased settler violence since the start of the war on Gaza, including 20 families in the past three months alone.&lt;/p&gt;
  1812.  
  1813. &lt;p&gt;Recently, settlers have begun a tactic known locally as flag-based settlement, in which they plant an Israeli flag near the tents of Palestinian residents. If the flag is disturbed or even blown over by the wind, settlers use it as a pretext to attack Palestinians.&lt;/p&gt;
  1814.  
  1815. &lt;p&gt;This tactic has terrified residents, Daraghmeh told MEE, adding that settlers have also been using tractors to ram into homes and animal shelters.&lt;/p&gt;
  1816.  
  1817. &lt;p&gt;"There is no one to protect the Palestinians here," Daraghmeh said. "The Israeli army is supporting the settlers in their attempt to completely evacuate the Jordan Valley of its residents."&lt;/p&gt;
  1818. &lt;/div&gt;
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  1826.              &lt;div class="field field-field-article-location"&gt;Ramallah, occupied Palestine&lt;/div&gt;
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  1846.  <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:56:24 +0100</pubDate>
  1847.    <dc:creator>Fayha Shalash</dc:creator>
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  1851.  <title>Gaza doctor Abu Safiya given 'two spoonfuls of rice a day' in Israeli jail</title>
  1852.  <link>https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-doctor-abu-safiya-given-two-spoonfuls-rice-day-israeli-jail</link>
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  1855.  
  1856. &lt;article data-history-node-id="425958" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-doctor-abu-safiya-given-two-spoonfuls-rice-day-israeli-jail" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"&gt;
  1857.  
  1858.  
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  1860.      &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-doctor-abu-safiya-given-two-spoonfuls-rice-day-israeli-jail" rel="bookmark"&gt;
  1861. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Gaza doctor Abu Safiya given 'two spoonfuls of rice a day' in Israeli jail&lt;/span&gt;
  1862. &lt;/a&gt;
  1863.    &lt;/h2&gt;
  1864.    
  1865.  
  1866.        
  1867.    &lt;div class="content"&gt;
  1868.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p&gt;A lawyer representing&amp;nbsp;Palestinian&amp;nbsp;Dr Hussam Abu Safiya has raised concerns over his deteriorating health and routine torture in&amp;nbsp;Israeli&amp;nbsp;detention, where inmates are given only two spoonfuls of rice a day.&lt;/p&gt;
  1869.  
  1870. &lt;p&gt;In an&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.arab48.com/%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%A8-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-2023/2025/07/17/%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A8-%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%88-%D8%B5%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%B9%D8%B2%D9%84%D9%88%D9%87-%D8%B9%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%8A-%D9%88%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%88%D9%87-%D8%A3%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%B3" target="_blank"&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;with Arab48, published Thursday, lawyer Gheed Kassem said that the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, located north of the&amp;nbsp;Gaza&amp;nbsp;Strip, had faced severe physical assault that resulted in bruising to his head, neck, rib cage, and back.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1871.  
  1872. &lt;p&gt;When Dr Abu Safiya requested medical assistance for complications stemming from the beatings, including an irregular heartbeat, his request was denied.&lt;/p&gt;
  1873.  
  1874. &lt;p&gt;Medical neglect and abuse in Israeli-run prisons have been well-documented, with such practices reportedly intensifying since the events of 7 October 2023.&lt;/p&gt;
  1875.  
  1876. &lt;p&gt;In early May, the&amp;nbsp;Palestinian&amp;nbsp;Prisoners' Affairs Commission&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-prisoners-face-medical-neglect-and-torture-israeli-jails" target="_blank"&gt;said&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;that sick Palestinian detainees faced "deliberate and systematic medical neglect", alongside hunger and torture negatively affecting their health conditions.&lt;/p&gt;
  1877.  
  1878. &lt;h3&gt;Read more:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/two-spoonfuls-rice-day-gaza-doctor-abu-safiya-faces-starvation-israeli-prison"&gt;Gaza doctor Abu Safiya given 'two spoonfuls of rice a day' in Israeli jail&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  1879.  
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