Many details surrounding the IDF's airstrike on a Hamas leadership meeting in Qatar remain unclear – including the level of U.S. involvement, the fate of the 20 living Israeli hostages and if Qatar will return to its mediator role.
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CAIR said that they "have taken a bold and necessary step by confronting the Israeli-manufactured and US-backed humanitarian calamity in Gaza head-on. Their mission must not stand alone."
A new Israel Democracy Institute survey reveals 64.5 percent of Israelis, including half of the surveyed Likud voters, favor a cease-fire and hostage deal that includes IDF withdrawal from Gaza.
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After the airstrike on Nasser Hospital, our plea is ever more urgent: Palestinian reporters need international protection now, or Gaza's voice will be silenced. Since October 2023, Israel has killed at least 230 journalists in the Gaza Strip...
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"We should have done more," said Jeanne Shaheen, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "Everybody should have said more sooner."
There are two options: either Israel finally pulls into its defensible and normal borders, or the circles of condemnation will widen, culminating in the inclusion of all Israelis in the maligned group, indiscriminately.
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