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Israel furious as European trio recognises Palestinian state

Israel reacted with fury after three European countries said on Wednesday they would recognise a Palestinian state, more than seven months into the devastating Gaza war...

Ringing true for Gaza

AS ISRAELI troops continue their assault in Rafah, increasing the death toll and displacing — yet again — hundreds of thousands of Gazans, there’s much to be learnt from recalling Dr Martin Luther King’s visionary words on Vietnam 57 years ago...

Israel’s crimes far worse than Hamas’s

THERE is one thing we should all be able to agree with Benjamin Netanyahu on: Any comparison between Israel’s war crimes and those of Hamas is, as the Israeli prime minister put it, ‘absurd and false’ and a ‘distortion of reality.’...

Medics, WHO say north Gaza hospitals barely operational

North Gaza’s last two functioning hospitals, Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan, are barely operational, doctors and the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday with the Israel-Hamas war now in its eighth month...

Gaza battles flare

Israeli forces battled Hamas in Gaza on Tuesday after prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu angrily dismissed a bid for an international arrest warrant against him on war crimes charges in the Palestinian territory...

Strikes pound Gaza as Israel vows to expand Rafah incursion

Air strikes and shelling hit Gaza on Monday, witnesses said, as battles raged in the besieged territory’s north and the far-southern city of Rafah where Israel’s defence minister vowed to expand ground operations...

ICC prosecutor seeks Gaza ‘war crimes’ arrest warrant

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Monday applied for arrest warrants against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and top...

These new attacks on academic freedom may be just the beginning

DURING the wave of campus protests opposing the US-backed war on Gaza and calling for divestment from Israel, students weren’t the only demonstrators to face arrest — supportive faculty members were also caught up in the crackdown...

Deadly bombs hit Gaza

An Israeli strike in Gaza killed 31 people on Sunday, the Palestinian civil defence agency said, as US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan was visiting for...

Fighting rages in Rafah after first aid delivery

Heavy clashes and bombardment Saturday rocked Gaza’s southern city of Rafah as the Israeli military announced the first humanitarian aid had entered the...

Israeli leaders split over post-war Gaza governance

New divisions have emerged among Israel’s leaders over post-war Gaza’s governance, with an unexpected Hamas fightback in parts of the Palestinian territory piling...

End to Israeli aggression in Gaza demanded

Leaders of the Amar Bangladesh Party on Saturday at a protest rally in Dhaka demanded an immediate end to Israeli aggression in Gaza where over 35,000 Palestinian people were killed after the latest escalation in attacks in October 2023. ...

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...