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The United Nations is condemning what it calls “collective punishment” of Palestinians in the West Bank after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a lockdown of the region. The move follows a deadly attack on Friday in which two Palestinian gunmen opened fire on an Israeli checkpoint. As Jillian Piper reports, the Israeli army is...

Israel is marking three years since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks that killed about 1,200 people and saw 251 others kidnapped. More than 74,000 Palestinians have also been killed in Gaza since the start of Israel’s retaliatory war on Hamas. Redmond Shannon looks at how Israelis are marking the somber anniversary, while Mike Armstrong...

A group of senior ex-military officials from Israel travelled to the Occupied West Bank this week to condemn Jewish settler violence against Palestinian farmers who are harvesting olives. The UN says the attacks are often with the participation — and under the protection — of Israeli forces. For one olive farmer in the West Bank,...

Following the outcome of the U.S. midterm elections, a big question remains: How will President Donald Trump respond to voter backlash over a number of his policies. Reggie Cecchini has our top story. There’s growing pushback against a planned AI data centre in Nova Scotia. And senior ex-military officials from Israel travelled to the Occupied...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Palestinian city of Hebron will be put under lockdown after Israel thwarted what it’s calling a “terrorist attack” in the occupied West Bank. This comes days before Israeli voters will decide on Tuesday whether or not to grant Netanyahu yet another term as prime minister.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Neyanyahu has ordered a full lockdown of the West Bank as well as the demolition of Palestinian homes after a deadly attack on an Israeli checkpoint. Two Israeli soldiers and two alleged gunman were killed in the ensuing gunfight. As Redmond Shannon reports, the attack comes just days before Israelis go...

There’s a pivotal election in British Columbia today that’s increasingly looking like it could result in a change of government. And it’s been one week since the deadly fire at CFB Wainwright that claimed the lives of four soldiers and injured dozens more – many of whom remain in hospital. Plus, the United Nations is...

A Palestinian American has returned from Ohio to his West Bank home, which is one of three that have been surrounded by Israeli settlers for more than a week. Redmond Shannon reports on the ensuing confrontation between a settler and Loui Ridi, and what Ridi is pleading for from the U.S. government.

Heidi Levine, a journalist reporting for The Washington Post, was violently attacked by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank Friday. Around 80 settlers dressed in black with their faces masked descended upon Abu Falah, burning olive trees and using slings to launch rocks at Palestinians.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have opened a criminal investigation into the killing of five-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab, six members of her family and two paramedics who came to their aid. As Redmond Shannon reports, it is the first time the IDF has admitted to the 2024 killings in Gaza.

“A sombre anniversary of an unspeakable tragedy” are the words Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney used Wednesday to describe the fatal Hamas attacks at an Israeli festival three years ago to the day. The onslaught left roughly 1,200 dead and 251 taken captive by the Palestinian militant group.

Israeli settlers have besieged several homes in the occupied West Bank, and families trapped are beginning to run out of resources. Ruqaya Hassan, a Palestinian whose home was besieged says they “have been subjected to daily attacks… during the day and night,” adding that her “daughters were overcome with fear and panic due to the...

Why Canada is indefinitely dropping plans to expand MAID for people seeking it solely because of mental illness. More details emerge about the U.S. resident accused of encouraging and advising the killer in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. The death row inmate that’s now awake after surviving lethal injections. Plus, Israelis mark three years since...

Israeli troops clashed with Jewish settlers on Wednesday while trying to disperse them from the outskirts of the Palestinian village of Qusra in the occupied West Bank. The settlers set up an outpost directly in front of Palestinian homes, and later, troops withdrew from the area after failing to clear the settlers, witnesses said.

Israeli troops still haven’t moved Jewish settlers away from three Palestinian houses the settlers have besieged in the West Bank since Sunday. The U.S. ambassador to Israel has called the settlers terrorists. The UN says it has recorded an average of six settler attacks per day this year, the most of any year on record....

At the UN General Assembly, Canada continued to display its commitment to multilateralism and pressed for a two-state solution between Palestinians and Israelis. Global’s Jazan Grewal is joined by Jon Allen, Senior Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, to assess Canada’s role at this year’s assembly.

It was billed as another breakthrough in the Gaza war: Hamas and other armed groups agreeing to “complete disarmament” with U.S. President Donald Trump. But it’s a deal the Israeli president rejected on Sunday. Benjamin Netanyahu stated the Israeli Defence Force won’t withdraw from Gaza until Hamas gives up all weapons entirely. Hamas had said...

Toronto police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man who they say is wanted in a hate-motivated assault investigation. Police say on Sept. 5 around 2:30 p.m., the suspect approached someone standing at Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue wearing a Palestinian flag and assaulted them physically and verbally before fleeing. Anyone with...

Macklemore called for a “Free Palestine” while performing at a New Jersey stadium earlier this month, telling the crowd that Palestinians had “not been forgotten.” The rapper was later dropped from the U.S. leg of Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour, with Sheeran saying the decision was made by promoters and venues, not him.

Hip-hop artist Macklemore says he’ll be donating his entire net earnings as opener on the Ed Sheeran tour – one million dollars – to organizations in support of Palestinian people. Earlier this week he was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour for on-stage comments in support of a free Palestine. Since then, Sheeran’s four supporting acts...