Washington, United States – AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that a Gaza cease-fire deal was still possible but he charged that an International Criminal Court arrest bid for Israeli leaders was setting back efforts. Blinken was opening two days of testimony before Congress that were immediately disrupted by proteste...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Palestine’s UN envoy Riyad Mansour has said Israel’s war on “Gaza will haunt the conscience of the world long after this genocide stops.” Addressing a UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, he demanded that the genocide “must stop now, now!” Although the worl...
ANKARA (AA) – France broke ranks with its Western allies, showing support for the International Criminal Court (ICC) after prosecutor Karim Khan sought arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. “Regarding Israel, it will be up to the court’s Pre-Trial Chamber to decide whether ...
Palestinian digital rights group Sada Social has sought an investigation into Israel’s alleged exploitation of WhatsApp data to target Palestinians via its AI system, Lavender. Reports suggest Israel Defense Forces (IDF) employ Lavender, using AI to select targets in Gaza potentially based on WhatsApp data. Meta, WhatsApp’s owner, faces accu...
Many US universities are severing ties with professors supporting Palestinian liberation. Since Israel’s war on Gaza began last October, academics across various disciplines have faced termination or suspension for free-Palestine activism. Interviews by The Intercept with affected professors reveal a politically motivated suppression, where ...
Israel killed 106 Palestinians and wounded 176 others in Gaza in 24 hours, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. In the Nuseirat refugee camp alone, 31 Palestinians were killed. Doctors Without Borders reported that al-Awda Hospital near Jabalia has completely run out of drinking water, highlighting the dire humanitarian situation. ...
Three American members of medical missions have chosen to stay in Gaza until Israel permits replacement humanitarian workers. They are part of a group of 20 American and British medical workers from the European Hospital in Khan Younis, who are being evacuated from Gaza. Hindered by the closure of the Rafah border crossing, these workers [&h...
Washington, United States – AFP President Joe Biden denied on Monday that Israel’s war on Gaza was “genocide” as he defended the key US ally against a series of international legal cases. “What’s happening is not genocide, we reject that,” he said, referring to a case in the International Court of Just...
The Hague, Netherlands – AFP The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Monday applied for arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and top Hamas leaders on suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Prosecutor Karim Khan said he was seeking warrants against Netanyahu and Israeli Defence Mini...
Washington, United States – AFP US President Joe Biden on Monday denounced an application by the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor for an arrest warrant for Israel’s prime minister and defense minister. Secretary of State Antony Blinken separately warned that efforts to secure a cease-fire in Israel’s war on Gaz...
