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BBC State Department Correspondent. Previously in the Middle East. Presenter of BBC Sounds series #TheMandates . Download:

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1. Civilians who escaped Mariupol in recent days have described the growing desperation in the besieged city, including accounts of bodies buried in shallow graves, looting by Chechen fighters, and starving residents being killed when they venture out of shelters to find water

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2 years

We witnessed similar in the Muslim quarter. Shortly after, our BBC team were assaulted causing our cameraman to lose part of his equipment. We were later spat at. One shouted: “Go and be with Shireen”

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שרשור על: מצעד הדגלים 2022, הקומץ. נתחיל בלדפוק על דלתות:

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BBC journalists covering the attack on Israel were assaulted and held at gunpoint by Israeli police. A BBC spokesperson said journalists "must be able to report on the conflict in Israel-Gaza freely".

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BBC journalists held at gunpoint by Israeli police

A BBC Arabic team was driving to back to a hotel when they were stopped and dragged from their car.

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#Jenin this morning -filmed by the BBC’s Jimmy Michael

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1. In the autumn of 1938 British soldiers arrived in the village of Al-Bassa in northern Palestine. They rounded up villagers and burned down homes. Troops later forced men onto a bus and blew it up by making them drive over a landmine. Eid Haddad’s parents lived there

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The moments before Raed al-Naasan, 21, was shot dead by Israeli troops on Tuesday are captured in video from a clearer angle. The army said it fired live ammunition at him in response to him throwing petrol bombs

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Foreign Press Association presses again for immediate access to Gaza raising “questions about what Israel does not want international journalists to see”. The US administration has also pressed Netanyahu directly on the issue, still no change.

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#Israeli police beating a #Palestinian man who manages to escape - filmed by a colleague at #DamascusGate

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Harrowing pictures from #Gaza ’s Nassar Hospital in Khan Younis sent to our Gaza team this morning

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From @Rushdibbc to our BBC team - now on the @BBCWorld live page

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Rushdi’s been displaced 4 times with his wife and children. I’ve been on this street with him in the past as he’s picked up his twin girls. Now he’s living in a tent. He’s still working. You can hear the bombardment. Gaza is a place whose people cannot flee war.

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I don’t usually post personal stuff, but this place is my street, here was my safe home, my neighborhood, my lovely neighbors, my memories and big dreams buried under the rubble

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New video emerges of moment #ShireenAbuAkleh was shot dead. Significantly, the group is relaxed and no gunfire is apparent as they prepare to work. There are two instances of repeat single shots, not bursts, that appear to come towards them. Warning : distressing content

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“Unicef says … an estimated 19,000 children are orphaned or have ended up alone with no adult to look after them”

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Injured, hungry and alone - the Gazan children orphaned by war

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Clear to see in the vids Israeli forces beating and kicking the pallbearers, after they had fired stun grenades at mourners and us press at the hospital

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"He had lost his kids, his grandkids, his home," Sam recalls, "and he's alone in the corner of this dark hospital, maggots going out of his wounds, and he was screaming: 'The worms are eating me alive please help me’” -US medic in Gaza, by @fergalkeane47

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The US doctor who cannot forget what he saw in Gaza

Dr Sam Attar found himself having to decide who could be saved, and who was beyond hope.

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Video passed on from a resident of #Turumsaya of his wife trapped in the house. She is watching the security camera as settlers attack- you hear the rocks hit the house, she cries to God for help. Its the only known source of help- hundreds attacked the town; nearly all are free

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Pictures passed on from al-Shifa hospital show at least 20 new-born babies in a surgical theatre- “I’m afraid if we leave these children in this unit in this condition we are allowing them to die… they are premature babies” said Dr Marwan Abu Saada, head of surgery

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Palestinian activist @Issaamro just arrested while we were interviewing him in #Hebron . 4 Israeli undercover police detained him and took him away shortly after he gave a speech to Israeli activists.

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Chaos at the hospital as Shireen Abu Akleh’s coffin tried to be taken out -Israel border police firing stun grenades into crowd of mourners, people rushing into the hospital for cover

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36 journalists killed in 4 weeks - that’s more than half the number killed worldwide in the whole of last year, as documented by @CPJMENA

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"This is the most dangerous conflict for journalists that the Committee to Protect Journalists has ever documented," @jodieginsberg tells @BBCNews . 36 journalists have been killed covering the Israel-Gaza war since Oct. 7 reports the CPJ.

