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...
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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...
60 members of Gaza family killed in Israeli strikes
Gaza鈥檚 Tabatibi family is in mourning for the second time in less than a month, after separate Israeli bombardments on buildings they were sheltering in killed more than 60 of their kin...
No Security Council 鈥榗onsensus鈥� on Palestine鈥檚 UN membership
Members of the United Nations Security Council failed to reach a consensus on Thursday on a bid by Palestinians for full UN membership, meaning the longshot effort is now likely headed for a more formal council vote....
Bangladesh protesters want steps against Israel, justice for Palestine
Leaders of Palestine Solidarity Committee Bangladesh on Thursday urged the world community to be vocal and take steps against Israel to stop aggressions in Palestine and mass killings there....
Gaza truce talks are at an 鈥榠mpasse鈥�
They set themselves a 48-hour deadline earlier this week, but on Thursday neither Hamas nor Israel had shown any signs of agreeing to a truce in Gaza despite pressure from international mediators...
Hamas leader Haniyeh鈥檚 sons killed in Israeli strike in Gaza
Three of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh鈥檚 sons were killed on Wednesday in an Israeli strike in Gaza, the Palestinian leader and Israel鈥檚 military said, as war rages on after more than six months....
Gaza families try to identify Al-Shifa dead
World Health Organization teams arrived at what was Gaza鈥檚 biggest hospital Monday to help identify the bodies that litter the ruins. The Israeli military said it battled with Palestinian militants there during two weeks of fierce fighting last month, with the WHO saying that patients were trapped inside...
From victimhood to apartheid statehood
THE tapestry of Jewish myths and history spans over two millennia. The Jewish saga of 鈥榙iaspora鈥� to 鈥榓liyah鈥�, of migrations and pogroms, of persecution and the Holocaust is woven with elements of both myths and history...
Australia to appoint special adviser on probe over death of Gaza aid workers
Australia has said that it will appoint a special adviser to work with Israel as it demands transparency in an investigation into an air strike on Gaza that killed seven aid workers, including an Australian.
Bangladesh Peace Council demands end to Israeli attacks on Palestine
The Bangladesh Peace Council on Saturday demanded an end to Israeli attacks on Palestine and mass killings in Palestine....
Cunning of gender violence
THE testimonies emerging from Palestinians held captive by the Israeli military in Al-Shifa hospital, which was under persistent siege for 14 days, are harrowing: torture, starvation...
