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Smoke billows over residential areas in eastern Gaza after Israeli forces carried out new strikes near the “Yellow Line,” despite their earlier withdrawal following a cease-fire in Gaza City, Gaza on November 18, 2025. [Hamza Z. H. Qraiqea – Anadolu Agency]
Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli army fire in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the military said, in the latest violation of a fragile ceasefire agreement, Anadolu reports.
A military statement said the two were shot dead for allegedly attempting to cross the “yellow line,” a demarcation line outlined under the ceasefire agreement that separates areas still under Israeli military control from those where Palestinians are permitted to move.
Israeli forces routinely shoot at Palestinians who approach, even without crossing, the “yellow line” in areas where movement is permitted.
According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, at least 266 Palestinians have been killed and 635 others injured by Israeli fire since the ceasefire took effect on Oct. 10.
The Israeli army launched a brutal offensive on Gaza in October 2023, killing more than 69,000 people, mostly women and children, injuring over 170,000 others, and reducing the enclave to rubble.
Phase one of the ceasefire deal includes the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. The plan also envisages the rebuilding of Gaza and the establishment of a new governing mechanism without Hamas.
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Genocide denier and Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that UK air force support has been essential in Israel’s mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpAKeir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.Orcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.
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Palestinian Catholic priest Manuel Musallam poses for a photo during an interview with Anadolu Agency, in Bir Zeit near Ramallah, West Bank on December 22, 2020 [Hisham K. K. Abu Shaqra / Anadolu Agency]
Father Manuel Musallam, a member of the Islamic-Christian Committee for the Support of Jerusalem and Holy Sites, said Monday that international initiatives concerning the Gaza Strip are aimed at weakening and disarming the Palestinian resistance, asserting that such efforts are “doomed to fail.”
In press remarks, Musallam said the weapons of the Palestinian resistance “will not be taken away by anyone — not the United States, nor anyone else,” arguing that Israel, not Gaza, should be placed under international trusteeship “for the war crimes and genocide committed against the Palestinian people.”
He accused the United States of being a “direct partner” in the suffering of Palestinians because of its “military and political support for Israel,” describing the American vision for Gaza as “a failed attempt to disarm the Palestinians — an illusion that will never be realised.”
Musallam added that Palestinians “do not trust the United States, Europe, or some Arab regimes,” stressing that Israel has failed to achieve security “through military force” after two years of war. True security, he said, “can only come through recognizing the rights of the Palestinian people, not through force and killing.”
He argued that the continuation of Palestinian armed resistance would increase Israel’s isolation and exposure to international prosecution, ultimately leading to its defeat.
The Israeli war on Gaza, waged with U.S. and Western support since October 2023 has killed more than 69,000 Palestinians and wounded over 170,000, the vast majority women and children. Over 90 per cent of the Strip’s buildings have been destroyed. Israeli forces have continued bombardment and home demolitions despite last month’s ceasefire agreement, resulting in hundreds of additional casualties and severe restrictions on the entry of food and medical supplies.
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Genocide denier and Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that UK air force support has been essential in Israel’s mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpAKeir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.Orcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.
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Israeli army’s tanks and armored vehicles are seen moving along the Gaza border as attacks continue unabated in Gaza City, Gaza on September 16, 2025. [Mostafa Alkharouf – Anadolu Agency]
The Oxford Union, one of the world’s most renowned debating societies, has voted “overwhelmingly” in favor of a motion declaring Israel a greater threat to regional stability than Iran, following a heated debate featuring former Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh and Geneva-based NGO UN Watch’s director Hillel Neuer, Anadolu reports.
The debate centered on the motion declaring that Israel is a greater threat to regional stability than Iran, as The Telegraph reported this weekend that the society members backed the proposition by a wide margin.
Speaking for the motion, Shtayyeh argued that Israel’s actions constitute the primary source of instability in the Middle East, describing it as “an expansionist colonial state established by colonial powers.”
He went on to call Israel a “pariah state” that “acts above the law,” alleging that it violates UN resolutions and enforces “a colonial regime based on apartheid against the Palestinian people.”
“Brutal occupation, crimes and genocide, … Israel is dragging the region into repeated conflicts,” he said, adding that some Israeli lawmakers believe the country’s borders should stretch “from the Nile to the Euphrates.”
“We all should say that Israel is the biggest cause of destabilization in the region,” he concluded.
Opposing the motion, Neuer insisted that Israel is not the destabilizing force in the region and accused Iran of arming militant proxies across the Middle East.
