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  10.  <title>Israeli president calls for all sides to respect ceasefire amid daily Israeli breaches</title>
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  27.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p data-end="746" data-start="545"&gt;Israeli President Isaac Herzog has called on all sides to respect “every clause” of the US-mediated ceasefire deal, even as his own government repeatedly violates it with near-daily attacks on Gaza.&lt;/p&gt;
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  29. &lt;p data-end="1040" data-start="748"&gt;Israeli forces continue to justify their bombardments by claiming delays in the recovery of bodies belonging to Israeli captives. Many of these remains, however, are believed to be trapped under mountains of rubble caused by Israel’s own strikes, making retrieval efforts nearly impossible.&lt;/p&gt;
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  31. &lt;p data-end="1295" data-start="1042"&gt;On Thursday, Israeli troops entered southern Gaza with bulldozers to dig through debris in search of bodies. They recovered three remains, which were later handed back, yet the operation was swiftly followed by renewed deadly raids across the enclave.&lt;/p&gt;
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  43.  <title>Gaza to launch emergency child vaccination drive amid Israeli siege</title>
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  60.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p data-end="87" data-start="0"&gt;Gaza’s health ministry announced that it will launch a vaccination campaign next week, targeting approximately 40,000 children under the age of three.&lt;/p&gt;
  61.  
  62. &lt;p data-end="470" data-start="225"&gt;The drive comes as months of Israeli bombardment and siege have decimated Gaza’s healthcare system, halting routine immunisations and leaving tens of thousands of children vulnerable to preventable diseases like measles, polio, and meningitis.&lt;/p&gt;
  63.  
  64. &lt;p data-end="660" data-start="472"&gt;Nedal Ghoneim, the health ministry’s public health manager, told the Associated Press that priority would be given to children who had missed their full vaccination doses due to the war.&lt;/p&gt;
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  94. &lt;p data-end="312" data-start="89"&gt;Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says countries are still negotiating a United Nations Security Council mandate for an international stabilisation force in Gaza, with troop deployments to be decided once a framework is finalised.&lt;/p&gt;
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  96. &lt;p data-end="501" data-start="314"&gt;Fidan spoke after ministers from several Muslim-majority states met in Istanbul to discuss the fragile US-brokered ceasefire, which Israel has been accused of breaching.&lt;/p&gt;
  97.  
  98. &lt;p data-end="809" data-start="503"&gt;The meeting included representatives from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Jordan, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Turkey, some of whom could contribute troops to monitor the ceasefire. The group had also met US President Donald Trump in New York in September, shortly before Israel and Hamas agreed to the truce.&lt;/p&gt;
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  100. &lt;p data-end="1003" data-start="811"&gt;Fidan told reporters that “Israel’s repeated violations” were preventing the full implementation of the ceasefire, stressing that Israel must allow “unhindered humanitarian aid” into Gaza.&lt;/p&gt;
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  113.  <title>Israel releases five Palestinian prisoners</title>
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  130.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p data-end="78" data-start="0"&gt;Israel has released five Palestinian prisoners in what marks the first unexpected release since the ceasefire took effect, offering a rare moment of hope and relief to families in Gaza.&lt;/p&gt;
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  132. &lt;p data-end="414" data-start="260"&gt;The prisoners were handed over under the terms of the truce and immediately taken to a hospital in Deir el-Balah for medical check-ups.&lt;/p&gt;
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  134. &lt;p data-end="681" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="416"&gt;While Israel freed only a handful, thousands of Palestinians remain behind bars, many held without charge or trial under Israel’s notorious administrative detention policy,&amp;nbsp; a system long condemned by rights groups as a tool of collective punishment and repression.&lt;/p&gt;
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  174.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;Ankara says other partner countries would also like to see the mission's definition and scope to decide on sending troops to the Palestinian enclave&lt;/div&gt;
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  182.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;A Turkish soldier is seen in an armoured personnel carrier (APC) at a checkpoint near the Turkish-Syrian border in Kilis province, Turkey, 29 January 2018 (Reuters/Murad Sezer/file photo)&lt;/div&gt;
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  184.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Monday that a UN Security Council resolution would be required to authorise an international stabilisation force for &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-genocide-gaza"&gt;Gaza&lt;/a&gt;, and that &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/turkey"&gt;Turkey's&lt;/a&gt; decision on participation would depend on this step.&lt;/p&gt;
  185.  
  186. &lt;p&gt;Fidan noted that the countries considering troop deployment to Gaza, as part of a deal brokered by US President Donald Trump, are keen to first understand the parameters of the proposed force.&lt;/p&gt;
  187.  
  188. &lt;p&gt;"The countries would like to see a UN Security Council resolution that establishes the force, defines the mission's terms and grants it legitimacy," Fidan told reporters during a news conference in Istanbul, after meeting with the foreign ministers of Indonesia, Pakistan, &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/saudi-arabia"&gt;Saudi Arabia&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/jordan"&gt;Jordan&lt;/a&gt;, as well as representatives from the &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/uae"&gt;UAE&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/qatar"&gt;Qatar&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  189.  
  190. &lt;p&gt;Several US officials in recent weeks have said that Turkey is being considered as one of the countries that could deploy troops to Gaza, an idea that the Israeli government strongly opposes.&lt;/p&gt;
  191.  
  192. &lt;p&gt;Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said over the weekend that Ankara is ready to do whatever is necessary to maintain the ceasefire in Gaza, including sending troops if required.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  203.  
  204. &lt;p&gt;"Whether these countries will send troops to Gaza will depend on the definition and scope of the mission," Fidan added. "What are the mission's powers?"&lt;/p&gt;
  205.  
  206. &lt;p&gt;A senior Turkish official &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/key-middle-eastern-leaders-shocked-israeli-rewrite-gaza-plan-still-back-it"&gt;told&lt;/a&gt; Middle East Eye last month that Ankara wanted&amp;nbsp;clarity on the rules of engagement and how the force would protect itself if it came under attack.&lt;/p&gt;
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  215. &lt;p&gt;Fidan acknowledged that countries might find it difficult to participate if the mission's mandate contradicts their principles.&lt;/p&gt;
  216.  
  217. &lt;p&gt;"We are ready to shoulder the burden for peace and to make any necessary sacrifice," Fidan said. "However, it is important for Turkey to examine the resulting documents and framework to ensure they are consistent with our principles. Our diplomatic efforts on this matter are ongoing."&lt;/p&gt;
  218.  
  219. &lt;p&gt;It remains unclear how the Israeli leadership might be persuaded to accept such a deployment.&lt;/p&gt;
  220.  
  221. &lt;p&gt;Benjamin Netanyahu's government has reportedly been exploring the possibility of Azerbaijani troops participating instead of Turkish forces.&lt;/p&gt;
  222.  
  223. &lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, Steve Bannon, a former senior official in the first Trump administration who is believed to remain close to the president, said last month that the White House had appointed Erdogan as "head of security" in Gaza, adding that Netanyahu would need to speak directly with Trump to seek a change in that decision.&lt;/p&gt;
  224.  
  225. &lt;p&gt;Tensions between Turkey and Israel have escalated since Israel's genocide in Gaza began in October 2023.&lt;/p&gt;
  226.  
  227. &lt;p&gt;Relations deteriorated further last year after Turkey imposed a trade embargo on Israeli businesses and joined a case against the Israeli government at the International Court of Justice accusing it of genocide.&lt;/p&gt;
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  289.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;Head of CMS Strategic, which works for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems, was allegedly heard by witness saying she placed story in The Times before group's proscription&lt;/div&gt;
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  297.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;A protester is taken away by police officers at a demonstration in support of the proscribed group Palestine Action, calling for the recently imposed ban to be lifted, in central London, 4 October 2025(AFP)&lt;/div&gt;
  298.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-wide-photo-video"&gt;Off&lt;/div&gt;
  299.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p&gt;The head of a &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/tags/united-kingdom"&gt;British&lt;/a&gt; PR consultancy which works for the &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel"&gt;Israeli&lt;/a&gt; arms company Elbit Systems admitted to placing a story in the UK press claiming that&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/iran"&gt;Iran&lt;/a&gt; was funding proscribed direct action group Palestine Action, a "trusted witness" told Private Eye.&lt;/p&gt;
  300.  
  301. &lt;p&gt;According to the magazine, the witness reported that they heard Georgia Pickering, who heads CMS Strategic, taking credit for placing a story in &lt;a href="https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/anger-over-palestine-action-ban-as-home-office-investigates-iran-link-9fjkdr763"&gt;The Times &lt;/a&gt;about a Home Office investigation into Palestine Action over their funding.&lt;/p&gt;
  302.  
  303. &lt;p&gt;It appeared shortly before the group’s ban under terrorism legislation in July, and was subsequently picked up by the Mail and GB news.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  304.  
  305. &lt;p&gt;According to Private Eye, Home Office officials said they were investigating Palestine Action’s funding sources “amid concerns that the Iranian regime, via proxies, is funding the group’s activities given that their objectives are aligned”.&lt;/p&gt;
  306.  
  307. &lt;p&gt;The magazine approached the Home Office for comment at the time, but a spokesperson said they did not recognise the claims.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  319. &lt;p&gt;A Palestine Action spokesperson described the alleged investigation as “baseless” and “ridiculous”.&lt;/p&gt;
  320.  
  321. &lt;p&gt;CMS also denied any involvement in The Times article despite Pickering's purported claim to the contrary.&lt;/p&gt;
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  324.    &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;'We're in a new world': Lawyers warn Palestine Action defendants could be denied fair trial&lt;/div&gt;
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  328. &lt;p&gt;The Guardian reported at the time that the briefing came two days after pro-Israel lobbying group We Believe in Israel &lt;a href="https://x.com/WeBelieveIsrael/status/1936535851120447528"&gt;tweeted&lt;/a&gt; that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is the “darker pupeteer” behind Palestine Action.&lt;/p&gt;
  329.  
  330. &lt;p&gt;It did not provide any evidence beyond claims that the group’s slogans “echo” IRGC language.&lt;/p&gt;
  331.  
  332. &lt;p&gt;In the months before the ban was voted through, We Believe in Israel launched a “multi-front” campaign demanding Palestine Action’s proscription, &lt;a href="https://www.webelieveinisrael.org.uk/time_to_proscribe_palestine_action"&gt;publishing two reports on the group&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  333.  
  334. &lt;p&gt;Then Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s statement on the group’s ban closely mirrored the language used in the two reports.&lt;/p&gt;
  335.  
  336. &lt;p&gt;Palestine Action frequently targeted Elbit System’s factories and offices, as well as premises belonging to companies linked to the firm, including CMS.&lt;/p&gt;
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  370.  <title>'I dreamed to hug him. Now I hope to bury him': Gaza's missing haunt their families</title>
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  398.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;Grieving Palestinian parents scour photos of tortured bodies to find their missing children&lt;/div&gt;
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  406.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;A Nasser Medical Complex worker rests after unloading 30 bodies of Palestinian prisoners released by Israel on 31 October 2025 (AFP)&lt;/div&gt;
  407.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-wide-photo-video"&gt;Off&lt;/div&gt;
  408.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p&gt;In a small, plain white hall, dozens of mothers and wives sit silently in the front rows. Fathers, brothers and friends stand at the back, leaning against the walls.&lt;/p&gt;
  409.  
  410. &lt;p&gt;All eyes are fixed on a screen at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, showing images of partially decomposed bodies - remains that may belong to someone they love.&lt;/p&gt;
  411.  
  412. &lt;p&gt;Invited by local authorities in Gaza, families study the photographs closely, hoping to identify their missing sons among &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine"&gt;Palestinians&lt;/a&gt; killed by &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel"&gt;Israeli&lt;/a&gt; forces.&lt;/p&gt;
  413.  
  414. &lt;p&gt;The bodies, bearing clear signs of torture and decomposition, were recently handed over by Israeli authorities as part of a prisoner swap deal with Hamas.&lt;/p&gt;
  415.  
  416. &lt;p&gt;They were returned without any form of identification, including the date of death or location.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  427.  
  428. &lt;p&gt;With DNA testing equipment unavailable in Gaza, the only way to identify them is for relatives to search through photographs of the decomposed bodies - a process as painful as it is necessary.&lt;br&gt;
  429. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;
  430. Among the grieving mothers looking for clues in the photos is Wafaa al-Aloul.&lt;/p&gt;
  431.  
  432. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  433. &lt;p&gt;'My life now swings between corpse-identification groups and prisoner lists'&lt;/p&gt;
  434.  
  435. &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;-&amp;nbsp;Wafaa al-Aloul, mother of missing Palestinian&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  436. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  437.  
