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Apr
26
2024
By The African Mirror
Hamas issues video showing Israeli-American hostage Goldberg-Polin

Hamas issues video showing Israeli-American hostage Goldberg-Polin

WORLD
THE Islamist movement Hamas published a video apparently showing Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an Israeli-American seized during Hamas's Oct. 7 attack on Israel and taken into Gaza, alive. The short, undated video showed the 23-year-old missing a lower arm, but otherwise apparently healthy. He was shown saying he had sustained serious injuries during the Oct. 7 attack "after I tried using my body as a shield to protect myself and other fearful civilians". His mother Rachel Goldberg-Polin has been campaigning for the release of her son, who was abducted at the Nova music festival and is one of 133 Israeli hostages still in captivity…
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Jan
30
2024
By The African Mirror
UN genocide ruling won’t change Israel’s behaviour: three reasons why

UN genocide ruling won’t change Israel’s behaviour: three reasons why

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
SOUTH Africa took Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over the latter’s military operation in Gaza, which South Africa calls acts of genocide. The excessive bombing campaign and wilful destruction of property, life and limb is hardly in dispute. Israel calls it legitimate acts of self-defence, following Hamas’s murderous incursion from Gaza on Israeli terrain on 7 October 2023. Hamas, shorthand for the Islamic Resistance Movement, is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist political and military organisation founded in 1987. It has governed the Gaza Strip of the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories since 2007. ANTHONI VAN NIEUWKERK, Professor of International and…
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Jan
29
2024
By NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI and EMMA FARGE
UN urges reversal of funding pause for Palestinian refugee agency

UN urges reversal of funding pause for Palestinian refugee agency

WORLD
U.N. officials urged countries to reconsider a pause in funding for the U.N. agency for Palestinians, pledging that any staff found involved in Hamas' attack on Israel would be punished and warning that aid for some two million people in Gaza was at stake. At least nine countries, including top donors the U.S. and Germany, have paused funding for the UNRWA refugee agency after allegations by Israel that a dozen of its 13,000 staff in Gaza were involved in the October 7 rampage. "While I understand their concerns – I was myself horrified by these accusations - I strongly appeal to the governments that…
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Jan
28
2024
By GABRIELLE TÉTRAULT-FARBER
UN agency probes staff suspected of role in Oct. 7 attacks

UN agency probes staff suspected of role in Oct. 7 attacks

WORLD
THE United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) said that it had opened an investigation into several employees suspected of involvement in the October 7 attacks in Israel by Hamas and that it had severed ties with those staff members. "The Israeli authorities have provided UNRWA with information about the alleged involvement of several UNRWA employees in the horrific attacks on Israel on October 7," said Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner-General. "To protect the agency's ability to deliver humanitarian assistance, I have taken the decision to immediately terminate the contracts of these staff members and launch an investigation in order to…
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