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French presidency says Netanyahu's anti-semitism claim is 'abhorrent'

France on Tuesday slammed as "abhorrent" and "erroneous" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's accusation of antisemitism against President Emmanuel Macron's move to recognise a Palestinian state. FRANCE 24's Noga Tarnopolsky reports from Jerusalem

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Countries that 'don't prevent the Gaza genocide are complicit with Israel', activist says

Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen about the destruction of the Gaza strip, Israeli columnist and activist Gershon Baskin says that 'the countries of the world that have relations with Israel and that don't use their leverage to stop the Gaza genocide [

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Gaza: The world waits on Israel's response to a ceasefire deal proposal the Hamas has accepted

Qatar stressed the urgency of brokering a ceasefire in Gaza after Hamas showed a “positive response” to a proposal, but Israel has yet to weigh in as its military prepares an offensive on some of the territory's most populated areas. Details by FRANCE 24

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What does the Gaza hostage deal accepted by Hamas include?

Mediators were awaiting an Israeli response Tuesday to a fresh Gaza ceasefire plan, a day after Hamas accepted the proposal and signalled its readiness for a new round of talks aimed at ending nearly two years of war. What exactly is included in this pla

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Israel demands release of all hostages as it reviews Hamas ceasefire response

A senior Israeli official told AFP on Tuesday that the government had not changed its stance on a potential ceasefire deal and that it demanded the release of all hostages held in the Gaza Strip. On Monday, Hamas agreed to a deal that would see only a pa

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From graffiti to murder: How Iran lures Israeli citizens into spy missions

Dozens of Israeli citizens face trial for allegedly working for Iranian agents online, carrying out acts from vandalism to assassination plots. Experts say Tehran targeted societal weak points, exploiting frustrations and divisions to manipulate recruits

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Hamas accepts proposed deal for ceasefire with Israel and hostage release

Hamas has agreed to a 60-day ceasefire proposal with Israel that includes the return of half the hostages held in Gaza and Israel's release of some Palestinian prisoners. There was no Israeli response to the Hamas proposal itself but an Israeli official

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Gaza: Heat and thirst drive families to drink water that makes them sick

In Gaza, it's not just famine that Palestinians are facing, it is also an acute water crisis. Most of the enclave's water facilities have been destroyed in the two years of war, and residents are forced to drink water that is brackish and often polluted

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Yesterday

Hamas agrees to latest Gaza ceasefire proposal

Palestinian group Hamas on Monday agreed to a new proposal from mediators to end the nearly two-year-long war in the Gaza Strip, a Hamas source told AFP. The plan reportedly involves a 60-day ceasefire "during which 10 Israeli hostages would be released

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Iraq begins excavating mass grave thought to hold thousands of Islamic State group victims

Iraqi authorities have started to unearth the remains of what could be thousands of victims of the Islamic State group left in a mass grave near the city of Mosul, including soldiers, city residents and members of the Yazidi religious minority.

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Iraq starts excavation of large mass grave left by Islamic State group

Iraqi officials have begun the excavation of what is believed to be a mass grave left behind by the Islamic State extremist group during its rampage across the country a decade ago. The operation is initially limited to gathering visible human remains an

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Amnesty International says Israel deliberately starving Gaza's Palestinians

Rights group Amnesty International on Monday accused Israel of enacting a "deliberate policy" of starvation in Gaza, as the United Nations and aid groups warn of famine in the Palestinian territory. Story by Morgan Ayre.

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Tens of thousands of Israelis protest for end to Gaza war

Israeli protesters demanding a deal to free hostages in Gaza attempted to shut down the country Sunday in one of the largest and fiercest protests in 22 months of war. Organizers, representing the families of hostages, asserted that hundreds of thousands

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Amnesty says Israel has 'deliberate policy' of starving Gaza's population

Israel is carrying out "a deliberate campaign of starvation" in the besieged Gaza Strip, human rights group Amnesty International said Monday. Seven more people, two of them children, died from malnutrition-related causes in the Palestinian territory on

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Sunday, august 17, 2025

Mass rallies erupt across Israel as protesters demand end to Gaza war, hostage deal

Mass protests erupted across Israel Sunday as tens of thousands called for an end to the war in Gaza and the release of hostages, one of the largest demonstrations in Israel since the start of the fighting in October 2023.

