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NHS doctor Rahmeh Aladwan charged with inviting support for Hamas and stirring up racial hatred | UK News

NHS doctor Rahmeh Aladwan charged with inviting support for Hamas and stirring up racial hatred | UK News

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An NHS doctor has been charged with four counts of inviting support for Hamas. Metropolitan Police arrested Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, 31, at her home in Pilning, South Gloucestershire, on Thursday morning. The force said that she had been detained for breaching bail conditions following previous arrests. She was taken to a London police station, and charged under the Terrorism Act with allegedly inviting support for a proscribed group on four occasions between July and December last year. The allegations relate to online material and comments. Aladwan was also charged with two counts of stirring up racial hatred through both written material and words. Read more from Sky News:Police reopen investigation into Tate allegationsUK facing biggest economic hit from Iran war Police said one of these two charges – brought under the Public Order Act – related to an incident on King Charles Street, London, on 21 July 2025. Aladwan was remanded in custody, and will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday. Source link

Iran war; Trump; Student loans to Treasury; Hamas : NPR

Iran war; Trump; Student loans to Treasury; Hamas : NPR

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Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that Israel acted alone when it struck an Iranian gas compound earlier this week. President Trump said he wasn’t informed in advance of that attack. But a person briefed on the matter tells NPR that the U.S. and Israel are coordinated on all targets. Netanyahu said Trump has asked Israel to hold off on future attacks. As the war nears the end of its third week, the Pentagon is requesting Congress’ approval for an additional $200 billion to assist U.S. defenses. Two women and a child holding an Iranian flag walk toward the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque to attend Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran, on Friday. Vahid Salemi/AP hide caption toggle caption Vahid Salemi/AP 🎧 NPR’s Carrie Kahn is in Tel Aviv, where she tells Up First that the mood is tense, even though many in …

Gaza hit by strongest sandstorm in over five years

Gaza hit by strongest sandstorm in over five years

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A cloud of orange-tinted, thick dust spread across the Gaza Strip on Saturday as first responders told Palestinians to stay home, especially those with respiratory illness. People were also urged to secure their tents to prevent them from being blown away. Israel’s war with Hamas has left most of Gaza’s 2 million residents displaced, living in tents and damaged buildings with little protection from the elements such as rain, wind and sand. Story by Catherine Viette. Keywords for this article Source link

From Hamas attack to U.S.-Iran war: Violence redraws the Middle East

From Hamas attack to U.S.-Iran war: Violence redraws the Middle East

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JERUSALEM — Early on a cool autumn morning in 2023, from a tunnel beneath the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar gave an order that sent thousands of Hamas fighters through the fence separating the territory from Israel. That green light has reordered the Middle East on a scale comparable to the Arab Spring or the carving up of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century — but not remotely in the ways Sinwar had in mind. Source link

Why A War With Iran Means Confronting Radical Evil

Why A War With Iran Means Confronting Radical Evil

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 (RNS) — This evening in synagogues all over the world, Jews will gather for Purim and read the scroll of Esther. The Book of Esther calls the story an “iggeret,” which can translate to “epistle,” or a letter addressed to a specific community. It’s for generations of Jews to open again and again, whenever history turns dark.  The gaiety of Purim masks a dark story of Jewish vulnerability in ancient Persia. Purim tells us that in a world where a Judeophobic despot can call for your destruction, you must do what you need to do to survive. It is about what Jews must do when threats become real. The American-Israeli attack on Iran occurred on Shabbat Zachor, when Jews read the commandment to remember Amalek, our ancient genocidal foe. Haman, the villain of the Purim story, descends from Amalek, a symbol of radical evil.  Ancient Persia is now contemporary Iran. In our time, its leaders have stood as close to a symbol of radical evil as one can find. For decades, they have obsessed …

