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May 4 - 1, 2024 <<'Hamas will not agree to a deal' unless ceasefire on table, expert says... and <<Biden's call to order on US campus protests 'ironic', students say... and <<Journalist deaths in Gaza: A 'reckoning' to come when war is over... and <<Police officer pleads guilty to two terror offences over pro-Hamas WhatsApp messages... and <<Israel reopens Gaza crossing but UN says not enough aid getting through... and <<Paris university to host Gaza debate after protests... and <<US college protests over Israel-Hamas war reach boiling point... and <<Biden administration 'ignoring US laws' on arms transfers to Israel: Ex-senior official... and <Question and answer by the Gazaian people and... and more news but most with a 'give way or go away' yell!

May 1 - April 29, 2024 <<Israel-Hamas war: Rafah attack 'on immediate horizon', UN aid chief says... and <<Pro-Palestinian student protesters take over Columbia University building... and <<Live: Biden presses Egypt and Qatar on ceasefire, hostage deal... and Food for thought: "Irrational thinking is the core of the human aggresive drive."... and <<French police break up Gaza war protest at the Sorbonne in Paris... and <<Israel concerned over possible ICC arrest warrants related to Gaza war... and <<Hamas says no 'major' issues, as Gaza truce effort builds... and more news but most with a 'give way or go away' yell!

April 28 - 26, 2024 <<Food for thought.... and  <<Gaza: Some displaced Palestinians leave Rafah, fearing Israeli assault... and  <<'They say that if they don't do this, they become accomplices'... and  <<Pro-Palestinian protests: Man arrested for carrying swastika placard and another held for racist remarks at London march... and  'Freedom Flotilla' with Gaza aid blocked in Turkey... and  <<Israel-Hamas war: Sabreen Jouda, the baby girl saved from dead mother's womb in Gaza, dies... and more news but most with a 'Give back and go away' yell! May 3 - 1 - April 30 - 23,2024 Overview social-media posts edited by citizen-reporter 'Biba' Click here to go throughout April and earler, 2024

 When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.

France 24 - May 4, 2024
<<'Hamas will not agree to a deal' unless ceasefire on table, expert says
A Hamas delegation heads to Cairo on Saturday as pressure mounts to reach a truce deal. <Hamas will not agree to a deal unless at the end of the three phases there is a ceasefire and a withdrawal of Israeli troops,> said Scott Lucas, professor of US and International Politics at the Clinton Institute, University College. Meanwhile <Israel will under no circumstances agree to the end of the war as part of an agreement to release hostages,> Lucas stressed.>>
View video here:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240504-hamas-will-not-agree-to-a-deal-unless-ceasefire-and-troops-withdrawal-on-table-expert-says

France 24 - May 4, 2024
<<Biden's call to order on US campus protests 'ironic', students say
President Joe Biden broke his silence Thursday on pro-Palestinian protests on US campuses in recent weeks, saying <order must prevail> despite acknowledging students' right to protest. <I think it's interesting that a country that is helping to facilitate an illegal military occupation of Palestinian land is now calling out protesters for also occupying land on college campuses where they pay tuition,> Anyssa Dhaouadi of the Palestinian Youth Movement at George Washington University told FRANCE 24's Fraser Jackson. <The irony is not lost on anyone,> Dhaouadi added.>>
View video here:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240504-us-students-call-biden-remarks-ironic

France 24 - May 3, 2024
<<'Students want peace': Gaza protests continue outside Paris Panthéon
Students held a protest against the war in Gaza on Friday in front of the Panthéon monument in Paris, near the elite Sorbonne University, after police removed dozens of students holding a sit-in at another top French university. France 24's Delano D'Souza reports.>>
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https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240503-students-want-peace-gaza-protests-continue-outside-paris-panth%C3%A9on


France 24 - May 3, 2024
<<Journalist deaths in Gaza: A 'reckoning' to come when war is over
UNESCO on Thursday awarded its world press freedom prize to all Palestinian journalists covering the war in Gaza, where, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), at least 97 members of the press have been killed since October. Speaking to France 24, Tim Dawson, deputy general secretary of the International Federation of Journalists, said he expects there will be <quite a reckoning> over the deaths of journalists in Israeli strikes when the conflict comes to an end.>>
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https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240503-journalist-deaths-in-gaza-a-reckoning-to-come-when-war-is-over

