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French-born artist Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck shared part of her correspondence with a German museum, which took issue with her use of the phrase "Free Palestine".
Hoffbeck was due to exhibit at the museum, which she does not name, and appears to have withdrawn from the event after the attempt to censure her use of the slogan.
The museum suggests using the phrase "Free Palestine from Hamas" instead.
A number of German artists, intellectuals and writers have been censured and cancelled by cultural institutions in recent months.
Film critic Joseph Fahim wrote about the phenomenon in a piece for Middle East Eye, which can be read here.
The full text of Hoffbeck's correspondence from the museum is attached below.
Sooner or later, all conflicts come to an end. But all too often, their root causes remain unresolved.
This appears to be very true for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In the following weeks or months, the country that appointed itself as the only one capable of achieving a credible, fair and durable peace between Israel and Palestine - the United States - will once again attempt to accomplish it.
The first priority will be Gaza. But the real challenge will be to address the causes that produced the latest carnage in the Gaza Strip and in neighbouring Israeli kibbutzim. In other words, the plight of the Palestinians needs a real political perspective.
It is not worth going through, once again, the numerous compelling reasons that make the US unfit for such a job.
Read more: Why the US refuses to learn the lessons from history
At least 360 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October in Unrwa premises, the agency reported on Tuesday
The Israeli army has attacked its premises in Gaza at least 260 times, leading to hundreds dead and wounded.
A video published by the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees shows the level of destruction at a Unrwa school-turned-shelter that has been hit by the Israeli army.
Unrwa has also lost 152 of its workers in Israeli attacks since the start of the war.
Hamas political bureau member Mohammad Nazzal told Al Jazeera that the group's leadership is discussing a ceasefire proposal that has been drafted in Paris by Egypt, Qatar and the US, acting as mediators between Israel and Hamas.
“We told the mediators a permanent ceasefire is our goal, but we can do it in the second or third stages of an agreement. Without an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, we can’t accept this new proposal,” Nazzal told Al Jazeera.
“We are looking to release all captives from both sides, but of course it needs a negotiation to reach this point. A permanent ceasefire is useful for both sides, otherwise the war between us and the Israeli troops will continue. We are ready to achieve this in stages.”
Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has threatened to bring down the government if a “reckless” deal is reached with Hamas.
There have been reports that a deal could soon be reached between Hamas and Israel on a prisoner swap, which has been criticised by many rightwing politicians in the country.
“A reckless deal = the dismantlement of the government,” the far-right minister posted on X, formerly Twitter.
The western enemies of the Palestinian people are clamouring over how to invent a new Palestinian leadership.
They imagine this leadership would continue all the services that the Palestinian Authority (PA) has provided to Israel and the West since 1993, only this time, it would maintain its legitimacy in the eyes of the people.
Crucially, these western conspirators fail to acknowledge that the PA’s function as Israel’s chief collaborator is precisely why it lost legitimacy among Palestinians. Rather, they blame its corruption and misrule in the West Bank, and before 2006, in Gaza, as if this misrule is not directly tied to its collaborationist role with Israel and its western allies.
The US has recently been market-testing proposals ventriloquised by some Arab states and the anti-Palestinian mainstream western press.
Some suggest a new Palestinian government that would include a demilitarised Hamas, purged of its commitment to armed struggle against Jewish supremacy and settler-colonialism. Others insist that while the PA must be reformed, there would be no place in it for Hamas.
Read more: Why western plans for another Palestinian client regime will fail
The number of Palestinians killed by Israel since 7 October has risen to 26,751, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip said on Tuesday.
At least 65,636 Palestinians have been wounded.
In the past 24 hours, 114 Palestinians were killed and 249 injured, the ministry added
More than 100 Palestinian bodies have been returned to Gaza for mass burial in the southern city of Rafah.
The bodies were stolen by Israeli forces from various areas in the Gaza Strip and taken back to Israel, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
Some of the bodies being buried again were already decomposed, Wafa reported. Others were unidentified.
Wafa also reported that doctors who had inspected the remains said there were signs that some bodies had missing organs.
The Israeli army, delivered them through the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing.
Last November, Israel stole 110 bodies from Al-Shifa Hospital and from a cemetery in front of the hospital’s emergency department.
China has warned against a “cycle of retaliation” in the Middle East after the United States vowed to respond to a drone attack on a base in Jordan.
The strike on Sunday killed three American soldiers and wounded dozens.
“We hope all relevant parties will remain calm and restrained … to avoid falling into a vicious cycle of retaliation and prevent further escalation of regional tension,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Wang Wenbin said.
Britain will consider recognising a Palestinian state as part of concerted efforts to bring about an “irreversible” peace settlement, the UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron said.
The move towards a Palestinian state is bitterly opposed by the Israeli government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Palestinians must have “a political horizon so that they can see that there is going to be irreversible progress to a two-state solution”, Cameron said in a speech on Monday night.
“We should be starting to set out what a Palestinian state would look like - what it would comprise, how it would work,” he said.
“As that happens, we, with allies, will look at the issue of recognising a Palestinian state, including at the United Nations. This could be one of the things that helps to make this process irreversible.”
Israeli commandos disguised as medics, patients and other Palestinian civilians raided a hospital in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday morning, in footage widely shared online.
The soldiers killed three people inside Jenin's Ibn Sina Hospital. Footage shared online and in Israeli media showed around a dozen Israeli soldiers in the hospital, armed with assault rifles.
Hamas responded to the attack saying that “Israel’s crimes will not go unanswered”, and said that the killings were a “continuation of the occupation’s ongoing crimes against our people from Gaza to Jenin”.
The three men killed have been identified as Mohammed Jalamneh, and two brothers, Basil and Mohammed al-Ghazawi.
According to Israeli media, the raid took around 10 minutes and took place at 5.30am. One of the Israeli commandos was speaking Arabic at the time of the raid, Israel Hayom reported.
Read more: Israeli forces dressed as medics raid hospital in Jenin, killing three
The Palestinian mission to the UN has highlighted the latest report by the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, detailing how Israel continues to ignore the interim rulings handed out by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) last week:
These are some of the findings from Euro-Med that Israel did within 48 hours of the ICJ ruling:
- killed 373 Palestinians and injured 643 others
- targeted hospitals and established a new checkpoint in Khan Younis
- destroyed entire residential blocks near the fence with Gaza to create a “buffer zone”
- killed Palestinians who were waiting for aid trucks
- allowed entry of only 87 aid trucks, less than half than before the ICJ rulings
At dawn on Tuesday Israeli special forces disguised as civilians killed three Palestinians in Ibn Sina hospital in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
According to Israel, the three who were killed were allegedly Hamas members who were hiding in the hospital. This claim could not be independently verified.
They shot three Palestinians with a sound-muffler according to the Israeli daily Haaretz. The three are Basil al-Ghazawi, who was hospitalised after an air strike on a cemetery in Jenin, his brother Mohammad and another man named Mohammed Jalamneh.
Al-Jazeera reported earlier that an Israeli special forces unit entered the Ibn Sina Hospital overnight disguised as doctors, nurses and civilians, shooting the men while they slept without attempting to arrest them.
