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.
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Ireland to recognise Palestinian statehood 鈥榯his month鈥�
Ireland is certain to recognise Palestinian statehood by the end of May, the country鈥檚 foreign minister Micheal Martin said on Wednesday, without specifying a date...
PM urges int鈥檒 authorities to ensure basic healthcare to Palestinians
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday inaugurated a two-day event titled ICPD30 Global Dialogue on Demographic Diversity and Sustainable Development that creates a platform to discuss the challenges and explore the opportunities of the world鈥檚 shifting demographics...
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...
Duke Univ students walk out on Seinfeld graduation speech supporting Israel
Dozens of students walked out of Duke University鈥檚 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鈥� 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...
Palestine鈥檚 case for UN membership
IT MUST surely make certain ethnic and religious groups reflect, notably those languishing in minority status for decades, if not centuries. There was a time when the rental advertisements in London had such caustic couplings as 鈥業rish and Blacks need not apply.鈥� Oxbridge bursaries...
History of US activism for Palestine
THERE is a long history of muted protests for Palestine on college campuses. Imagine, Palestine never drew the attention of the American left in the 1960s and 1970s. Few Americans knew the word Palestinian before the assassination of Palestinian American, Sirhan Sirhan...
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....
Pro-Palestinian rally at DU calls for independent Palestine
Students from various educational institutions on Thursday held a solidarity rally displaying a human flag in solidarity with demands for an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and an independent state for Palestinian people...
Pro-Palestine rally stopped near US embassy in Bangladesh
A Pro-Palestine procession on Thursday denounced the United States, other major western countries and also India for supporting Israel to carry out genocide against Palestinians...
Israel鈥檚 brutality draws on British rule
ISRAEL鈥橲 present use of collective punishment against Palestinians owes much of its origins to British rule in Palestine...
Eyeless in Gaza
THE fact that the Israel-Palestine conflict grinds on without resolution might appear to be rather strange. For many of the world鈥檚 conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement. In this case, it is not only possible, but there is near universal agreement...
Students across Bangladesh join solidarity rallies for Palestine
As student protests advocating for Palestinian statehood gain momentum worldwide, universities in Bangladesh on Monday saw the largest solidarity rallies...
More than just protests for Palestine
NOBODY wants to know how the sausage is made. We don鈥檛 really want to know how America came to be in its current form 鈥� to the extent that some states have...
Muslim unity can help resolving Palestinian crisis: Hasan
Foreign minister Hasan Mahmud, while on the sidelines of the preparatory meeting of the 15th OIC Summit, held bilateral discussions on Friday with the permanent observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour...
Police arrest Columbia Univ students, clear occupied building in campus unrest
Dozens of helmeted police flooded Columbia University鈥檚 campus in the heart of New York City on Tuesday to evict a building occupied by pro-Palestinian student protesters and detain demonstrators.......
Palestine envoy meets AUST VC
Yousef SY Ramadan, Palestine ambassador to Bangladesh along with Ziad MH Hamad, deputy head of mission, embassy of the State of Palestine, Dhaka, meets with professor Mohammed Mahbubur Rahman, vice-chancellor (in-charge) of Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology on Thursday...
Pro-Palestinian camps cleared at three US univs, 200 detained
Police detained about 200 people at three US universities on Saturday as they cleared pro-Palestinian encampments, in the latest campus clashes triggered by protests over Israel鈥檚 war against Hamas.....
Ahead of feared Rafah invasion, Palestinians mourn dead
Palestinians on Thursday mourned over people killed in Israeli bombardment of Rafah, the southern Gaza city where Israel says it is advancing plans for a ground invasion...
Hamas challenges myth of unbeatable Israel
OVER more than a century of aggressively pursuing a process of de-Arabisation of Palestine before and after the creation of the state of Israel for the settlement of foreign Jews, Israel has become the most powerful country in the Middle East...
Erdogan urges Palestinian unity after meeting Hamas chief
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Palestinians to unite amid Israel鈥檚 war in Gaza following hours-long talks with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in...
In delusions, cynicism of western politicians, diplomats
MY WIFE is currently cancer free, but her chemotherapy caused her to gain a lot of weight, which she wants to lose. She says that she doesn鈥檛 have the will and...
US vetos palestine bid for UN membership
ON 18 May the Security Council was seized of a resolution that would have granted UN membership to Palestine. Twelve members of the...
US veto sinks Palestine鈥檚 UN membership bid in Security Council
The United States on Thursday spoiled a long-shot Palestinian bid for full United Nations membership, vetoing a Security Council measure despite growing international distress over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.....
UN to launch $2.8 billion global appeal for Gaza, West Bank
The United Nations on Wednesday will launch a $2.8 billion appeal for donations this year to help the war-ravaged population of the Gaza Strip as well as West Bank Palestinians, a senior agency official said....
Secret agreements
WHILE the Australian government continues to pirouette with shallow constancy on the issue of Israel鈥檚 war in Gaza, making vacuous utterances on Palestinian statehood even as it denies supplying the Israeli Defence Forces with...
UK and Israel-Palestine conflict
THE United Kingdom has a historical link to the current Israel-Palestine conflict. With the Balfour Declaration in 1917, Britain pledged to establish a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine, despite Jews constituting...
Israel continues to pound Gaza as Iran attack threat puts region on edge
Residents reported heavy Israeli fire in central Gaza on Friday, with regional tensions soaring after Iran threatened reprisals over a strike in Syria this month that killed two Iranian generals.
Norway ready to recognise Palestinian state
Norway is ready to recognise a Palestinian state together with other countries, its prime minister said on Friday. In November, Norway鈥檚 parliament adopted a proposal for the country to be prepared to recognise an independent Palestinian state...