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The UN’s Population Fund (UNFPA) said international law must be upheld to protect people who need medical treatment as the Israeli military’s restrictions on travel in the occupied West Bank have endangering pregnant women.

“These restrictions could threaten the lives of more than 50 women who give birth every day” in the West Bank, the UN agency said.

In a post on social media, the agency quoted a Palestinian mother who was forced to wait three weeks to have stitches removed after a caesarean section birth.

“Snipers were targeting anything that moved on the road,” the mother from West Bank’s Tulkarem City was quoted as saying.

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The German chancellor has said that Germany, along with Ukraine’s other main western supporters, will remove range restrictions on weapons delivered to Kyiv for the first time, to enable it to defend itself against Russia.

Friedrich Merz said Germany, Britain, France and the US had lifted the restrictions to enable Ukraine to be better able to hit military targets on Russian territory.

“There are no longer any range restrictions on weapons delivered to Ukraine – neither by the British, nor by the French, nor by us, nor by the Americans,” he said on Monday, following Russia’s largest drone attack on Ukraine of the war to date.

“This means that Ukraine can now defend itself, for example, by attacking military positions in Russia … with very few exceptions, it didn’t do that until recently. It can now do that.”

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Why now? That’s the question. Why now, after 19 months of relentless assault that was plain for all to see, and declared by Israeli authorities themselves, has the tide begun to shift on Gaza?

The marked change in tone this past week from leaders in the UK and EU is a clear break from the pabulum of “concerns” and reiterations of Israel’s right to defend itself. Now the rhetoric is that Israel’s actions are “morally unjustifiable” and “wholly disportionate”, and the threats of its leaders “abhorrent”. Some of this is future-proofing.

The war has amounted to genocide and ethnic cleansing in ways that are increasingly undeniable, indefensible and unspinnable. Some had a good go at it for a year and a half, but now cannot stand at a lectern or sit at a dinner table and argue that, yes, actually, there is an argument for killing 100 people a day, as was the case last week. Or that Israel has any plan other than what its leaders have consistently declared to be one of displacement and settlement. Long gone is the argument that this is simply about wiping out Hamas. Israel, as one British media ally lamented, has hung its friends out to dry.

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Dozens of people were injured after a car drove through a crowd in England celebrating the Liverpool Football Club’s Premier League title.

David Kitchen of the North West Ambulance Service said at a press conference that 27 individuals in total were taken to the hospital for their injuries, including two with serious injuries, while 20 others were treated at the scene for minor injuries and didn’t require hospitalization.

Police said a 53-year-old white British man has been arrested following the incident, but they asked the public not to speculate on the circumstances surrounding the incident as extensive investigations are underway to learn more.

Assistant Chief Constable Jenny Simms of the Merseyside Police said they received reports just after 6 p.m. local time as the parade celebrating the victory was ending that a car collided with multiple pedestrians in the city center. She said specialist officers have been made available for the injured and their families.

Kitchen said four of the injured are children.

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Israeli strikes over the past 24 hours killed at least 38 people in Gaza, including children, local health officials said Sunday, with no data available for a second straight day from now-inaccessible hospitals in the north.

Further details emerged of the Palestinian doctor who lost nine of her 10 children in an Israeli strike on Friday.

Gaza’s Health Ministry said 3,785 people have been killed since Israel ended a ceasefire in March, vowing to destroy Hamas and return the 58 hostages it still holds from the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the war. Hamas has said it will only release the hostages in exchange for a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal.

Israel also blocked all food, medicine and fuel from entering Gaza for 2 1/2 months before letting a trickle of aid enter last week, after experts’ warnings of famine and pressure from some of Israel’s top allies.

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Russia and Ukraine finalized the largest exchange of prisoners on Sunday that reflected a rare moment of cooperation in otherwise failed efforts to reach a ceasefire in the more than three years of war.

Russia's Defense Ministry said each side brought home 303 more soldiers after each released a total of 307 combatants and civilians on Saturday and 390 on Friday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed the exchange, writing on social media that "303 Ukrainian defenders are home." He noted that the troops returning were members of the "Armed Forces, the National Guard, the State Border Guard Service and the State Special Transport Service."

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