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Daniel Levy steps down as Tottenham chairman after divisive 25-year tenure Daniel Levy steps down as Tottenham chairman after nearly 25 years in charge . Levy, 63, was the longest-serving chairman in the Premier League . Tottenham ended a 17-year trophy drought by beating Manchester United 1-0 to win the Europa League last season . Levy oversaw the move from White Hart Lane to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, its home since 2019 . Read full story: Source

US sanctions Palestinian rights groups for supporting ICC Israel probe Al-Haq, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) and Al-Mezan targeted for engaging with ICC, state department says . US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the rights groups were targeted for having “directly engaged in efforts by the International Criminal Court’ to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute Israeli nationals, without Israel’s consent” Read full story: Source

How many Palestinian detainees from Gaza does Israel think are fighters? A new investigation finds that only a quarter of Palestinian detainees in Israel are linked to fighting groups. Israeli military intelligence believes that only a quarter of the Palestinian detainees from Gaza held by Israel are fighters, according to a joint investigation released on Thursday by the Israeli-Palestinian magazine +972, the Hebrew-language magazine Local Call, and the British newspaper The Guardian. Among those detained are thousands arrested under Israel’s 2002 Unlawful Combatants legislation, which allows authorities to seize individuals if they believe they are linked to organisations deemed ‘unlawful’,…

US files lawsuit against California utility over Los Angeles wildfires The US Department of Justice has filed two lawsuits against Southern California Edison . One alleges negligence by the energy company sparked the deadly Eaton Fire in January . The second alleges that similar negligence led to the Fairview Fire near the San Bernardino National Forest in 2022 . Read full story: Source

‘City of fear’: Palestinians trapped as Israel intensifies Gaza City attack Almost one million remain in the city; those who flee risk death elsewhere in enclave, with no safe place to hide from the bombs. The Israeli military’s indiscriminate bombing of Gaza City is reducing entire neighbourhoods to rubble, forcing residents to flee in panic, with nowhere safe in the enclave, which has been under unrelenting bombardment for 23 months. Israel’s round-the-clock assault on what UNICEF has dubbed the “city of fear” included an attack on a tent in the neighbourhood of Tal al-Hawa on Thursday that wiped out an…