TikTok CEO #ShouZiChew has said the company will take the fight against the new law to the courts, but some experts believe that for the #US#SupremeCourt, national security considerations could outweigh #FreeSpeech protection.
#MuhammadMugheir, of the #Gaza Civil Defence, showed journalists videos of relatives as they identified the remains of their loved ones among the hundreds of bodies that have been exhumed, including with signs of #torture and #execution. #Israel
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Young people, in particular, are following the #Israel-#Hamas war on social media, and many are horrified by what they see.
They’ve also grown up with protest movements — #OccupyWallStreet, #BlackLivesMatter, the Parkland, Fla., students’ gun control campaign — as the backdrop of their lives. #VietnamWar
The historical precedents are becoming more overt. In 1969, #Harvard called in the #police to clear #AntiWar protesters, as #Columbia had done a year earlier. Both events produced pictures of bruised and bloodied students.
#KualaLumpur - #KFC has reduced its operations in #Malaysia, shuttering more than 100 restaurants temporarily after months of a persistent #proPalestine boycott of #US-linked businesses triggered by the ongoing war in #Gaza. #Israel
Secretary of State #AntonyBlinken urged #Hamas to accept what he said was an “extraordinarily generous” proposal for a truce and hostage release agreement.
The diplomatic push comes as protests against #Israel’s actions rock college campuses across the U.S. and as Israel fears its leaders could soon face arrest warrants from the #InternationalCriminalCourt. #TheHague
Hundreds of #NewYorkCity police officers entered #ColumbiaUniversity on Tuesday evening to clear an academic building taken over by #ProPalestinian students the day before, as tensions surrounding the students’ campus encampment for #Gaza have roiled the New York school for two weeks. #Israel
#NYPD officers move on to campus on Tuesday evening to clear out #HamiltonHall building taken over by protesters, with reports of more arrests at City College of #NewYork.
Aerial footage from the broadcaster #KABC showed people wielding sticks or poles to attack wooden boards being held up as a makeshift barricade to protect #ProPalestinian protesters, some holding placards or umbrellas. At least one firework was thrown into the camp. #Israel
At least one high school starts encampment protest in solidarity with #Gaza. Students at #Iowa City’s #CityHigh are planning to host a school strike on Friday. #Israel
The policies of #JoeBiden and #Democrats towards #Israel, which have prompted thousands of students across the country to protest, could affect the #YouthVote for Biden and hurt his re-election chances, experts have warned, in what is already expected to be a tight election.
A #UN agency said on Thursday that rebuilding #Gaza will cost an estimated $30bn to $40bn and require an effort on a scale unseen since the second world war, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). #Israel
Israeli foreign minister #IsraelKatz accused #Erdoğan of acting like a “dictator” after #Bloomberg cited two senior Turkish officials saying that #Ankara had significantly ramped up restrictions first brought in last month, halting all imports or exports as of Thursday.
According to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (#CPJ), at least 97 members of the #press have been killed since the war broke out in October, 92 of whom were #Palestinians. #Israel#Gaza
The peaceful resolutions are in contrast to the scenes at other universities in the #US where pro-Palestinian protesters have been met with #PoliceViolence. #Israel
The largest union of #AcademicWorkers, which represents more than 48,000 graduate student workers throughout the #UniversityOfCalifornia system, will hold a #StrikeAuthorization vote as early as next week in response to how universities have cracked down on students’ #Gaza protests. #Israel
The cabinet vote came after #Israel’s parliament passed a law allowing the temporary closure in Israel of #ForeignBroadcasters considered to be a threat to #NationalSecurity during the war in #Gaza.
With foreign journalists banned from entering Gaza, #AlJazeera staff based in the #GazaStrip have been among the few reporters able to cover the war on the ground.
#Israel’s armed forces have issued a call for residents and displaced people of “eastern neighborhoods of #Rafah” to evacuate, a day after Israeli leaders reiterated a promise to launch an attack on the southern city. #Gaza
#Israel has been telling #GazaResidents to evacuate to the #AlMawasi “humanitarian zone”, a narrow strip of barren coastline at the southernmost end of the territory, since the war broke out in #Gaza.
The move comes after hours of whiplash in the #Israel-#Hamas war, with the militant group on Monday saying it accepted an Egyptian-Qatari mediated cease-fire proposal. Israel, meanwhile, insisted the deal did not meet its core demands. #Egypt#Qatar
People gathered in #Malaysia's capital Tuesday urge the government to expel “murderous arms dealers” that supply weapons to #Israel from a defense exhibition this week. More than 1,300 companies from 60 nations are participating in the Defense Services Asia and a concurrent National Security Asia exhibition. #LockheedMartin#Gaza
The board notes that in all three cases, #Meta found that the posts didn’t violate its policies around promoting #violence, #HateSpeech or #TerroristContent. The #OversightBoard says it will “consider how Meta should moderate the use of the phrase given the resurgence in its use after October 7, 2023, and controversies around the phrase’s meaning.” #Israel#Gaza
There are approx. 600,000 children trapped in Rafah
"As a result of that review, we have paused one shipment of weapons last week. It consists of 1,800 2,000lb bombs and 1,700 500lb bombs. We are especially focused on the end-use of the 2,000lb bombs and the impact they could have in dense urban settings as we have seen in other parts of #Gaza"
According to reports in the Hebrew media last month, #BenGvir demanded of the Israeli chief of staff at a briefing: “Why are there so many arrests in [#Gaza]?
“Can’t you kill some? Do you want to tell me they all surrender? What are we to do with so many arrested? It’s dangerous for the soldiers.”
#US officials made clear that the pause would not be a one-off if the #Rafah offensive went ahead: other arms deliveries that have already been approved could be delayed, and shipments waiting for approval could also face obstacles
The highly significant US move on arms supplies comes amid mounting international pressure on #Israel to pull back from a full-scale attack. #Gaza
The #Dublin campus closed to the public, costing the college an estimated €350,000 (£300,000) in forfeited revenue because visitors could not view the #BookOfKells, a medieval manuscript and #TouristMagnet.
In contrast to confrontations in the #US where police forcibly evicted demonstrators at several universities, there was no attempt to remove the protest. #Israel#Gaza
As #ceasefire talks continued in #Cairo, Palestinian militant groups #Hamas and #IslamicJihad said their fighters struck Israeli forces on the eastern outskirts of #Rafah, firing anti-tank rockets and mortars at Israeli positions.
#Biden, who says Israel has not produced a convincing plan to safeguard civilians in Rafah, warns a major assault could halt arms supply to #Israel.
More than 100,000 people have fled #Rafah after #Israel intensified its bombardment, #UN officials have said, in the largest movement of population in #Gaza for many months
The numbers are expected to rise, with deep concern among aid officials on Thursday that the newly displaced people will end up in makeshift encampments without any services
A senior Israeli official says that the latest round of indirect negotiations in #Cairo to halt hostilities in #Gaza had ended and Israel would proceed with its operation in #Rafah and other parts of the #GazaStrip as planned
The #US is by far the largest arms supplier to its closest #MiddleEast ally, followed by #Germany – whose strong support for #Israel reflects in part atonement for the Nazi #Holocaust – and #Italy.
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