The General Authority for Civil Affairs has informed the Ministry of Health that 25-year-old Muhammad Ahmad Suweiti was killed by Israeli forces this morning in the town of Afqis, west of the city of Dura in Hebron, and that his body is being held.

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NYC Yesterday Friday April 17th

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21 ships have been turn around and returned to Iran.

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Yuval sits biting his nails, his legs fidgety. It's noon in Tel Aviv and the street is full of people. Sometimes he looks around, anxiously scanning the people passing by. "Sorry," he says. "My biggest fear is a vendetta."

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Lukashenko on Western "human rights":

You bombed a school in a sovereign country thousands of kilometers away. How many lives have been lost because you encouraged bombings by Israel? What human rights are you talking about?

You have interests, in this case, oil, gas, and control over them, which you pursue by any means necessary.

You talk about human rights and democracy, but in reality, nothing changes in your country.

You kill a person, what rights does he have? He's dead.

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The Ecologist issued a report showing how big oil companies reap in the profits from the war in Iran while avoiding contributions to the public good by using Britain's network of offshore tax heavens.

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Alana Newhouse writes for the Jerusalem Post, saying anti-Zionists are jealous of Israel because the West is without a moral rudder.

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UNICEF is outraged by the killing of two drivers of trucks contracted by UNICEF to provide clean water to families in the Gaza Strip.

The victims were killed by Israeli fire in an incident that took place early this morning at the Mansoura water filling point in northern Gaza. UNICEF extends our condolences to the families of the men killed.

The incident, in which two other people were injured, occurred during routine, water trucking operations, with no changes in movement or procedures.

The Mansoura water filling point is currently the only operational truck filling point for the Mekorot water supply line serving Gaza City. UNICEF and humanitarian partners use it multiple times a day to sustain critical water trucking operations for hundreds of thousands of people, including children. UNICEF contractors have been instructed to suspend onsite activities until security conditions in the area are restored.

UNICEF calls on the Israeli authorities to immediately investigate this incident, and ensure full accountability. Humanitarian workers, essential service providers, and civilian infrastructure, including critical water facilities, must never be targeted.

The protection of civilians and those delivering life-saving assistance is an obligation under international humanitarian law.

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The Israeli Army Radio stated that they have imposed a Yellow Line in Southern Lebanon like they previously did in the Gaza Strip.

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Eitay Mack, an Israeli human rights lawyer and activist who exposes Israel’s role in the Sri Lankan civil war and has pursued legal action in Israel wrote an article for Progressive International in which he detailed how declassified documents exposed Israel’s role at the start of Sri Lanka’s civil war.

In the 1980s, Israel secretly supplied Sri Lanka with millions in weapons, military training disguised as agricultural advice, and even campaign support, despite documented human rights abuses and doubts about a military solution to the civil war.

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IRGC Navy: For as long as the passage of vessels from and to Iran is under threat, the Strait of Hormuz is returned to its previous state.

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Video (English subtitles) from the 152th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Instabul.

Iranian delegate, Dr Mottaki, reacts to Bahrain's delegate calling Iran's strikes unjustified and explains how self-defense applied to Iran.

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