Participants, many waving Palestinian flags, chanted “Arrest Netanyahu” and “Free Palestine”.
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Poland announces “breakthrough” on exhumation of WW2 massacre victims in Ukraine
The issue has long been a source of tension between the two neighbours and allies.
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