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Israel’s Knesset have approved a motion calling for the annexation of the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the latest move in an ongoing campaign to strengthen Israel's hold on the occupied Palestinian territory.

The proposal is non-binding and serves largely as a symbolic gesture that does not affect the legal status of the West Bank but will help build momentum towards a possible move on the territory, which has been occupied by Israel since 1967.

Protest against Gaza war prevents Israeli visitors from touring Greek island (AP, 2025-07-23)

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>> A cruise ship carrying Israeli tourists left the Greek island of #Syros Tuesday without its passengers disembarking, after more than 150 protesters demonstrated at the island’s port, unfurling Palestinian flags and calling for an end to the war in Gaza.

>> The ship is operated by an Israeli company, Mano Cruise, which said about 1,700 passengers were on board and it is sailing to Cyprus.

>> Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar contacted his Greek counterpart, George Gerapetritis, over the incident, the Greek foreign ministry confirmed. It did not release any details of their discussion.

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“Palestinian women and girls carry the promise of the continuity of Palestinian life.”

Reem Alsalem, United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, explains why Palestinian women and girls are deliberate targets for the Israeli army.

Brett Wilkins Jul 22, 2025

A leading global authority on famine on Monday accused Israel of orchestrating a carefully planned campaign of mass starvation in the Gaza Strip, remarks that came amid a steadily rising death toll from malnutrition caused by the 654-day U.S.-backed Israeli siege and obliteration of the Palestinian enclave.

"I've been working on this topic for more than four decades, and there is no case since World War II of starvation that is being so minutely designed and controlled," Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, told Al Jazeera.

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The proposed master plan constitutes a comprehensive and strategic response to the vision of renewing Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, while emphasizing Zionist, economic, and security values. The plan shapes a vital, functioning, and connected space, integrated into the southern region and unique due to its geographical location and inherent economic and security potential.
Program components include:

    Establishing two central cities in the north and south, with advanced and balanced urban planning that includes approximately 300,000 housing units and a population of over a million residents.

    A leading university research center in the fields of agriculture and maritime affairs, for 25,000 students.

    A modern high-tech and commercial park, spanning 4,800 dunams and offering thousands of jobs.

    An industrial zone in the south, near the Egyptian border, with direct access to the Mediterranean Sea and opening up land and sea trade opportunities.

    A coastal tourist complex that will include a strip of hotels, resort villages and water sports activities.

    An advanced agricultural zone that will continue agricultural development in the Negev and the area surrounding Gaza.

    Green areas around the Besor River that are integrated with tourism, recreation and extreme sports activities.

    The plan is based on guiding principles of security and economic advancement, and its purpose is to form a solid foundation for Jewish prosperity and stability in the entire region.

As a first step and out of thinking about practical ways to implement a national settlement plan, the Nahla movement acted, as is customary in Zionist realization throughout the generations, and began immediately after the outbreak of the war, by forming settlement nuclei for aliyah to the land.

Currently, there are over 1,000 families registered in 6 settlement nuclei who are ready to immigrate to the area immediately under pioneering conditions.

Absorption and exit mechanisms have already been successfully tested in other areas, and can also be implemented in Gaza.
Conclusion

The migration of the Gazan population is not "collective punishment" – but a humane and effective solution.

This is a familiar mechanism in protracted conflicts, which has made it possible to restore human lives, reduce the extent of suffering – and lead to long-term stability.

After October 7, the Gazan population was denied the legitimacy to continue living in this space —

In light of involvement, support, or silence in the face of unprecedented atrocities.

The expulsion of the civilian population – by choice and/or as part of an arrangement –

It is a necessary step in clearing the battlefield and transforming it into a space for life, agriculture, industry, tourism, and Jewish settlement.

Fifteen Palestinians died from malnutrition under an Israeli-imposed famine in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, the Palestinian health ministry said on Tuesday.

Four of them were children, including three identified as the infant Yousef al-Safadi, Abd al-Jawad al-Ghalban, 16, and Ahmad Hasanat. inian health ministry.

By MEE staff
Published date: 18 July 2025 20:59 BST

Hardline America Firster and staunch Trump supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene voted alongside progressive Democrat Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar to strip Israel of $500m in US funding, hours after it bombed the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza.

The House of Representatives, however, rejected in a 422-6 vote on Thursday, to cut funding for the Israeli Cooperative Program - an agreement through which the US provides Israel with $500m to boost its missile programmes.

It is a separate allocation from the $3.3bn the US sends Israel as "security assistance" every year.

By Alex MacDonald
Published date: 21 July 2025 14:50 BST

The Palestinian health ministry said on Monday that Hams, who also oversees field hospitals in the Gaza Strip, was on his way to visit the ICRC facility in northern Rafah when undercover Israeli soldiers opened fire, killing one person and wounding another civilian, before capturing him.

The person killed was a local journalist who had been conducting an interview with al-Hams at the time of the attack.

By MEE staff
Published date: 21 July 2025 21:11 BST

The New York lawmaker voted against an amendment by Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene last week that sought to block $500m in Congress' annual defence spending bill for Israel's Iron Dome programme.

Fellow Democrats Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar [as well as Democrats Al Green of Texas, Summer Lee of Pennsylvania and Republican Thomas Massie of Kentucky - PL] had supported Taylor Greene's amendment, which eventually lost in a 422-6 vote.

In a post on X on Saturday, Ocasio-Cortez claimed that Greene's amendment did "nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza".

By SYLVIA HUI and JILL LAWLESS
Updated 1:05 PM EDT, July 21, 2025

LONDON (AP) — Twenty-five countries including #Britain, #France and a host of #European nations issued a joint statement on Monday that puts more pressure on #Israel, saying the war in #Gaza “must end now” and Israel must comply with international law.

The foreign ministers of countries including #Australia, #Canada and #Japan said “the suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths.” They condemned “the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food.”

The statement described as “horrifying” the deaths of over 800 #Palestinians who were seeking aid...