Jinha - Womens News Agency - May 3, 2024
<<Turkey ranked 158th in RSF's 2024 World Press Freedom Index
The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has published its 2024 World Press Freedom Index on the World Press Freedom Day, May 3. Turkey is ranked 158th out of 180 countries in the index.
.....
Palestine is ranked among the last 10 with regard to security for journalists
Palestine is ranked 157th out of 180 countries and territories surveyed in the overall 2024 World Press Freedom Index, but it is ranked among the last 10 with regard to security for journalists. According to RSF, the war in Gaza has been marked by a record number of violations against journalists and the media since October 2023. More than 100 Palestinian reporters have been killed by the Israel Defence Forces, including at least 22 in the course of their work.>>
Read more here:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/turkey-ranked-158th-in-rsf-s-2024-world-press-freedom-index-34996?page=1

France 24 - May 2, 2024
<<Gaza truce talks: 'Hamas demand for permanent ceasefire is the main sticking point'
Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh said on Thursday the Palestinian militant group was studying a proposal for a truce in the nearly seven-month war raging in Gaza with a <positive spirit>, even as the talks continue to drag on after several days without much sign of an agreement. Oliver McTernan, director of the Forward Thinking NGO, says the most likely sticking point in the negotiations is that Hamas is asking for a permanent ceasefire, rather than just a temporary truce.>>
View the Video by FRANCE 24 here:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240502-gaza-truce-talks-hamas-demand-for-permanent-ceasefire-is-the-main-sticking-point

Sky News - May 2, 2024
<<Police officer pleads guilty to two terror offences over pro-Hamas WhatsApp messages
The 26-year-old shared messages on his WhatsApp stories in support of banned organisation Hamas - weeks after the group's attack on Israel last October that killed 1,200 people and saw another 250 taken hostage. A West Yorkshire police officer has pleaded guilty to two terror offences over messages he shared on WhatsApp. PC Mohammed Adil, who is based in Calderdale and is on suspension, admitted two counts of publishing an image in support of banned organisation Hamas at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday. The 26-year-old shared the messages on his WhatsApp stories in October and November last year - weeks after the Hamas attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people and saw another 250 being taken hostage. They showed a Hamas fighter wearing a Hamas headband, prosecutor Bridget Fitzpatrick told the court. The image posted on 31 October had writing on it saying: <Today is the time for the Palestinian people to rise, set their paths straight and establish an independent Palestinian state.> It was said to be a quote from the leader of Hamas's military wing, Mohammed Deif. The image posted on 4 November had another message on it, saying: <We will hold accountable all those who occupied our lands and Allah will hold accountable all those who remained silent against this occupation and oppression.> The second quote was said to be from Abu Ubaida, a spokesman for the Al Qassam brigade - Hamas's military wing.
Hamas, which controls Gaza, is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK. Two of Adil's colleagues reported to their superior officers that they had viewed images posted by Adil on his WhatsApp stories which caused them <concern>, the prosecution said.
Adil, from Bradford, was arrested on 6 November and his mobile seized.
He had 1,092 contacts on his WhatsApp at the time who would have been able to access the images for 24 hours, Ms Fitzpatrick said. Chief magistrate Paul Goldspring said the matters were <very serious> and added at this stage he was not persuaded he could <rule out custody>.
Adil was given conditional bail and the case adjourned for sentencing on 4 June.>>
Source:
https://news.sky.com/story/police-officer-pleads-guilty-to-two-terror-offences-over-pro-hamas-whatsapp-messages-13127499

France 24 - May 2, 2024
<<Israel reopens Gaza crossing but UN says not enough aid getting through
Humanitarian aid is beginning to get into northern Gaza via the long-closed Erez crossing - after the Israeli government reopened it under pressure from allies. Israel says around 400 trucks a day are now entering the enclave But the UN disputes that, saying less than half the required 500 trucks a day are getting though.>>
View video here:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240502-israel-reopens-gaza-crossing-but-un-says-not-enough-aid-getting-through

