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Israel’s return to war is a prelude to mass expulsion
Ben Reiff, +972 Magazine, March 18, 2025
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2025.03.20: Vigil for Gaza & Palestine
SE Corner of Williamson Steet and Blair, 4:15 to 5:45 pm
ADC Statement on the Collapse of a Ceasefire That Never Was
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), March 18, 2025
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Israel shatters Gaza ceasefire as more than 400 Palestinians killed in IDF strikes
Tom Ambrose, Yohannes Lowe, Martin Belam, Kate Lamb and Helen Livingstone, The Guardian, 18 Mar 2025
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The Lives Lost in Gaza
Sudev Kiyada, Simon Scarr and Nidal al-Mughrabi, Reuters, March 1, 2025
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EFF Joins 7amleh Campaign to #ReconnectGaza
JILLIAN C. YORK AND PAIGE COLLINGS, ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION, MARCH 17, 2025
Day 5 – Mahmoud Khalil News You Need To Know
Arab American Institute, March 13, 2025
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US and Israel look to Africa for resettling Palestinians from Gaza
JOSEF FEDERMAN, MATTHEW LEE AND SAMY MAGDY, AP, March 14, 2025
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Almost 100 arrested during protest occupying Trump Tower over Mahmoud Khalil
Martin Pengelly, The Guardian, 13 Mar 2025
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U.N. Commission and U.S. Surgeons Accuse Israel of Genocide and Torture
Democracy Now!, March 13, 2025
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The backstory on the government’s abduction of a Palestinian protester
Will Bunch, The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 11, 2025
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MELANIE LIDMAN AND SAMY MAGDY, AP, March 9, 2025
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Israel to cut off electricity in Gaza to force hand of Hamas
Jason Burke, The Guardian, 9 Mar 2025
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The Oscar went to ‘No Other Land,’ but that might not save Masafer Yatta
Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, March 8, 2025
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2025.03.12: #BoycottChevron for Human Rights and Planet Earth
Online, 12 PM Central, 8 PM Palestine
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‘Stop the Ethnic Cleansing’: the Most Powerful Oscars Speech in Years
MEHDI HASAN, ZETEO, MAR 02, 2025
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‘No Other Land’ wins Oscar for best documentary
HANNAH SCHOENBAUM, AP, March 2, 2025
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Israel cuts off humanitarian supplies to Gaza to change ceasefire deal
Julian Borger, The Guardian, 2 Mar 2025
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Families rejoice as hundreds of Palestinian hostages are freed
Lara Kilani, Good Shepherd Collective, Feb 27, 2025
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