The thin-skinned tyrant behind atrocities from Israel to Argentina

The thin-skinned tyrant behind atrocities from Israel to Argentina

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The Ayatollah wore a simple brown cloak and shunned ostentation or luxury. He would spend hours preaching Islamic virtues to deferential crowds. He was sometimes photographed alongside his infant grandson. Yet for all his displays of modesty, Ali Khamenei, the late supreme leader of Iran, was one of the most bloodsoaked tyrants ever to have tormented his country and stained the annals of the Middle East. Under his sway, Iran inflamed wars and sponsored terrorists the length and breadth of the region and sometimes on the far side of the world. Wherever you saw conflict and unrest – from Gaza to Syria and from Yemen to Lebanon – you could trace a link back to Iran’s revolutionary regime. It was precisely because Khamenei was, from 1989 onwards, the revolutionary leader of an Islamic Republic that he was willing to go to such lengths against his enemies at home or abroad. Khamenei and his commanders inspect members of the Basij militia in Tehran in 2007 – ISNA/AFP/Getty Khamenei believed that he ruled with divine authority and …

Israel expanding ‘de facto permanent apartheid’ to carry out total Palestinian ‘takeover’

Israel expanding ‘de facto permanent apartheid’ to carry out total Palestinian ‘takeover’

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Eve Irvine is pleased to welcomes Dr Yair Wallach, Senior Lecturer and Department Head of Israeli Studies at SOAS. As a historian of modern Palestine and Israel, he’s witnessed decades of diplomatic frameworks collapse into something far more ominous. What we are witnessing now is an accelerated unraveling of what was once called the two-state solution. The Oslo Accords have faded into the distance amid the institutional hollowing of Palestinian authority, the rise of settler violence, and the de facto annexation of the West Bank. Is Israeli intent a complete takeover of the Palestinian territories? Keywords for this article Source link

Israeli strikes kill 3 people in Gaza, hospital says

Israeli strikes kill 3 people in Gaza, hospital says

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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli military strikes on Monday killed three people west of Gaza City, according to the hospital where the casualties arrived. Shifa Hospital reported the deaths amid the months-old ceasefire that has seen continued fighting. The Israeli army said Monday it is striking targets in response to Israeli troops coming under fire in the southern city of Rafah, which it says was a violation of the ceasefire. The army said it is striking targets “in a precise manner.” The four-month-old U.S-backed ceasefire followed stalled negotiations and included Israel and Hamas accepting a 20-point plan proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump aimed at ending the war unleashed by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack into Israel. At the time, Trump said it would lead to a “Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace.” Hamas freed all the living hostages it still held at the outset of the deal in exchange for thousands of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel and the remains of others. But the larger issues the agreement sought to address, including the …

Israeli occupation ‘no longer temporary, it is a permanent occupation’

Israeli occupation ‘no longer temporary, it is a permanent occupation’

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Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome former hostage negotiator and Middle East Director of the International Communities Organisation Dr. Gershon Baskin. As someone who has spent decades working toward a just resolution between Israelis and Palestinians, including negotiating with Hamas for the release of hostages, he’s watched with growing alarm the shift in Israel’s governance of the occupied territories. From his perspective, what we are witnessing is not the continuation of a temporary occupation, but the deepening of a permanent one. Keywords for this article Source link

Israel strikes Gaza, killing 19, mostly women and children, after saying Hamas violated deal : NPR

Israel strikes Gaza, killing 19, mostly women and children, after saying Hamas violated deal : NPR

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Palestinians mourn over the dead who were killed in an Israeli military strike, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. Jehad Alshrafi/AP hide caption toggle caption Jehad Alshrafi/AP DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 19 Palestinians, most of them women and children, by midday Wednesday, according to hospital officials. Israel pledged to continue strikes, saying that it was responding to a militant attack on Israeli soldiers that seriously wounded one. Among the Palestinians killed were five children, including a 5-month-old and a baby just 10 days old; seven women; and a paramedic, said hospital officials. They are the latest Palestinians in Gaza to die since a ceasefire deal, which has been punctuated by deadly Israeli strikes, came into effect on Oct. 10, 2025. More than 530 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli in that time, according to Gaza’s health ministry. The escalating Palestinian death toll has rocked the U.S.-backed truce and caused Palestinians in the strip to say it does not feel like the war has …