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Asked if it will provide its evidence behind the terrorism listing of 6 Palestinian NGOs Israel’s Defence ministry says all the documents are classified

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“Israel joins a dubious club of authoritarian governments to ban [Al Jazeera]. And the government may not be done. The prime minister has the authority to target other foreign media that he deems to be acting ‘against the state’.” - Foreign Press Association

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6. 'Mariupol is a graveyard': Evacuees recount terror of Russian assault

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'Mariupol is a graveyard': Evacuees recount terror of Russian assault

Survivors from the besieged city say they wondered at times if the rest of Ukraine had fallen.

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1. This is a story from #Mariupol about one woman’s journey into the heart of darkness. Her name is Anastasia and she is 23. Hers is a story of duty, loyalty and love in the midst of the appalling onslaught of war.

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9. Watch our report for @bbcnewsnight below , and read more here here .

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UK apology sought for British war crimes in Palestine

A 300-page dossier details atrocities by British soldiers against Palestinians during UK rule.

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5. Anna, escaped to Berdyansk 50 miles away. She said "Mariupol is a graveyard now. All the neighbourhoods are covered in the graves of civilians. It was terrifying… Not everybody got out. We have relatives… we don't know if they are alive or not”

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Footage from #Jenin shows widespread destruction on one of the streets in the heart of the camp. In September I spoke to Abdul Latif at that spot. His family were refugees from Galilee- “We’ve kept the keys from our homes in 1948, we still have them”

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2. The evacuee's accounts to the BBC are emerging as they reach the town of #Zaporizhzhia which is acting as a hub for refugees. They have risked journeys through Russian and Ukrainian lines that the Red Cross describes as an evacuation "from hell"

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“Fuck the media” - this is the political rallying cry of a Trump follower who attacked a BBC cameraman last night. We have a generation of politicians who fear accountability and provoke the disempowered - rather than helping them — in return for a vote.

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This is the shameful moment when my cameraman Ron Skeans was attacked by @realdDonaldTrump supporter in El Paso - after the President repeatedly goaded the crowd over supposed media bias. Happily Ron is fine #TrumpElPaso

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5.The atrocities at Al-Bassa and Halhul form part of a 300 page file of evidence due to be handed to the UK government asking for an official apology for alleged war crimes in historical Palestine, being brought by Munib al-Masri, a 88-year-old Palestinian business tycoon

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16-year-old Palestinian Amjad Abu Alia was shot dead this morning in al-Mughayyir. Video from Hadi Sabarna of Wattan TV, who reports gunfire appeared to come from both Israeli soldiers and settlers (both are visible in the video)

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4. She said: "When we were in Mariupol, Chechens were looting. They were taking people's gold. It was becoming really dangerous, we heard they were raping women. I was frightened for my kids and I realised we had to get them out in any way possible"

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3. In one aid facility was Yuliia, her two daughters and her mum Tatiana. They said many people having to remain in #Mariupol ’s basements and obliterated apartment buildings are "the incapacitated" - a reference to elderly and disabled people

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Video released by @btselem shows Israeli settlers attacking the village of Mufaqarah in the Hebron hills yesterday. At least 6 Palestinians wounded including 3 year old with head injuries, say locals.

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7. Voices of some British soldiers who served in Palestine were recorded decades later. Tapes reveal accounts of arbitrary killings, use of human shields and collective punishment. The recordings were part of an oral history project by the Imperial War Museum.

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A year later, in the village of Halhul, British soldiers carried out a weapons search. Up to 150 people were herded into a space behind a mosque and men put in barbed wire cages, as later described in an extraordinary account decades by a British officer there

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Group of Israeli marchers shouting “death to Arabs” at Damascus Gate - some lit a flare and just surged up the steps to area where a few Palestinians in cafes had been cleared by security forces. Police now pushing the marchers back towards Muslim quarter

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4. Villagers were left in the wire cages for a fortnight. Up to 13 people died of dehydration (a British official’s account put the number at 11), while one was shot trying to escape said locals. Mohammed Abu Rayan was a boy when the soldiers occupied his rooftop.

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17-year-old Palestinian shot dead by Israeli troops in Hebron, according to Maan agency. There were clashes at Bab al-Zawyeh in the centre. Thought to be first Palestinian killed during increase in tensions since #DealOfTheCentury announced. @BBCMonitoring

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footage as mourners had to take cover inside the hospital #ShirinAbuAqla

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“It is with some bitterness that Syrians are watching this war feeling they understand what’s happening in Ukraine now with every bone in their body… but it was only the [politicians’] words which got stronger - and words never stopped a war” @bbclysedoucet #r4today

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Shrine to Shireen Abu Akleh at St Joseph’s Hospital #Jerusalem

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Three Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank overnight, says Palestinian health ministry. Two of the men were brothers in their 20s, shot dead in Kafr Ein near Ramallah 1.