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Protesters go on strike in Israel demanding ceasefire

Protestors in Israel demanding their government make a deal to secure the release of hostages held by militants in Gaza escalated their campaign on Sunday, (August 16) staging a strike. Meanwhile, Israel said it is preparing to move Palestinians from com

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Syria’s al-Sharaa calls for unity, accuses Israel of fuelling unrest in south

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa vowed Sunday that the fight to reunify his war-torn country must be achieved through dialogue, not bloodshed, while accusing Israel of fueling unrest in the south. His remarks came as hundreds protested in Sweida over rec

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Israeli military prepares to move Palestinians to southern Gaza

International condemnation and pressure from allies have done nothing to stop Israel's plan to displace the people of northern Gaza. Israel on Saturday (August 16) said it is preparing to move Palestinians from combat zones to southern Gaza as plans move

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Nationwide protests over Gaza war, hostage deal sweep Israel

Demonstrators rallied across Israel on Sunday (August 17), demanding an end to the war in Gaza and a deal to free the remaining hostages, as the military readies a new offensive. The protests come amid rising domestic pressure and international concern o

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Israel says it carried out strike on Houthi energy facility in Yemen

Israel said Sunday it struck a Houthi "energy site" in Yemen, after repeated attacks by the Iran-backed group during the Gaza war.

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Mass rallies sweep Israel as protesters demand end to Gaza war, hostage deal

Demonstrators rallied across Israel on Sunday, demanding an end to the war in Gaza and a deal to free the remaining hostages as the military readies a new offensive. The protests come amid rising domestic pressure and international concern over the human

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Saturday, august 16, 2025

Israeli army prepares to relocate Palestinians to southern Gaza

Israel on Saturday said it is preparing to move Palestinians from combat zones to southern Gaza as plans move ahead for a military offensive in some of the territory's most populated areas. Meanwhile the families of Israeli hostages called for a “nationw

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France urges Israel to abandon controversial West Bank E1 settlement plan

France on Saturday condemned Israel's decision to build thousands of new homes in the West Bank and called on Israel to drop the controversial E1 project to link Jerusalem and the Maale Adumim settlement, calling it "a serious violation of international

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Friday, august 15, 2025

Far-right Israeli minister taunts jailed Palestinian leader in prison visit

Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir released a video on Friday showing him taunting Israel’s most prominent Palestinian detainee, Marwan Barghouti, a senior Fatah figure, in his jail cell. The Palestinian Authority's foreign min

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Far-right Israeli minister taunts jailed Palestinian leader in prison visit

Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir released a video on Friday showing him taunting Israel’s most prominent Palestinian detainee, Marwan Barghouti, a senior Fatah figure, in his jail cell. The Palestinian Authority's foreign min

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Israeli minister announces settlement plan to 'bury the idea of a Palestinian state'

Israel’s far-right finance minister on Thursday announced plans to revive a contentious settlement plan in the occupied West Bank, which Palestinians and rights groups fear will scuttle plans for a future Palestinian state. The so-called E1 scheme linkin

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Hezbollah leader accuses govt of ‘handing’ Lebanon to Israel with disarmament plan

Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem on Friday accused Lebanon’s government of “handing” the country to Israel by seeking the group’s disarmament, vowing to fight the move.

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Israel: Minister says plan will “bury” the idea of a Palestinian state

Israel’s far-right finance minister on Thursday announced plans to revive a contentious settlement plan in the occupied West Bank, which Palestinians and rights groups fear will scuttle plans for a future Palestinian state. The so-called E1 scheme linkin

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MSF: Children in Gaza facing displacement, starvation and death require 'much wider nexus of needs'

"A sense of purpose": MSF has struggled to care for children in war-torn Gaza, facing a "resource-constrained" setting, They are on the front lines each day, treating Gaza's youth suffering from immense physical and psychological trauma. These children r

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Palestinians condemn Israel’s Ben-Gvir over Marwan Barghouti threat

Palestinian officials have condemned far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s taunting visit to the jail cell of long-imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti. Footage of the visit shared on social media on Thursday showed the minis

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Thursday, august 14, 2025

International aid groups say new Israeli rules stop them delivering supplies to Gaza

More than 100 international non-government organisations released a joint statement Thursday saying that the Israeli government was increasingly using new regulations to prevent them bringing much-needed humanitarian aid into the devastated Gaza Strip.

