A federal judge has blocked the removal of a Palestinian activist from the United States while weighing a petition challenging his arrest, court documents show.
Mahmoud Khalil was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Columbia University over the weekend, despite having a green card, His attorneys subsequently filed a habeas corpus petition challenging his arrest.
FILE - Student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil is on the Columbia University campus in New York at a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, file)
Mahmoud Khalil was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Columbia University over the weekend, despite having a green card, His attorneys subsequently filed a habeas corpus petition challenging his arrest.
FILE - Student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil is on the Columbia University campus in New York at a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, file)
Palestinian victims of Israel sexual abuse testify at UN
Palestinians who say they suffered brutal beatings and sexual abuse in Israeli detention and at the hands of Israeli settlers have testified about their ordeals at the UN this week.
“I was humiliated and tortured,” said Said Abdel Fattah, a 28-year-old nurse detained in November 2023 near Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, where he worked.
Fattah gave his testimony from Gaza via video link to a public hearing and spoke through an interpreter.
He described being stripped naked in the cold, suffering beatings, threats of rape and other abuse over the next two months as he was shuttled between overcrowded detention facilities.
Mohamed Matar, an occupied West Bank resident, said he suffered hours of torture at the hands of security agents and settlers and the Zionist police refused to intervene.
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Palestinians who say they suffered brutal beatings and sexual abuse in Israeli detention and at the hands of Israeli settlers have testified about their ordeals at the UN this week.
“I was humiliated and tortured,” said Said Abdel Fattah, a 28-year-old nurse detained in November 2023 near Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, where he worked.
Fattah gave his testimony from Gaza via video link to a public hearing and spoke through an interpreter.
He described being stripped naked in the cold, suffering beatings, threats of rape and other abuse over the next two months as he was shuttled between overcrowded detention facilities.
Mohamed Matar, an occupied West Bank resident, said he suffered hours of torture at the hands of security agents and settlers and the Zionist police refused to intervene.
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Doctors Without Borders urges Israel to stop using aid as tool of war
Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, says Israeli authorities have “instrumentalised humanitarian needs by using it as a bargaining chip”, such as cutting electricity and preventing all aid from entering the war-ravaged enclave.
“This policy, which amounts to collective punishment, must be immediately stopped,” MSF said in a statement that also called on Israel to respect international humanitarian law and end the “inhumane blockade” of Gaza.
“Israel’s allies have purposefully ignored this grave violation of international humanitarian law and normalized this conduct.
“MSF also urges Israel’s allies, including the United States, to refrain from normalising such actions and to act decisively to prevent Gaza from plunging further into devastation,”
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Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, says Israeli authorities have “instrumentalised humanitarian needs by using it as a bargaining chip”, such as cutting electricity and preventing all aid from entering the war-ravaged enclave.
“This policy, which amounts to collective punishment, must be immediately stopped,” MSF said in a statement that also called on Israel to respect international humanitarian law and end the “inhumane blockade” of Gaza.
“Israel’s allies have purposefully ignored this grave violation of international humanitarian law and normalized this conduct.
“MSF also urges Israel’s allies, including the United States, to refrain from normalising such actions and to act decisively to prevent Gaza from plunging further into devastation,”
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Pakistani architect turns down award from Israeli organisation
A Pakistani architect has turned down the Wolf Prize 2025 in architecture due to Israel’s “continuing genocide” of Palestinians in Gaza.
The Wolf Prize has been granted annually in Israel since 1978 to honour scientists and artists, and aims to promote “friendly relations among people”.
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A Pakistani architect has turned down the Wolf Prize 2025 in architecture due to Israel’s “continuing genocide” of Palestinians in Gaza.
The Wolf Prize has been granted annually in Israel since 1978 to honour scientists and artists, and aims to promote “friendly relations among people”.
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US mayor moves to punish cinema for screening Oscar-winning Israeli-Palestinian film
The mayor of Florida’s Miami Beach is attempting to terminate his city’s lease agreement with an independent movie theatre after it screened the Israeli-Palestinian documentary No Other Land.
The move came after O Cinema ignored pressure from Mayor Steven Meiner and held several screenings of the film, which documents Israel’s destruction of the occupied West Bank town of Masafer Yatta, according to the Miami Herald.
