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Canada slaps sanctions on ‘extremist’ Israeli settlers

Canada announced Thursday for the first time sanctions against Israeli settlers accused of committing acts of violence against civilians in the...

13 countries urge restraint from Israel over Rafah

Thirteen Western countries, including many traditionally supportive of Israel, appealed to it Friday not to launch a large-scale offensive on Rafah.

Many killed in fierce fighting in Gaza

The Israeli army told AFP on Friday that renewed fighting in Gaza’s northern town of Jabalia was ‘perhaps the fiercest’ in over seven months of war.

The arsenal of genocide

ON MAY 8, as Israel escalated its brutal assault on Rafah, US president Joe Biden announced that he had ‘paused’ a delivery of 1,700 500-pound and 1,800 2,000-pound bombs, and threatened to withhold more shipments if Israel went ahead with its full-scale invasion of Rafah...

Iran and Israel need to talk

IT’S now been about four weeks since Iranian missiles filled Israeli skies, as humanity held its breath for nuclear war and possible extinction. If that strikes you as hyperbole, consider this: Had Israel suffered great damage, the war could have gone nuclear...

Moroccan jailed for life in UK for murder over Gaza war

A Moroccan asylum seeker was on Friday sentenced to life in prison for randomly stabbing a British man to death in revenge for Israel’s response to the...

Israel strikes on Lebanon kill 3

Israeli air strikes on Friday hit an area of southern Lebanon far from the border, with Hezbollah announcing one dead fighter and official media saying two...

Israel vows to ‘intensify’ operations in Rafah

Israel vowed on Thursday to ‘intensify’ its ground offensive in Rafah, in defiance of global warnings over the fate of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians...

Another Biden admin staffer resigns over US stance on Gaza war

Another staffer in United States president Joe Biden’s administration has publicly resigned in protest of the US’s continued support for Israel amid its war on...

Israel descends into barbarism

UNLESS you are the victim of a moral narrow-mindedness (and there seems to be an epidemic of this defect nowadays), it should be obvious to you that Israel has descended into barbarism. Why barbarism? Because in Israel, cruel, murderous, and otherwise criminal behaviour has become state policy...

Five Israeli soldiers killed in north Gaza friendly fire

Israel’s military said Thursday that five soldiers had been killed by friendly fire in Gaza’s north, where intense fighting has resumed more than seven months into its war against Hamas militants...

Palestinians flee Gaza on 1948 ‘Nakba’ anniv

Tens of thousands of civilians fled heavy fighting in Gaza as Palestinians on Wednesday marked 76 years since their mass displacement during Israel’s wartime creation which they call the Nakba or ‘catastrophe’...

Hezbollah commander among two killed in Israeli strike

Lebanese state media said an Israeli strike on a car in the country’s south killed two people Tuesday, with a source close to Iran-backed Hezbollah saying a field commander was among the dead...

Israeli tanks push into Rafah

Israel’s military operation in Rafah has set truce negotiations with Hamas ‘backward’, mediator Qatar said on Tuesday, adding that talks have reached...

Israel’s willing executioners

Celebrities face ‘block out’ for remaining silent over Gaza

Celebrities who have remained silent on the crisis in Gaza are feeling the wrath of angry fans wielding the ‘digital guillotine’ to block them on social media and streaming platforms...

Bangladesh condemns Israeli attack on Jordanian convoy in Palestine

The Bangladesh government has strongly condemned the recent attacks by Israeli settlers on a Jordanian humanitarian convoy that was delivering aid to Gaza through the Beit Hanoun Crossing. The convoy, targeted while carrying essential supplies meant for civilians, has sparked international concern...

Hezbollah claims strikes that wounded Israeli soldiers

Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group claimed responsibility on Monday for a strike that Israel said wounded four soldiers in the country’s north, the latest...

Fighting rocks Gaza despite US warning

Israel battled Hamas in Gaza on Monday, including in far-southern Rafah, despite US warnings against a full-scale invasion of the crowded city and...

Duke Univ students walk out on Seinfeld graduation speech supporting Israel

Dozens of students walked out of Duke University’s graduation ceremony on Sunday as comedian Jerry Seinfeld, who has vocally supported Israel over its war in Gaza, received an honorary doctorate, videos posted on social media showed...

Two peoples’ experience of displacement

ISRAEL was founded with a UN mandate in 1948. The background was the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis. The idea that Jews needed a state of their own to feel safe was widely accepted...

Fighting rages across Gaza as death toll crosses 35,000

Israel struck Gaza on Sunday and troops were battling militants in several areas of the Hamas-run territory, where the health ministry said that...

Israel continues to pound Rafah

Israeli strikes on Saturday hit parts of Gaza including Rafah where Israel expanded an evacuation order and the UN warned of ‘epic’ disaster if an outright invasion of the...

Israeli artillery hits Rafah after truce talks end

Israel bombarded Gaza including Rafah on Friday after negotiators left truce talks in Cairo without a deal and a senior UN official said...

Spain universities say ready to suspend Israel ties

Spanish universities expressed willingness Thursday to suspend ties with any Israeli educational institution that failed to express ‘a clear commitment to peace’ as the war rages in Gaza. 

Two killed in Israel strike on Lebanon

Lebanese state media said an Israeli strike in south Lebanon on Friday killed a first responder from a rescue group affiliated with a Hezbollah-allied movement and...

Over 100,000 people have fled Gaza’s Rafah: UN

Over 100,000 people have fled Rafah in recent days, the United Nations said Friday, with the southern Gaza city under threat of a full-scale Israeli ground invasion....

Israel hits Gaza after ending truce talks

Israel launched fresh strikes in the Gaza Strip on Friday after negotiators pursuing a long-stalled truce agreement left talks in Cairo without having secured a deal....

Jasod demands end to Israeli aggression in Gaza

Leaders of the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-Jasod on Thursday at a protest rally in Dhaka demanded an immediate end to Israeli aggression in Gaza that killed 34,000 Palestinian people since October 7 last year...

Rafah struck after Biden warning on arms transfers

Smoke rose from strikes on Gaza’s crowded southern city of Rafah on Thursday after US president Joe Biden vowed to cut off artillery shells and other weapons supplied to Israel if a full-scale offensive into the city goes ahead...