Author: Steven Sahiounie

A group of pro-Palestinian protestors rallied through the campus of Georgetown University in the US capital of Washington, D.C on Wednesday. During their demonstration, which began with the new semester, the student protestors chanted “If we don’t get no justice, then they don’t get no peace” and “Free, free Palestine.” They called for their school’s divestment from Israel and an end to the Israeli attacks in Gaza. The demonstrators blocked a campus intersection and gathered to chant outside of Healy Hall inside the campus. The protest follows one at Columbia University in New York City on Tuesday. Pro-Palestine student protests…

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel will only agree to a permanent ceasefire in Gaza that guarantees the border area between southern Gaza and Egypt could never be used as a lifeline for Hamas.“Until that happens, we’re there,” he told a news conference in Jerusalem.Netanyahu repeated his outright rejection of a withdrawal from the so-called Philadelphi corridor in the first phase of a deal, expected to last 42 days, saying international pressure would make it effectively impossible to return.For a permanent ceasefire to be agreed upon after that, Israel would need guarantees that whoever ran postwar…

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