By Palestine Chronicle Staff 
EU foreign ministers are set to debate whether Israel’s blockade of Gaza violates the human rights clause in their Association Agreement.
The EU Foreign Affairs Council will discuss suspending the association agreement with Israel, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Tuesday.
“The Dutch foreign minister has put forward a proposal to do the review of Article 2…
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Israel will annex land in the Gaza Strip if Hamas does not return the Israeli captives and leave the Strip permanently, Minister of Culture and Sport, Miki Zohar, said.
According to the Jerusalem Post, Zohar claimed that Israel “cannot afford a famine in Gaza because it would lose international support.”
He added that the current period is not suitable for annexing the occupied West Bank, but added that the administration of US President Donald Trump offers…
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The United Nations has received permission from Israel for about 100 more emergency aid trucks to enter Gaza, though the first supplies to have entered in weeks remained under Israeli control, a spokesperson said today, according to Reuters.
International humanitarian experts have warned of looming famine in the Palestinian enclave of 2.3 million people and the growing outcry has pushed Israel to lift an 11-week total blockade on aid supplies.
“We have…
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The mother of jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah announced on Tuesday that she was returning to a full hunger strike to protest against her son’s lengthy imprisonment in Egypt.
Laila Soueif, 69, eased her strike in March after UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he had “pressed” for Fattah’s release in a call with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
She began consuming 300 calories a day through a liquid nutritional supplement but still went without food.
With her son still…
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Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tuesday that nuclear talks with the United States were unlikely to yield any results, amid a diplomatic standoff over the Islamic republic’s enrichment activities.
“We don’t think it will lead to any outcome. We don’t know what will happen,” said Khamenei during a speech, adding that denying Iran’s right to enrich uranium was “a big mistake”.
Iran and the United States have held four rounds of Omani-mediated nuclear talks since April 12, the…
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Sudan’s devastating war is now entering its third year, and the conflict is far from over.
The United Nations has called this the most devastating humanitarian and displacement crisis in the world.
Killings, rapes and famine are affecting millions of people. What will happen to the people of Sudan if things don’t change? And why is this crisis being mostly ignored by the international community?
Presenter: Stefanie Dekker
Guests:
Elbashir Idris – Political affairs analyst
Bayadir…
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The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has said Turkey should ease prison conditions for its founder Abdullah Ocalan, declaring him the group’s “chief negotiator” for any future talks after a decision to disband.
A spokesman for the Kurdish group, blacklisted as a “terrorist” organisation by Ankara and its Western allies, told AFP in an interview on Monday that Turkey has not yet provided guarantees for a peace process, and expressed objection to exiling PKK members.
In recent months, the PKK has…
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As part of the US-led African Lion 2025 military exercises, Morocco is hosting the Israel’s Golani Brigade, the same unit held responsible for the paramedics’ massacre in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, in which 15 paramedics, UN workers, and rescue personnel were killed.
The appearance of Israeli Golani Brigade soldiers in Morocco has provoked anger among activists on social media.
Images circulated online show the soldiers posing for a group photo at the…
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Public spending cuts across six African countries have resulted in the incomes of health and education workers falling by up to 50 percent in five years, leaving them struggling to make ends meet, according to international NGO ActionAid.
The Human Cost of Public Sector Cuts in Africa report published on Tuesday found that 97 percent of the healthcare workers it surveyed in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi and Nigeria could not cover their basic needs like food and rent with their…
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King’s College, Cambridge, has become the first Oxbridge institution to commit to wholly divest millions from the arms industry as well as companies complicit in the illegal occupation of Palestine by the end of the calendar year, the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign reported today.
The announcement was made in an email to all students by Provost Dr Gillian Tett after a vote by the Governing Body last night. It follows almost a year of sustained campaigning from…
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