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The government's statehood policy marks a hugely significant shift in the UK's diplomatic stance.
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Family and friends are reeling after an Israeli settler shot and killed Palestinian activist Odeh Muhammad Hadalin, an athlete, teacher and father of three young children. Hadalin helped produce the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, which follows Palestinians in the occupied West Bank community of Masafer Yatta as they struggle to stay on their land amid violent attacks by Jewish settlers. Hadalin's cousin Alaa calls him an exceptionally "humane" and "peaceful" person in an interview with 972 Magazine and Local Call reporter Oren Ziv, who joins us from Tel Aviv.
In January, the Trump administration lifted Biden-era sanctions on Hadalin's alleged killer, Yinon Levi, who has been released on house arrest. Meanwhile, multiple members of Hadalin's family are still imprisoned and awaiting hearings in Israel's military court after they were arrested by Israeli soldiers following the shooting. Ziv describes how Israeli soldiers also conducted a raid on a mourning party days after Hadalin died of his injuries. "They forced us out. And even in the entrance to the village, they started to throw stun grenades," Ziv says. "It's important to say it's not only an attack on the family, on his friends. It's an attempt to prevent us, the journalists, [from] investigating the case."
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The announcement comes as a global hunger authority warns of famine across Gaza.
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The Norwegian Refugee Council, one of the largest independent aid organizations in Gaza, says it has been unable to bring new supplies into the territory as starvation grows more dire for Palestinians. Democracy Now! speaks with Jan Egeland, NRC's secretary general, who says Western powers who have been complicit in Israel's blockade of Gaza have their "fingerprints … all over a crime scene, and history will judge."
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For the first time, two leading Israeli human rights groups — B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel — have accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. B'Tselem's report, "Our Genocide," says, "Israel is taking coordinated action to intentionally destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip." We speak with B'Tselem's outreach director, Sarit Michaeli, in Tel Aviv, who says Israel's actions in Gaza are "the textbook definition of genocide."
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Democratic Congressmember Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, the only Palestinian American member of Congress, responds to the Gaza Freedom Flotilla's latest attempt to break the Israeli siege on Gaza, the lethal beating of a U.S. citizen by Israeli civilians in the occupied West Bank and the Trump administration's attempt to conceal information related to the federal criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein.
On the killings of Palestinian American Sayfollah "Saif" Musallet and Palestinian Mohammad Razek Hussein Al-Shalabi by settlers, Tlaib excoriates both the U.S. government, for "doing absolutely nothing, as per usual," and the Israeli government, for sanctioning daily settler violence. "The goal here is, and the Knesset told us," says Tlaib, referencing a recent motion passed by the Israeli legislature to annex the West Bank, "to ethnically cleanse anyone who is Palestinian."
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