A social media movement called “Blockout 2024” is gaining momentum, urging users to block celebrities who have stayed silent about Israel’s war on Gaza. Frustration has mounted globally as many stars fail to use their influence to address the dire situation. TikTokker Haley Kalil’s video at the Met Gala on May 7 ignited the movement, [&hellip...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Palestinians, under attack by Israel for more than seven months, on Wednesday marked 76 years since their mass displacement which they call the Nakba or “catastrophe”. The sight of desperate families carrying their scant belongings through the ruins of war-scarred cities has evoked for man...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hamas denounced the US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Tuesday for denying genocide in the Gaza Strip amid a deadly Israeli offensive in the enclave. Sullivan had said on Monday that Washington “does not believe what is happening in Gaza is a genocide.” Such remarks “are expected from those who have […]...
United Nations, United States – AFP UN chief Antonio Guterres is “appalled” by Israel’s escalating military activity in and around Rafah, a spokesman said Tuesday. “These developments are further impeding humanitarian access and worsening an already dire situation,” Farhan Haq said, while also criticizing Ha...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli troops continued attacks across the Gaza Strip Tuesday that forced new waves of Palestinian mass displacement. Nearly 450,000 Palestinians have been displaced from Rafah since May 6, and around 100,000 from northern Gaza, UN agencies said. That means around a quarter of Gaza’s population...
PRAGUE (AA) – For over two weeks, hundreds of students have been encamped at the University of Copenhagen, one of hundreds of similar protests sweeping the entire globe. Their demands are centered on divestment from companies linked to Israel, while also pressing the university administration to declare Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza genocid...
ANKARA/LONDON (AA) – Police stormed the Free Palestine Movement camp at the University of Geneva and violently dispersed the protesting students. The protests had started on the campus last week, according to the daily Le Temps. Cleaning work started in the building after police broke up the protest camp. The students started protesting ...
Geneva, Switzerland — AFP The United Nations says it had informed the Israeli authorities of the movements of a vehicle carrying UN staff which was hit in southern Gaza, killing an Indian. One UN security services member was killed and another wounded in the attack, the United Nations said, marking the first death of a […]
Sen. Lindsey Graham is arguing that Israel should do whatever it has to do, even use nuclear bombs to strike Gaza. In an interview on NBC News’ Meet the Press, Graham compared Israel’s position to that of the US, when it was facing destruction as a nation after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. That eventually […]
A US Army officer publicly resigned from the Defense Intelligence Agency saying he refused to be complicit in what he termed Israel’s “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians in Gaza. In a letter published on LinkedIn, Major Harrison Mann expressed increasing discomfort with the US-backed Israeli bombardment, particularly as his wo...
