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Palestinian death toll in Israel-Hamas war passes 60,000, Gaza Health Ministry says

More than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed during the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Tuesday. Israeli strikes overnight killed more than two dozen people, mostly women and children, according to health officials. The Israeli offensive, launched in response to Hamas’ attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, has …

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France failing to probe police role in Syrian migrant drowning

[This investigation is co-published with French investigative outlet Disclose and our Arabic-language sister publication Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. It is a follow-up to a first investigation into the same subject, which was published in French in online newspaper Mediapart in March 2024]. [The situated testimony video included in this investigation is a …

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A ‘Game of Thrones’ in Ramallah: Has Israel picked Abbas’s heir?

In a typical authoritarian overreach, Mahmoud Abbas and the PA appear to be lining up a successor Israel wants — and Palestinians don’t, writes Yara Hawari. At the beginning of May 2025, in a move that stunned many Palestinians, President Mahmoud Abbas appointed Hussein al-Sheikh as Deputy Chair of the …

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