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Facebook has platformed more than 100 paid advertisements promoting illegal settlements and far-right settler activity in the occupied West Bank, an Al Jazeera investigation has found, raising concerns that the social media giant is profiting from content that may violate international law.

Among the advertisements identified were also calls for the demolition of Palestinian homes, schools, and playgrounds, as well as fundraising appeals for Israeli military units operating in…

Scores of Palestinians were killed and injured in the Gaza Strip due to Israeli shelling, as the Israeli occupation army ordered residents of Rafah and other areas in southern Gaza to evacuate ahead of planned attacks.

An Israeli airstrike targeted a gathering of civilians east of the city of Jabaliya in northern Gaza on the second day of Eid al-Fitr,  killing two people and wounding others, Al-Jazeera reported.

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The ocean economy doubled between 1995 and 2020, but future growth could be curtailed by multiple threats.

The global ocean economy is at risk of major disruption without increased protection, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

The global ocean economy had grown to a size of $2.3 trillion by 2020, the OECD said in a report issued on Monday, as it called for action to improve sustainability.

Climate change, environmental degradation, lagging…