France 24 - May 2, 2024
<<Police mass near UCLA pro-Palestinian protest camp, a day after violent clashes
Law enforcement officers massed by the hundreds on the campus of the University of California at Los Angeles after darkness fell on Wednesday in preparation to clear out a pro-Palestinian protest camp attacked the night before by pro-Israel supporters.>>
View video here:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240502-police-mass-near-ucla-pro-palestinian-protest-camp-a-day-after-violent-clashes

France 24 - May 2, 2024 - txt and Video by James ANDRE
<<Paris university to host Gaza debate after protests
The prestigious French university the Paris Institute of Political Studies, known as Sciences Po, will host a town hall debate on the war in Gaza on Thursday, partly in a bid to ease tensions after pro-Palestinian students attempted to occupy an amphitheater at the university last week. France 24's senior reporter James Andre has more.>>
View video here:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240502-paris-university-to-host-gaza-debate-after-protests

France 24 - May 2, 2024
<<Live: French students stage fresh Gaza protests as pro-Palestinian movement grows
Pro-Palestinian students blocked the entrances of two French universities on Thursday morning, Sciences Po Lille in the north and Jean Monnet University in the south, in an echo of tense demonstrations rocking US campuses. Hamas meanwhile has yet to respond to the latest truce deal proposed by mediators as Israel warned it will keep fighting the group after any ceasefire. Follow our liveblog for the latest developments in the war in Gaza.
Summary:
In an echo of tense demonstrations rocking many top US universities, students in several French universities have staged a number of protests, with some furious over the Israel-Hamas war and ensuing humanitarian crisis in the besieged Palestinian territory of Gaza. Colombian President Gustavo Petro said his country will cut diplomatic ties with Israel on Thursday, calling the government's actions in Gaza <genocidal>. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken hiked up pressure on Hamas on Wednesday to accept the latest proposal for a ceasefire with Israel, saying the <time is now> for an agreement that would free hostages and pause the nearly seven months of war in Gaza.
Palestinians are seeking approval of a resolution at the General Assembly, asking the UN Security Council to reconsider full membership for Palestine after a previous UN resolution was vetoed by the United States. Palestinian UN ambassador Riyad Mansour said the vote will take place on May 10.
At least 34,596 Palestinians have been killed and an estimated 77,816 have been wounded in Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory. Some 1,170 people were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks and 250 people were taken hostage, according to Israeli figures, with 132 still missing.>>
Read and view video here:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240502-%F0%9F%94%B4-live-colombia-severs-diplomatic-ties-israel-gaza-genocide


Gaza is filled with debris and rubble
Jinha - Womens News Agency - May 2, 2024
<<UN: Gaza is filled with more debris and rubble than Ukraine
Gaza is filled with more debris and rubble than Ukraine, the UN said Wednesday. There is estimated to be over 800,000 tonnes of asbestos alone in the Gaza rubble.
News Center- The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) estimated the amount of debris in the Gaza Strip at 37 million tonnes in mid-April, 300 kilograms per square metre. Gaza is filled with more debris and rubble than Ukraine, the UN said Wednesday.
'Gaza has more rubble than Ukraine'
<Gaza has more rubble than Ukraine, and to put that in perspective, the Ukrainian front line is 600 miles (nearly 1,000 kilometres) long, and Gaza is 25 miles (40 km) long,> said Mungo Birch, head of the UNMAS programme in the Palestinian territories. But the volume of rubble is not the only problem, said UNMAS. <There's estimated to be over 800,000 tonnes of asbestos, for instance, alone in the Gaza rubble,> Mungo Birch told journalists in Geneva. <This rubble is likely heavily contaminated with UXO (unexploded ordnance), but its clearance will be further complicated by other hazards in the rubble.>
Hundreds of millions of US dollars needed
The UNMAS has secured $5 million of funding but needs a further $40 million to continue its work in Gaza over the next 12 months. <However, the sector as a whole will need hundreds of millions of US dollars over multiple years in order to make Gaza safe again for the population>, Mungo Birch added.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/un-gaza-is-filled-with-more-debris-and-rubble-than-ukraine-34988

