This live blog is now closed. For more on the UN security council vote, you can read our full report:Israel isolated as UN security council demands immediate ceasefire in GazaUnrwa’s planning director has said “more people will die” in the north of the Gaza Strip as a result of Israel barring the agency from delivering aid there.Sam Rose is quoted by Al Jazeera saying:An independent authority warned last week of an imminent famine and people are already dying of starvation up in the north. And...
The time to invest in Israel is now, although mainstream thinking suggests that the Israeli markets are less attractive due to the current conflict. This logic may be driven by existential security concerns of escalation risks with Hezbollah and other regional actors; budget deficits from increased military spending; reduced workforce participation due to reservist duty; pre-war civil divisions and fears over judicial reform; and/or historically high, pre-war interest rates.However, this...
Mediator Qatar says it is 'cautiously optimistic' after start of indirect
Group of more than a dozen writers decry organization’s inadequate response to ‘genocide’ being committed by IsraelMore than a dozen prominent authors and literary figures have withdrawn from PEN America’s flagship World Voices Festival in protest of what they see as an inadequate response by the organization to the “genocide” being committed against Palestinians by Israel in Gaza.The group of writers, which includes Naomi Klein, Michelle Alexander, Hisham Matar, Isabella Hammad and Zaina...
The Israel-Hamas conflict has had a profound impact on the Israeli TV and film industry - disrupting production, changing the kinds of projects being made and causing concern over international demand for Israeli shows.
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Three survivors of a secret army group that tricked Nazi Germany into making catastrophic mistakes through a series of audacious battlefield stunts will finally be honored at a ceremony in D.C. on Thursday.Bernie Bluestein, 100, John Christman, 99, and Seymour Nussenbaum, 100, were members of a tactical deception unit called the Ghost Army, whose exploits were so secret that they were forbidden to mention them for more than 50 years.Of the 1,100 artists, designers and technicians who sometimes...
Will DEI End America Or America End DEI? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, At the nexus of most of America’s current crises, the diversity/equity/inclusion dogma can be found. The southern border has been destroyed because the Democratic Party wanted the poor of the southern hemisphere to be counted in the census, to vote if possible in poorly audited mail-in elections, and to build upon constituencies that demand government help. Opposition to such cynicism...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the top U.S. diplomat Antony Blinken on Friday that Israel is prepared to continue its war against Hamas alone by launching an offensive into Rafah, amid tense relations between the two allies over the six-month-old Gaza conflict.
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This live blog is now closed. For more on the US’s vetoed UN resolution, you can read our latest reporting:US resolution on Gaza ceasefire vetoed at UN by Russia and ChinaExplainer – Why did Russia and China veto US’s Gaza ceasefire resolution?The Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that “hundreds of worshipers” were “blocked” from reaching the al-Aqsa mosque compound by Israeli forces on Friday.According to Wafa: “Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli forces significantly increased their military...