  438. &lt;p&gt;Though in Egypt receiving treatment, the 45-year-old has spent hours looking at the photos since the Palestinian health ministry made them online for families to identify.&lt;/p&gt;
  439.  
  440. &lt;p&gt;She is looking for any sign of her son, Mohammed, who went missing in September.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  441.  
  442. &lt;p&gt;"I'm searching for his face among corpses," Aloul told Middle East Eye.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  443.  
  444. &lt;p&gt;"I study every detail, from hair to hands, height, and shoes - only to collapse in disappointment.&amp;nbsp;My relatives searched for the bodies Israel returned, but they couldn't find him."&lt;/p&gt;
  445.  
  446. &lt;p&gt;As part of the deal with Hamas, Israel has so far returned the bodies of 270 people.&lt;/p&gt;
  447.  
  448. &lt;p&gt;Most were decomposed beyond recognition, with some missing limbs, handcuffed or blindfolded, and showing signs of torture and summary execution.&lt;/p&gt;
  449.  
  450. &lt;p&gt;Only 78 have been identified by relatives so far.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  451.  
  452. &lt;h3&gt;'My dream was to hug him'&lt;/h3&gt;
  453.  
  454. &lt;p&gt;Aloul was evacuated to Egypt in April 2024 after sustaining severe burns from Israeli bombing in the area where her family had taken shelter in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip.&lt;/p&gt;
  455.  
  456. &lt;p&gt;Since then, she has been waiting desperately to be reunited with her children in Gaza.&lt;/p&gt;
  457.  
  458. &lt;p&gt;In September, she learned that her eldest son, Mohammed, had gone missing after going out to find wood and tarpaulins to build a makeshift shelter for the family, who had been recently displaced.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  469.  
  470. &lt;p&gt;"That was the last time anyone in the family saw him," she said.&lt;/p&gt;
  471.  
  472. &lt;p&gt;"He left with a relative to find something to protect the family, and they both disappeared. They never came back. Since then, I have lived in agony," she added.&lt;/p&gt;
  473.  
  474. &lt;p&gt;Even after a ceasefire took effect in October, the family received no news. Relatives searched everywhere - in buildings, under rubble, along the streets - but found no trace.&lt;/p&gt;
  475.  
  476. &lt;p&gt;"Some told us he may have been killed and buried in the sand when Israeli forces bulldozed entire streets," Aloul said. "Maybe they buried his body. Maybe they took him. Maybe he's alive, detained somewhere."&lt;/p&gt;
  477.  
  478. &lt;p&gt;Remembering her son, the grieving mother said Mohammed was gentle and peaceful.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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  486.    &lt;figcaption&gt;Mohammed Al-Aloul finished his&amp;nbsp;high school just before the war started (Supplied)&lt;/figcaption&gt;
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  508.  
  509. &lt;p&gt;He had finished high school just before the war started and was thinking about university.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  510.  
  511. &lt;p&gt;"I remember the nights he spent studying. We dreamed about university. We struggled financially, and he told me he would delay his studies so we could save for tuition," she recalled.&lt;/p&gt;
  512.  
  513. &lt;p&gt;Now, she spends her days searching for him among tortured detainees and mutilated bodies.&lt;/p&gt;
  514.  
  515. &lt;p&gt;"How did I become a mother who hopes to find her child among mutilated corpses, just to know where he rests? My dream was to hug him outside Gaza. Now I pray simply to bury him," she added.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  516.  
  517. &lt;p&gt;Thousands of families in Gaza face the same torment - unsure if their loved ones were killed, buried in rubble or forcibly disappeared by Israel.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  518.  
  519. &lt;p&gt;An estimated 10,000 people in Gaza remain missing since the genocide began, most believed to be under the rubble.&lt;/p&gt;
  520.  
  521. &lt;p&gt;The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor estimates around &lt;a href="https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6897/No-one-fully-survived:-Shocking-statistics-expose-the-devastating-scope-of-Israel%E2%80%99s-genocide-in-Gaza"&gt;2,700&lt;/a&gt; Palestinians remain forcibly disappeared in Israeli custody, with no information on their fate.&lt;/p&gt;
  522.  
  523. &lt;p&gt;"My life now swings between corpse-identification groups and prisoner lists," Aloul said. "Sometimes I hope to see his name among detainees. Other times, I fear seeing his image among the dead."&lt;/p&gt;
  524.  
  525. &lt;h3&gt;Primitive tools&lt;/h3&gt;
  526.  
  527. &lt;p&gt;Two years into Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, only a handful of medical facilities remain functional.&lt;/p&gt;
  528.  
  529. &lt;p&gt;The World Health Organization &lt;a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/22-05-2025-health-system-at-breaking-point-as-hostilities-further-intensify--who-warns"&gt;says&lt;/a&gt; over 92 percent of the Palestinian enclave's health system has been destroyed, including forensic services for unidentified remains.&lt;/p&gt;
  530.  
  531. &lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, Israel's ongoing blockade has prevented the entry of new forensic equipment, including DNA testing machines, crippling identification efforts.&lt;/p&gt;
  532.  
  533. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  534. &lt;p&gt;'We saw severe bruises and bleeding consistent with fatal abuse'&lt;/p&gt;
  535.  
  536. &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;-&amp;nbsp;Dr Ahmed Dhahir, Nasser Hospital&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  537. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  538.  
  539. &lt;p&gt;This has pushed the health ministry to rely on basic means, said Dr Ahmed Dhahir, head of forensic medicine at Nasser Hospital.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  540.  
  541. &lt;p&gt;"We have no DNA testing, no tissue labs, no equipment," Dhahir told MEE.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  542.  
  543. &lt;p&gt;“We are forced to rely on primitive methods - noting distinctive features, clothing, injuries, shoes - photographing them, and uploading everything so families can look online and try to identify them,” he added.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  544.  
  545. &lt;p&gt;The scenes of families trying to identify their loved ones in this way have been "tragic", the doctor added.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  546.  
  547. &lt;p&gt;Although some victims have been identified, the majority remain unnamed.&lt;/p&gt;
  548.  
  549. &lt;p&gt;Scores have been buried in a cemetery in Deir al-Balah after the legal window for identification expired. Each grave has been mapped for future reference, Dhahir said.&lt;/p&gt;
  550.  
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  554.  
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  556.  
  557.    &lt;figcaption&gt;Details of Palestinian remains released by Israel are displayed to help families identify relatives at Nasser Hospital, Khan Younis, 18 October 2025 (AFP/Omar al-Qattaa)&lt;/figcaption&gt;
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  569.  
  570. &lt;p&gt;Another obstacle in the identification process is that many bodies arrived in an advanced state of putrefaction or adipocere (corpse-wax) formation, obscuring features, in addition to heavy freezing, which distorts faces.&lt;/p&gt;
  571.  
  572. &lt;p&gt;This is in addition to many of the bodies showing signs of torture.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  573.  
  574. &lt;p&gt;"Many bodies we received were blindfolded and handcuffed - suggesting punitive handling and possible asphyxiation," Dhahir said. "We saw severe bruises and bleeding consistent with fatal abuse."&lt;/p&gt;
  575.  
  576. &lt;p&gt;However, he explained that autopsies could not be performed due to the freezing, though external examinations revealed injuries that could cause death.&lt;/p&gt;
  577.  
  578. &lt;p&gt;Since October 2023, Israeli authorities have systematically used widespread torture against Palestinian prisoners, resulting in the deaths of at least 80 detainees, 49 of them from Gaza.&lt;/p&gt;
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  640.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv are accomplices in a project of disintegration. They are igniting civil strife, arming factions, and reducing nations to feuding fiefdoms over which Israel reigns supreme&lt;/div&gt;
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  648.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;The UAE's Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan (R) receiving Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar in Abu Dhabi on 6 April , 2025 (AFP)&lt;/div&gt;
  649.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-wide-photo-video"&gt;On&lt;/div&gt;
  650.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:16px; margin-bottom:16px"&gt;In the flickering twilight of &lt;a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@middleeasteye/video/7567021215769103618"&gt;El-Fasher&lt;/a&gt;, a child clutches a soot-covered doll beside a pile of ashes where her home once stood.&lt;/p&gt;
  651.  
  652. &lt;p style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:16px; margin-bottom:16px"&gt;Mothers huddle in the corridors of the last functioning hospital, terrified that the next drone strike will claim the wounded they tend. Fathers dig graves with their hands, burying children in the courtyards of shattered schools.&lt;/p&gt;
  653.  
  654. &lt;p&gt;For 18 months, the city endured &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uae-backed-horror-el-fasher-exposes-wests-empty-words"&gt;a siege&lt;/a&gt; that stripped it of food, water, and life. When its gates finally fell, it was not liberation that entered. It was &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1cW-yIcMzE"&gt;annihilation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  655.  
  656. &lt;p&gt;Witnesses&lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/MiddleEastEye/posts/systematic-killings-have-taken-place-over-the-past-two-days-since-the-paramilita/1269418308554938/"&gt; speak&lt;/a&gt; of men dragged from their homes, women and children executed in the streets, hospitals shelled while terrified civilians sheltered inside.&lt;/p&gt;
  657.  
  658. &lt;p&gt;Human Rights Watch has&lt;a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/10/29/sudan-mass-atrocities-in-captured-darfur-city"&gt; documented &lt;/a&gt;scenes of mass killings, burning, and looting. The UN has&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/war-atrocities-sudan-civilians-deliberately-targeted-un-fact-finding-mission?utm_source=chatgpt.com"&gt;described&lt;/a&gt; the assault as a "campaign of extermination". And behind the force that carried out this atrocity stands a patron whose fingerprints stain every front of &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxsoXw1y0uw"&gt;Sudan’s war&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uae-backed-horror-el-fasher-exposes-wests-empty-words"&gt;the United Arab Emirates&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  669.  
  670. &lt;p&gt;If the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are the visible executioners, the hand that directs them is Abu Dhabi’s.&lt;/p&gt;
  671.  
  672. &lt;p&gt;It has &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-increasing-support-sudans-rsf-new-chinese-drones-report"&gt;poured cash, weapons&lt;/a&gt;, and political cover into the war machine of RSF leader Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo - known as Hemeti -&amp;nbsp;igniting a conflict that has torn Sudan apart.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  673.  
  674. &lt;h3&gt;A dark history&lt;/h3&gt;
  675.  
  676. &lt;p&gt;Arms continue to reach the RSF commander through the porous borders of Chad and Libya, and by air flights through UAE bases in Somaliland, sustaining a war that has displaced millions and hollowed out the country’s institutions.&lt;/p&gt;
  677.  
  678. &lt;p&gt;Even &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/uk"&gt;the UK’&lt;/a&gt;s own military equipment has &lt;a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/28/uk-military-equipment-rapid-support-forces-rsf-militia-accused-genocide-found-sudan-united-nations"&gt;found its way&lt;/a&gt; into RSF hands, exposing the West’s&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uae-backed-horror-el-fasher-exposes-wests-empty-words"&gt; silent complicity&lt;/a&gt; in the crimes it publicly condemns.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  679.  
  680. &lt;div class="mee-readmore mee-readmore-article-opinion mee-readmore-type-image align-right"&gt;
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  682.  
  683. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;The UAE-backed horror in el-Fasher exposes the West's empty words&lt;/div&gt;
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  685. &lt;/div&gt;
  686.  
  687. &lt;p&gt;The RSF’s roots lie in the darkest corners of Sudan’s modern history. &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-hemeti-who-former-warlord-vying-control"&gt;Formed&lt;/a&gt; under former President Omar al-Bashir as a paramilitary arm of the National Intelligence and Security Service, it was later folded into the army’s framework without losing its autonomy.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  688.  
  689. &lt;p&gt;Its leader, Hemedti, rose from humble &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-hemeti-who-former-warlord-vying-control"&gt;camel trader to warlord&lt;/a&gt;, from Bashir’s enforcer in Darfur to deputy head of Sudan’s &lt;a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/11/sudan-army-chief-issues-a-decree-for-new-sovereign-council"&gt;Transitional Sovereignty Council&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  690.  
  691. &lt;p&gt;In 2019, the RSF helped depose Bashir, joining the transitional government while quietly preserving its independence and foreign sponsors. That fragile coexistence with the army collapsed in April 2023, when negotiations over security reform failed.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  692.  
  693. &lt;p&gt;What followed was not merely a military confrontation but a struggle for the nation’s survival: a state pitted against the mercenary force it once created.&lt;/p&gt;
  694.  