Sky News - May 2, 2024
<<US college protests over Israel-Hamas war reach boiling point
On the UCLA campus in California, police initially failed to intervene when fighting broke out between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel groups.>>
View a video here:
https://news.sky.com/video/violence-erupts-between-pro-palestinian-and-pro-israel-protesters-in-us-13127119

Sky News - May 1, 2024 - by Stuart Ramsay, Chief correspondent
<<Aid passing through Gaza's 'lifeline' northern crossing at Erez for first time
Further south, in Rafah, such is the fear that Israel is about to launch a ground offensive that some are leaving and heading back north - even moving back into the ruins of their destroyed homes. An Israel Defence Forces checkpoint waves our car down, and our passports and IDs are checked by soldiers - we're then told to pull up behind other cars before a signal is given to follow. The convoy moves off down a road I've travelled so many times that I can't remember how many. We're taken to the Erez Crossing point, a transit hub between Israel and Gaza. It's a place where every day for years thousands of Palestinian workers would queue in line to pass across the border; their paperwork, identity, and travel permits, checked and rechecked by soldiers. Like the Palestinians, all foreign journalists - no Israelis were allowed - crossed here by foot, dragging our equipment a kilometre or so to meet up with our Gaza-based colleagues inside.
Many of them have never left the Gaza Strip. Erez was like a crossing point between two worlds, between wealth and poverty, and between freedom and incarceration.>>
Read more here:
https://news.sky.com/story/aid-passing-through-gazas-lifeline-northern-crossing-at-erez-for-first-time-13127010

Sky News - May 1, 2024
<<US university protests: 300 arrested as police in riot gear break up clashes at two campuses
Protests over the Israel-Hamas war have reached boiling point at universities on both sides of the United States, with hundreds of arrests made and classes cancelled. About 300 people have been arrested during police crackdowns on protests at US universities. In the early hours of Wednesday, police were called into Columbia University in New York, and also broke up protests at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as demos over the Israel-Hamas war reached boiling point. New York City Mayor Eric Adams said about 300 people were arrested at Columbia and nearby City College. Columbia's Hamilton Hall was occupied by protesters and Mayor Adams said this particular group was <led by individuals who were not affiliated with the university>. <There is a movement to radicalize young people,> he said. <And I'm not going to wait until it is done to acknowledge the existence of it.> Police officers stand guard while other officers use a special vehicle to enter Hamilton Hall of Columbia University which protesters occupied, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York City, U.S., April 30, 2024. Members of the New York Police Department strategic response team load arrested protesters from Columbia University onto a bus, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in New York. After entering the campus, a contingent of police officers approached Hamilton Hall, the administration building that student protesters began occupying in the morning. On the west coast, all classes at UCLA were cancelled on Wednesday due to <distress> caused by the overnight violence, according to a notice on its website. Students and staff have been advised to avoid Royce Quad, the area where clashes between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protesters resulted in police wielding pepper spray being drafted in. Pro-Palestinian protesters had erected barricades and plywood for protection, which counter-protesters tried to pull down. The protesters shoved and kicked one another, sometimes beating people with sticks or throwing chairs. Sky News US correspondent Martha Kelner, reporting from UCLA, said: <Just look at this scene on a US university campus - California highway patrol wearing riot shields, riot masks, gas masks underneath their helmets.> She said they were wearing gas masks <because throughout the course of the evening from inside this encampment, or at least the vicinity, a substance was released, I think, probably, pepper spray>. <But the police here are not taking any chances, wearing gas masks - preparing, I guess, potentially to access this encampment.> She said a protester appeared to pray at the feet of officers, adding: <She's a pro-Palestinian protester. She's refusing to move for the California Highway Patrol. <She appears to be kneeling down, perhaps in prayer, at the feet of the patrol. It is a remarkable sight to see. These are scarcely fathomable scenes on a US university campus.> By 5am local time, Kelner said the <volatile> situation at the campus had calmed down.
'Occupied, vandalised, and blockaded' On the other side of the country, police in riot gear raided Columbia University and arrested pro-Palestinian protesters occupying one of its buildings. About 30 to 40 people were removed from the Manhattan university's Hamilton Hall, according to police.
Those behind the protest said they had renamed the building <Hind's Hall> in honour of Hind Rajab, a six-year-old girl killed in a strike on Gaza in February. The raid came hours after Mayor Adams said the demonstration at the Ivy League school <must end now>. University bosses said they called in police after protesters <chose to escalate the situation through their actions>. <After the university learned overnight that Hamilton Hall had been occupied, vandalised, and blockaded, we were left with no choice,> a spokesman said. <The decision to reach out to the NYPD was in response to the actions of the protesters, not the cause they are championing. We have made it clear that the life of campus cannot be endlessly interrupted by protesters who violate the rules and the law.> Demonstrators said they had planned to remain at the hall until the university conceded to the Columbia University Apartheid Divest's (CUAD) three demands: divestment, financial transparency and amnesty. <Columbia will be proud of these students in five years,> said Sweda Polat, one of the student negotiators for CUAD.>>
Read more here:
https://news.sky.com/story/police-enter-columbia-university-campus-to-break-up-pro-palestinian-protest-13126641

