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The Israeli Public Defender’s Office warned in a report on Tuesday against worsening conditions of incarceration in prison service facilities. The report stated that the overcrowding in prison service facilities violated a prior High Court ruling and international standards. It called for immediate actions to improve prison conditions in Israel. The report stated that nearly [...]

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The evidence is clear. The true aim of all authoritative Palestinian leaderships is not a sovereign and independent state of Palestine – a diplomatic option these leaderships have willfully rejected again and again –  but elimination of the Jewish State.  In this urgent matter, history deserves immediate pride of place. To begin, there has never [...]

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“So far from it being unjust to punish him, it would be unjust if his wrongs were allowed to go unpunished.” Nuremberg Tribunal (1946) At the beginning of 2024, former President Donald J. Trump’s most conspicuously unsupportable legal claim has been his personal immunity from criminal prosecution. With this claim, Mr. Trump and his lead [...]

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An Israeli airstrike hit a vehicle transporting journalists in southern Gaza on Saturday, resulting in two casualties and one injury. A source from Reporters Without Borders tells Al-Jazeera that they believe the vehicle was directly targeted. Al Jazeera journalist Hamza Al Dahdouh and Agence France-Presse journalist Mustafa Thuraya were killed. Hamza Dahdouh was the son [...]

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Ukraine and Russia announced their first prisoner-of-war exchange since August 2023 on Wednesday. The exchange involved a total of nearly 500 prisoners captured by both Ukraine and Russia. Following the exchange, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ministry of Foreign Affairs highlighted its mediation efforts in the exchange. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that 230 Ukrainians returned to [...]

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Israeli spokesperson Eylon Levy said on Tuesday Israel was prepared to defend itself against genocide accusations filed by South Africa at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). South Africa filed its genocide accusation against Israel with the ICJ in December. The accusation contented that Israeli military actions violated the 1948 Geneva Convention. Particularly, South Africa claimed [...]

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In recent weeks, the international community has been confronted with a deeply alarming crisis unfolding in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. On October 7th, 2023, the Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya , “Hamas,” and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), initiated an attack on the State of Israel, which reportedly resulted in the killing of 1,400 individuals with [...]

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“For by wise counsel, thou shalt make thy war.” Proverbs 24:6 Though one might think otherwise, there is no Palestinian state at present, nor has there ever been such a state in the past. Still, once the current Gaza War comes to an end – and whatever the tangible correlates of any war termination agreements [...]

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