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Turkiye calls Israel 'biggest threat to regional peace' after deadly Syria strikes

  The Turkish Foreign Ministry says Israel is the “ greatest threat ” to peace in West Asia, condemning dozens of Israeli airstrikes that hit several military sites in   Syria   on Wednesday. “Israel has become the foremost threat to the security of our region through its attacks on the territorial integrity and national unity of the regional countries. As a strategic destabilizer in the region, Israel causes turmoil and fuels terrorism,” a Foreign Ministry statement issued on 3 April reads. “Therefore, in order to establish security throughout the region, Israel must first abandon its expansionist policies, withdraw from the territories it occupies, and stop undermining efforts to establish stability in Syria,” the statement adds. On Wednesday night, Israeli warplanes launched an intense bombing campaign across Syria that killed at least 11 people. The main targets of the attack were  the Barzeh Scientific Research Center just outside Damascus, the Hama military air...
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First They Came for the Op-Ed Writers by James Bovard

  On March 25, six masked federal agents seized a Turkish graduate student on the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts. Rumeysa Ozturk—who was wearing a hajib—is a Fulbright scholar working on a doctorate at Tufts University. She was abducted and vanished into the maw of the federal prison system. The Trump administration ignored a federal court order and took Ozturk from Massachusetts to Louisiana federal detention facilities. But the Trump administration knew Ozturk had criticized the government of Israel a year earlier, enough to seal her doom according to the latest iron-fisted political correctness dictates. She co- authored one piece for the  Tufts student newspaper criticizing the university’s refusal to divest from Israel despite “credible accusations of…. indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinian civilians and plausible genocide.” A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson justified the takedown: “DHS and ICE investigations found Ozturk engaged in activiti...
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At Least 11 Civilians Killed as Israeli Shells, Bombs Southern Syria City of Nawa

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Many others wounded in attacks as ground forces aim to seize nearby dam by Jason Ditz   April 3, 2025 at 12:51 pm ET   Categories News Tags Israel ,  Syria ,  Turkey After deadly attacks across central Syria on Wednesday  killed at least 13 people  and wounded dozens, Israel seems to be continuing to step up the pace of their aggression in the neighboring country, pounding the southern city of Nawa on Thursday, in attacks that have left  at least 11 civilians dead  so far. The airstrikes and shelling of the area around Nawa began concurrently with Israeli ground forces moving to take the al-Jabaliya Dam just west of the city. This is reportedly the  deepest ground incursion into Syria so far  since they invaded in December. There are reports that a lightly armed  local militia resisted  the ground troops’ advancement, though there has so far been no report that the Israeli troops sustained any casualties. The casualties, rather...
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Senate Kills Bernie Sanders’ Effort To Block Bomb Shipments to Israel

  Senate Kills Bernie Sanders’ Effort To Block Bomb Shipments to Israel The legislation to block $8.8 billion in bombs and other munitions only received support from Sanders and 14 Senate Democrats by Dave DeCamp   April 3, 2025 at 3:39 pm ET   Categories News Tags Gaza ,  Israel ,  Palestine On Thursday,  the Senate killed an effort by Sen. Bernie Sanders  (I-VT) to block $8.8 billion in bombs and other munitions shipments to Israel, a vote that came on the same day Israel  killed more than 100 Palestinians , including many children, in the Gaza Strip. Sanders  introduced two resolutions : one to block a $2.04 billion deal for 35,329 MK 84 2,000-pound bombs and 4,000 I-2000 Penetrator warheads and one to block the $6.75 billion shipment of 2,800 500-pound bombs, 2,166 Small Diameter Bombs, and tens of thousands of JDAM guidance kits. The measures failed in a vote of 15-83 and 15-82. Only 14 Democrats joined Sanders in supporting the legislat...
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17-year-old Palestinian child prisoner starved to death by Israeli prison guards

  Ramallah, April 3, 2025— The autopsy report for a 17-year-old Palestinian child detainee who died in Israeli custody at the end of March indicates that he likely died from a combination of starvation, dehydration from colitis-induced diarrhea, and infectious complications all compounded by prolonged malnutrition and denial of life saving medical intervention. Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, 17, died while held in Israeli custody in Megiddo prison in northern Israel on the morning of March 22 after collapsing in the prison yard, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International - Palestine. Post-mortem examination indicates Walid suffered from extreme body muscle and fat wasting, evidenced by a sunken abdomen, according to a doctor who attended the autopsy on behalf of Walid’s family. Walid also had scabies rashes on both legs and his groin, in addition to abrasions on his nose, chest, and right hip. The examination revealed that Walid had significant air col...
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Israeli Strikes on Gaza Kill More Than 100 in a Single Day

One attack hit a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City, killing 29, including many children by Dave DeCamp   April 3, 2025 at 1:04 pm ET   Categories News Tags Gaza ,  Israel ,  Palestine Warning: Graphic footage below US-backed Israeli attacks on Gaza on Thursday killed more than 100 Palestinians,  medical sources told  Al Jazeera , as relentless strikes pounded areas across the Strip. Attacks on Thursday included the bombing of a school-turned-shelter for displaced Palestinian civilians in Gaza City. According to the  Anadolu Agency , at least 29 people were killed in the strike. Footage of the aftermath of the attack shows dead and wounded children. Footage of the aftermath of the Israeli strike on the Sar al-Arqam School in Gaza City (from the Anadolu Agency via Reuters Connect) Gaza’s Government Media Office said the dead included 18 children, women, and elderly people, and more than 100 were wounded. “The occupation has committed a new massacre agai...
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Report: Hamas Ready To Free All Israeli Hostages for Permanent Ceasefire

Israel has refused to commit to negotiations on a permanent truce by Dave DeCamp   April 3, 2025 at 5:07 pm ET   Categories News Tags Gaza ,  Israel Hamas is ready to release all remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza at once in exchange for a permanent ceasefire,  The Times of Israel  reported on Thursday , citing a senior Palestinian official. The report said that Israel has had a “longstanding rejection” of this kind of deal, and that’s why Hamas recently proposed it could release five hostages to renew a temporary ceasefire. However, Hamas also wanted a guarantee that Israel would commit to entering negotiations on reaching a permanent truce, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to do. Israel countered Hamas’s offer with a proposal for Hamas to release 11 hostages that didn’t include any commitment to hold talks on a permanent ceasefire. The senior Palestinian official speaking to the  Times  said that after the Israeli counterpr...
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