The UK government has revoked the student visa of a Palestinian student who lost relatives in Gaza after she spoke at a demonstration at the University of Manchester.

Dana Abuqamar, a law student who heads the Friends of Palestine Society at the University of Manchester, said the UK government revoked her visa on “national security” grounds, after claiming she was a risk to public safety.

“The claim they are making is baseless and violates my rights as a resident here in the UK. My legal team has lodged a human rights appeal against this decision to revoke my student visa in my last and final year as a law student,” Abuqamar said, speaking to Al Jazeera English, confirming that her visa had been revoked.

“During this genocide, the UK Home Office decided to revoke my student visa following public statements supporting the Palestinian right to exercise under international law to resist oppression and break through the siege that was illegally placed on Gaza for over 16 years,” said Abuqamar.

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PressTV:

Iran has hit out at the US over reports that American lawmakers are preparing legislation to sanction International Criminal Court officials if they issue arrest warrants against Israeli officials.

With pro-Israel members of Congress having warned repeatedly that the ICC risks consequences from the US if it moves forward with the warrants, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul confirmed that the legislation is in the works.

"This is a shameful and worrying act," Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan'ani wrote on X on Thursday, reacting to the US plan by members of Congress in both parties.

"The goal of a group of representatives of US Congress in threatening and pressuring the prosecutors and judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is to provide immunity for war crimes and genocide by the officials and military commanders of the Zionist regime," he added.

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Netanyahu:

We will win the war due to our morale and heroism

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Middle East Eye:

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has said the United Kingdom will not halt arms sales to Israel, a day after President Joe Biden threatened to stop sending some US weapons if Israel stages a large-scale assault on Rafah.

Cameron said there was "a very fundamental difference" between the US government, which supplies weapons directly as a state to Israel, and the UK government, which licenses the export of arms sold by companies.

"We do not have a UK government supply of weapons to Israel," Cameron said, adding he thought UK defence exports to Israel were "responsible for significantly less than one percent of their total".

Katie Fallon, at the Campaign Against the Arms Trade (Caat), said Cameron’s comments show "absolutely no regard for the survival of Palestinians in Gaza or for the rule of law in the UK".

"It is beyond alarming, and unlawful, that our foreign secretary and government think that the risk of genocide and war crimes are simply irrelevant in their decision to license UK-made arms and components to Israel for use in Gaza," she told Middle East Eye.

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Israeli Broadcasting corporation:

Ben Gvir will put the complete cancellation of the entry of aid into Gaza from all crossings to a vote in the Council of Ministers.

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The former head of the Shin Bet, Yaakov Perry, gave his assessment of the situation as stated in his article in Maariv today:

It seems that our bitter and cruel enemy is controlling the situation much better, and we are the ones dancing to his flute and not the other way around.

Yahya Sinwar controls things in the most reliable and safe way, and we follow him without a choice.”

Everything is upside down, strange and above all incomprehensible. A depressing and depressing situation,

Above all; There is no way out and no solution. I can't remember a time as frustrating and desperate as the present

It is time to make difficult decisions and return the State of Israel to the groove of stability and the beginning of hope

This will determine our fate and return us all to a normal, sane life. It seems that the current composition of our leadership is having difficulty doing this, and therefore it is time to replace it

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🔻Israeli media: Head of the Research Department at the Alma Institute:

Hezbollah has an army in every sense of the word

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