One killed in Israeli strike in Lebanon
Lebanese official media said an Israeli strike on Monday outside a hospital in south Lebanon killed one person and wounded others, the latest deadly raid in the country鈥檚 south...
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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...
G7 urges Israel to protect Palestinian banking services
G7 finance ministers urged Israel Saturday not to disrupt 鈥榲ital financial transactions鈥� in the occupied Palestinian territories, following indications it could cut off Palestinian banks...
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...
Lifting veil: demystifying Israel
ISRAEL has, for decades, created many versions of itself 鈥� Israel in politics, in history, in the United States, in books, in movies and on television. The real Israel, however...
Who鈥檚 above law? Israel, Hamas and ICC
WHILE statements that 鈥楴o one is above the law鈥� are repeated in the United States over the trials of former president Donald Trump, can the same be said internationally? By analogy, chief prosecutor Karim Khan of the International Criminal Court said 鈥榶es鈥� when he...
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...
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...
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...
Israel鈥檚 crimes far worse than Hamas鈥檚
THERE is one thing we should all be able to agree with Benjamin Netanyahu on: Any comparison between Israel鈥檚 war crimes and those of Hamas is, as the Israeli prime minister put it, 鈥榓bsurd and false鈥� and a 鈥榙istortion of reality.鈥�...
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...
ICC prosecutor seeks Gaza 鈥榳ar crimes鈥� arrest warrant
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Monday applied for arrest warrants against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and top...
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...
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...
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...
Canada slaps sanctions on 鈥榚xtremist鈥� Israeli settlers
Canada announced Thursday for the first time sanctions against Israeli settlers accused of committing acts of violence against civilians in the...
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.
Many killed in fierce fighting in Gaza
The Israeli army told AFP on Friday that renewed fighting in Gaza鈥檚 northern town of Jabalia was 鈥榩erhaps the fiercest鈥� in over seven months of war.
The arsenal of genocide
ON MAY 8, as Israel escalated its brutal assault on Rafah, US president Joe Biden announced that he had 鈥榩aused鈥� a delivery of 1,700 500-pound and 1,800 2,000-pound bombs, and threatened to withhold more shipments if Israel went ahead with its full-scale invasion of Rafah...
Iran and Israel need to talk
IT鈥橲 now been about four weeks since Iranian missiles filled Israeli skies, as humanity held its breath for nuclear war and possible extinction. If that strikes you as hyperbole, consider this: Had Israel suffered great damage, the war could have gone nuclear...
Moroccan jailed for life in UK for murder over Gaza war
A Moroccan asylum seeker was on Friday sentenced to life in prison for randomly stabbing a British man to death in revenge for Israel鈥檚 response to the...
Israel strikes on Lebanon kill 3
Israeli air strikes on Friday hit an area of southern Lebanon far from the border, with Hezbollah announcing one dead fighter and official media saying two...
Israel vows to 鈥榠ntensify鈥� operations聽in Rafah
Israel vowed on Thursday to 鈥榠ntensify鈥� its ground offensive in Rafah, in defiance of global warnings over the fate of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians...
Another Biden admin staffer resigns over US stance on Gaza war
Another staffer in United States president Joe Biden鈥檚 administration has publicly resigned in protest of the US鈥檚 continued support for Israel amid its war on...
Israel descends into barbarism
UNLESS you are the victim of a moral narrow-mindedness (and there seems to be an epidemic of this defect nowadays), it should be obvious to you that Israel has descended into barbarism. Why barbarism? Because in Israel, cruel, murderous, and otherwise criminal behaviour has become state policy...