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Gaza's UNSC Resolution 2803
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The UNSC resolution not only makes US President Donald Trump the effective leader of the new administrative force that will be imposed upon the Gaza Strip, but also greenlights what it calls its International Stabilisation Force
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A shameful mandate for force: What the UNSC’s Gaza resolution means in practice

New Zealand's "Voice of Oceania" Dame Jacinda Ardern at the COP3 climate summit in Brazil
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"The silence of governments like ours imagines this dystopia as a new baseline"
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Marilyn Garson: How shall we speak now since the Gaza ‘ceasefire’?

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Gaza ‘ceasefire’ simply means that Israel can do whatever it wants....

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No more kings?
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An UNRWA school in Gaza destroyed by Israeli bombing
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Rebuilding Gaza begins in the classroom and with dignity

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Palestinians perform prayer next to the rubble of a mosque that was destroyed by the Israeli occupation forces during the Gaza genocide
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Trump’s ‘annexation ban’ is a ploy to push Israeli normalisation

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Israel's "apartheid wall" looms high above Aida refugee camp, up to nine metres tall in some places
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"My greatest worry is that [Netanyahu] does believe that his only chance of being reelected is still to have a war going on"
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What would Alfred Nobel have said?
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Freedom Flotilla hunger strikers Huwaida Arraf (from left -- Palestinian/American), Omer Sharir (Israeli) and Zohar Chamberlain Regev (Israeli/German)
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A tribute in Māngere East's Village Green

Showing their aroha for the activist ‘power couple’ of Māngere East

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A SodaStream critical placard in today's protest

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