China’s President Xi Jinping, right, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas shake hands at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in June 2023.
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The Israeli attack on Gaza is undermining the West’s international standing, offering opportunities for China to enhance its regional and global diplomatic influence.
When does bombing become disproportionate?
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An expert on the laws of war argues that the burden is now on Israel to show that the heavy death toll in Gaza is proportionate to the military advantage gained.
Though Hamas has the advantage of fighting on its territory, Israel has developed one of the most effective urban fighting militaries in the world.
Attendees clap as they listen during a ‘teach-in on Gaza’ lecture at Rutgers University on Oct. 27, 2023, in New Brunswick, N.J.
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In Ontario and in Alberta, university decisions about balancing free expression and protection from harm will be an important test of recent university policy shifts pertaining to free expression.
Israeli soldiers inspect houses of young families that were attacked in the Hamas terrorists’ attack on October 7.
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At the United Nations and elsewhere, the response by the US and Western Europe to events in Israel and Gaza have been out of step with that of governments in Africa, South America and Asia.
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has held Egypt in an iron grip for a decade, but his regime’s close relations with Israel might prove a problem with voters.
NDP MPP, Sarah Jama, a Black woman, was censured by the Ontario Legislature for her comments which called on Canada to refrain from military intervention in the Middle East.
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Old-fashioned radio signals offer a way to broadcast news to war-torn areas.
Students at UMass Amherst march across campus following a walkout and rally protesting the university’s “ties with war profiteers,” while also calling for “a ceasefire and end of the blockade on Gaza.”
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A scholar of the Mideast at a large public university says that caring and a commitment to free speech have been central to his campus’s response to students upset and angry over the Israel-Hamas war.
It’s often the most vulnerable who suffer most in war. That remains true, with children making up around 40% of the casualties in the Israel-Hamas conflict. It’s devastating, now and into the future.
Amid their enduring statelessness and the ongoing risk of ethnic cleansing, Palestinian refugees must be protected under the provisions of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
‘Gaza Metro’: a Hamas fighter demonstrates one of the group’s networks of tunnels at Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip.
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Hamas’s 300 mile network of tunnels under Gaza is going to prove difficult and perhaps deadly for Israeli troops attempting a ground war in the territory.
Children sitting near their home at al-Shati camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on June 20, 2020.
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A scholar who has studied Palestinian refugees for 20 years explains the history of their displacement and the stakes involved for those living in an indefinite exile.
Investigating the site of the explosion outside al-Ahli Arab Hospital, as seen on Oct. 18, 2023, first requires independent, credible experts to have access to the area in question.
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The hospital blast site has largely been cleared, Hamas says. But a forensic scientist explains what other evidence independent experts could look to while conducting an investigation.