Finland ready to recognise Palestinian state
Finland鈥檚 president Alexander Stubb has said he is ready to approve a recognition of a Palestinian state if the government moves forward with such a proposal.
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Canada intends to recognise Palestinian state
Canada plans to recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September, prime minister Mark Carney said Wednesday, a major policy shift that drew an angry response from US president Donald Trump and was rejected by Israel.
France, 14 other nations urge recognition of Palestinian state
France and 14 other Western nations called on countries worldwide to move to recognise a Palestinian state, France鈥檚 top diplomat said Wednesday...
The Gaza Riviera
ISRAELIS do not see the images of skeletal corpses of Palestinian children who they have starved to death as a curse. They do not see the slain families they gun down at food hubs 鈥� designed not to deliver aid but lure starving Palestinians into a massive concentration camp in the south of Gaza in preparation for deportation 鈥� as a war crime. Israelis do not look at...
Israeli fire kills 25 in Gaza
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said Israeli fire killed 25 people on Saturday in the Palestinian territory devastated by more than 21 months of war.
France defends move to recognise Palestinian state
France defended its decision to recognise Palestinian statehood amid domestic and international criticism on Friday, including against the charge that the move plays into the hands of militant group Hamas.
Making concentration camp Gaza
THE odious idea of a camp within a camp. The Gaza Strip, with an even greater concentration of Palestinian civilian life within an ever-shrinking stretch of territory. These are the proposals ventured by the Israeli government even as the official Palestinian death toll marches upwards to 60,000. They envisage the placement of some 600,000 displaced and houseless...
Malnutrition reaches new heights in Gaza, children most affected
As malnutrition surges in war-torn Gaza, tens of thousands of children and women require urgent treatment, according to the UN, while aid enters the blockaded Palestinian territory at a trickle...
Scuffle on stage at London opera as performer unfurls Palestinian flag
London鈥檚 Royal Opera House on Sunday condemned as 鈥榳holly inappropriate鈥� the actions of a performer who held up a Palestinian flag onstage at the end of a performance...
Israeli fire kills 57 aid seekers in Gaza
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd of Palestinians waiting to collect humanitarian aid in the territory鈥檚 north on Sunday, killing 57 people and wounding dozens more...
Israel鈥檚 enduring pursuit of Palestinian disunity
ISRAEL is aggressively implementing plans to shape Palestine鈥檚 future and the broader region, sculpting its vision for the 鈥榙ay after鈥� its genocide in Gaza...
West Bank seeing largest displacement since 1967: UN
The UN warned Tuesday that mass displacement in the West Bank had hit levels not seen since the start of Israel鈥檚 occupation of the Palestinian territory nearly 60 years ago.
Israeli forces kill 52 in Gaza
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency on Thursday said at least 52 people, including eight children, were killed by Israeli forces in the Palestinian territory battered by more than 21 months of war...
Epistemic violence against Palestinians
PALESTINIANS are victims of most gruesome physical violence and are first-hand witnesses of death and destruction. Israel has illegally occupied their land and聽claimed it as its own. The Zionist state has been forcibly expelling indigenous Palestinians and threatening those who stay put with brutality and mass expulsion...
UN expert says firms 鈥榩rofiting鈥� from 鈥榞enocide鈥� of Palestinians
UN rights expert Francesca Albanese on Thursday denounced companies she said 鈥榩rofited from the Israeli economy of illegal occupation, apartheid, and now genocide鈥�, in a report that provoked a furious response from Israel.
Israeli forces kill 69 in Gaza
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 69 people on Thursday, including 15 in a strike on a school sheltering Palestinians displaced by the war nearing its 22nd month...
Profiting from genocide
WAR is a business. So is genocide. The latest report submitted by Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, lists 48 corporations and institutions, including Palantir Technologies Inc., Lockheed Martin, Alphabet Inc., Amazon, International Business Machine Corporation, Caterpillar Inc., Microsoft Corporation and...
Israeli forces kill 34 in Gaza as ceasefire momentum builds
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed 34 people on Monday, including 11 waiting for aid, as momentum built behind a ceasefire push for the war-ravaged Palestinian territory...
Israeli forces kill 23 in Gaza
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said Israeli air strikes and gunfire killed 23 people in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory on Sunday, including at least three children...
Thousands join pro-Palestinian marches across Europe
Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched in European cities calling for an end to the war in Gaza, hours before president Donald Trump said the US military had attacked three Iranian nuclear sites Sunday...
Pro-Palestinian protest leader freed in US
Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University student who was one of the most visible leaders of nationwide pro-Palestinian campus protests, was released Friday from a federal detention centre.
Israeli fire kills 33 in Gaza
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said 33 people were killed by Israeli fire in the Palestinian territory on Wednesday, including 11 who were seeking aid...
US judge extends detention of pro-Palestinian protest leader
Pro-Palestinian student protest leader Mahmoud Khalil remained in US detention Friday despite an expected release, his lawyer said, following reported accusations of inaccuracies in his permanent residency application.
End to killing of Palestinian people demanded
Leaders of the Palestine Solidarity Committee, Bangladesh on Wednesday at a protest rally in Dhaka called on the Israeli government to stop killing Palestinian people in Gaza immediately...
Israeli strike kills 12 in south Gaza
THE civil defence agency in Gaza said an Israeli strike on a tent housing displaced Palestinians near the southern city of Khan Yunis on Wednesday killed at least 12 people...
France, Indonesia call for Israeli-Palestinian progress
France and Indonesia called Wednesday for progress on 鈥榤utual recognition鈥� between Israel and the Palestinians at a key meeting next month as Emmanuel Macron visited Jakarta, bringing the world鈥檚 most populous Muslim-majority nation into his diplomatic efforts...
Genocide and engineered collapse of Gazan society
CONSEQUENT to the escalated Zionist genocide of Indigenous Palestinian people, and after a blockade of all goods since the beginning of March 2025, Gaza is experiencing a severe humanitarian crisis, with widespread food scarcity and starvation among its population. Human rights organizations and international agencies report the Israeli blockade has led to...
Abbas, Aoun back arms under Lebanese state control
Lebanese president Joseph Aoun and Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas met in Beirut on Wednesday and backed placing all weapons under Lebanese state control, as they discussed efforts to disarm armed groups in Palestinian refugee camps...
Watching Gaza starve to death
THE situation in Gaza today starkly highlights Israeli exceptionalism. Israel is employing the starvation of two million Palestinians in the blockaded and devastated Gaza Strip as a tactic to extract political concessions from Palestinian groups operating there...
Israeli strikes kill 100 in Gaza
Palestinian rescuers reported more than 100 people killed Thursday in Israeli strikes on blockaded Gaza, where a US-backed organisation said it intends to begin distributing aid by the end of the month.