  695. &lt;p&gt;Since the popular uprising of 2018 that overthrew Bashir, Abu Dhabi has &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/abu-dhabi-built-axis-secessionists-across-region-how"&gt;intervened&lt;/a&gt; to sabotage the Sudanese revolution and divert it from its course.&lt;/p&gt;
  696.  
  697. &lt;p&gt;It armed and financed Hemedti - &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-hemeti-who-former-warlord-vying-control"&gt;the Janjaweed commander&lt;/a&gt; once used by Bashir to crush Darfur - and sought to exploit that same brutal expertise to destroy Sudan, fragment it, and divide it further, using its petrodollars as a weapon of disintegration.&lt;/p&gt;
  698.  
  699. &lt;p&gt;A&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/inside-uae-secret-operation-somalia-sudan-bosaso"&gt; Middle East Eye investigation&lt;/a&gt; revealed how this support operates: through a clandestine network of airlifts, arms, and mercenaries. In &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/inside-uae-secret-operation-somalia-sudan-bosaso"&gt;Somalia’s port city of Bosaso&lt;/a&gt;, Emirati cargo planes marked "hazardous" land and depart under cover of night, part of a covert operation funnelling weapons and fighters into Sudan.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  710.  
  711. &lt;p&gt;Colombian mercenaries&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/secret-operations-turning-somalia-supply-hub-rsf-war-sudan"&gt; recruited&lt;/a&gt; by UAE-based private firms have been deployed under RSF command in Darfur’s killing fields. This is not proxy war by accident, but by design.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  712.  
  713. &lt;p&gt;But Sudan is only the latest theatre in Abu Dhabi’s long campaign of counter-revolution.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  714.  
  715. &lt;h3&gt;A counter-revolutionary crusade&lt;/h3&gt;
  716.  
  717. &lt;p&gt;The RSF’s brutality was first exported to &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/yemen"&gt;Yemen&lt;/a&gt;, where tens of thousands of Sudanese fighters were&lt;a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/30-000-sudanese-forces-fighting-in-yemen-official/1512989"&gt; deployed&lt;/a&gt; under Emirati command to wage the UAE’s war for dominance.&lt;/p&gt;
  718.  
  719. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  720. &lt;p&gt;Since the Arab Spring, the&amp;nbsp; UAE has waged a counter-revolutionary crusade across the Arab world. It has funded coups, armed militias, and fuelled proxy wars to halt democratic change&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  721. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  722.  
  723. &lt;p&gt;There, the same Janjaweed units that once razed Darfur became instruments of Emirati ambition, hired muscle in a regional war that shattered another Arab nation.&lt;/p&gt;
  724.  
  725. &lt;p&gt;Since the Arab Spring, the Emirates - under &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/tags/mohammed-bin-zayed"&gt;Mohammed bin Zayed&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;- has waged a counter-revolutionary crusade across the Arab world.&lt;/p&gt;
  726.  
  727. &lt;p&gt;It has &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/tunisia-uae-libya-ghannouchi-coups-fake-footage-and-proxy-parties-accused-meddling-affairs"&gt;funded coups&lt;/a&gt;, armed militias, and fuelled proxy wars to halt democratic change and preserve the region’s authoritarian order.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  728.  
  729. &lt;p&gt;Its foreign policy has become one of pre-emptive sabotage, ensuring that no revolution succeeds, no democracy survives, and no freedom takes root that might threaten the monarchies of the Gulf.&lt;/p&gt;
  730.  
  731. &lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/egypt"&gt;Egypt&lt;/a&gt;, it bankrolled the coup that brought President Abdel-Fatah el Sisi to power and restored military rule.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  732.  
  733. &lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/tunisia"&gt;Tunisia&lt;/a&gt;, it embraced Kais Saied’s 2021 power grab, strangling the Arab world’s last surviving democracy.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  734.  
  735. &lt;p&gt;And in &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/libya"&gt;Libya&lt;/a&gt;, it went further - repeatedly violating international law to install a new autocrat. A&lt;a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/6/14/un-report-uae-violates-libya-arms-embargo"&gt; UN report&lt;/a&gt; documented the UAE’s repeated breaches of the arms embargo on Libya: attack helicopters, drones, and missile systems secretly supplied to &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/tags/khalifa-haftar"&gt;Khalifa Haftar&lt;/a&gt;’s Libya National Army (LNA), escalating the war and enabling the seizure of strategic territory.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  736.  
  737. &lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="535" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uxsoXw1y0uw" title="What's happening in Sudan? | MEE Explains" width="951"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  738.  
  739. &lt;p&gt;The pattern is now impossible to deny.&lt;/p&gt;
  740.  
  741. &lt;p&gt;The Wall Street Journal has &lt;a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/how-u-a-e-arms-bolstered-a-sudanese-militia-accused-of-genocide-781b9803"&gt;detailed&lt;/a&gt; how Emirati arms pipelines have bolstered a Sudanese militia accused of genocide, a mirror image of the Libya playbook.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  742.  
  743. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  744. &lt;p&gt;UAE preaches that prosperity without freedom is the path forward for Arabs. But the reality their model produces is fragmentation, mayhem, and bloodshed&lt;/p&gt;
  745. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  746.  
  747. &lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, a parallel story has unfolded in Gaza, one that couples "humanitarian"&amp;nbsp;optics with carceral engineering.&lt;/p&gt;
  748.  
  749. &lt;p&gt;Evidence suggests the UAE is &lt;a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/is-the-uae-involved-in-israels-gaza-concentration-camp-scheme-heres-what-we-know/"&gt;entangled&lt;/a&gt; in Israel’s scheme to raze eastern Rafah and erect a "humanitarian city" to corral 600,000 Palestinians, a "concentration camp" by any honest measure.&lt;/p&gt;
  750.  
  751. &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/is-the-uae-involved-in-israels-gaza-concentration-camp-scheme-heres-what-we-know/"&gt;Mondoweiss traces&lt;/a&gt; this to Israel’s operation codenamed Gallant Knight 3 to the emergence of Abu Shabab’s &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/popular-forces-who-are-gangsters-being-armed-israel"&gt;"Popular Forces"&lt;/a&gt; as a local proxy to police the enclosure.&lt;/p&gt;
  752.  
  753. &lt;p&gt;To service this prison without bars, the UAE has built six desalination plants in Egypt’s al-Arish, boasting a combined capacity said to serve over 600,000 people - the very figure echoed by Israeli officials and sympathetic media.&lt;a href="https://gulfnews.com/uae/government/uae-water-project-launches-to-aid-over-600000-in-war-torn-gaza-1.500249513"&gt; UAE state-aligned coverage&lt;/a&gt; touts this as charity.&lt;/p&gt;
  754.  
  755. &lt;p&gt;In context, it looks like infrastructure for mass containment.&amp;nbsp;Nor did Abu Dhabi merely stand by as Israel waged a genocidal onslaught. It helped keep Israel’s arteries open.&lt;/p&gt;
  756.  
  757. &lt;p&gt;With the Red Sea contested, Israel moved to &lt;a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-plans-to-transport-goods-from-india-via-uae-to-bypass-houthi-attacks/3115825"&gt;overland shipping&lt;/a&gt; from India via the UAE to bypass Yemen's Houthi attacks.&lt;/p&gt;
  758.  
  759. &lt;p&gt;Reports and follow-ups detailed trucking routes running from Gulf ports to Haifa. At Ben-Gurion airport, as most airlines suspended service, Emirati carriers &lt;a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-most-airlines-avoid-israel-emirati-carriers-keep-up-flights-for-diplomacy-profit/"&gt;kept flying&lt;/a&gt;, effectively &lt;a href="https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-uae-carriers-prove-lifeline-for-israeli-travelers-1001521650"&gt;serving as a lifeline&lt;/a&gt; for Israeli travel during the war.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  769. &lt;/div&gt;
  770.  
  771. &lt;h3&gt;An ideological partnership&lt;/h3&gt;
  772.  
  773. &lt;p&gt;This partnership is not merely logistical; it is ideological and commercial.&lt;/p&gt;
  774.  
  775. &lt;p&gt;Israeli and Emirati online networks have worked in tandem to shape narratives around Sudan and Gaza, &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-uae-influencers-target-sudan-army-rsf-massacres-el-fasher"&gt;targeting Sudan’s army&lt;/a&gt; even as RSF massacres mounted in El Fasher.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  776.  
  777. &lt;div class="mee-readmore mee-readmore-article-the-big-story mee-readmore-type-image align-right"&gt;
  778.  &lt;a class="mee-readmore-img-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/abu-dhabi-built-axis-secessionists-across-region-how"&gt;&lt;img class="mee-readmore-image" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/read_more/public/images-story/The%20United%20Arab%20Emirates%27%20President%20Sheikh%20Mohamed%20bin%20Zayed%20Al%20Nahyan%20arrives%20at%20the%20BRICS%20summit%20in%20Kazan%20on%20October%2023%2C%202024-afp.jpg.webp?itok=Z9KAMpAY" width="400" height="250" alt loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image"&gt;
  779.  
  780. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;How Abu Dhabi built an axis of secessionists across the region&lt;/div&gt;
  781.    &lt;a class="mee-readmore-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/abu-dhabi-built-axis-secessionists-across-region-how"&gt;Read More »&lt;/a&gt;
  782. &lt;/div&gt;
  783.  
  784. &lt;p&gt;On the defence-industrial side, firms are &lt;a href="https://thedefensepost.com/2025/10/29/controp-uae-defense/"&gt;expanding&lt;/a&gt; inside the UAE, tightening a two-way flow of money, tech, and intelligence. Israeli defence firm Controp is&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://thedefensepost.com/2025/10/29/controp-uae-defense/"&gt;opening a UAE subsidiary&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;making it the latest emblem of this deepening security embrace.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  785.  
  786. &lt;p&gt;All the while, Emirati rulers boast of their "development model" as a&lt;a href="https://www.wam.ae/en/article/b3bx1ik-uaes-development-model-shining-example-regional"&gt; "shining example for the region&lt;/a&gt;": authoritarian, anti-political, drenched in consumerism and spectacle.&lt;/p&gt;
  787.  
  788. &lt;p&gt;It is a façade of progress built on repression. A mirage of modernity concealing a machinery of tyranny.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  789.  
  790. &lt;p&gt;They preach that prosperity without freedom is the path forward for Arabs. But the reality their model produces is fragmentation, mayhem, and bloodshed.&lt;/p&gt;
  791.  
  792. &lt;p&gt;The Emirates does not act alone. It has become Israel’s &lt;a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-united-arab-emirates-perhaps-israels-most-significant-regional-partner/"&gt;most significant regional partner&lt;/a&gt;, an accomplice in a shared project of disintegration. Together they invest in chaos: igniting civil strife, arming factions, and turning disorder into opportunity.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  793.  
  794. &lt;p&gt;Through money, mercenaries, and propaganda, they pit sect against sect, tribe against tribe, reducing nations to feuding fiefdoms over which Israel reigns supreme.&lt;/p&gt;
  795.  
  796. &lt;h3&gt;Domination through division&lt;/h3&gt;
  797.  
  798. &lt;p&gt;The spoils are both strategic and material. Sudan’s &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMlxNddGy9Y"&gt;gold flows&lt;/a&gt; through RSF-UAE channels; Libyan oil and &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-yemen-somalia-circle-bases-control-gulf-of-aden"&gt;Yemeni ports&lt;/a&gt; are quietly absorbed under the guise of "investment". Israeli and Emirati companies profit from looted resources and smuggling networks that thrive in the chaos they helped create.&lt;/p&gt;
  799.  
  800. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  801. &lt;p&gt;The UAE remains a small state playing at empire, waging wars beyond its means and courting consequences it cannot contain&lt;/p&gt;
  802. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  803.  
  804. &lt;p&gt;For Israel’s far-right government, the goal is domination through division. For the UAE, it is borrowed power: the illusion of empire through servitude to one.&lt;/p&gt;
  805.  
  806. &lt;p&gt;Both see the region not as sovereign nations but as pliable territories, a mosaic of weakened entities ripe for manipulation. From a small Gulf principality, Abu Dhabi has recast itself as a regional meddler, entangled in every conflict from Yemen to Libya to Sudan.&lt;/p&gt;
  807.  
  808. &lt;p&gt;The irony is that it imagines itself a great power, intoxicated by wealth, emboldened by its alliance with Israel, and convinced that exporting crises will shield it from change.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  809.  
  810. &lt;p&gt;But geography and history offer no such protection. The UAE remains a small state playing at empire, waging wars beyond its means and courting consequences it cannot contain.&lt;/p&gt;
  811.  
  812. &lt;p&gt;For the fires it has kindled in Sudan, Libya, Yemen, and beyond will not burn outward forever. Sooner or later, every arsonist meets their own blaze. Those who build power on flames always end up being consumed by them.&lt;/p&gt;
  813.  
