This demonstration is a kind of mirror image of the demonstrations that were held here in Malmo on Thursday when Israel’s singer Eden Golan performed in the semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest and got through to the final.

Malmo has a very large Muslim population and a very large population of a Middle East diaspora.

People here are extremely angry that the European Broadcasting Union that organises Eurovision has said that Israel can participate when, for example, two years ago Russia was banned after its invasion of Ukraine.

Adel Sadat, an organiser in the Malmo demonstrations against Israel’s Eurovision participation, says there are two main reasons for the protests.

The national component was against the Swedish government and the local authorities in Malmo for allowing the Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Sweden.

And then the international, of course, we stand in solidarity with Gaza and the Palestinian people and to really show the world that this is not acceptable,” Sadat said, criticising the contest organisers’ “hypocrisy”.

“Basically, double standards for not allowing the Russians, but allowing Israel [to participate],” he said.



And for completeness sake, Westbank raids and arrests also still continue, as well as cross border attacks between Hezbollah and Israel.

TLDR: No aid, IDF expands operations to Western Rafah, no outlook on any ceasefire.

The US is offering Israel’s military “sensitive intelligence” to target Hamas officials in Gaza in exchange for not launching a full-scale assault on overcrowded Rafah city, a news report says.

The Washington Post, citing four people familiar with the situation, reports other incentives not to launch a major operation in Rafah include information on the location of Hamas’s vast network of tunnels.

Also offered up by Washington are thousands of tents to house some of the nearly two million displaced people throughout the war-battered Gaza Strip, according to the sources who spoke to the newspaper anonymously.

The Biden administration has been widely criticized for arming and failing to put a stop to Israel’s seven-month war, which has killed nearly 35,000 people, mostly children and women.

In other words: US gives the OK for ongoing Rafah operation with a bunch of tents as compensation.

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At least 50 professors have been arrested at pro-Palestinian campus demonstrations across the US, according to US broadcaster CNN, which said it reviewed police records, court filings and news reports.

Since April 18, more than 2,400 students have been arrested on more than 50 campuses, it said.

Some of the arrested professors, who said they wished to support students’ right to free speech, were detained violently, resulting in injuries.

Israeli protesters call for new elections, release of captives

Demonstrators say the government doesn’t care about the captives and it’s leading the country ‘towards destruction’.

Captive families say there is no war strategy with northern and southern parts of Israel ‘on fire’

Many in Malmo ‘feel angry’ as thousands demonstrate against Israel

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Greta Thunberg arrested at pro-Palestine Malmo protest

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The armed Lebanese group says it launched projectiles at the Beit Hilal military base, east of Kiryat Shmona, in northern Israel.

It said F-16 warplanes tried to intercept the projectiles but failed. Hezbollah also released a video of a barrage of rockets fired at Kiryat Shmona on Friday that led to a large fire in the area.

The Israeli army says fighter jets attacked a military structure belonging to Hezbollah in the Amra region of southern Lebanon. It also confirmed an attack in the Beit Hillal area that Hezbollah claimed earlier.

The Israeli military said aircraft managed to successfully intercept two unnamed aerial vehicles inside Lebanese territory, adding two more drones that got through inflicted no casualties.

The UN agency OCHA says it’s struggling to provide Palestinians with aid because of Israeli restrictions: key crossings are closed, missions denied, and movement delayed.

“The combination of severe access constraints and ongoing insecurity has resulted in a non-permissive and volatile operational environment for humanitarian actors. With soaring needs, all parties must enable safe access for aid to make a difference,” it said in a report.

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in April, 21 humanitarian missions were cancelled, 20 denied, and 34 missions impeded by Israeli authorities.

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The soldier killed has been identified by the Israeli army as 20-year-old Ariel Tsym. Tsym, who was from Modi’in, was part of the Nahal Brigade, the army added.  On Friday, four Israeli soldiers were killed and several wounded in fierce fighting in northern Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood.

The army says 272 Israeli troops have been killed in the war on Gaza since late October. (as well as 336 on October 7)

The Israeli military reports heavy fighting in the Zeitoun neighbourhood in northern Gaza City, saying its Nahal Brigade was supported by air raids during an invasion of the area. It said it killed an unspecified number of Palestinian fighters, including a fighter belonging to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad who was involved in the October 7 attacks.

The military also released an image to claim that hand grenades, mortar shells and firearms were found in the raid.

An Israeli air raid destroyed the home of Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, whose father was killed in an attack in northern Gaza in December.

Our Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Anas al-Sharif says he and his team were in the middle of reporting when Israel attacked an area not too far from their location.

“Thank God we miraculously survived. During press coverage of the occupation’s targeting of citizens’ homes east of Jabalia camp, an area close to us was targeted,” he said.

In a video posted on X, people can be seen running frantically in the streets to seek safety following the Israeli attack.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society released a video showing its ambulance teams transferring one Palestinian killed in an Israeli attack and another who was injured. The shelling that inflicted the casualties hit a house in Nuseirat, in the central part of the war-torn enclave.

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The Gaza Civil Defence agency says the “intensification” of attacks by Israeli forces on homes in northern Gaza has made it challenging for its teams to carry out their work.

“It has become very difficult for our crews to deal with rescuing the wounded and recovering the [dead],” the agency’s spokesperson said on Telegram.

Israeli troops are operating in northern Gaza after Hamas “rehabilitated its military capabilities” over the past few months, military spokesman Daniel Hagari told reporters.

Israeli bombardment kills 19 in northern and central Gaza