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  • Greenwashing the Nakba: How Forests Became a Weapon of Erasure

    Greenwashing the Nakba: How Forests Became a Weapon of Erasure

    Uncontrolled fires sweep through central Israel. (Photo: video grab, via social media)

    By Mohamed El Mokhtar

    Today, the pines of oblivion that were meant to bury the Nakba are themselves ablaze. What burns is not only forest, but the illusion of a landscape born without violence.

    More than 700,000 olive and citrus trees have been destroyed by Israeli forces. “It is a pure act of vandalism,” said Ronnie Kasrils, then South Africa’s Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry, in a 2002…

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    News Source: www.palestinechronicle.com

  • What The Pitt Gets Right About ER Chaos And How To Get Safer Care

    What The Pitt Gets Right About ER Chaos And How To Get Safer Care

    When lives hang in the balance, there’s no script. The Pitt captures the controlled chaos of emergency medicine, with detailed accuracy and documentary-level hyperrealism. Like 24, this Max series unfolds in real time, set in the frenetic, unforgiving realm of a Pittsburgh ER — affectionately called “The Pitt.” Here, the…

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  • Pope Francis and the clash of the conclaves

    Pope Francis and the clash of the conclaves

    As cardinals gather to elect the next pope, they would do well to avoid some of the many failings of previous conclaves.

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • Cardinals attend mass before conclave to choose new pope

    Cardinals attend mass before conclave to choose new pope

    Cardinals gathered in St Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City for a mass, just hours before the conclave to elect a new pope

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • Israeli excavations near Al-Aqsa serious violation

    Israeli excavations near Al-Aqsa serious violation

    OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)

    Islamic authorities in Jerusalem condemned the excavation and expansion work carried out by Israeli occupation’s municipal teams in “Hosh Shahabi,” adjacent to Al-Aqsa Mosque, calling it a significant development and a blatant violation of international law.

    The statement, issued on Tuesday, highlighted that the actions of the occupation authorities to expand the area at Ribat al-Kurd to allow Jews to pray and impose a new reality in this sensitive…

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    News Source: english.palinfo.com

  • Injured people treated after shelling in Indian-administered Kashmir | Conflict

    Injured people treated after shelling in Indian-administered Kashmir | Conflict

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    Injured civilians in towns in Indian-administered Kashmir were treated in hospital on Wednesday following cross-border artillery strikes between Pakistan and India. Several people were reported killed on the Indian side.

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • Palestinian Prime Minister declares Gaza Strip a "famine zone"

    Palestinian Prime Minister declares Gaza Strip a "famine zone"

    Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa declared the Gaza Strip a famine …

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  • Egyptians reject Israel-US attacks on Yemen – Middle East Monitor

    Egyptians reject Israel-US attacks on Yemen – Middle East Monitor

    Egyptian parliamentarian Mustafa Bakri said that the Israeli raids on Yemen, as well as the American-British bombing campaign, “aimed to destroy Yemen and its civilisation,” stressing his rejection of them despite his “disagreements” with the Houthis.

    Bakri added in a post on X on Monday that the Israeli, American and British raids “aimed to kill our people and destroy Yemen,” warning: “The Yemeni people are capable of putting an end to the…

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    News Source: www.middleeastmonitor.com

  • UK arms exports to Israel press ahead despite licence suspension: Study | Israel-Palestine conflict News

    UK arms exports to Israel press ahead despite licence suspension: Study | Israel-Palestine conflict News

    British pro-Palestinian activist groups found that since September the government had sent ‘8,630 separate munitions’ to Israel.

    A new report has found that United Kingdom firms have continued to export military items to Israel despite a government suspension in September last year, amid allegations that the British parliament has been deliberately “misled”.

    A report by the Palestinian Youth Movement, Progressive International and Workers for a Free Palestine revealed on Wednesday…

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • Gaza rescuers say Israel strikes kill 26

    Gaza rescuers say Israel strikes kill 26

    Gaza’s civil defence agency said Wednesday that Israeli bombardment killed at least 26 people, 15 of them in a strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City.

    Israel has drawn international condemnation over its plans to expand its military offensive in the Palestinian territory, ravaged by 19 months of war. Israel’s far-right finance minister called Tuesday for Gaza to be “entirely destroyed”.

    “Our teams retrieved 15 martyrs and 10 injured individuals after Israeli occupation…

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    News Source: www.al-monitor.com