“Regional stability is measured by who starts wars, not by who stops them,” he said. “Israel does not arm terror proxies in five Arab countries – the regime in Iran does that.”
He cited the Iranian attack on Israel earlier this year involving drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles, arguing that the coordinated response by several Arab states showed their alignment with Israel against Iranian aggression.
“You don’t intercept missiles heading towards a threat to regional stability – you intercept missiles from one,” he said.
The Oxford Union, founded in 1823, has become increasingly scrutinised over its Israel-related debates.
Last year, it passed another motion accusing Israel of being “an apartheid state responsible for genocide,” by 278 votes to 59.
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Restoration work begins on the historic Pasha Palace, a centuries-old landmark located at Old City in Gaza City, Gaza on November 10, 2025. [Khames Alrefi – Anadolu Agency]
Gaza’s historical and cultural heritage has not been spared Israeli bombardment during Tel Aviv’s two-year war, with over 20,000 rare artifacts spanning from prehistoric eras to the Ottoman period missing and looted, Anadolu reports.
“The Israeli army has systematically and extensively destroyed Gaza’s archaeological sites as part of a policy aimed at erasing Palestinian identity,” Ismail al-Thawabteh, head of Gaza’s Government Media Office, told Anadolu on Monday.
According to official data, Israeli forces fully or partially destroyed more than 316 archaeological sites and buildings in the Gaza Strip, most dating back to the Mamluk and Ottoman eras, while others trace back to the early Islamic centuries and the Byzantine period.
Qasr al-Basha, a Mamluk-era palace built on a UNESCO heritage site dating back to 800 BC, was not spared from Israel’s systematic targeting of Gaza’s history.
Located in the Al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City’s Old City, 70% of the Qasr al-Basha palace was damaged in Israeli attacks, according to Hamouda Al-Dahdar, a cultural heritage expert at the Centre for Cultural Heritage Preservation in Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.
Looting
Technicians and workers continue searching for scattered artifacts under the rubble, using simple tools to recover and preserve what remains of Gaza’s historical identity.
“What happened to Gaza’s heritage was not only destruction; it was organized looting, a practice criminalized under international law and considered an assault on global cultural heritage,” Thawabteh said.
He added that over 20,000 rare artifacts spanning prehistoric eras to the Ottoman period housed in the museum had disappeared during the Israeli war.
Dahdar also confirmed the disappearance of thousands of rare and diverse artifacts after Israeli forces raided and destroyed the site.
“Each piece of these artifacts is historically significant and represents a chapter of Palestine’s civilizational history,” Dahdar said, calling the looting “a grave cultural crime that affects national identity and humanity’s shared heritage.”
The expert noted that the site had previously suffered extensive destruction during earlier Israeli military operations before its withdrawal in 1994.
After the Israeli withdrawal, the Palestinian Authority restored the palace and turned it into a museum featuring valuable historical collections.
Israel occupied the Gaza Strip in 1967 and withdrew in 1994 under the 1993 Oslo Accords with the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). In 2005, it dismantled its settlements in Gaza under its unilateral “Disengagement Plan.”
Once again, during the latest war that started in October 2023, the palace suffered destruction and the looting of its archaeological objects.
More than 69,000 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and over 170,700 others injured in the Israeli war that reduced the enclave to rubble.
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Government Spokesperson Stefan Kornelius of Germany speaks to press during the press meeting of German government spokespersons in Berlin, Germany on October 06, 2025. [Halil Sağırkaya – Anadolu Agency]
Germany announced Monday it will lift restrictions on arms exports to Israel, citing a “stabilized ceasefire” in Gaza and recent diplomatic progress in the region, Anadolu reports.
The decision takes effect on Nov. 24 and returns the country to case-by-case review of arms export applications to Israel, government spokesman Stefan Kornelius told the German press agency DPA.
Kornelius said the government based its decision on the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that has held since Oct. 10 and has stabilized in recent weeks. He also pointed to efforts toward a sustainable peace and increased humanitarian aid in Gaza.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz ordered the restrictions on Aug. 8, halting approval of arms exports that could be used in the Gaza war. The decision came in response to Israel’s announcement of a full-scale ground offensive and the stopping of aid deliveries into Gaza.
Germany’s arms exports to Israel have long been contentious and the subject of legal challenges by rights groups and Gaza residents. The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), which supported plaintiffs in their legal action, has repeatedly said that Berlin’s authorization of weapons exports to Israel violated international agreements Germany signed, including the Geneva Convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide.
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