Meiner described the film, which won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, as a “false one-sided propaganda attack on the Jewish people that is not consistent with the values of our City and residents”. He is now introducing legislation that would terminate the city’s lease agreement with the cinema and discontinue about $40,000 in financial support.
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The mayor of Florida’s Miami Beach is attempting to terminate his city’s lease agreement with an independent movie theatre after it screened the Israeli-Palestinian documentary No Other Land.
The move came after O Cinema ignored pressure from Mayor Steven Meiner and held several screenings of the film, which documents Israel’s destruction of the occupied West Bank town of Masafer Yatta, according to the Miami Herald.
Meiner described the film, which won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, as a “false one-sided propaganda attack on the Jewish people that is not consistent with the values of our City and residents”. He is now introducing legislation that would terminate the city’s lease agreement with the cinema and discontinue about $40,000 in financial support.
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US mayor moves to punish cinema for screening Oscar-winning Israeli-Palestinian film The mayor of Florida’s Miami Beach is attempting to terminate his city’s lease agreement with an independent movie theatre after it screened the Israeli-Palestinian documentary…
Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, and Yuval Abraham – winners of the Oscar for Best Documentary Film – on March 2, 2025 [Jordan Strauss/Invision via AP]
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Protesters gather in Foley Square outside the Manhattan federal court in support of detained Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil [Stefan Jeremiah/AP Photo]
Protesters rally in New York, call for Mahmoud Khalil’s release.
ICJ to hold hearings on Israel’s aid obligations to Palestinians
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) says it will begin hearings on Israel’s humanitarian obligations towards Palestinians in The Hague on April 28.
The hearings come after the UN General Assembly approved a resolution in December seeking an advisory opinion from the world’s top court on the matter. The resolution, adopted in the wake of Israel banning the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), calls on the ICJ to clarify what Israel is required to do to “ensure and facilitate the unhindered provision of urgently needed supplies essential to the survival of the Palestinian civilian population”.
Although the ICJ’s decisions are legally binding, the court has no concrete means to enforce them.
Last July, the tribunal issued an advisory opinion stating that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory was “illegal” and must end as soon as possible.
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) says it will begin hearings on Israel’s humanitarian obligations towards Palestinians in The Hague on April 28.
The hearings come after the UN General Assembly approved a resolution in December seeking an advisory opinion from the world’s top court on the matter. The resolution, adopted in the wake of Israel banning the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), calls on the ICJ to clarify what Israel is required to do to “ensure and facilitate the unhindered provision of urgently needed supplies essential to the survival of the Palestinian civilian population”.
Although the ICJ’s decisions are legally binding, the court has no concrete means to enforce them.
Last July, the tribunal issued an advisory opinion stating that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory was “illegal” and must end as soon as possible.
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UN report on ‘genocidal acts’ to give boost to ICJ case against Israel
The United Nations report is detailed and not very easy to read. It contains very graphic details and testimonies from not only the victims but also the perpetrators of these acts.
The report relies on information and videos published by the soldiers themselves documenting themselves carrying out some of the acts detailed in the report. This includes humiliating Palestinian detainees, assaulting them, and stripping them down to their underwear.
The report also talks about the targeting of health facilities, including Gaza’s main fertility clinic. About 4,000 embryos were deliberately destroyed in that attack, in effect denying thousands of families the possibility of giving birth.
The report also talks about acts of sexual violence committed against Palestinian detainees, men and women alike. This includes rape by foreign objects of men and women in Israeli custody.
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The United Nations report is detailed and not very easy to read. It contains very graphic details and testimonies from not only the victims but also the perpetrators of these acts.
The report relies on information and videos published by the soldiers themselves documenting themselves carrying out some of the acts detailed in the report. This includes humiliating Palestinian detainees, assaulting them, and stripping them down to their underwear.
The report also talks about the targeting of health facilities, including Gaza’s main fertility clinic. About 4,000 embryos were deliberately destroyed in that attack, in effect denying thousands of families the possibility of giving birth.
The report also talks about acts of sexual violence committed against Palestinian detainees, men and women alike. This includes rape by foreign objects of men and women in Israeli custody.
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