Israel-Hamas war, Gaza genocide

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Main events on October 27th

• The Israeli military said Hamas handed over the body of another deceased captive as the army chief vowed the war on Gaza will go on until the remains of all abductees are received.
• Gaza’s Health Ministry announced it’s opening a new office to work on identifying the bodies of hundreds of Palestinians returned by Israel under the ceasefire with Hamas, with many unrecognizable from decomposition and mistreatment.
• Two years of war on Gaza has more than doubled the number of people in Gaza who need mental health care, rising from about 485,000 to more than one million, the World Health Organization said.
• Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have surged with 757 incidents recorded in the first half of 2025, 13 percent more than the same period last year, according to the UN Human Rights Office.
• The United Nations and France condemned an Israeli attack near UN peacekeeping troops in southern Lebanon after international soldiers neutralised an “aggressive” Israeli reconnaissance drone.

Calls for BA’s boycott grow after it cancels sponsorship for Bob Vylan interview

British Airways’ decision to cancel the sponsorship for Louis Theroux’s podcast following his decision to interview Bob Vylan artist Pascal Simon-Foster has backfired spectacularly. Prominent names on social media are now calling for the Uk airline’s inclusion to the BDS list. Rifat Jawaid argues that the decision smacks of the brazen double standard as the airline showed no such haste in cancelling Theroux when he interviewed more controversial figures in the past.

 

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