  814. &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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  877.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;Winter is set to exacerbate the humanitarian crisis faced by Palestinians across the ravaged territory&lt;/div&gt;
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  885.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;A Palestinian sits in an armchair next to the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli bombardment, in Gaza City, on 2 November 2025 (Mahmoud Issa/Reuters)&lt;/div&gt;
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  887.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel"&gt;Israeli &lt;/a&gt;army has continued to attack various areas across the &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-war-gaza"&gt;Gaza &lt;/a&gt;Strip, as troops carry out demolitions of buildings despite the lack of shelters amid dropping temperatures.&lt;/p&gt;
  888.  
  889. &lt;p&gt;Israeli aerial strikes and&amp;nbsp;artillery fire have been ongoing since Sunday night, particularly in Khan Younis, south of the besieged enclave, and Gaza City, killing and injuring a number of civilians.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  890.  
  891. &lt;p&gt;Israeli aircraft launched several air strikes on Monday morning on the eastern areas of Khan Younis, coinciding with heavy artillery shelling that targeted al-Khansaa School and its surroundings in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of the city.&lt;/p&gt;
  892.  
  893. &lt;p&gt;Israel also launched attacks on the southern city of Rafah on early Monday, killing at least two &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine"&gt;Palestinians&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  894.  
  895. &lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, explosions could be heard in Gaza City due to the ongoing demolitions by Israeli troops.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  906.  
  907. &lt;p&gt;Local media reported the targeting of residential neighbourhoods and shelters where many Palestinians have sought refuge amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis.&lt;/p&gt;
  908.  
  909. &lt;p&gt;Israel has&amp;nbsp;committed over 194 violations since the &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/us"&gt;US&lt;/a&gt;-brokered ceasefire began on 10 October, the director general of the Government Media Office in Gaza, Ismail al-Thawabta, said on Sunday.&lt;/p&gt;
  910.  
  911. &lt;p&gt;Since the start of Israel's genocidal &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-genocide-gaza"&gt;war on Gaza&lt;/a&gt; in October 2023, over 68,865 Palestinians have been killed, with an additional&amp;nbsp;170,670 injured.&lt;/p&gt;
  912.  
  913. &lt;h3&gt;Winter&amp;nbsp;exacerbates humanitarian crisis&lt;/h3&gt;
  914.  
  915. &lt;p&gt;Compounding the targeted attacks and demolitions of Gaza's buildings are restrictions meted out by Israeli authorities on the entry of various essential aid, including materials for tents.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  916.  
  917. &lt;p&gt;Amjad al-Shawa, head of the Palestinian NGO Network in Gaza, noted that&amp;nbsp;most of the tents used by the displaced people are worn out and do not meet the minimum requirements for shelter.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  928.  
  929. &lt;p&gt;There is an urgent need for about 300,000 new tents before the arrival of winter in order to avoid an imminent humanitarian and environmental disaster, he stressed.&lt;/p&gt;
  930.  
  931. &lt;p&gt;According to Thawabta, the ceasefire deal stipulated the introduction of more than 300,000 tents and mobile homes to shelter the over&amp;nbsp;288,000 displaced Palestinian families.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  932.  
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  935.  
  936. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;'Almost wiped out': Israeli restrictions stifle recovery of Gaza's farmlands&lt;/div&gt;
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  938. &lt;/div&gt;
  939.  
  940. &lt;p&gt;But Thawabta added that Israel did not adhere to the stipulations regarding the shelters as well as other necessities that should have entered the blockaded strip, including essential food, medicine, heavy machinery and fuel.&lt;/p&gt;
  941.  
  942. &lt;p&gt;Between the start of the ceasefire and the end of October, only&amp;nbsp;3,203 trucks entered out of the stipulated 13,200.&lt;/p&gt;
  943.  
  944. &lt;p&gt;On a daily basis, an average of only 145 commercial and aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip, the media office noted, while the original plan required the entry of at least 600 trucks per day.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  945.  
  946. &lt;p&gt;The upcoming winter is set to worsen the already dire situation in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinians face starvation, displacement and disease.&lt;/p&gt;
  947.  
  948. &lt;p&gt;The Gaza Media Office stated that Israel has dropped over 200,000 tonnes of bombs during the past two years, leaving more than 90 percent of the enclave destroyed.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  949.  
  950. &lt;p&gt;Much of Gaza's infrastructure - including homes, schools, universities, mosques, churches, public spaces and health centres - has been reduced to rubble.&lt;/p&gt;
  951.  
  952. &lt;p&gt;In late October, the UN agency for Palestine refugees (Unrwa) urged that "humanitarian access must be restored" as colder temperatures are expected.&lt;/p&gt;
  953.  
  954. &lt;p&gt;"As winter approaches in Gaza, people are increasingly in need of shelter and warmth," Unrwa&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://x.com/UNRWA/status/1981964041925882056"&gt;posted&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;on X.&lt;/p&gt;
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  988.  <title>Who is Zohran Mamdani and will he get to run New York City?</title>
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  1016.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;The Democratic nominee is on the verge of becoming the city's first Socialist, South Asian, and Muslim mayor&lt;/div&gt;
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  1024.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;Zohran Mamdani speaks at a mayoral debate at Rockefeller Center, New York City, on 16 October 2025 (AFP)&lt;/div&gt;
  1025.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-wide-photo-video"&gt;On&lt;/div&gt;
  1026.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p style="line-height:1.38"&gt;The buzz surrounding this year’s New York City mayoral elections is unprecedented.&lt;/p&gt;
  1027.  
  1028. &lt;p&gt;Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Kwame Mamdani began as an underdog in the race, polling at less than one percent in February. Just four months later, he &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pro-palestine-socialist-zohran-mamdani-wins-nyc-mayor-primary"&gt;won the primary&lt;/a&gt; with 56 percent of the vote, after running a successful grass-roots campaign mobilising tens of thousands to knock on more than one million doors in the city.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1029.  
  1030. &lt;p&gt;The win shook the status quo by knocking out the current mayor, Eric Adams, and snatching the Democratic candidacy for mayor from former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is political royalty in New York (his father, Mario Cuomo, was one of New York's most famous governors).&lt;/p&gt;
  1031.  
  1032. &lt;p&gt;The combination of Mamdani's&amp;nbsp;charisma, catchy videos and his focus on making New York City affordable for all has captured the imagination of millions in New York, across the &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/us"&gt;US&lt;/a&gt; and globally.&lt;/p&gt;
  1033.  
  1034. &lt;p&gt;After the primary loss, Adams and Cuomo ran against Mamdani as independents, until &lt;a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/nyregion/adams-mayor-drops-out.html"&gt;Adams pulled out a few weeks ago&lt;/a&gt;, giving Cuomo, backed by the New York elite, a better shot at winning on 4 November.&lt;/p&gt;
  1035.  
  1036. &lt;p&gt;If Mamdani is elected, as many observers believe is likely, then he will become the city's first Democratic Socialist, South Asian, or Muslim to hold that position since the &lt;a href="https://www.nyc.gov/site/dcas/about/green-book-mayors-of-the-city-of-new-york.page"&gt;first mayor&lt;/a&gt; took office in 1665.&lt;/p&gt;
  1037.  
  1038. &lt;p&gt;Middle East Eye takes a look at what shaped the 34-year-old into a rising star.&lt;/p&gt;
  1039.  
  1040. &lt;h3&gt;What's Mamdani's background?&lt;/h3&gt;
  1041.  
  1042. &lt;p&gt;Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda, to a Ugandan-Indian father and an &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/india"&gt;Indian&lt;/a&gt; mother, both of whom are internationally recognised&amp;nbsp;in their respective careers and helped shape Mamdani's political leanings.&lt;/p&gt;
  1043.  
  1044. &lt;p&gt;His father, Mahmood Mamdani, a well-known academic, who has written extensively on colonialism and empire, was born in Bombay (now Mumbai),&amp;nbsp;India, in 1946, to Tanzanian-Muslim parents with roots in Gujarat, India.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1045.  
  1046. &lt;p&gt;He first came to the US on a scholarship programme, studied at the University of Pittsburgh in the 1960s and participated in the civil rights movement in Alabama. He then studied&amp;nbsp;at Tufts and Harvard University before returning to Uganda, from where he, along with&amp;nbsp;other South Asians, was expelled in 1972 by dictator Idi Amin.&lt;/p&gt;
  1047.  
  1048. &lt;p&gt;After Amin was overthrown in 1979, Mahmood returned: his subsequent tenures included the University of Cape Town, the University of Dar es Salaam, and Makerere University.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;He is currently the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://anthropology.columbia.edu/content/mahmood-mamdani" target="_blank"&gt;Department of Anthropology&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;at Columbia University.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  1049.  
  1050. &lt;p&gt;Mamdani's mother, Mira Nair, is a celebrated Oscar-nominated independent filmmaker who challenges conventional views on race, gender and class.&lt;/p&gt;
  1051.  
  1052. &lt;p&gt;She was born in Orissa, eastern India, in 1957 to a Punjabi-Hindu family. Her father was an administrator from Lahore in present-day &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/pakistan"&gt;Pakistan&lt;/a&gt;, and her mother was a social worker.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1053.  
  1054. &lt;p&gt;Nair studied sociology at a women’s college at the University of Delhi. From there to she went on a full scholarship to Harvard, where she graduated&amp;nbsp;in visual and environmental studies with a focus on documentary film-making in 1979.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1055.  
  1056. &lt;div class="mee-readmore mee-readmore-article-opinion mee-readmore-type-image align-right"&gt;
  1057.  &lt;a class="mee-readmore-img-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-new-york-times-so-afraid-zohran-mamdani"&gt;&lt;img class="mee-readmore-image" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/read_more/public/images-story/000_64KJ43B%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=Hf28erLF" width="400" height="250" alt loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image"&gt;
  1058.  
  1059. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;Why is The New York Times so afraid of Zohran Mamdani?&lt;/div&gt;
  1060.    &lt;a class="mee-readmore-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-new-york-times-so-afraid-zohran-mamdani"&gt;Read More »&lt;/a&gt;
  1061. &lt;/div&gt;
  1062.  
  1063. &lt;p&gt;Much of her early work focused on India and its people. Her debut&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Salaam Bombay!, &lt;/em&gt;co-produced&amp;nbsp;with then-husband Mitch Epstein, focuses&amp;nbsp;on Mumbai's street children and was nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 1989 Academy Awards. Nair used the profits to create Salaam Baalak Trust, which works with street children in India. Later, &lt;em&gt;Monsoon Wedding&lt;/em&gt;, won the Golden Lion at Venice in 2001.&lt;/p&gt;
  1064.  
  1065. &lt;p&gt;Nair and Mahmood, who met in Kampala while Nair was researching &lt;em&gt;Mississippi Masala&lt;/em&gt;, married in 1991. Zohran was born that year: his middle name is Kwame, after Kwame Nkrumah, a Pan-African icon and the first democratic president of Ghana.&lt;/p&gt;
  1066.  
  1067. &lt;p&gt;When Mamdani was seven, his family moved to New York City. Zohran has said that his formative years in Africa helped shape his sense of self and identity, as well as his ability to navigate multiple cultures. Both of his parents are pro-Palestinian.&lt;/p&gt;
  1068.  
  1069. &lt;p&gt;Mamdani attended private elementary and middle school at the Bank Street School for Children,&amp;nbsp;where he first &lt;a href="https://slate.com/life/2025/07/zohran-mamdani-mayor-new-york-nyc.html"&gt;ran for an "election&lt;/a&gt;" at the age of 12.&lt;/p&gt;
  1070.  
  1071. &lt;p&gt;In the school-wide US presidential election simulation in 2004, amid the US "war on terror", he ran on an anti-war platform that proposed allocating funds to education rather than the military.&lt;/p&gt;
  1072.  
  1073. &lt;p&gt;His political aspirations didn’t stop there. He attended the Bronx School of Science, where he unsuccessfully ran for student vice president at the prestigious public school that requires a standardised admission test.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1074.  
  1075. &lt;p&gt;On the sports field, Mamdani found success. He and another friend &lt;a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/nyregion/mamdani-bronx-science-high.html"&gt;created a cricket team&lt;/a&gt;, and it was through the sport that he met and befriended many South Asians, which brought him closer to his South Asian roots. The sport was not part of the public school curriculum in New York - but within a few years, it has been&amp;nbsp;added to the roster.&amp;nbsp;An Arsenal fan, Mamdani also played in a football league.&lt;/p&gt;
  1076.  
