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On October 7, 2023, armed Hamas militants launched a surprise attack on Israel from Gaza, firing thousands of rockets and breaking through the Gaza-Israel barrier. At least 1,200 Israelis were killed in the attacks, which included an assault on a music festival, and hundreds more civilians and soldiers were taken hostage. In response, the Israeli government declared war on Hamas. The resulting barrage of artillery on Gaza and a subsequent blockade of aid caused the deaths of thousands of Palestinians and led to an international outcry.
If Western politicians are right, Beijing is behind the student protests in the US, responsible for preventing a British MP from visiting Djibouti and ‘fuelling the largest armed conflict in Europe since WWII’.
The world would be a better place if US politicians exercised the same conscientiousness over Palestine as they have over the Chinese autonomous region.
If China has been committing genocide in Xinjiang, then what do we call what Israel and the United States are doing to the people of Palestine?
Crisis-hit region needs ceasefire in Gaza where thousands have died in fighting, not another step towards a full-scale conflagration.
- The top UN court rejected a request by Nicaragua to order Germany to halt military and other aid to Israel and renew funding to the UN aid agency in Gaza
- Nicaragua, a long-standing ally of the Palestinians, alleges that Germany is enabling genocide by sending arms and other support to Israel
Protesters barricaded the entrances of Hamilton Hall and unfurled a Palestinian flag out of a window in the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Gaza war
Rival Palestinian parties met in Beijing for an ‘in-depth and candid dialogue on promoting internal reconciliation’, according to ministry spokesman.
The Israeli PM pledged on Tuesday to launch an incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are sheltering from the 7-month-long war.
The US and its allies are concerned that the International Criminal Court may issue arrest warrants for Israeli officials just as the country is getting closer to a ceasefire agreement with Hamas, potentially jeopardising a deal.
The American chicken franchise, fast-food rival McDonald’s and US coffee chain Starbucks have all become targets of a nationwide boycott movement triggered by Israel’s war on Gaza.
The crackdown at Columbia, at the centre of Gaza-related protests roiling university campuses across the US, came as police at the University of Texas at Austin arrested dozens of students.
US and Israeli officials have said they hope to have the floating pier in place, the causeway attached to the shore and operations under way by early May.
UK foreign minister David Cameron said Hamas has been offered a 40-day ceasefire and the release of “potentially thousands” of Palestinian prisoners in return for freeing Israeli hostages.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken also said Israel must still do more to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into besieged Gaza
The White House insisted that pro-Palestinian protests that have rocked US universities in recent weeks must remain peaceful.
It’s the top US diplomat’s seventh Middle Eastern trip since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7.
The White House said US President Joe Biden reiterated his ‘clear position’ as Israel plans to invade Rafah despite global concern for more than 1 million Palestinians sheltering there.
Mahmoud Abbas said such an invasion on the Gazan city, which is sheltering more than a million residents, would be ‘the biggest catastrophe in the history of the Palestinian people’.
Captives Keith Siegel and Omri Miran appear alive in the footage, which appeared to have been taken earlier this week.
The Yemen-based rebels say they hit the aircraft with a missile as part of a renewed series of assaults amid the Israel-Gaza war.
The militant group, which has insisted on a permanent ceasefire, said it would submit its response after examining the proposal.
An official with the UN Mine Action Service said unexploded ordnance buried in the rubble would complicate the clean-up operation.
The baby, named Rouh meaning Soul, suffered respiratory problems and a weak immune system, died on Thursday.
Analysis using remote sensing technology from Wuhan University puts the level of damage at about 60 per cent.
Lebanon-based Hezbollah has been exchanging near-daily fire with the Israeli army since the day after its Palestinian ally Hamas carried out an unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7.
The jetty, part of an effort to avert famine in the Palestinian enclave amid Israel’s campaign against Hamas, is set to become operational next month.
Europe must not become a vassal of the US, he said, as he outlined his vision for a more assertive EU on the global stage.
The university cancelled all scheduled activities involving Gilley, who left Malaysia saying he was one step ahead of the ‘mob’ whipped up by the government.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said US President Joe Biden should take action, and suggested sending in the National Guard to ‘bring order’ to campuses rocked by pro-Palestinian protests.
40,000 tents have been bought for the evacuation of civilians, and all that remains is for PM Benjamin Netanyahu to give the order, an Israeli official says.
Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, was seriously wounded during his abduction from the Nova music festival on October 7, and the video shows him missing a hand.
