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The strike on a Gaza Strip hospital that killed more than 600 Palestinians has sparked protests and riots in several Muslim-majority countries on Tuesday night, including Lebanon, Jordan, and Türkiye.  Beirut In Beirut, where the pro-Palestinian militant group Hezbollah has called for “a day of unprecedented anger,” protesters gathered in front of the U.S. embassy building in the Awkar neighborhood. …

Israel will have to vacate its occupied territories and make space for a state of Palestine, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar. This crushing defeat for the U.S. will mark the end of its global dominance. A flag bearer leading the triumphal Arab entry into Akaba after the defeat of Ottoman defending forces, 1917. (T E Lawrence and the Arab Revolt 1916 – 1918, …

At this point, Washington’s defense of Israel becomes as baldly obscene as the apartheid state’s long record of lawless aggression toward the Palestinian population.  Man with body bags in Jabalia, Gaza Strip, Oct. 9. (Bashar Taleb, Palestinian News & Information Agency, or Wafa, in contract with APAimages, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) By Patrick LawrenceSpecial to Consortium News There have been many, very …

U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaking at U.N. Security Council meeting on Gaza war. (UN TV/YouTube) The United States Wednesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have called for a humanitarian pause in the fighting in Gaza as well as for Israel to rescind its order to 1.1 million Gazans to leave their homes and move to the south of …

The recent peak in war crimes Yesterday on 17 October, Israeli Defence Force (IDF) hombed Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza and killed more than 500 people instantly. Most of the deaths are children and women. Israel is relentlessly bombing the people of Gaza for the last 11 days; the destruction of the hospital and killing more than 500 is indeed …