Ahmad Manasra, 23, has been released after completing nine-and-a-half-year sentence, lawyer says. A Palestinian who was arrested at age 13 for allegedly taking part in a stabbing attack has been released after spending more than nine years in prison, where he developed severe mental health issues but was repeatedly denied requests for early release. Ahmad…
Reports say AI models from Microsoft were used as part of an Israeli military programme to select bombing targets in Gaza. A pro-Palestinian protest by Microsoft employees has interrupted the company’s 50th anniversary celebration, the latest backlash over the tech industry’s work to supply artificial intelligence technology to the Israeli military. The protest began on…
London, United Kingdom – Outraged by the onslaught on Palestinians in Gaza, a group of volunteers in the fashionable London borough of Camden urged the local council last year to stop investing in companies with ties to Israel. The petition, led by the Camden Friends of Palestine group and signed by more than 4,200 residents,…
Health officials say at least 62 people are killed in a day as tens of thousands face forced displacement under latest Israeli orders. Renewed Israeli bombardments across the Gaza Strip have killed dozens of Palestinians, including children, as the Israeli army has issued a new round of forced displacement orders across the besieged territory. In…
Yunseo Chung, 21, moved to the US when she was seven and now faces deportation over pro-Palestinian activism at Columbia University. United States permanent resident and Columbia University student Yunseo Chung, 21, has sued US President Donald Trump’s administration to halt her deportation, accusing authorities of using the same tactics employed against other college activists…
Ronen Bar will end his term on April 10 or as soon as his replacement is appointed, Prime Minister’s Office says. Israel’s cabinet has approved the sacking of the head of the domestic security agency, endorsing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial proposal to oust the intelligence chief over a lack of trust. Shin Bet chief…
Badar Khan Suri detained by Department of Homeland Security after being accused of spreading ‘Hamas propaganda.’ An Indian postdoctoral researcher at Georgetown University who has spoken out against Israel’s war in Gaza is facing deportation after being detained under United States President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Badar Khan Suri was designated for deportation for “spreading…
US president says ‘nobody is expelling Palestinians from Gaza’, reversing earlier comments on emptying the war-torn territory of its population. Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem has welcomed United States President Donald Trump’s apparent retreat from his proposed permanent displacement of more than two million Palestinians from Gaza. The statement by the Hamas official came after Trump…
The prime minister of Ireland, Michael Martin, is the latest European leader to visit United States President Donald Trump during his second term in the White House. But the occasion was a markedly light-hearted one: to hold receptions and events in advance of St Patrick’s Day, a popular Irish holiday held each year on March…
It has now been more than three months since Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States last November with a resounding victory over the sitting vice president, Kamala Harris. A presidential election in the US is not a national referendum as much as it is 51 individual contests. Each state —…