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Fiji's Labour Party leader and a former prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry
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Gaza flotilla humanitarian activist Hāhona Ormsby
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Israeli Ambassador to Australia Hillel Newman
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Gaza flotilla victim blaming – time to expel Israel’s ambassador

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Gaza Sumud flotilla survivors: Juliet Lamont, Isla Lamont, Neve O'Connor
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Fiji human rights advocate Shamima Ali
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The whistleblowing soldiers of 1967 admitted their job was not to “fight the enemy” – or “eradicate the terrorists”, as Israeli leaders now term it. It was to kill and terrorise Palestinian civilians
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Jonathan Cook: How Israel planned the Gaza genocide decades ago

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Olayan Olayan, who was born in the village of Battir in 1941, overlooks a valley in which a new Israeli settler outpost is built
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Israel’s rampant ethnic cleansing of West Bank Palestinian communities

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FLNKS president Christian Téin
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Joseph Vaa, 27, admitted gunning down suspected "Coconut Cartel" ringleader Lorenzo Lemalu Tovia outside a restaurant last week. Vaa's associate, Steve Tofa, 23, has confessed to being his accomplice in the shooting
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Five Palestinian journalists from Gaza imprisoned in Israeli jails
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The moment "Coconut Cartel" ringleader Lorenzo Lemalu Tovia was gunned down
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Australian protesters condemn the torture of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails at a demonstration in Adelaide, South Australia, in December 2025
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New Zealand Police Commissioner Richard Chambers flanked by regional police chiefs and Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu
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Julien Blondel's niece holds a "free Julien!" placard in French with a Palestinian watermelon logo
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Robert Reich: Has Trump’s Republican Party become a criminal enterprise?

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Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
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