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6. A review of the historical evidence involved includes details of arbitrary killings, torture, the use of human shields and and home demolitions as collective punishment. Much of it was conducted within formal policy guidelines for UK forces at the time.

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1 year

Mr al-Naasan’s mother Fatma said: “[The troops] are the ones who attacked us. They came towards the house in the confrontations and the young people participated”

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West Bank footage throws spotlight on Israel's use of lethal force

Four Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli troops during confrontations on one day this week.

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Monday's latest on the situation in Gaza - with biggest thanks to our local @Reuters and @AFP colleagues on the ground

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US State Dept finds 5 Israeli military or police units committed gross violations of human rights in unnamed incidents. But they all remain eligible for US military assistance - it says because… 1/

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Beirut governor says death toll rises to 220, more than 7,000 injured, 110 missing and 80,000 houses damaged. #beirutblast

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Jenin in August 1938, from an extraordinary set of pictures I came across last year during a story about the British mandate. They show the aftermath of British troops blowing up multiple buildings in the town. 1

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"The world will do nothing for us- we always appeal to the international community” - the story of Ameed al-Jaghoub

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Palestinian shot in back of head puts Israel's use of force under scrutiny

Ameed al-Jaghoub was unarmed and apparently going to help a wounded man when he was hit.

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Israeli police invasion into Christian funeral procession was "disproportionate use of force - attacking mourners, frightening patients… a severe violation of international norms including freedom of religion"-head of Roman Catholic Church in Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa

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Among the giants of our profession

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Our #Gaza team

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8. The UK Ministry of Defence said it was aware of historical allegations and would review any evidence thoroughly

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Messages now getting through to colleagues in Khan Younis, who are in contact. More update shortly

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10 months

Eyewitnesses and video footage shows no weapon when the teenager was struck, according to footage verified by the Times and further pictures seen by the BBC

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Jenin: Palestinian boy killed during Israeli assault was unarmed - family

It comes after videos emerge of the moment the 16-year-old was killed during an Israeli assault.

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Speaking to the BBC, one former US ambassador suggested the dissenting civil servants were determined not to repeat the mistakes of the lead up to the 2003 the invasion of Iraq -“Then there were people who knew better… but nobody said anything publicly”

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Western officials in protest over Israel Gaza policy

More than 800 officials in the US and Europe have penned a letter calling for more pressure on Israel.

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5 years

Standoff - women in bras vs ultra-orthodox Jewish protesters against #Eurovision being held on their sabbath

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The call for the #UK government to acknowledge alleged war crimes in historical #Palestine : You can watch our special report today on @BBCWorld at below (jerusalem times)

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#DamascusGate early evening

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UK’s Middle East minister Lord Ahmad and delegation were kept at the gates of al-Aqsa mosque compound for 30 minutes by Israeli border police, before being allowed to enter this morning 1.

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11. Anastasia reached her parents on the second day. "I could not rejoice, but I could not cry either," she says. She told her parents: "We will cry on Ukrainian territory."

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Mariupol: Driving into the 'apocalypse' to save mum and dad

How a young Ukrainian woman travelled into the besieged city of Mariupol to save her parents.

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Behind the tension in Jerusalem - Muna al-Kurd was born in #SheikhJarrah . Hers and several other Palestinian families face eviction from their East Jerusalem homes after Israeli courts backed action pursued by a Jewish settler group. Some of her story here

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Destruction in #Jenin camp is massive and widespread. Roads torn up, cars crushed and flipped. Residents still talking of water and power outages

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At least 3 more demolitions of Palestinian homes and buildings by Israel forces in occupied East Jerusalem so far today. far-right police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir issues statement “governance is the order of the hour” Pics alQastal

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A British surgeon in Gaza tells me more than 140 desperately sick patients, mostly with cancer, are still being denied urgently-needed treatment while crossing to Israel remains shut for a 4th day. Prof. Nick Maynard, who is also stranded in Gaza- more

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It's also worth adding that the claim that "300 rioters arrived" at the hospital is categorically untrue

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This version of events emphatically not supported by an interview with Shireen Abu Akleh’s brother on The World Tonight on @BBCRadio4 just now

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Israeli forces shot dead a 15-year-old boy, Muhammad Salim, in the town of Azzun last night says Palestinian health ministry. Another teenager is critically wounded 1.

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"We're seeing more and more pressure on Palestinian communities to leave their land… Recently there are three communities that have been completely removed” -story by @YolandeKnell .

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Palestinian fears grow amid rising Israeli settler attacks

Recent months have seen some of the worst ever scenes of settler violence in the occupied West Bank.

