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Palestinian swimmer hopes for sporting chance

Palestinian swimmer Yazan Al Bawwab hopes his appearance at the Paris Olympics will help boost opportunities for athletes from the war-torn territory.

Kamala vows not to be silent on Gaza in meeting with Netanyahu

Kamala Harris signaled a major shift on US Gaza policy Thursday, with the presidential hopeful telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seal a peace deal and insisting she would not be ‘silent’ on the suffering in the Palestinian enclave...

Palestinian, Jewish protesters stage peace march

Chanting ‘yes, to peace, yes, to a deal’, hundreds of Palestinian and Jewish Israelis marched noisily through Tel Aviv on Thursday night, demanding an end to the...

Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory ‘illegal’: UN court

The UN’s top court, in a sweeping opinion on Friday, said that Israeli’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian territory was ‘illegal’ and needed to end as soon as possible...

Pro-Palestinian activists arrested at UK protest

UK police on Monday arrested two pro-Palestinian demonstrators after a protest at Britain’s Cenotaph war memorial in central London.

‘Strict observance of international law’

ISRAEL’S war on Gaza has gone on for more than nine months, following the Hamas-led attack on Israel in October 2023. A Palestinian territory that has been under Israeli occupation since 1967, Gaza, along with Israel and the Palestinian territories of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, it is about the same distance away from Europe...

60 bodies found in Shujaiya after Israeli destruction

Just hours after the two-week offensive on Gaza City’s Shujaiya district ended, Palestinians had already found 60 bodies as they picked through the piles of concrete and dust left behind, officials in Hamas-run Gaza said Thursday...

Gazans flee Israeli attacks as mediators push for truce

Palestinians on Monday fled heavy battles in Gaza City as the Israeli military expanded an evacuation order nine months into its war with Hamas...

Seven killed in Israeli West Bank raid

Israeli troops killed seven Palestinians — with Hamas claiming five as members — in a raid on Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Friday, officials said.

Israel pounds Gaza after evacuation order

Israeli forces carried out deadly strikes Tuesday on southern Gaza and battled militants after issuing an evacuation order which a UN agency said would impact 2,50,000 Palestinians...

Israeli forces tie wounded Palestinian to jeep in West Bank raid

Israeli troops tied a wounded Palestinian to a military vehicle during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the army said on Sunday, admitting that...

G7 urges Israel to protect Palestinian banking services

G7 finance ministers urged Israel Saturday not to disrupt ‘vital financial transactions’ in the occupied Palestinian territories, following indications it could cut off Palestinian banks...

Impact of recognition of a Palestinian state

RECENTLY, calls for the western world to recognise a Palestinian state in its own right have been getting louder...

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...

OIC condemns carnage against Palestinians

WITH a membership of 57 states located across the world, the 54-year-old Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is the second biggest inter-governmental body after the United Nations. The grouping formally recognises itself as the ‘collective voice of the Muslim world.’ Established in Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco...

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’...

Ireland to recognise Palestinian statehood ‘this month’

Ireland is certain to recognise Palestinian statehood by the end of May, the country’s foreign minister Micheal Martin said on Wednesday, without specifying a date...

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...

Muslim countries’ unity could reduce misery of Palestinians: PM

Police break up pro-Palestinian demos in Berlin Amsterdam

Police on Tuesday broke up pro-Palestinian demonstrations at universities in Amsterdam and Berlin, which were inspired by similar demonstrations on...

BCL expresses solidarity with demand of independent Palestine

Bangladesh Chhatra League, student wing of the ruling Awami League, on Monday, held protest rally and procession, expressing solidarity with the ongoing global student movement, advocating for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state...

BCL to hold countrywide processions for independent Palestinian state

Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League, will hold processions across the country expressing solidarity with the ongoing global student movement and demanding for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state...

Israeli settlers seize Palestinian land by shepherding

Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank say armed Jewish settlers are increasingly seizing their lands by bringing livestock to so-called shepherding outposts and...

UNESCO awards press prize to Palestinian journalists in Gaza

UNESCO on Thursday awarded its world press freedom prize to all Palestinian journalists covering the war in Gaza, where Israel has been battling Hamas for more than six months.

Rival protesters clash at UCLA amid escalation of US campus unrest

Clashes broke out on Wednesday at pro-Palestinian demonstrations on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, as dozens of universities around the United States struggle to contain similar protests.

Police arrest Columbia Univ students, clear occupied building in campus unrest

Dozens of helmeted police flooded Columbia University’s campus in the heart of New York City on Tuesday to evict a building occupied by pro-Palestinian student protesters and detain demonstrators.......

Activists occupy Columbia building as US campus protests flare

Demonstrators at Columbia University barricaded themselves inside a campus building early on Tuesday, escalating a standoff with school officials as pro-Palestinian protests upend...

DU scholarships for 20 Palestinian students every year

Dhaka University authorities to grant scholarships and residential facilities to at least 20 Palestinian students, especially female students, for undergraduate and...

Activists rename Columbia building after Palestinian girl as US campus protests flare

Demonstrators at Columbia University barricaded themselves inside a campus building early Tuesday, escalating a standoff with school officials as pro-Palestinian protests upend campuses across the United States.

350 arrested across US campuses as Gaza protesters defy Columbia deadline

Student demonstrators at Columbia University, the epicentre of pro-Palestinian protests that have erupted at US colleges, said Monday they would not budge until the school met their demands, defying an ultimatum to disperse or face suspension.