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People walk along Gaza's coastal al-Rashid Street after crossing the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip north into Gaza City on January 27, 2025. Displaced Palestinians began returning to northern Gaza on January 27, an official at the territory's Hamas-run Interior Ministry told AFP, after a breakthrough in negotiations between Hamas and Israel. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

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Muhammad (C) carry the body of his 14-year-old son Omar Muhammad Saadeh Rabee during his funeral in the village of Turmus Ayya, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on April 7, 2025. A Palestinian official told AFP that Israeli forces shot dead a teenager holding US citizenship in the occupied West Bank on April 7, while the Israeli military said it had killed a "terrorist" who threw rocks at cars. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP)

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AMMAN, JORDAN - NOVEMBER 15: (----EDITORIAL USE ONLY â MANDATORY CREDIT - "ROYAL HASHEMITE COURT / HANDOUT" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS----) Jordanian King Abdullah II makes a speech at the parliament building during the inauguration of the new term of the Jordanian Parliament, in Amman, Jordan on November 15, 2021. In his speech, the king gave a message of support to the Palestinians. (Photo by Royal Hashemite Court / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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People walk along Gaza's coastal al-Rashid Street after crossing the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip north into Gaza City on January 27, 2025. Displaced Palestinians began returning to northern Gaza on January 27, an official at the territory's Hamas-run Interior Ministry told AFP, after a breakthrough in negotiations between Hamas and Israel. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

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Muhammad (C) carry the body of his 14-year-old son Omar Muhammad Saadeh Rabee during his funeral in the village of Turmus Ayya, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on April 7, 2025. A Palestinian official told AFP that Israeli forces shot dead a teenager holding US citizenship in the occupied West Bank on April 7, while the Israeli military said it had killed a "terrorist" who threw rocks at cars. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

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Yemeni rescuers transport the bodies of victims pulled from the rubble of a building hit in US strikes in the northern province of Saada on April 28, 2025. Huthi media in Yemen said on April 28 that US strikes targeted a migrant detention centre in Saada, killing at least 68 people. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

DAWN Statement on U.S. Airstrikes in Yemen, Escalating Violence and War Crimes

Jordan Prince Hamzah bin al Hussein delivers his speech during the plenary session at the Bella Center in Copenhagen on December 17, 2009 on the 11th day of the COP15 UN Climate Change Conference. AFP PHOTO / ATTILA KISBENEDEK (Photo credit should read ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP via Getty Images)

Jordan: End Arbitrary Confinement of Prince Hamzah

People walk along Gaza's coastal al-Rashid Street after crossing the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip north into Gaza City on January 27, 2025. Displaced Palestinians began returning to northern Gaza on January 27, an official at the territory's Hamas-run Interior Ministry told AFP, after a breakthrough in negotiations between Hamas and Israel. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

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With Germany's Renewed Arms Exports to Saudi Arabia, Interests Trumped Values

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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 22: Storm clouds gather near the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday afternoon September 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. Senate Minority Leader McConnell (R-KY) and other Senate Republicans said that they will not vote to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government that would include an increase to the debt ceiling. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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Congress Must Halt Biden's Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia

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GAZA CITY, GAZA - MAY 15: Palestinians inspect ruins after Israeli warplanes bombed and destroyed a 6-storey building, in Gaza City, Gaza on May 15, 2021. (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

National Coalition Calls on Biden to Halt Weapons Sales to Israel

Palestinians inspect the damage in a residential district of Gaza City early on May 12, 2021, following continued Israeli airstrikes on the Hamas-run territory overnight. - Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip have hit the homes of high-ranking members of the Hamas militant group, the military said Wednesday, with the territory's police headquarters also targeted. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Dawn’s Advocacy

U.S. State Department: Secret Approval of License for Weapons Sales to Israel Circumvents Historic Senate Vote on Arms Sale to Israel

LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 03: US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, during a joint press conference with UK Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, at Downing Street on May 3, 2021 in London, England. This is the first visit to the UK by US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, since his appointment by US President, Joe Biden. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)

Dawn’s Advocacy

U.S. State Department: Halt License for Weapons Sales to Israel

EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Yemeni Red Crescent workers carry a victim on a stretcher amid the rubble of a destroyed funeral hall building following reported airstrikes by Saudi-led coalition air-planes on the capital Sanaa on October 8, 2016.
Rebels in control of Yemen's capital accused the Saudi-led coalition fighting them of killing or wounding dozens of people in air strikes on Sanaa. The insurgent-controlled news site sabanews.net said that coalition planes hit a building in the capital where people had gathered to mourn the death of an official, resulting in "dozens of dead or wounded". / AFP / MOHAMMED HUWAIS (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP via Getty Images)

DAWN Joins Nationwide Coalition Urging US to End Participation in Yemen War

December 4, 2020

TOPSHOT - US President-elect Joe Biden participates in a virtual meeting with the United States Conference of Mayors at the Queen in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 23, 2020. - US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday named the deeply experienced Antony Blinken for secretary of state, also nominating the first female head of intelligence and a czar for climate issues, with a promise to a return to expertise after the turbulent years of Donald Trump. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Democracy In Exile

Ending the Yemen War: President Biden Should Deny Arms to the UAE and Saudi Arabia on Day One

December 3, 2020

Yemenis search for survivors under the rubble of houses in the UNESCO-listed heritage site in the old city of Yemeni capital Sanaa, on June 12, 2015 following an overnight Saudi-led air strike. Residents said the pre-dawn strike, which killed five people was the first direct hit on old Sanaa since the launch of the bombing campaign against Huthi rebels in late March. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED HUWAIS (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP via Getty Images)

DAWN joins more than 80 organizations in asking Biden to end US participation in Yemen war

December 1, 2020

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