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In Overwhelming Vote, UN General Assembly Demands Swift End to Israeli Occupation
"The vast majority of countries have made it clear: Israel's occupation of Palestine must end, and all countries have a definite duty not to aid or…
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Sanders Leads New Senate Effort to Stop Flow of US Arms to Israel
"There is extensive evidence that these systems are being used in violation of U.S. and international law," said the senator. Demanding that the Biden administration follow…
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‘The Genocide Gentry’: Weapon Execs Sit on Boards of Universities, Institutions
"This research provides a view into just how embedded the corporate, profit-fueled war machine is in our higher education and cultural institutions," said one campaigner. A…
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Report Shows How Five Global Powers on UN Security Council Are ‘Vetoing Humanity’
"The UNSC is failing people living in conflict, with Russia and the United States particularly responsible for abusing their veto power," said Oxfam. As the number…
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Experts Say Israel’s ‘Booby-Trap’ Attacks in Lebanon Violate International Law
"These attacks violate the human right to life, absent any indication that the victims posed an imminent lethal threat to anyone else at the time." Experts…
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Hezbollah’s Nasrallah Says Israel Crossed ‘All Red Lines’ With Remote Bombings
The Hezbollah leader stressed that "the only way" to peace "is by stopping the aggression in Gaza and the West Bank" and "not escalation" or "all-out…
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Aid Groups Applaud US Bill to Restore UNRWA Funding
"The need for U.S. support is more urgent than ever," said one advocate. "The lives and well-being of millions depend on it." Rights groups on Thursday…
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‘An Extremely Dark Place in History’: UN Panel Says Israel Violated Child Rights Treaty
"I don't think we have seen before, a violation that is so massive, as we are seeing in Gaza now," said one committee leader. A United…
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Israeli Bombardment Kills 350+ in Lebanon as Fury Over US Complicity Grows
A Lebanese American activist told U.S. President Joe Biden that "the more weapons you send, the more civilians killed." The Israeli military's massive bombing campaign in…
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Israel Launches Massive Bombing Campaign in Lebanon as ‘US Weapons Continue to Flow’
"Israel is using the same script in Lebanon that it used to justify the total destruction and mass slaughter in Gaza because they faced no consequences,"…
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Calls for US Arms Embargo as Israel Kills Nearly 500 in Lebanon
One advocate said an embargo "is urgently needed to stop American weapons, paid for by our nation's taxpayers, from being used in the latest slaughter in…
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‘Rank Dishonesty’: Internal Docs Detail How Blinken Rejected Calls to Cut Off US Arms to Israel
"The Biden administration is not only complicit in genocide. It's knowingly complicit," said one analyst. When the U.S. State Department, headed by Antony Blinken, told Congress earlier this…