  1077. &lt;h3&gt;How did Mamdani's politics develop?&lt;/h3&gt;
  1078.  
  1079. &lt;p&gt;After high school, Mamdani&amp;nbsp;studied Africana Studies at &lt;a href="https://www.bowdoin.edu/"&gt;Bowdoin College&lt;/a&gt; in Brunswick, Maine, including the work of critical race theorists and the anti-colonial writer Frantz Fanon. He also worked as an editor for the student newspaper, including writing an opinion article on&lt;a href="https://bowdoinorient.com/bonus/article/8323/"&gt; consent&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  1080.  
  1081. &lt;p&gt;Mamdani also founded the college chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, and with other students attempted to make Bowdoin join&amp;nbsp;a boycott of Israeli academic institutions, without success.&lt;/p&gt;
  1082.  
  1083. &lt;p&gt;In one article, he wrote about his loneliness at being the only brown student&amp;nbsp;in a predominantly white classroom where he had to continuously &lt;a href="https://bowdoinorient.com/bonus/article/9364/"&gt;correct&lt;/a&gt; people’s pronunciation of his name - something he continues to do, particularly with political rival Cuomo, who &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/22/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-pronunciation.html"&gt;still mispronounces it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  1084.  
  1085. &lt;p&gt;"I’m tired of being one of a few non-white students in a classroom, if not the only one," he wrote in that article in May 2014. "I bring up race in discussions only to see the thought flicker in my peers eyes and on their tongues. They sigh without a sound. I’ve brought up race again. I’ve sidetracked the discussion. I’ve chosen to make an issue out of it."&lt;/p&gt;
  1086.  
  1087. &lt;p&gt;During the summer 2013, Mamdani&amp;nbsp;attended an Arabic language school in &lt;a href="https://bowdoinorient.com/bonus/article/8376/"&gt;Cairo&lt;/a&gt;, which he said he enjoyed until democratically elected &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/egypt"&gt;Egyptian&lt;/a&gt; President Mohamed Morsi was&amp;nbsp;overthrown by General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, making life precarious for non-Egyptians and increasingly uncomfortable for foreigners.&lt;/p&gt;
  1088.  
  1089. &lt;div class="mee-readmore mee-readmore-article-story mee-readmore-type-image align-right"&gt;
  1090.  &lt;a class="mee-readmore-img-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/mamdani-says-keep-new-york-city-pension-fund-out-of-israel-bonds"&gt;&lt;img class="mee-readmore-image" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/read_more/public/images-story/US_Mamdani_0908_Angela-Weiss.jpg.webp?itok=0p20D2rb" width="400" height="250" alt loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image"&gt;
  1091.  
  1092. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;Mamdani says he will keep New York City pension fund out of Israel Bonds&lt;/div&gt;
  1093.    &lt;a class="mee-readmore-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/mamdani-says-keep-new-york-city-pension-fund-out-of-israel-bonds"&gt;Read More »&lt;/a&gt;
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  1095.  
  1096. &lt;p&gt;After leaving college in 2014, Mamdani worked as a foreclosure prevention and housing counsellor in Queens, assisting lower-income homeowners with eviction notices and helping them to remain in their homes.&lt;/p&gt;
  1097.  
  1098. &lt;p&gt;In interviews, he has said the experience motivated him to run for office to address the housing and affordability crisis in New York.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1099.  
  1100. &lt;p&gt;It wasn’t until 2015 that Zohran had his first foray into New York City politics, when he started volunteering for the unsuccessful city council campaign for lawyer &lt;a href="Ali Najmi"&gt;Ali Najmi&lt;/a&gt;, who now serves as Zohran’s election campaign attorney.&lt;/p&gt;
  1101.  
  1102. &lt;p&gt;Mamdani also had a short stint as a musician under the name Young Cardomom (a nod to South Asian cuisine, where the spice is ubiquitous), releasing an EP titled&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Sidda Mukyaalo&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;(&lt;em&gt;No Going Back to the Village&lt;/em&gt;) with a Ugandan rapper.&lt;/p&gt;
  1103.  
  1104. &lt;p&gt;In 2017, Mamdani joined the &lt;a href="https://www.dsausa.org/"&gt;Democratic Socialists of America&lt;/a&gt; (DSA), which continues to inform his approach to policy, and worked on the campaigns for Khader El Yateem, Ross Barkin, and Tiffany Caban.&lt;/p&gt;
  1105.  
  1106. &lt;p&gt;In June 2020, he became an assembly member for New York's 36th State Assembly district in Queens, which includes Long Island City and Astoria, endorsed by DSA and running on a platform of housing reform, and police and prison reform. He won again&amp;nbsp;later that November, and again in 2022 and 2024.&lt;/p&gt;
  1107.  
  1108. &lt;p&gt;In an &lt;a href="https://patch.com/new-york/astoria-long-island-city/nyc-primary-election-2020-zohran-mamdani-vies-simotas-seat"&gt;interview in 2020&lt;/a&gt;, Mamdani said: "Every day, I'm reminded that all this suffering isn't inevitable - it's a choice that our representatives make to put the interests of their campaign donors over the well-being over their constituents."&lt;/p&gt;
  1109.  
  1110. &lt;p&gt;As an assemblyman, Mamdani campaigned alongside the &lt;a href="https://www.nytwa.org/"&gt;New York Taxi Workers Alliance&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;union for drivers to be given debt relief from the exorbitant amounts they had paid for taxi medallions, the transferable permits that allow taxicabs to operate.&lt;/p&gt;
  1111.  
  1112. &lt;p&gt;He was arrested and charged for a sit-in on Broadway Avenue during a protest. He also went on a hunger strike with some of the taxi drivers for two weeks. His activism helped consolidate support among the Sikh community.&lt;/p&gt;
  1113.  
  1114. &lt;h3&gt;When did&amp;nbsp;Mamdani start&amp;nbsp;his campaign for mayor?&lt;/h3&gt;
  1115.  
  1116. &lt;p&gt;On 23 October 2024, Mamdani launched his candidacy for his campaign for mayor of New York.&lt;/p&gt;
  1117.  
  1118. &lt;p&gt;He told &lt;a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/23/who-is-zohran-mamdani-new-york-mayor-candidate"&gt;The Guardian&lt;/a&gt; at the time:&amp;nbsp;“There is a representation of sets of voters that typically, in the very best scenario, have been erased from the political fabric, and in the worst scenario, have been persecuted by the political system in the city.”&lt;/p&gt;
  1119.  
  1120. &lt;p&gt;At a rally in Forest Hills on Sunday, he said there wasn’t “a single television camera” present back then, and for months, no one took notice of him.&lt;/p&gt;
  1121.  
  1122. &lt;p&gt;Yet his savvy and energetic campaign caught the imagination of legions of Gen Z supporters who have started their own sub-movements such as "Hot girls for Mamdani" and have hit the streets in droves.&lt;/p&gt;
  1123.  
  1124. &lt;p&gt;His manifesto, not least its focus on affordability and populist economic policies, has had diverse appeal across many demographics and and spurred more than 90,000 people into volunteering.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/mayoral-candidate-zohran-mamdani-fends-hate-islamophobia-inspires-new-york"&gt;Across the &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/mayoral-candidate-zohran-mamdani-fends-hate-islamophobia-inspires-new-york"&gt;country&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;he has galvanised supporters&amp;nbsp;into phone banking and other forms of campaigning.&lt;/p&gt;
  1125.  
  1126. &lt;p&gt;Mamdani's views on Israel's war on Gaza, which he has described as genocide, have mobilised both supporters and opponents.&lt;/p&gt;
  1127.  
  1128. &lt;p&gt;He told&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://substack.com/@mehdirhasan"&gt;Mehdi Hasan&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;that he would arrest&amp;nbsp;Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were he to enter New York City. "As mayor, New York City would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu," Mamdani said in December 2024. "This is a city that our values are in line with international law. It’s time that our actions are also.”&amp;nbsp;Mamdani has since walked back such comments.&lt;/p&gt;
  1129.  
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  1131.  &lt;a class="mee-readmore-img-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/zohran-mamdanis-support-palestinian-rights-sealed-his-mayoral-candidacy-win-polling-shows"&gt;&lt;img class="mee-readmore-image" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/read_more/public/images-story/2025-07-02T161717Z_863450748_RC2GEFA5XN2W_RTRMADP_3_USA-NEWYORK-MAYOR-ELECTION.JPG.webp?itok=15QYpR_M" width="400" height="250" alt loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image"&gt;
  1132.  
  1133. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;Zohran Mamdani's support for Palestinian rights sealed mayoral primary win, poll shows&lt;/div&gt;
  1134.    &lt;a class="mee-readmore-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/zohran-mamdanis-support-palestinian-rights-sealed-his-mayoral-candidacy-win-polling-shows"&gt;Read More »&lt;/a&gt;
  1135. &lt;/div&gt;
  1136.  
  1137. &lt;p&gt;His vocal support of Palestinians, his position against Israeli occupation (he has also said he would review any Israel-linked investments made by the city), and his criticism of Israel have driven pro-Israelis to label him as antisemitic.&lt;/p&gt;
  1138.  
  1139. &lt;p&gt;Yet 78 percent of New Yorkers who voted in the primary agreed with him that&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank"&gt;Israel&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is committing a genocide in Gaza, while 79 percent agreed that weapons transfers to Israel should be restricted.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1140.  
  1141. &lt;p&gt;Mamdani has run a race based on inclusivity. He has continued to court New York’s Black and Jewish communities, with whom he underperformed in the primary.&lt;/p&gt;
  1142.  
  1143. &lt;p&gt;His campaign has seen him feature in a lengthy video speaking in Urdu, Spanish and Arabic, and publishing flyers in Yiddish. He has visited several faith communities, including sit-downs with imams, rabbis and members of the Hindu community.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1144.  
  1145. &lt;p&gt;New York City has the world's largest Jewish population.&amp;nbsp;Several Jewish groups have canvassed for Mamdani and dismissed allegations of antisemitism against him.&lt;/p&gt;
  1146.  
  1147. &lt;p&gt;Whether he has done enough to&amp;nbsp;win support from those demographics could be a key factor in the election.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1148.  
  1149. &lt;p&gt;Politically, Mamdani cross-endorsed the city's mayoral primary NYC comptroller Brad Lander, who returned the support. He has also built alliances with established progressives like Bernie Sanders, who he credits with influencing him politically, and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.&lt;/p&gt;
  1150.  
  1151. &lt;p&gt;Both have endorsed Mamdani , and he has appeared with each them during his mayoral campaign. Governor Kathy Hochul&amp;nbsp;has endorsed Zohran, as has House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, albeit at the last minute.&lt;/p&gt;
  1152.  
  1153. &lt;h3&gt;What are Mamdani's plans for New York?&lt;/h3&gt;
  1154.  
  1155. &lt;p&gt;Mamdani has been running on a platform that prioritises making New York affordable for all those who live there.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1156.  
  1157. &lt;p&gt;His proposals include freezing rents on one million apartments, building 200,000 affordable homes, making buses fast and free, and universal childcare that will include free childcare for children under five.&lt;/p&gt;
  1158.  
  1159. &lt;p&gt;Mamdani has also proposed creating five publicly owned grocery stores that focus on low prices rather than profits in each borough, better wages for childcare workers, and increasing taxes on residents who earn more than $1m per year.&lt;/p&gt;
  1160.  
  1161. &lt;p&gt;He has also backed down on his younger political aspirations to defund the police. He plans to retain &lt;a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/26/politics/jessica-tisch-zohran-mamdani-election"&gt;NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch&lt;/a&gt;, who is widely respected even among Mamdani's opponents.&lt;/p&gt;
  1162.  
  1163. &lt;p&gt;Yet despite a campaign that focuses on affordable economics, Mamdani's socialist political leanings and Muslim identity have made him a target of bipartisan attacks, amid accusations of being a terrorist, anti-Israel, anti-police, and anti-American.&lt;/p&gt;
  1164.  
  1165. &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-zohran-mamdani-nyc-funding-election-10980020"&gt;US President Donald Trump&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;has consistently called him a&amp;nbsp;"communist" and suggested he may cut funding to the city iof he is elected.&lt;/p&gt;
  1166.  
  1167. &lt;p&gt;His closest rival, Cuomo, and current NYC mayor Eric Adams, unleashed Islamophobic attacks two weeks before election day, which have been widely condemned.&lt;/p&gt;
  1168.  
