MPs have invited Richard Kemp, a vocal supporter of Israel's war who has described the deaths of civilians in Gaza as 'necessary', to give evidence to a parliamentary committee scrutinising UK-Israel arms exports on Wednesday. w/Dania Akkad
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🚨Court docs filed in UK legal challenge over arms sales to Israel reveal government assessment which led to decision to continue arms sales to Israel on 8 April did not factor in World Central Kitchen attack which killed three British nationals:

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In the UK arms transfer decisions are subject to judicial review. That is not the case in the US.

There's a comparative study to be done on the procedural effects w/in bureaucracy & substantive results of such scrutiny for arms transfers to the same recipients (eg KSA, Israel).

NEW - UK legal challenge over arms sales to Israel brought by Al-Haq الحق + GLAN | Global Legal Action Network revived in High Court

An expedited judicial review hearing now set for October

New details revealed about gov't decision-making since 7 Oct. Will be updating:

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Funding was cut to UNRWA on the basis of Israeli allegations, about an institution it openly wants to get rid of. Israel has not provided donor governments including the UK with any evidence that UNRWA was institutionally in any way connected to Hamas. This is why nearly all

Exclusive from @seanpmatthews: Israel blindsided US, said it wouldn't attack Iran until after Passover holiday middleeasteye.net/news/iran-atta…

Israeli drones lure Palestinians in Gaza with crying children recordings then shoot them Middle East Eye
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A new report from Amnesty describes harrowing conditions inside Kurdish-run detention facilities in northeastern Syria where it says hundreds have died as a consequence of systematic torture and inhumane treatment middleeasteye.net/news/kurdish-f…

More #aid has been entering #Gaza through the #south of the enclave and a newly opened crossing in the #north , but relief workers said this still isn’t enough to avert a looming #famine - The Wall Street Journal apple.news/ATvfJfZJ3TlKcP…

Israeli drones lure Palestinians with crying children recordings then shoot them, Maha Hussaini reports:

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Blinken Has Not Sanctioned Israeli Units Linked to Killings, Rapes Despite Staff Recommendations propublica.org/article/israel…

'When an Israeli airstrike destroyed his family's home in November, Zein Oroq was pinned under rubble...17 members of his extended family died...Last week, during an air drop of aid, the teenager was struck by one of the packages.' reuters.com/world/middle-e…

NEW- Over 350 humanitarian sites & aid convoys whose coordinates were shared in advance have been hit in Gaza since 7 October

Top UN official says ‘nothing substantive’ has changed in the way aid workers deconflict since World Central Kitchen attack:

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Twenty years after the world first saw photos of detainees tortured while in US custody at Abu Ghraib, one of the thousands of men who were abused there is at long last set to testify in a US federal court.

My latest, and first for Guardian US.

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Analysis from me and Emma Graham-Harrison of what last two weeks and coming days portend in Iran-Israel crisis theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

NOW in English

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I believe that the restoration of ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia has been one of the important factors preventing even more escalation in the Middle East.