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<article data-history-node-id="432091" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/cambridge-union-approves-motion-saying-world-failed-palestine" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/cambridge-union-approves-motion-saying-world-failed-palestine" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Cambridge union approves motion saying world 'failed Palestine'</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Cambridge University student union approved a motion at a debate&nbsp;on Thursday reading: "This House Believes The International Community Has Failed&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestine</a>."</p> <p>The motion for the debate, which took place between pro-Palestine and pro-Israel speakers, was proposed by Palestinian journalists and campaigner Yara Eid.</p> <p>Among those opposing the motion were Israeli speaker and former army liaison Hen Mazzig, whose speech was later reproduced in Jewish News, where he described his reception as "hostile".</p> <p>The House overwhelmingly voted in favour of the motion.</p> <p>Last month, the Cambridge Student Union passed a motion to disaffiliate from the&nbsp;National Union of Students (NUS)&nbsp;over what it said was its&nbsp;failure to "campaign for Palestine" and support pro-Palestine student protesters.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/cambridge-union-approves-motion-house-believes-international-community-has-failed-palestine">Cambridge union approves motion saying world 'failed Palestine'</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Students wave Palestinian flags during a protest in support of Palestinian people at Cambridge University on 7 May 2024 (Henry Nicholls / AFP)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="a53ee645-2030-4a17-99ed-2560f8ceefa6" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/CAMBRIDGE_PALESTINE_AFP.jpeg" width="1400" height="788" alt="Students wave Palestinian flags during a protest in support of Palestinian people at Cambridge University on 7 May 2024 (Henry Nicholls / AFP)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Students wave Palestinian flags during a protest in support of Palestinian people at Cambridge University on 7 May 2024 (Henry Nicholls / AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> <section>&nbsp;</section> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="432088" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hezbollah-urges-pope-leo-reject-israeli-aggression-lebanon-visit" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hezbollah-urges-pope-leo-reject-israeli-aggression-lebanon-visit" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Hezbollah urges Pope Leo to reject Israeli aggression on Lebanon visit</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Hezbollah has urged Pope Leo XIV to reject Israeli "injustice and aggression" against Lebanon, in a message to the pontiff who arrives in Beirut this weekend.</p> <p>A ceasefire agreed with Israel a year ago was supposed to end hostilities, but&nbsp;Israel&nbsp;has carried out near-daily strikes on Lebanon. It has also maintained troops in five southern Lebanon locations it deems strategic.</p> <p>Under US pressure and fears of expanded Israeli strikes, the Lebanese government has committed to disarming Hezbollah - a move the group has rejected.</p> <p>"We in Hezbollah take advantage of the occasion of your auspicious visit to our country Lebanon to reaffirm from our side our commitment to coexistence," Hezbollah told the pope in a statement published on its social media channels.</p> <p>It also affirmed the group's commitment to "standing with our army and our people to face any aggression and occupation of our land and our country", adding that what&nbsp;Israel&nbsp;"is doing in Lebanon is unacceptable ongoing aggression".</p> <p>"We rely on your holiness's stance in rejecting the injustice and aggression our nation of Lebanon is subjected to at the hands of the Zionist invaders and their supporters," the statement added.</p> <p>In a speech on Friday, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem welcomed Leo's visit to Lebanon, saying he had tasked members of the group with delivering a letter to the pontiff that would also be published in the media.</p> <p>He said his group had respected the November 2024 ceasefire and called for an end to persistent Israeli strikes on the country.</p> <p>"Do you expect there to be a war later? It's possible at some point, yes, that possibility exists," Qassem said, referring to increased fears in Lebanon of a renewed, broader war.</p> <p>After visiting Turkey, Leo is due to arrive in Lebanon on Sunday for a three-day trip that includes an open-air mass at Beirut's waterfront which organisers expect to draw 120,000 people, as well as an interreligious meeting in the city centre.</p> <p>Qassem said Friday that "we welcome this visit at this pivotal moment, and we pray that the Holy Father will contribute to spreading peace in Lebanon, liberating it, ending the [Israeli] aggression, and standing by it and by the oppressed, as we have always known him to do".</p> <p><em>Reporting by AFP</em></p> </div> </div> </article>