  1169. &lt;p&gt;“God forbid, another 9/11, can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?" Cuomo said in October, to which&amp;nbsp;Mamdani&amp;nbsp;later replied: “This is Andrew Cuomo’s final moments in public life and he’s choosing to spend them making racist attacks."&lt;/p&gt;
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  1210.  <title>Zack Polanski reacts to 'horrific' increase in UK-Israel trade during Gaza genocide</title>
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  1238.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;Green Party leader calls for a boycott campaign resembling the one against apartheid South Africa&lt;/div&gt;
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  1246.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;Green Party leader Zack Polanski was elected with a thumping majority in summer 2025 (Wikimedia Commons)&lt;/div&gt;
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  1248.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Green Party leader Zack Polanski has slammed the Labour government over new data revealing that&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/uk"&gt;UK&lt;/a&gt; trade with &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel"&gt;Israel&lt;/a&gt; increased during the genocide in Gaza.&lt;/p&gt;
  1249.  
  1250. &lt;p&gt;Between June 2024 and June 2025, trade in goods and services between the two countries increased by £218m (3.7 percent) to £6.2bn ($8.15bn), according to &lt;a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6901fc58918e1f940b3cf7c0/israel-trade-and-investment-factsheet-2025-10-31.pdf"&gt;data&lt;/a&gt; published last Friday by the Department for Business and Trade.&lt;/p&gt;
  1251.  
  1252. &lt;p&gt;Labour entered government in July 2024, just after the period covered in the data began.&lt;/p&gt;
  1253.  
  1254. &lt;p&gt;"People will be appalled to see that not only have we not stopped arms licences, we're engaging in everyday business," Polanski told Middle East Eye.&lt;/p&gt;
  1255.  
  1256. &lt;p&gt;"It is totally unconscionable to be treating Israel as everyday business, and these figures showing how we continue to trade with them are appalling," he added.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  1265. &lt;/div&gt;
  1266. &lt;/div&gt;
  1267.  
  1268. &lt;p&gt;"Strengthening our trade relationship with an apartheid state as they have committed an active genocide is horrific."&lt;/p&gt;
  1269.  
  1270. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  1271. &lt;p&gt;'Strengthening our trade relationship with an apartheid state as they have committed an active genocide is horrific'&lt;/p&gt;
  1272.  
  1273. &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;- Zack Polanski, Green leader&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  1274. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  1275.  
  1276. &lt;p&gt;The Green leader is a member of the London Assembly and recently&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/were-future-dont-wait-around-corbyn-and-sultana-inside-green-party-conference"&gt;won&lt;/a&gt; his party's leadership election with over 80 percent of the vote.&lt;/p&gt;
  1277.  
  1278. &lt;p&gt;Although Britain halted talks on a new free trade agreement with Israel earlier this year, new data revealed that overall exports from Britain to Israel increased by £342m (10.5 percent) to £3.6bn, with imports increasing by £124m (4.6 percent) to £2.6bn.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1279.  
  1280. &lt;p&gt;Polanski said: "The UK government still hasn't banned the import of goods produced in illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine, meaning we are actively profiting from proceeds of crime.&lt;/p&gt;
  1281.  
  1282. &lt;p&gt;"The government needs to implement that ban immediately.&lt;/p&gt;
  1283.  
  1284. &lt;p&gt;"Boycott, divestment and sanctions played a really important part in [the global movement against] apartheid South Africa and have an important role to play with this genocidal regime."&lt;/p&gt;
  1285.  
  1286. &lt;p&gt;Meanwhile&amp;nbsp;Labour MP Kim Johnson told MEE: "To continue deepening our economic ties instead of using our influence to demand an end to the violence and breaches of international law is simply shocking.&lt;/p&gt;
  1287.  
  1288. &lt;p&gt;"We already have the legal means to stop trade with illegal Israeli settlements - goods produced on stolen Palestinian land are, in effect, the proceeds of crime."&lt;/p&gt;
  1289.  
  1290. &lt;div class="mee-readmore mee-readmore-article-opinion mee-readmore-type-image align-right"&gt;
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  1292.  
  1293. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;Why the UK allows Israeli settlers to terrorise the West Bank&lt;/div&gt;
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  1295. &lt;/div&gt;
  1296.  
  1297. &lt;p&gt;Johnson added: "The question is not whether we can act, but why this government has not been and won't. The UK should be enforcing international law, not turning a blind eye to it.&lt;/p&gt;
  1298.  
  1299. &lt;p&gt;"We have both the tools and the mechanisms to restrict trade from illegal settlements - so why are they not being used?"&lt;/p&gt;
  1300.  
  1301. &lt;p&gt;Israel was Britain's &lt;a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6901fc58918e1f940b3cf7c0/israel-trade-and-investment-factsheet-2025-10-31.pdf"&gt;42nd&lt;/a&gt; largest trading partner during the period covered by the latest government data.&lt;/p&gt;
  1302.  
  1303. &lt;p&gt;Britain provided arms and intelligence from surveillance flights over Gaza to Israel throughout its genocide in Gaza, despite an apparent deterioration in diplomatic relations over the last year.&lt;/p&gt;
  1304.  
  1305. &lt;p&gt;Last September, the newly elected Labour government&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-suspends-30-arms-exports-israel-over-gaza-war-crimes-concerns" target="_blank"&gt;suspended&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;around 30 export licences for UK-made arms, although UK-made F-35 components sent&amp;nbsp;to a global F-35 pool, which could end up in Israel, were exempted.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1306.  
  1307. &lt;p&gt;UK-made F-35 components make up 15 percent of each aircraft, one of the world's most sophisticated fighter jets, which Israel&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-US-f-35-global-supply-legal-spare-parts" target="_blank"&gt;has used&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;extensively in its campaign in Gaza, as well as in Lebanon and more recently in Iran.&lt;/p&gt;
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  1336.  <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 13:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
  1337.    <dc:creator>Imran Mulla</dc:creator>
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  1341.  <title>Gaza civil defence says heavy equipment needed to recover bodies</title>
  1342.  <link>https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-civil-defence-says-heavy-equipment-needed-recover-bodies</link>
  1343.  <description>
  1344.  
  1345.  
  1346. &lt;article data-history-node-id="431017" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-civil-defence-says-heavy-equipment-needed-recover-bodies" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"&gt;
  1347.  
  1348.  
  1349.      &lt;h2&gt;
  1350.      &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-civil-defence-says-heavy-equipment-needed-recover-bodies" rel="bookmark"&gt;
  1351. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Gaza civil defence says heavy equipment needed to recover bodies&lt;/span&gt;
  1352. &lt;/a&gt;
  1353.    &lt;/h2&gt;
  1354.    
  1355.  
  1356.        
  1357.    &lt;div class="content"&gt;
  1358.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p&gt;A Gaza civil defence spokesperson said on Monday that heavy equipment is needed to recover the bodies from under the rubble, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1359.  
  1360. &lt;p&gt;"The remnants are ticking time bombs and pose a danger to the population in the Gaza Strip. We need specialists alongside the teams working in the sector," he said.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1361.  
  1362. &lt;p&gt;The Palestinian Ministry of Health and the civil defence &lt;a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/02/the-grim-task-of-recovering-thousands-of-bodies-from-the-rubble-of-gaza#:~:text=Gaza's%20ministry%20of%20health%20and,as%20of%2028%20Oct%202025"&gt;estimate&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;that about 10,000 people are still buried in the rubble in Gaza.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1363.  
  1364. &lt;p&gt;A preliminary United Nations assessment of the damage in Gaza &lt;a href="https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-13/gazans-search-for-their-dead-under-the-rubble-its-a-tragedy-for-which-there-are-no-words.html"&gt;said &lt;/a&gt;that about 175,000 structures were destroyed, leaving behind over 53 million tonnes of rubble.&lt;/p&gt;
  1365. &lt;/div&gt;
  1366.      
  1367.  &lt;/div&gt;
  1368.  
  1369. &lt;/article&gt;
  1370. </description>
  1371.  <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 13:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
  1372.    <dc:creator>Qazi Zaid</dc:creator>
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  1376.  <title>Palestine Action prisoners launch rolling hunger strike over detention conditions</title>
  1377.  <link>https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestine-action-prisoners-launch-rolling-hunger-strike-over-detention</link>
  1378.  <description>
  1379.  
  1380.  
  1381. &lt;article data-history-node-id="431015" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestine-action-prisoners-launch-rolling-hunger-strike-over-detention" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"&gt;
  1382.  
  1383.  
  1384.      &lt;h2&gt;
  1385.      &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestine-action-prisoners-launch-rolling-hunger-strike-over-detention" rel="bookmark"&gt;
  1386. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Palestine Action prisoners launch rolling hunger strike over detention conditions&lt;/span&gt;
  1387. &lt;/a&gt;
  1388.    &lt;/h2&gt;
  1389.    
  1390.  
  1391.        
  1392.    &lt;div class="content"&gt;
  1393.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p&gt;A trio of prisoners, held on remand in the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/uk" target="_blank"&gt;UK&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;for alleged offences relating to&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank"&gt;Palestine&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;Action activities, have launched a hunger strike over what they describe as "systematic abuse" by prison authorities.&lt;/p&gt;
  1394.  
  1395. &lt;p&gt;The campaign group Prisoners for Palestine (PFP) announced on Sunday that prisoners Qesser Zurah and Amu Gibb launched a rolling hunger strike by refusing food at HMP Bronzefield.&lt;/p&gt;
  1396.  
  1397. &lt;p&gt;Huba Muraisi, who is being held on remand at HMP New Hall, joined them on Monday.&lt;/p&gt;
  1398.  
  1399. &lt;p&gt;More prisoners are expected to join the strike in the coming days, although PFP said they could not disclose total&amp;nbsp;number of prisoners participating in the strike over fears individuals will be further targeted by the authorities.&lt;/p&gt;
  1400.  
  1401. &lt;p&gt;Muraisi, who is originally from Yemen and has family in Gaza, is one of the Filton 24 - a group who were arrested on terrorism charges in connection with&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-police-use-terrorism-act-detain-palestine-action-activists" target="_blank"&gt;an action in August 2024&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;targeting a research and development hub of UK-based&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank"&gt;Israeli&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;arms company Elbit Systems in Filton, Bristol.&lt;/p&gt;
  1402.  
  1403. &lt;h3&gt;Read more: &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/three-palestine-action-prisoners-launch-rolling-hunger-strike-over-conditions"&gt;Palestine Action prisoners launch rolling hunger strike over detention conditions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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  1405.  &lt;figure role="group" class="media-block"&gt;
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  1407.    &lt;div alt="Francesca Nadin, Prisoners for Palestine campaigner, addresses a rally (Supplied)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="272f8303-2863-4494-af16-b596f76f1cd7" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"&gt;  &lt;img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/Francesca%20Nadin.jpg" width="1920" height="1080" alt="Francesca Nadin, Prisoners for Palestine campaigner, addresses a rally (Supplied)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"&gt;
  1408.  
  1409. &lt;/div&gt;
  1410.  
  1411.    &lt;figcaption&gt;Francesca Nadin, Prisoners for Palestine campaigner, addresses a rally (Supplied)&lt;/figcaption&gt;
  1412.  &lt;/div&gt;
  1413. &lt;/figure&gt;
  1414.  
  1415.  
  1416. &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;
  1417. &lt;/div&gt;
  1418.      
  1419.  &lt;/div&gt;
  1420.  
  1421. &lt;/article&gt;
  1422. </description>
  1423.  <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 12:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
  1424.    <dc:creator>Qazi Zaid</dc:creator>
  1425.    <guid isPermaLink="false">431015 at https://www.middleeasteye.net/</guid>
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  1427. <item>
  1428.  <title>Cooperation with US not possible due to Israel support, says Khamenei</title>
  1429.  <link>https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/cooperation-us-not-possible-till-it-supports-israel-says-khamenei</link>
  1430.  <description>
  1431.  
  1432.  
  1433. &lt;article data-history-node-id="431014" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/cooperation-us-not-possible-till-it-supports-israel-says-khamenei" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"&gt;
  1434.  
  1435.  
  1436.      &lt;h2&gt;
  1437.      &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/cooperation-us-not-possible-till-it-supports-israel-says-khamenei" rel="bookmark"&gt;
  1438. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Cooperation with US not possible due to Israel support, says Khamenei&lt;/span&gt;
  1439. &lt;/a&gt;
  1440.    &lt;/h2&gt;
  1441.    
  1442.  
  1443.        
  1444.    &lt;div class="content"&gt;
  1445.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday said that cooperation with the United States was not possible as long as it supports Israel, Reuters news agency reported.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1446.  
  1447. &lt;p&gt;"The Americans sometimes say they would like to cooperate with Iran. Cooperation with Iran is not possible as long as the US continues to support the accursed Zionist regime, maintains military bases and interferes in the region," Khamenei said, according to state media.&lt;/p&gt;
  1448.  
