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Senate statement on Gaza, Palestine

Posted on October 31, 2025October 31, 2025 | School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)

The Senate at SOAS is responsible for advising the Board of Trustees on the strategic development and future direction of the university’s academic activities. It is part of the academic governance structure at SOAS that seeks to bring together the academic voice at SOAS to address matters affecting the academic scope, academic structure and academic standards of the university.

Today, the Senate has published a ‘Senate Statement on Scholasticide in Gaza, Palestine’ and committed to the following actions:

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‘No restrictions’ and a secret ‘wink’: Inside Israel’s deal with Google, Amazon

Posted on October 29, 2025October 29, 2025 | Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine

To secure the lucrative Project Nimbus contract, the tech giants agreed to disregard their own terms of service and sidestep legal orders by tipping Israel off if a foreign court demands its data, a joint investigation reveals.

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Lynch Mobs, Arson, Slaughter of Herds: West Bank Faces Unprecedented Israeli Violence

Posted on October 29, 2025October 29, 2025 | Jonathan Pollak | Haaretz

Israeli settler militias, backed by soldiers, are laying waste to Palestinian communities – beating residents, torching crops, smashing cars, slaughtering animals. Jonathan Pollak, who accompanies Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest, recounts what he’s witnessed – and how he nearly paid for it with his life

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In a West Bank ‘firing zone,’ Palestinians are erased as settlers lay down roots

Posted on October 28, 2025October 28, 2025 | Basel Adra | +972 Magazine

While settlers’ concrete mixers rumble under the Israeli army’s watch, Palestinian life in Masafer Yatta is being dismantled piece by piece.

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US contractor: This is how Israeli forces and American mercenaries killed Gaza aid seekers

Posted on October 28, 2025October 28, 2025 | Mohammed Al-Badawi | The New Arab

Whistleblower Anthony Aguilar shares first-hand testimony of war crimes committed by Israeli and US forces working with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

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Fears Gaza ‘temporary’ ceasefire line could become permanent new border

Posted on October 27, 2025October 27, 2025 | Julian Borger | Seham Tantesh | The Guardian

Yellow markers installed by IDF entrench divide that cuts strip in two, as hopes of moving to next phase of truce fade

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A 9-year-old Palestinian Boy Stood at a Distance. An Israeli Soldier Knelt and Shot Him Dead

Posted on October 26, 2025October 26, 2025 | Alex Levac | Gideon Levy | Haaretz

Eyewitnesses say Muhammad al-Halaq stood with his arms folded, posing no threat, when a single, deadly shot was fired. The soldiers later appeared to celebrate. The IDF said the incident is under review

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Gaza Struggles to Identify Bodies Repatriated by Israel

Posted on October 24, 2025October 24, 2025 | Amira Hass | Haaretz

As of yesterday, Israel had returned 195 bodies to the Gaza Strip, but only 57 had been identified by their families. A doctor in Gaza described some bodies returning with their hands tied or shot in the head or chest at close range, while one had a rope around the neck

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ICJ orders Israel to allow aid into Gaza and says blockade had been a breach

Posted on October 23, 2025October 27, 2025 | Patrick Wintour | The Guardian

Court also found that Israel had a duty not to impede supply of aid by UN organisations including Unrwa

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Hundreds of Prominent Jews and Israelis Urge World Powers to Hold Israel Accountable ‘For Gaza Atrocities’

Posted on October 22, 2025October 22, 2025 | Etan Nechin | Haaretz

An open letter, signed by at least 460 Jewish and Israeli intellectuals, celebrities and political figures, calls on the UN and heads of state to address ‘the underlying conditions of occupation, apartheid and the denial of Palestinian rights’ that are absent from U.S. President Trump’s Gaza cease-fire agreement