Egypt official tells Europe to take in 1m Gazans if ‘you care about human rights so much’ (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
As Gaza is bombed, EU staff decry chief’s ‘uncontrolled’ support of Israel (www.aljazeera.com)
Israel vows to ‘teach UN a lesson’ in row over Hamas attack comments (www.independent.co.uk)
Israel has said the “time has come to teach the United Nations a lesson” by banning UN officials from visiting the country – in a row over remarks from secretary-general Antonio Guterres that the deadly 7 October attack by Hamas “did not happen in a vacuum” and had to be seen in the context of decades of occupation of...
China on track to complete the building of 1000 schools in Iraq (english.almayadeen.net)
World oil, gas, coal demand to peak by 2030, IEA says | Reuters (www.reuters.com)
Israelis when they want sympathy for living under Hamas rocket fire (hexbear.net)
China has ‘outsized presence’ in clean energy market, IEA warns in new report - National | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
3-Year-Old Girl Killed After Family Allegedly Found Cocaine Washed Up on Beach in Belize (www.vice.com)
Cocaine left in the ocean by drug cartels washing ashore in the tourist islands of Belize has caused deadly wars between Bloods and Crips gangs for years. The child was one of three people killed....
Inside the Campaign That Put an Oil Boss in Charge of a Climate Summit (theintercept.com)
Melissa Aronczyk, media studies professor at Rutgers University and co-author of “A Strategic Nature,” a book about the history of environmental PR, said the increased fossil fuel presence at COP is part of the industry’s decadeslong attempt to avoid regulation. “Working with U.S. PR firms, oil and gas companies, car...
Israel to refuse visas to UN officials after Guterres speech on Gaza war (www.aljazeera.com)
WATCH: 85-year-old Israeli hostage shakes hands with Hamas captor after release (www.wionews.com)
Japan’s top court strikes down required removal of reproductive organs to officially change gender (apnews.com)
Japan’s Supreme Court has ruled that a law requiring transgender people to have their reproductive organs removed in order to officially change their gender is unconstitutional.
Propaganda War: Pro-Israel Trolls Are Mobbing Twitter's Community Notes (www.mintpressnews.com)
One of the reasons that social media companies have not cracked down on disingenuous pro-Israeli activities could be that former Israeli government and military officials hold top positions at a great number of the world’s most important platforms....
Turkey's Erdogan says Hamas is not a terrorist organisation (www.reuters.com)
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Dutch self-image challenged as country confronts its colonial past (www.theguardian.com)
Exhibition aims to establish common ground amid fractious debate over violence in post-independence Indonesia
Xi says China willing to cooperate with US as hopes rise for talks with Biden (www.theguardian.com)
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Scoop: Blinken says he asked Qatari PM to rein in Al Jazeera war coverage, per sources (www.axios.com)
Before Discussing Gaza: Essential Facts You Need To Know (orinocotribune.com)
‘Pervasive and relentless’ racism on the rise in Europe, survey finds (www.theguardian.com)
The survey of 6,752 people of African descent in 13 countries – Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden – found 45% had experienced racial discrimination, an increase of six percentage points from 39% in 2016.
Palestine Action Crashes into Leicester's Israeli Drone Factory (www.palestineaction.org)
Massive Mobilizations Continue Across Europe in Solidarity with Palestine (peoplesdispatch.org)
Spotify raises premium subscription price for millions (www.bbc.co.uk)
Dutch woman stranded in Gaza is killed in bombing raid (www.dutchnews.nl)
A 33-year-old Dutch woman has been killed in an explosion in Gaza. Islam al-Ashqar was visiting relatives at the Nusairat refugee camp in central Gaza and was one of 22 Dutch nationals the ministry was trying to help leave. Israel bombed the local evening market in the camp on Saturday night.
Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence (apnews.com)
Iceland’s prime minister and women across the island nation are on strike to push for an end to unequal pay and gender-based violence.
Now freed, an Israeli hostage describes the 'hell' of harrowing Hamas attack and terrifying capture (apnews.com)
Eighty-five year-old Yocheved Lifschitz spoke of a “hell that we never knew before and never thought we would experience” as she described the harrowing assault on her kibbutz by Hamas militants and the terror of being taken hostage into the Gaza Strip.