  1449. &lt;p&gt;US President Donald Trump said last month that the US was prepared to make a deal with Iran when Tehran is ready to do so, saying: "The hand of friendship and cooperation [with Iran] is open."&lt;/p&gt;
  1450. &lt;/div&gt;
  1451.      
  1452.  &lt;/div&gt;
  1453.  
  1454. &lt;/article&gt;
  1455. </description>
  1456.  <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 12:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
  1457.    <dc:creator>Qazi Zaid</dc:creator>
  1458.    <guid isPermaLink="false">431014 at https://www.middleeasteye.net/</guid>
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  1461.  <title>Palestine Action prisoners launch rolling hunger strike over detention conditions</title>
  1462.  <link>https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/three-palestine-action-prisoners-launch-rolling-hunger-strike-over-conditions</link>
  1463.  <description>
  1464.  
  1465.  
  1466. &lt;article data-history-node-id="431011" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/three-palestine-action-prisoners-launch-rolling-hunger-strike-over-conditions" class="story default clearfix"&gt;
  1467.  
  1468.  
  1469.      &lt;h2&gt;
  1470.      &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/three-palestine-action-prisoners-launch-rolling-hunger-strike-over-conditions" rel="bookmark"&gt;
  1471. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Palestine Action prisoners launch rolling hunger strike over detention conditions&lt;/span&gt;
  1472. &lt;/a&gt;
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  1482. &lt;span class="field field-created"&gt;&lt;time datetime="2025-11-03T09:54:02+00:00" title="3 November 2025 09:54 GMT"&gt;Mon, 11/03/2025 - 09:54&lt;/time&gt;
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  1488.    &lt;div class="content"&gt;
  1489.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;The trio launched the strike after Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood failed to respond to a letter outlining their concerns&lt;/div&gt;
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  1496. &lt;/div&gt;
  1497.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;Francesca Nadin, Prisoners for Palestine campaigner, addresses a rally (Supplied)&lt;/div&gt;
  1498.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-wide-photo-video"&gt;Off&lt;/div&gt;
  1499.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p&gt;A trio of prisoners, held on remand in the &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/uk"&gt;UK&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;for alleged offences relating to &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine"&gt;Palestine &lt;/a&gt;Action activities, have launched a hunger strike over what they describe as "systematic abuse" by prison authorities.&lt;/p&gt;
  1500.  
  1501. &lt;p&gt;The campaign group Prisoners for Palestine (PFP) announced on Sunday that prisoners Qesser Zurah and Amu Gibb launched a rolling hunger strike by refusing food at HMP Bronzefield.&lt;/p&gt;
  1502.  
  1503. &lt;p&gt;Huba Muraisi, who is being held on remand at HMP New Hall, joined them on Monday.&lt;/p&gt;
  1504.  
  1505. &lt;p&gt;More prisoners are expected to join the strike in the coming days, although PFP said they could not disclose total&amp;nbsp;number of prisoners participating in the strike over fears individuals will be further targeted by the authorities.&lt;/p&gt;
  1506.  
  1507. &lt;p&gt;Muraisi, who is originally from Yemen and has family in Gaza, is one of the Filton 24 - a group who were arrested on terrorism charges in connection with &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-police-use-terrorism-act-detain-palestine-action-activists"&gt;an action in August 2024&lt;/a&gt; targeting a research and development hub of UK-based &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel"&gt;Israeli &lt;/a&gt;arms company Elbit Systems in Filton, Bristol.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  1516. &lt;/div&gt;
  1517. &lt;/div&gt;
  1518.  
  1519. &lt;p&gt;While the defendants now face non-terror-related charges, the Crown Prosecution Service has said it will argue in court that they have a "terrorism-connection", which could aggravate their sentences.&lt;/p&gt;
  1520.  
  1521. &lt;p&gt;All Filton 24 defendants have been refused bail and have been held on remand beyond the &lt;a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/759/part/14/crossheading/3/made#:~:text=(c)in%20the%20Crown%20Court,custody%20in%20the%20magistrates'%20court.&amp;amp;text=(b)that%20the%20prosecution%20has,all%20due%20diligence%20and%20expedition.%5D"&gt;UK's standard pre-trial custody time limit&lt;/a&gt; for the crown court, which is 182 days.&lt;/p&gt;
  1522.  
  1523. &lt;p&gt;Muraisi has been held on remand since she was arrested in a dawn raid on her home on 24 November.&lt;/p&gt;
  1524.  
  1525. &lt;h3&gt;'Targeted' by prison authorities&lt;/h3&gt;
  1526.  
  1527. &lt;p&gt;PFP said in a statement that Muraisi had been "targeted by the prison authorities", saying that her "privacy had been violated", and her "access to books and visits restricted".&lt;/p&gt;
  1528.  
  1529. &lt;p&gt;The group added that she had been "subjected to segregation" and that a kuffiyeh, which she used as a hijab during prayers, was "forcibly removed" by Bronzefield's head of security, Yasmine Cooper.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
  1530.  &lt;div class="adsense responsive"&gt;
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  1538. &lt;/div&gt;
  1539. &lt;/div&gt;
  1540.  
  1541. &lt;p&gt;Like a number of other defendants held on charges in connection with Palestine Action, Muraisi had been transferred from HMP Bronzefield to HMP Newhall, which PFP said is located "hundreds of miles" away from her family and support network.&lt;/p&gt;
  1542.  
  1543. &lt;div class="mee-readmore mee-readmore-article-story mee-readmore-type-image align-right"&gt;
  1544.  &lt;a class="mee-readmore-img-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/campaigners-seeking-lift-palestine-action-ban-announce-uk-wide-historic-mass-civil"&gt;&lt;img class="mee-readmore-image" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/read_more/public/images-story/Police%20officers%20detain%20a%20protester%20during%20a%20mass%20demonstration%20organised%20by%20Defend%20our%20Juries%2C%20against%20the%20British%20government%27s%20ban%20on%20Palestine%20Action%2C%20at%20Trafalgar%20Square%20in%20London%2C%20Britain%2C%20October%204%2C%202025.%20REUTERS.jpg.webp?itok=1jncKNeB" width="400" height="250" alt loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image"&gt;
  1545.  
  1546. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;Thousands to defy UK ban on Palestine Action in ‘historic’ mass civil disobedience&lt;/div&gt;
  1547.    &lt;a class="mee-readmore-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/campaigners-seeking-lift-palestine-action-ban-announce-uk-wide-historic-mass-civil"&gt;Read More »&lt;/a&gt;
  1548. &lt;/div&gt;
  1549.  
  1550. &lt;p&gt;According to PFP,&amp;nbsp;Qesser was "forced into her cell" after announcing her hunger strike on Monday.&lt;/p&gt;
  1551.  
  1552. &lt;p&gt;Prison guards informed her that she would be "placed on report" for breaching "prison discipline".&lt;/p&gt;
  1553.  
  1554. &lt;p&gt;The prisoners launched the strike after Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood failed to respond to a letter outlining their demands, including immediate bail and an end to prison interference with their personal communications.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1555.  
  1556. &lt;p&gt;In July, Yvette Cooper, then home secretary, banned Palestine Action and designated the group as a terrorist organisation.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1557.  
  1558. &lt;p&gt;The ban means Palestine Action is akin to the Islamic State or al-Qaeda in British law, and expressing support or membership of the group is a criminal offence that could lead to a prison sentence of up to 14 years.&lt;/p&gt;
  1559.  
  1560. &lt;p&gt;MEE previously reported that prisoners linked to Palestine Action were facing increasing restrictions on their post, phone calls and visits in the wake of the group's proscription in July.&lt;/p&gt;
  1561.  
  1562. &lt;p&gt;This prompted one detainee, T Hoxha, to &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-action-prisoner-hunger-strike-family-health"&gt;launch a hunger strike in August&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  1563. &lt;/div&gt;
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  1591.  <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 12:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
  1592.    <dc:creator>Katherine Hearst</dc:creator>
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  1596.  <title>Ex-Israeli army legal chief 'stages suicide' amid Palestinian prisoner rape scandal</title>
  1597.  <link>https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ex-israeli-army-legal-chief-stages-suicide-amid-palestinian-prisoner</link>
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  1600.  
  1601. &lt;article data-history-node-id="431013" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ex-israeli-army-legal-chief-stages-suicide-amid-palestinian-prisoner" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"&gt;
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  1604.      &lt;h2&gt;
  1605.      &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ex-israeli-army-legal-chief-stages-suicide-amid-palestinian-prisoner" rel="bookmark"&gt;
  1606. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Ex-Israeli army legal chief 'stages suicide' amid Palestinian prisoner rape scandal&lt;/span&gt;
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  1608.    &lt;/h2&gt;
  1609.    
  1610.  
  1611.        
  1612.    &lt;div class="content"&gt;
  1613.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Israeli police have arrested the country's former top military lawyer on suspicion of faking a suicide attempt to dispose of a phone containing incriminating evidence in regards to leaking a video apparently showing soldiers raping a Palestinian detainee.&lt;/p&gt;
  1614.  
  1615. &lt;p&gt;Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi went missing on Sunday after leaving a note to the family and abandoning her car by the beach.&lt;/p&gt;
  1616.  
  1617. &lt;p&gt;She was found at night alive and in good condition and brought to police custody.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1618.  
  1619. &lt;p&gt;Israeli Channel 12 news reported that police suspect Tomer-Yerushalmi staged the attempted suicide to get rid of her phone, which she tossed into the sea. The letter she left behind was described as "ambiguous" and staged.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1620.  
  1621. &lt;p&gt;She appeared in court on Monday with another suspect in the same case.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1622.  
  1623. &lt;h3&gt;Read more: &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ex-israeli-military-top-lawyer-missing-after-admitting-leaking-soldiers-rape-video"&gt;Ex-Israeli army legal chief 'stages suicide' amid Palestinian prisoner rape scandal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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  1628.  
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  1630.  
  1631.    &lt;figcaption&gt;Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi resigned as the Israeli Military Advocate General on Friday (Israeli army)&lt;/figcaption&gt;
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  1643.  <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
  1644.    <dc:creator>Qazi Zaid</dc:creator>
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  1648.  <title>Ex-Israeli army legal chief 'stages suicide' amid Palestinian prisoner rape scandal</title>
  1649.  <link>https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ex-israeli-military-top-lawyer-missing-after-admitting-leaking-soldiers-rape-video</link>
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  1658. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Ex-Israeli army legal chief 'stages suicide' amid Palestinian prisoner rape scandal&lt;/span&gt;
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  1676.                &lt;div class="field field-field-subhead"&gt;Police arrest Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi on suspicion of faking a suicide attempt to get rid of a phone containing evidence in the video leak case&lt;/div&gt;
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  1684.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-cutline"&gt;Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi resigned as the Israeli Military Advocate General on Friday (Israeli army)&lt;/div&gt;
  1685.                  &lt;div class="field field-field-wide-photo-video"&gt;Off&lt;/div&gt;
  1686.                  &lt;div class="field field-body clearfix"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel"&gt;Israeli&lt;/a&gt; police have arrested the country's former top military lawyer on suspicion of faking a suicide attempt to dispose of a phone containing incriminating evidence in regards to leaking a video apparently showing soldiers raping a &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine"&gt;Palestinian&lt;/a&gt; detainee.&lt;/p&gt;
  1687.  
  1688. &lt;p&gt;Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi&amp;nbsp;went missing on Sunday after leaving a note to the family and abandoning her car by the beach.&lt;/p&gt;
  1689.  
  1690. &lt;p&gt;She was found at night alive and in good condition and brought to police custody.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1691.  
  1692. &lt;p&gt;Israeli Channel 12 news reported that police suspect Tomer-Yerushalmi&amp;nbsp;staged the attempted suicide to get rid of her phone, which she tossed into the sea. The letter she left behind was described as "ambiguous" and staged.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1693.  
  1694. &lt;p&gt;She appeared in court on Monday with another suspect in the same case.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  1704. &lt;/div&gt;
  1705.  
  1706. &lt;p&gt;Before her disappearance on Sunday, Tomer-Yerushalmi was set to be questioned over last year's leak of &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-media-publishes-video-soldiers-allegedly-raping-palestinian"&gt;surveillance footage&lt;/a&gt; purportedly showing soldiers at Sde Teiman detention camp gang-raping a Palestinian detainee behind riot shields.&lt;/p&gt;
  1707.  
  1708. &lt;p&gt;On Wednesday, the Israeli army launched a criminal investigation into the leak.&lt;/p&gt;
  1709.  
