Simon Israel
Safety guaranteed for Gaza family allowed to settle in UK
A family of Palestinian children, evacuated from Gaza, has arrived to settle in the UK, following reports by Channel 4 News.
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FactCheck: how many of the world’s Muslims are radicalised?
A video claiming that the majority of the world’s Muslims have been “radicalised” is getting a lot of attention online. Is there any truth in it?
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Call for more Jews to carry guns a ‘dangerous overreaction’
A rabbi’s proposal for European Jews to be able to carry guns in the wake of the Paris terror attacks is “divisive and dangerous”, leading Jewish figures tell Channel 4 News.
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On the trail of the smugglers shipping refugees to Europe
The people smugglers in Turkey are Syrians and they tell us they’re doing their compatriots a favour. Here, in Mersin Otogar, we meet a smuggler and a Syrian family desperate to reach Europe.
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How should Muslims respond to prophet Mohammed cartoons?
Catherine Heseltine, ex-CEO of a Muslim body, tells Channel 4 News that she will not take lectures from “hypocritical” French politicians who have ‘banned pro-Palestinian rallies’.
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France’s troubled history of anti-semitic prejudice
After the murders of four Jews in a supermarket in Paris, thousands of police officers are being deployed to protect Jewish schools. It is not the first time French Jews have been on their guard.
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Four hostages killed in bloody end to Paris sieges
Three gunmen and four hostages have been killed as police storm two sieges in the Paris area. The hostages died at a kosher supermarket in the east of the French capital.
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Israel launches first Gaza attack since August
Israeli aircraft bomb a Hamas militant base in the Gaza strip, in their first strike in Gaza since a ceasefire was declared four months ago.
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Why are migrants so desperate to reach Europe?
One in every 50 migrants who try to reach Europe across the Mediterranean Sea will die on the journey. What is so terrible in their home countries to force people into such a desperate voyage?
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Mediterranean migrant graveyard: survivors’ stories
In September 500 migrants fleeing wars in Gaza and Syria set sail from Egypt for Europe. The boat was rammed by traffickers and capsized. Only 11 survived. Channel 4 News has spoken to four of them.
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Simon Israel
Government relents over visas for stranded Gaza family
The government has backtracked over its refusal to allow a British Palestinian father’s children evacuated from Gaza to settle in the UK.
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Would you give Andrew Lansley the UN’s top humanitarian job?
If Andrew Lansley were to submit a CV for the top humanitarian role at the UN – which David Cameron is nominating him for – what would he write under “relevant experience”?
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Briton among four dead in Jerusalem synagogue attack
A rabbi with dual British-Israeli nationality is among the dead after two suspected Palestinian men entered a Jerusalem synagogue armed with axes, knives and a pistol.
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Jerusalem unrest plays out on social media with cartoons
Twitter and Facebook is playing a key role in contributing to the volatile atmosphere in Israel following today’s killings, with everything from cartoons to Kit-Kats being used in the propaganda war.
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Driver shot dead after ramming into pedestrians in Jerusalem
A Palestinian man is shot dead by police after he rams his car into pedestrians in central Jerusalem, killing one and injuring 14.