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Israeli minister announces settlement plan to 'bury the idea of a Palestinian state'

Israel’s far-right finance minister on Thursday announced plans to revive a contentious settlement plan in the occupied West Bank, which Palestinians and rights groups fear will scuttle plans for a future Palestinian state. The so-called E1 scheme linkin

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Does Netanyahu envision annexing Palestinian territories and parts of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt?

Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has approved plans for a settlement that would split East Jerusalem from the occupied West Bank, a move his office said would bury the idea of a Palestinian state. It was not immediately clear if Prime

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Wednesday, august 13, 2025

Israel military says approved plan for new Gaza offensive

The Israeli military said on Wednesday it had approved the framework for a new offensive in the Gaza Strip. The approval for the expanded offensive comes days after Israel's security cabinet called for the seizure of Gaza's largest city, following 22 mon

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'Israel's domestic political struggle: Not a call to end war, not a call against ethnic cleansing'

Israelis are again protesting Netanyahu, with a general strike planned—yet the country’s largest trade union remains uninvolved. Political analyst Dr. Ori Goldberg notes these protests echo past years, lacking institutional support and avoiding criticism

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Israel army approves new framework for offensive

Israeli armed forces chief Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir has “approved the main framework” for a new offensive in the Gaza Strip, a statement released by the army said. Prime Benjamin Minister Netanyahu has not provided a timetable for when Israeli troop

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Israel military says it has approved plan for expanded Gaza offensive

Israeli armed forces chief Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir has “approved the main framework” for a new offensive in the Gaza Strip, a statement released by the army said. Prime Benjamin Minister Netanyahu has not provided a timetable for when Israeli troop

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Israeli military approves plan for expanded offensive in Gaza

Israeli armed forces chief Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir has “approved the main framework” for a new offensive in the Gaza Strip, a statement released by the army said. Prime Benjamin Minister Netanyahu has not provided a timetable for when Israeli troop

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IDF Reservists protest demanding truce to Israel

Some 200 retired and reserve Israeli Air Force pilots rallied outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv Tuesday evening to urge an immediate hostage deal and protest the cabinet’s recent decision last week to capture Gaza City, which came amid

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At least 89 Palestinians killed as Israeli tanks continue to pound Gaza

Israel has stepped up bombing Gaza, killing at least 89 Palestinians in 24 hours, including at least 15 people queueing for food, despite global outcry over the deaths of six journalists in the territory the previous day. Yuka Royer has this story.

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Israeli air strikes rock Gaza as Hamas chief arrives in Cairo for ceasefire push

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said Palestinians in Gaza should be permitted to leave the enclave, remarks critics see as an effort to push residents out amid an intensifying military campaign. His remarks came as Egypt said it was

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Netanyahu pushes for Palestinians' departure from Gaza as Egypt seeks 60-day truce

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said Palestinians in Gaza should be permitted to leave the enclave, remarks critics see as an effort to push residents out amid an intensifying military campaign. His remarks came as Egypt said it was

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Tuesday, august 12, 2025

Growing rift between Netanyahu and army chief of staff

Tensions have been simmering for two weeks between the Israeli military chief of staff Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government over the next steps in the military operation in Gaza, aimed at freeing the remaining

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UN condemns targeted Israeli attack that killed five Al Jazeera journalists

The United Nations, European Union and press freedom groups on Monday slammed an Israeli strike that killed six journalists, including five from Al Jazeera, in Gaza on Sunday. Israel has offered no evidence to back its claims that one of the journalists

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UN, EU, media groups condemn Israeli strike that killed Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza

The United Nations, European Union and press freedom groups on Monday slammed an Israeli strike that killed six journalists, including five from Al Jazeera, in Gaza on Sunday. Israel has offered no evidence to back its claims that one of the journalists