  1710. &lt;p&gt;Two days later, Tomer-Yerushalmi admitted leaking the video and resigned.&lt;/p&gt;
  1711.  
  1712. &lt;div class="mee-readmore mee-readmore-article-story mee-readmore-type-image align-right"&gt;
  1713.  &lt;a class="mee-readmore-img-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/raped-female-soldiers-palestinian-leaked-sde-teiman-photo-speaks-out"&gt;&lt;img class="mee-readmore-image" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/read_more/public/2024-08/IMG1778%20%281%29_0.jpg.webp?itok=hiL16rqo" width="400" height="250" alt loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image"&gt;
  1714.  
  1715. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;‘Raped by female soldiers’: Palestinian in leaked Sde Teiman photo speaks out&lt;/div&gt;
  1716.    &lt;a class="mee-readmore-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/raped-female-soldiers-palestinian-leaked-sde-teiman-photo-speaks-out"&gt;Read More »&lt;/a&gt;
  1717. &lt;/div&gt;
  1718.  
  1719. &lt;p&gt;The scandal has received widespread coverage in Israel, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday calling for an independent investigation into the leak, which he says caused "enormous damage to Israel's public image".&lt;/p&gt;
  1720.  
  1721. &lt;p&gt;"This is perhaps the most severe propaganda attack that the state of Israel has experienced since its establishment," Netanyahu said.&lt;/p&gt;
  1722.  
  1723. &lt;p&gt;The footage Tomer-Yerushalmi leaked was published in August last year amid backlash from ultranationalist Israelis at the time over a military investigation into the alleged gang-rape.&lt;/p&gt;
  1724.  
  1725. &lt;p&gt;Tomer-Yerushalmi said she leaked the footage to counter pressure from far-right groups attacking the Military Advocate General's office.&lt;/p&gt;
  1726.  
  1727. &lt;p&gt;At least nine Israeli soldiers were questioned over the assault in late July 2024, sparking widespread anger across Israel, with &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/majority-israelis-prison-rape-no-criminal-charges"&gt;polls showing&lt;/a&gt; that a majority believe the accused officers should not face criminal charges.&lt;/p&gt;
  1728.  
  1729. &lt;p&gt;Only five soldiers were eventually indicted for "severe abuse" of the detainee, but not for rape. The trial is ongoing.&lt;/p&gt;
  1730.  
  1731. &lt;p&gt;On Sunday, the accused soldiers called for the case to be dropped.&lt;/p&gt;
  1732.  
  1733. &lt;h3&gt;Israeli rape of Palestinians&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;
  1734.  
  1735. &lt;p&gt;Since the genocidal &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-genocide-gaza"&gt;war on Gaza&lt;/a&gt; began in October 2023, Israeli prison authorities and the military have been widely accused of abusing Palestinian detainees, including through rape, starvation, torture and the denial of medical treatment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="block-adsense block-adsense-managed-ad-block"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  1745. &lt;/div&gt;
  1746.  
  1747. &lt;p&gt;In March, the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.un.org/unispal/document/report-of-the-commission-of-inquiry-israel-gender-based-violence-13march2025/" target="_blank"&gt;found&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;evidence of the systematic use of sexual violence by Israeli officers against Palestinians since the start of the war.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1748.  
  1749. &lt;div class="mee-readmore mee-readmore-article-story mee-readmore-type-image align-right"&gt;
  1750.  &lt;a class="mee-readmore-img-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/rape-them-rusty-bar-message-sent-israeli-troops-coffee-bag-draws-online-support"&gt;&lt;img class="mee-readmore-image" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/read_more/public/images-story/rape-post.jpg.webp?itok=ir6xot76" width="400" height="250" alt loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image"&gt;
  1751.  
  1752. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="mee-readmore-description"&gt;‘Rape them with a rusty bar’: Message sent to Israeli troops on coffee bag draws online support&lt;/div&gt;
  1753.    &lt;a class="mee-readmore-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/rape-them-rusty-bar-message-sent-israeli-troops-coffee-bag-draws-online-support"&gt;Read More »&lt;/a&gt;
  1754. &lt;/div&gt;
  1755.  
  1756. &lt;p&gt;The commission said it had documented cases of rape and sexual assault of male detainees, "including the use of an electrical probe to cause burns to the anus, and the insertion of objects such as fingers, sticks, broomsticks and vegetables into the anus and rectum".&lt;/p&gt;
  1757.  
  1758. &lt;p&gt;One victim told the commission that while he was "suspended from the ceiling", officers inserted a metal tool "into his penis repeatedly until it started bleeding, and he fainted".&lt;/p&gt;
  1759.  
  1760. &lt;p&gt;Criminal investigations against Israeli soldiers rarely result in prosecutions in Israel.&lt;/p&gt;
  1761.  
  1762. &lt;p&gt;In August, war monitor Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) &lt;a href="https://aoav.org.uk/2025/88-of-israeli-investigations-into-recent-gaza-abuse-allegations-stalled-or-closed-without-findings-with-just-one-leading-to-criminal-sentencing/"&gt;reported &lt;/a&gt;that 88 percent of Israeli military investigations into allegations of war crimes by its soldiers since October 2023 have either been closed or produced no findings.&lt;/p&gt;
  1763.  
  1764. &lt;p&gt;AOAV stated that these findings suggest Israel is seeking to create a "pattern of impunity" by failing to carry out conclusive investigations into cases involving "the most severe or public accusations of wrongdoing by their forces".&lt;/p&gt;
  1765. &lt;/div&gt;
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  1798.  <title>Israeli army says it killed Palestinians for crossing Yellow Line</title>
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  1808. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Israeli army says it killed Palestinians for crossing Yellow Line&lt;/span&gt;
  1809. &lt;/a&gt;
  1810.    &lt;/h2&gt;
  1811.    
  1812.  
  1813.        
  1814.    &lt;div class="content"&gt;
  1815.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Israeli army on Monday said that it killed several Palestinians who crossed the Yellow Line demarcating the military’s withdrawal and approached troops in the southern Gaza Strip.&lt;/p&gt;
  1816.  
  1817. &lt;p&gt;Times of Israel quoted the Israeli army as saying,&amp;nbsp;"the operatives had posed an immediate threat” to the forces stationed in the area.&lt;/p&gt;
  1818.  
  1819. &lt;p&gt;The military said that shortly after they were identified, the Israeli Air Force struck and killed them “to remove the threat”.&lt;/p&gt;
  1820.  
  1821. &lt;section&gt;
  1822. &lt;article about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/erdogan-israel-massacred-over-200-palestinians-ceasefire-agreement" data-history-node-id="431008"&gt;
  1823. &lt;p&gt;Israel committed 194 violations of the ceasefire agreement that came into effect on 10 October, the director of the government media office in Gaza said.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1824. &lt;/article&gt;
  1825. &lt;/section&gt;
  1826. &lt;/div&gt;
  1827.      
  1828.  &lt;/div&gt;
  1829.  
  1830. &lt;/article&gt;
  1831. </description>
  1832.  <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
  1833.    <dc:creator>Qazi Zaid</dc:creator>
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  1836. <item>
  1837.  <title>Family urges UK to act as Sami Hamdi suffers health emergency in ICE detention</title>
  1838.  <link>https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/family-urges-uk-act-sami-hamdi-suffers-health-emergency-ice-detention</link>
  1839.  <description>
  1840.  
  1841.  
  1842. &lt;article data-history-node-id="431010" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/family-urges-uk-act-sami-hamdi-suffers-health-emergency-ice-detention" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"&gt;
  1843.  
  1844.  
  1845.      &lt;h2&gt;
  1846.      &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/family-urges-uk-act-sami-hamdi-suffers-health-emergency-ice-detention" rel="bookmark"&gt;
  1847. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Family urges UK to act as Sami Hamdi suffers health&amp;nbsp;emergency in ICE detention&lt;/span&gt;
  1848. &lt;/a&gt;
  1849.    &lt;/h2&gt;
  1850.    
  1851.  
  1852.        
  1853.    &lt;div class="content"&gt;
  1854.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p&gt;The family of British journalist Sami Hamdi has urged the UK government to intervene after he suffered a health emergency in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention in the US.&lt;/p&gt;
  1855.  
  1856. &lt;p&gt;“We demand the UK government intervene immediately to ensure Sami is immediately returned home to us before his health suffers any further,” the family said in a statement.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1857.  
  1858. &lt;p&gt;“In a phone call with his wife Soumaya this weekend, Sami shared that he was experiencing excruciating pain on his left side and needed to be seen by a medical professional immediately,” the family said.&lt;/p&gt;
  1859.  
  1860. &lt;p&gt;“He has now been able to access medical attention, but we remain deeply concerned that his continued detention is damaging his health," the statement added.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1861.  
  1862. &lt;p&gt;A US federal court has raised "serious questions" about the legality of detaining Hamdi, according to a legal advocacy group.&lt;/p&gt;
  1863.  
  1864. &lt;p&gt;Hamdi was on a speaking tour across North America when he was detained.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  1865. &lt;/div&gt;
  1866.      
  1867.  &lt;/div&gt;
  1868.  
  1869. &lt;/article&gt;
  1870. </description>
  1871.  <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
  1872.    <dc:creator>Qazi Zaid</dc:creator>
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  1875. <item>
  1876.  <title>Bill allowing death penalty for Palestinian prisoners advances to Israeli parliament</title>
  1877.  <link>https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/bill-allowing-death-penalty-palestinian-prisoners-advances-israeli</link>
  1878.  <description>
  1879.  
  1880.  
  1881. &lt;article data-history-node-id="431009" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/bill-allowing-death-penalty-palestinian-prisoners-advances-israeli" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"&gt;
  1882.  
  1883.  
  1884.      &lt;h2&gt;
  1885.      &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/bill-allowing-death-penalty-palestinian-prisoners-advances-israeli" rel="bookmark"&gt;
  1886. &lt;span class="field field-title"&gt;Bill allowing death penalty for Palestinian prisoners advances to Israeli parliament&lt;/span&gt;
  1887. &lt;/a&gt;
  1888.    &lt;/h2&gt;
  1889.    
  1890.  
  1891.        
  1892.    &lt;div class="content"&gt;
  1893.                &lt;div class="field field-field-text"&gt;&lt;p&gt;An Israeli panel approved a bill introducing the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners on Monday, paving the way for its first reading in parliament.&lt;/p&gt;
  1894.  
  1895. &lt;p&gt;The proposal, tabled by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir's far-right Jewish Power party, would allow Israeli courts to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis on "nationalistic grounds".&lt;/p&gt;
  1896.  
  1897. &lt;p&gt;The legislation does not apply to Israelis who kill Palestinians under similar circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;
  1898.  
  1899. &lt;p&gt;The bill has been promoted by far-right Israeli parties since before the genocide on Gaza began in October 2023, with renewed calls for its passage in recent months.&lt;/p&gt;
  1900.  
  1901. &lt;p&gt;Israeli security officials had previously opposed the measure, warning that it could endanger Israeli captives held by Palestinian factions in Gaza.&lt;/p&gt;
  1902.  
  1903. &lt;h3&gt;Read more: &lt;a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/bill-allowing-death-penalty-palestinian-prisoners-advances-israel-parliament"&gt;Bill allowing death penalty for Palestinian prisoners advances to Israeli parliament&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  1904.  
  1905.  &lt;figure role="group" class="media-block"&gt;
  1906.  &lt;div class="group-inner"&gt;
  1907.    &lt;div alt="Israeli soldiers detain Palestinians during a raid following the reported explosion of an Israeli military vehicle near a checkpoint west of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank on 11 September 2025 (AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="695daa3c-c675-47b6-b290-7e821e9650ba" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"&gt;  &lt;img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/000_747V4Z6%20%282%29%20%281%29.jpg" width="2000" height="1125" alt="Israeli soldiers detain Palestinians during a raid following the reported explosion of an Israeli military vehicle near a checkpoint west of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank on 11 September 2025 (AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"&gt;
  1908.  
  1909. &lt;/div&gt;
  1910.  
  1911.    &lt;figcaption&gt;Israeli soldiers detain Palestinians during a raid following the reported explosion of an Israeli military vehicle near a checkpoint west of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank on 11 September 2025 (AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)&lt;/figcaption&gt;
  1912.  &lt;/div&gt;
  1913. &lt;/figure&gt;
  1914.  
  1915.  
  1916. &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;
  1917. &lt;/div&gt;
  1918.      
  1919.  &lt;/div&gt;
  1920.  
  1921. &lt;/article&gt;
  1922. </description>
  1923.  <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
  1924.    <dc:creator>Qazi Zaid</dc:creator>
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