France 24 - May 1, 2024 - By Marc Perelman
<<Biden administration 'ignoring US laws' on arms transfers to Israel: Ex-senior official
Former senior US State Department official Josh Paul speaking to FRANCE 24
Josh Paul resigned from a senior position at the US State Department back in October to protest the US position vis-a-vis Israel's war in Gaza. In an interview with FRANCE 24, he said he did so because of the scale and scope of the conflict. <It was clear (...) that this would be far beyond anything we had seen before,> he declared. Paul also said that the Biden administration <is ignoring American laws that apply to arms transfers and to security assistance> and noted a <lack of appetite> at the State Department to address Israeli human rights violations. Paul had worked for 11 years at the State Department on arms transfers and security cooperation. Following his resignation, he recently joined the think tank Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) as a fellow. <When I raised concerns (...) about the use of American weapons to kill so many civilians, I was told that there was no room for any discussion or debate; it was simply our job to keep approving weapons as quickly as we could,> the former State Department official explained. Paul went on to say that the Biden administration <is ignoring American laws that apply to arms transfers and to security assistance>. He expressed hope that the Biden administration would restrict US weapons sales to Israel in the event of an Israeli offensive on the southern Gaza city of Rafah. <It's certainly possible,> he said. But <the time to cut off those weapons is now, not in the wake of the operation [in Rafah]>. Asked about recent declarations by the US State Department that five Israeli army units were found responsible for gross human rights violations but still would continue receiving US military aid, he said this sent <mixed messages>. Paul said he was <deeply sceptical> that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken would soon report to Congress that Israel in some instances is not in compliance with National Security Memorandum 20 (NSM-20), which was adopted by President Biden in February. Under it, US weapons recipients are required to provide assurances that they will not violate international humanitarian law, including restricting humanitarian assistance. <The evidence so far is that the Biden administration has repeatedly said it does not believe Israel is violating international humanitarian law,> he said. Paul added that when it comes to Israel, the determination on allegations of human rights violations against security forces was made by the US Secretary of State personally, while it is done at a much lower level for other countries. <There was never any appetite at the political level of the State Department, under any administration, to take action when it came to Israeli violations of human rights,> he declared.>>
Source:
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/t%C3%AAte-%C3%A0-t%C3%AAte/20240501-ex-senior-official-biden-administration-ignoring-us-laws-on-arms-transfers-to-israel

Question and answer by the Gazaian people and Gino d'Artali: You, neo-nazi erdogan, want to take Rafah? Well, hear this: GIVE WAY OR GET LOST! but no worries, we'll guide you to the gallow anyway, in the name of our children.
And one 3-year-young girl-child that was found in the rubble said before she died "I will tell Allah everything."
I, Gino d'A, and most humbly, pray to Allah, to embrace that little girl and to help the brave Palestinians to have all the israelian guantanamos 1.2 be closed and all prisoners of their birth-land heritage and consenience and Palestine freed and the israelian war criminals to undergo justice to be served. Insh'Allah
 
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