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Israeli air strikes rock Gaza as Hamas chief arrives in Cairo for ceasefire push

Israeli strikes on Gaza City killed at least 11 people overnight, medics said Tuesday, as Hamas leader Khalil Al-Hayya touched down in Cairo for talks to revive a stalled US-backed ceasefire plan. The latest push comes amid a mounting civilian death toll

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Monday, august 11, 2025

Nationwide power outage hits Iraq as heatwave pushes grid to breaking point

Iraq was plunged into a nationwide blackout on Monday after record heat and surging electricity demand overloaded the grid, authorities said, as temperatures climbed towards 50°C and millions marked a major Shiite pilgrimage.

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Killing of Al Jazeera journalists is '100% a war crime', CPJ Regional Director says

Media advocacy group the Committee to Protect Journalists on Monday slammed an Israeli strike that killed several Al Jazeera staff in Gaza overnight, saying journalists should never be targeted in war. The CPJ in July called for the protection of Anas al

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Why Australia is risking US anger to recognise the state of Palestine

Australia will formally recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September, centre-left Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Monday, adding that the situation in the besieged Gaza Strip had “gone beyond the world’s worst fears”. The mo

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UN slams Israel's killing of five journalists in Gaza, calling it a "breach of humanitarian law"

The UN human rights agency on Monday condemned Israel's targeted killing of six journalists in Gaza as a "grave breach of international humanitarian law". The office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said on X that the Israeli military

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'Israel has a pattern of murdering journalists in Gaza and the West Bank and then lying about it'

A deadly Israeli strike on a tent outside the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City has killed five staff members of Qatari news channel Al Jazeera and a Palestinian freelance journalist. The victims included prominent reporter Anas al-Sharif. The Israeli gover

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Syria condemns killing of unarmed man in Sweida hospital as video of incident surfaces

Syria’s interior ministry on Monday condemned the apparent killing of an unarmed man at a hospital during a week of bloodshed last month in the Druze-majority Sweida province after a video of the incident emerged. The perpetrators “will be held accountab

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'Genocide': Unless West forces Israel to change course, 'ethnic cleansing in Gaza will persist'

While Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu insists that there is no famine in Gaza, and Hamas bears full responsibility for the dramatic humanitarian crisis, FRANCE 24's Erin Ogunkeye welcomes Dr H. A. Hellyer, Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Servic

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UN says 242 journalists killed in Gaza as Al Jazeera mourns those killed in Israeli strike

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric on Monday condemned the killing of five Al Jazeera staff and a sixth reporter in an Israeli strike Sunday and said that at least 242 journalists have been killed in Gaza since the war began. Earlier, dozens of Gazan mour

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Australia to recognise Palestinian state at United Nations in September

Australia will recognise a Palestinian state at next month's United Nations General Assembly, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday, a move that adds to international pressure on Israel after similar announcements from France, Britain and Canada

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Israeli strike kills journalists in Gaza City, worsening the death toll for the media

Israel’s military targeted an Al Jazeera correspondent with an airstrike Sunday, killing him, another network journalist and at least six other people, all of whom were sheltering outside the Gaza City Hospital complex. Israel's military later described

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Israel's Netanyahu under pressure at home and abroad regarding Gaza occupation plan

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday defended a new military offensive in Gaza that's more sweeping than previously announced, declaring in the face of growing condemnation at home and abroad that Israel “has no choice but to finish the jo

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Netanyahu's Gaza war plan doesn't have 'anything to do with Israel's present or future security'

Director of Forward Thinking Oliver McTernan tells FRANCE 24 that Netanyahu's war plans to fully take over Gaza are mere "political games". He does not believe it has "anything to do with Israel's present or future security." And this actually reflects,

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Israel kills five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza

A prominent Al Jazeera journalist who had previously been threatened by Israel was killed along with four colleagues in an Israeli airstrike on Sunday, in an attack condemned by journalist and rights groups. Story by Shirli Sitbon.

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Australia ready to recognise Palestinian state at UN in September, PM says

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday that Australia's recognition of a Palestinian state would be predicated on commitments Australia received from the Palestinian Authority, including that Islamist militant group Hamas would have no involvemen

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