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Russian troops appointed a puppet leader in parts of #Mariupol under their control says mayor’s aide Petro Andryushchenko. Says they’ve told the official “to clear a part of the city's central district of rubble and dead bodies to ensure that a parade can be held on 9 May".

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Number of Palestinians killed this year reaches at least 100 in the occupied West Bank as Israeli military raids continue to mount

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Palestinian deaths toll in West Bank hits 100 this year

The deadliest tally in years comes amid a big increase in Israeli military raids.

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Roman Abramovich spotted inside #Istanbul talks. Not at the main table. Next to Ibrahim Kalin , Erdogan’s spokesman

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Jeremy corbyn calls for Theresa May to debate with him directly during tonight's #bbcqt #election2017

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English homework found in the rubble of a destroyed building in #Gaza - “have you ever been to the Dead Sea?”

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@BBCMonitoring IDF confirms the incident saying a Palestinian hurled a Molotov cocktail at them and they fired 'to remove the threat' during a violent riot

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Israeli forces have wounded veteran Palestinian journalist Alaa Bardaneh hit by a rubber bullet in Beita near Nablus this afternoon, says Palestinian Red Crescent

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Statement by the Foreign Press Association on today's attack by Israeli border police on @AP photographer Mahmoud Illean. This is the latest in a string of unprovoked attacks in recent years by border police on journalists working for international media.

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The remains of the shrine at the hospital

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“One bullet took all the fingers of one hand. Asked about her injury, she looks away and cannot answer”. Reporting by @BBCPaulAdams and report by @hrw

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Hundreds of migrants killed by Saudi border guards - report

Migrants tell the BBC they were shot on the Saudi border as a new report alleges "mass killings".

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A 14-year-old boy has been shot dead by Israeli forces during a raid overnight in Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank, says Palestinian health ministry. Named as Fares Abu Samra

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2 years

Now on YouTube. With @jimmybbc1966 @leedurant @Ellieljacobs @rajaikhatib @JamesBrooksVid @YousefShomali .

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The forgotten atrocities: Britain’s history of abuse in Palestine -...

The UK government is being urged to make a formal apology for alleged war crimes by British troops in historical Palestine nearly a century ago. The petition...

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Currently we can’t get hold of people in Gaza with communications still down. WhatsApps sent over 3 hours ago still just have a single tick, Mobile phone call attempts just get an unobtainable message. Messages and calls aren’t going through

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“Is that a wish or a question?” Netanyahu is the comeback king

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People in Gaza still can’t talk to the outside world, or presumably to each other - one msg sent 14 hours ago

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Images @jimmybbc1966 Translation @KozhushkoA Production @mgisholtminard @Bgdn_Klsnk @TCM_BTC

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The earthquake’s anonymous children - with @zeynep_erdim , @fatimaycelik , @YousefShomali . #bbcnews10

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@realDonaldTrump there is not a debate because there is not a constitutional right to own a gun the the uk

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Chairs of Ukip's Liverpool and Merseyside branches resign over Paul Nuttall's "insensitive" handling of Hillsborough controversy

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NEW: Twitter removes tweet by Russian Embassy in Israel which claimed militants had taken over Mariupol hospital. This one was posted on Weds, before Lavrov's speech. Follows report to Twitter by anti-disinfo group @FakeReporter .

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Israel police have arrested one of the Palestinian pallbearers beaten by officers at the funeral of #ShireenAbuAkleh . @Reuters

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“Solidarity at work”- the tweet shows an airdrop from a C130 - which delivers a similar amount of aid into Gaza as just one truck

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La solidarité à l’œuvre.

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@BBCMonitoring Palestinian media naming him as Mohammed al-Haddad, 17.

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The whole of Kyiv Region has been liberated from Russian forces says #Ukraine Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar: "Irpin, Bucha, Hostomel and all of Kyiv Region have been liberated from the enemy”

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“Death and life have become equal in Gaza. Bombardment from above is constant. It's all too much for many adults, let alone a child: no nine-year-old on Earth should have to go through this” by @Rushdibbc

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Rushdi Abualouf: My daughters beg for Gaza City return - but our old lives are over

The BBC's Rushdi Abualouf describes his family narrowly avoiding a drone attack - and being displaced four times in 15 days.

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The moment the world changed

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KFC drops Finger Lickin' Good slogan amid coronavirus pandemic

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2 years

9. "I felt like everything collapsed inside of me, everything we believed in…the idea that we are living in civilised society... that I was wrong all my life, that people are in fact barbaric, human life is not worth anything. And I dwelled on this that whole night and morning.”

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@tombateman

Tom Bateman

1 year

Fleeing #Sudan

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@tombateman

Tom Bateman

2 years

Hundreds of people awaiting the body of Shireen Abu Aqleh in #Ramallah

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