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Flag Honoring Nova Massacre Victims Spotted at UK Festival With Lineup That Includes Anti-Israel Performers
Revellers watch as the sun set at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset for the Glastonbury Festival, Britain on June 26, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
Two flags honoring victims of the deadly Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack at the Superova music festival in Israel were seen at the 2024 Glastonbury Festival, the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world that kicked off on Wednesday.
A Glastonbury attendee shared a photo on social media of the flags in the music festival’s camping zones, where attendees can pitch tents across the festival’s fields in Somerset, England. The banners said “Nova” and “We Will Dance Again,” which has become the slogan of those who survived the Nova massacre last year. Hamas terrorists killed more than 360 people at the Israeli music festival and kidnapped about 40 others.
At Glastonbury. #WeWillDanceAgain pic.twitter.com/GSifqh4KYr
— Sabrina Miller (@SabriSun_Miller) June 27, 2024
The Glastonbury Festival — which provides programming besides concerts, such as political panel discussions — will conclude on Sunday, and British-Albanian pop star Dua Lipa is set to headline the main stage when it opens on Friday. Lipa has described Israel’s military operations in the Gaza Strip targeting Hamas terrorists as “Israeli genocide.”
Glastonbury performers this year include the Irish rap trio Kneecap — who appeared on an Irish television program in February wearing clothing in the colors of the Palestinian flag and accused Israel of “genocide” — and Lambrini Girls, who pulled out of the SXSW and Great Escape festivals in protest of sponsors who had ties to Israel.
The festival’s lineup also includes singer Charlotte Church, who lead a choir that chanted “From the River to the Sea” at a Sing for Palestine event, and Palestinian activist Hamze Awawde, who has compared Israel’s military actions in Gaza to the Holocaust. Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) sent a letter to Glastonbury organizers earlier this month urging them to disinvite Church and Awawde from the festival but to no avail.
“We are concerned that Jewish festival-goers will face discrimination or even danger in an environment where both invitees have previously used inflammatory antisemitic rhetoric,” CAA wrote in its letter. “Platforming Ms. Church and Mr. Awawde simply tells Jews that they are not welcome to the Glastonbury Festival.”
The BBC will live stream the 2024 Glastonbury Festival. The broadcaster explained in its impartiality guidelines that it is committed to protecting “individual expression” for musicians and performers but it must “ensure that our output does not simply embrace the agenda of any particular campaign groups.” A BBC insider told the British newspaper i that festival organizers should take measures to ensure that the event doesn’t turn into a pro-Palestinian “rally.”
“Glastonbury is going to be a sea of Palestinian flags, ‘genocide’ placards, performers wearing keffiyehs, and condemnation of Israel. The bosses need to have a plan because it will be a serious breach of BBC impartiality guidelines if it allows Gaza activists to hijack the event and turn it into a ‘free Palestine’ rally,” the insider said.
Leo Pearlman, who had produced television music shows, additionally told the newspaper i that the BBC would be in breach of its own guidelines if it ended up broadcasting a “festival of anti-Zionist hate.”
“The BBC has to work with the Glastonbury organizers to prevent this becoming a rally,” he told the newspaper. “We know we’re going to see thousands of Palestinian flags handed out. There will be placards proclaiming ‘genocide,’ ‘apartheid,’ and ‘occupation’ — of course those should be blurred. But what do you do with an entire crowd chanting ‘from the River to the Sea?’”
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After False Dawns, Gazans Hope Trump Will Force End to Two-Year-Old War
Palestinians walk past a residential building destroyed in previous Israeli strikes, after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a US plan to end the war, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Exhausted Palestinians in Gaza clung to hopes on Saturday that US President Donald Trump would keep up pressure on Israel to end a two-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced the entire population of more than two million.
Hamas’ declaration that it was ready to hand over hostages and accept some terms of Trump’s plan to end the conflict while calling for more talks on several key issues was greeted with relief in the enclave, where most homes are now in ruins.
“It’s happy news, it saves those who are still alive,” said 32-year-old Saoud Qarneyta, reacting to Hamas’ response and Trump’s intervention. “This is enough. Houses have been damaged, everything has been damaged, what is left? Nothing.”
GAZAN RESIDENT HOPES ‘WE WILL BE DONE WITH WARS’
Ismail Zayda, 40, a father of three, displaced from a suburb in northern Gaza City where Israel launched a full-scale ground operation last month, said: “We want President Trump to keep pushing for an end to the war, if this chance is lost, it means that Gaza City will be destroyed by Israel and we might not survive.
“Enough, two years of bombardment, death and starvation. Enough,” he told Reuters on a social media chat.
“God willing this will be the last war. We will hopefully be done with the wars,” said 59-year-old Ali Ahmad, speaking in one of the tented camps where most Palestinians now live.
“We urge all sides not to backtrack. Every day of delay costs lives in Gaza, it is not just time wasted, lives get wasted too,” said Tamer Al-Burai, a Gaza City businessman displaced with members of his family in central Gaza Strip.
After two previous ceasefires — one near the start of the war and another earlier this year — lasted only a few weeks, he said; “I am very optimistic this time, maybe Trump’s seeking to be remembered as a man of peace, will bring us real peace this time.”
RESIDENT WORRIES THAT NETANYAHU WILL ‘SABOTAGE’ DEAL
Some voiced hopes of returning to their homes, but the Israeli military issued a fresh warning to Gazans on Saturday to stay out of Gaza City, describing it as a “dangerous combat zone.”
Gazans have faced previous false dawns during the past two years, when Trump and others declared at several points during on-off negotiations between Hamas, Israel and Arab and US mediators that a deal was close, only for war to rage on.
“Will it happen? Can we trust Trump? Maybe we trust Trump, but will Netanyahu abide this time? He has always sabotaged everything and continued the war. I hope he ends it now,” said Aya, 31, who was displaced with her family to Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
She added: “Maybe there is a chance the war ends at October 7, two years after it began.”
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Mass Rally in Rome on Fourth Day of Italy’s Pro-Palestinian Protests
A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a national protest for Gaza in Rome, Italy, October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Claudia Greco
Large crowds assembled in central Rome on Saturday for the fourth straight day of protests in Italy since Israel intercepted an international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza, and detained its activists.
People holding banners and Palestinian flags, chanting “Free Palestine” and other slogans, filed past the Colosseum, taking part in a march that organizers hoped would attract at least 1 million people.
“I’m here with a lot of other friends because I think it is important for us all to mobilize individually,” Francesco Galtieri, a 65-year-old musician from Rome, said. “If we don’t all mobilize, then nothing will change.”
Since Israel started blocking the flotilla late on Wednesday, protests have sprung up across Europe and in other parts of the world, but in Italy they have been a daily occurrence, in multiple cities.
On Friday, unions called a general strike in support of the flotilla, with demonstrations across the country that attracted more than 2 million, according to organizers. The interior ministry estimated attendance at around 400,000.
Italy’s right-wing government has been critical of the protests, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suggesting that people would skip work for Gaza just as an excuse for a longer weekend break.
On Saturday, Meloni blamed protesters for insulting graffiti that appeared on a statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Rome’s main train station, where Pro-Palestinian groups have been holding a protest picket.
“They say they are taking to the streets for peace, but then they insult the memory of a man who was a true defender and builder of peace. A shameful act committed by people blinded by ideology,” she said in a statement.
Israel launched its Gaza offensive after Hamas terrorists staged a cross border attack on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 people hostage.
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Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Israeli Hostages Under Trump Gaza Plan
Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal, and signaled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details.