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European soccer body UEFA moves toward vote to suspend Israel by Graham Dunbar

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GENEVA (AP) — European soccer body UEFA is moving toward a vote to suspend its member federation Israel over the war in Gaza, people familiar with the proposal told The Associated Press on Thursday.

A majority of UEFA’s 20-member executive committee is expected to support any vote in favor of suspending Israeli teams from international play, two sources told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject… It is unclear whether world soccer body FIFA will support excluding Israel given the close relations between FIFA’s leader, Gianni Infantino, and President Donald Trump.

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Israel kills Middle East Eye journalists in double-tap strike on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital by Middle East Eye

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Israeli forces killed Middle East Eye journalists Mohamed Salama and Ahmed Abu Aziz on Monday, in a double-tap strike on the Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip.

Israeli forces bombed the fourth floor of the facility at around 11am local time (09:00 BST), then moments later, according to videos seen by MEE, fired a second missile deliberately at reporters, bystanders and first responders who had gathered to help recover the dead and wounded.

… At least three other journalists were among the 19 Palestinians killed in the attack, including Mariam Dagga, a freelance reporter who worked with several media outlets including the Associated Press; Hussam al-Masri, a photojournalist with the Reuters news agency; and freelance reporter Moaz Abu Taha.

… David Hearst, the editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye, called Salama and Abu Aziz “exceptional journalists,” and said they were working in “near impossible conditions” before they were “murdered” by Israel. “Israel cannot hide the truth of the genocide it is waging in Gaza, so it is killing as many of those who record each strike as it can,” he said.

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South Africa says Israel is already ignoring UN court ruling ordering it to prevent deaths in Gaza on Associated Press

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  • PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Israel has ignored the ruling by the U.N.’s top court last week by killing hundreds more civilians in a matter of days in Gaza, South Africa’s foreign minister said Wednesday, adding that her country has asked why an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not been issued in a case South Africa filed at the separate International Criminal Court.
  • … The preliminary ruling by the U.N.’s International Court of Justice in South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza ordered Israel to do all it can to prevent death, destruction and any acts of genocide against Palestinians in the territory.
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  • “I can’t be dishonest. I believe the rulings of the court have been ignored,” South Africa’s foreign minister said. “Hundreds of people have been killed in the last three or four days. And clearly Israel believes it has license to do as it wishes.”
  • Pandor said there was a danger of the world doing nothing to stop the civilian casualties in Gaza and said similar inaction contributed to the horrific death toll in the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, when more than 800,000 people were slaughtered in the East African country.
  • “We are allowing this to happen again, right before our eyes, on our TV screens,” Pandor said.

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