Biden pushes Israeli plan, urges end to Gaza war
US President Joe Biden said Friday Israel had offered a new roadmap towards a permanent peace in Gaza, urging Hamas to accept the surprise deal as it was 鈥榯ime for this war to end.鈥�
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Israel troops push into central Rafah
The Israeli army said Friday its troops pushed into central Rafah, escalating its nearly eight-month war with Hamas despite international objections over any offensive in the southern Gaza city...
鈥楢ll eyes on Rafah鈥� image shared 44m times
An AI-generated image bearing the words 鈥楢ll eyes on Rafah鈥� has been shared by more than 44 million Instagram accounts since Monday after a deadly Israeli strike at a camp for displaced Palestinians in the Gazan city....
Rafah battles intensify
Rafah residents reported intense artillery shelling and gunfire on Thursday in Gaza鈥檚 far-southern city after Israel said it had seized a strategic corridor on the...
Three evils Israel causes Gaza to suffer
There is no ambiguity about Israel causing Gaza to suffer occupation, apartheid and genocide. To counter Israeli denialism, here is a short primer on why these terms are accurate...
Street battles, Israeli strikes rock Rafah
Street fighting and Israeli bombardment rocked Gaza鈥檚 far-southern Rafah on Wednesday, Palestinian residents and officials said, a day after Israeli tanks rolled into the centre of the city near the Egyptian border...
Singer Dua Lipa slams Israel鈥檚 offensive in Gaza, calls it genocide
British-Albanian pop singer Dua Lipa has denounced Israel's offensive in Gaza as a 鈥榞enocide鈥�, after a new pro-Palestinian protest took place in London that saw dozens of people arrested.
WHO condemns 鈥榓brupt halt鈥� to medical evacuations from Gaza
Desperately needed medical evacuations from Gaza 鈥� already very limited 鈥� came to a full stop when Israel launched its military offensive on Rafah three weeks ago, the...
Gaza matters and democracy is functional
THE Democracy Perception Index issued its 2024 report on May 8, revealing important and interesting shifts in global perceptions about democracy, geopolitics and international relations...
ICC case filed for journalists鈥� death in Gaza
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said on Monday it had filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court over Palestinian journalists killed or injured in Gaza...
US attitude to ICC always defined by self-interest
THIS week, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, or ICC, applied for arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders, as well as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defence minister Yoav Gallant, in connection with the ongoing war in Gaza...
Israel fights in Gaza but says ready for talks
Israel鈥檚 armed forces bombarded Gaza on Sunday, but officials also said diplomatic efforts were expected to resume in coming days towards a truce and hostage release deal...
Israel strikes Rafah defying UN court
Israeli air strikes and artillery pounded Rafah on Saturday, as the government dismissed a UN top court鈥檚 order to immediately halt its military offensive in the southern...
Don鈥檛 expect UN peacekeepers to stop wars, chief tells AFP
The world cannot look to UN peacekeepers as a way of stopping wars, whether in Gaza or other active conflict zones, the department chief said, citing the...
Open letter on Gaza
AS WE write this, Israel has embarked on the final phase of its genocidal war in Gaza, bombing Rafah where more than a million Palestinians have been driven by repeated evacuations from the rest of the Gaza Strip. Today, they have nowhere left to go...
ICJ orders Israel to halt assault on Rafah
The top United Nations court on Friday ordered Israel to halt military operations in Rafah 鈥榠mmediately鈥�, a landmark ruling likely to increase mounting international pressure on...
Israel launches deadly Gaza strikes
Israel launched devastating air strikes on Gaza early on Thursday while also saying it is ready to resume stalled talks on a truce and hostage release deal with Hamas to...
Ringing true for Gaza
AS ISRAELI troops continue their assault in Rafah, increasing the death toll and displacing 鈥� yet again 鈥� hundreds of thousands of Gazans, there鈥檚 much to be learnt from recalling Dr Martin Luther King鈥檚 visionary words on Vietnam 57 years ago...
Medics, WHO say north Gaza hospitals barely operational
North Gaza鈥檚 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鈥檚 north and the far-southern city of Rafah where Israel鈥檚 defence minister vowed to expand ground operations...
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鈥檛 the only demonstrators to face arrest 鈥� supportive faculty members were also caught up in the crackdown...
Hats off to our youths for standing against genocide
I HAVE a very good friend who lives in Gaza. She and her daughter once stayed in Malaysia for a few years because her husband studied at a university in Kuala Lumpur. I was also in Malaysia during those years, and we became friends...
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...
Gaza genocide 2.0
THE most widely reported figure currently used for Palestinian casualties in Gaza since October 7, 2023, is more than 35,000 killed and 78,000 wounded. These are only the civilian casualties, reported by the Ministry of Health. More than two-thirds are women and children...
Fighting rages聽in Rafah after聽first aid delivery
Heavy clashes and bombardment Saturday rocked Gaza鈥檚 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鈥檚 leaders over post-war Gaza鈥檚 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.聽...
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.
