More than 50 labor unions have backed Columbia University students amid recent suspensions and arrests for protesting Israel’s war on Gaza. The solidarity comes as part of ongoing demonstrations against the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, urging divestment from entities linked to Israel’s policies in Palestine. The unions, including the Mother Jo...
Israel is planning to present a new proposal for a prisoner exchange with Hamas and a cease-fire in Gaza. According to Israeli media, Israeli negotiators have presented Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the cabinet with a fresh plan that will be sent to Hamas by mediators. The new initiative, which has not been officially announced, [&hel...
In the past 24 hours, Gaza has witnessed another surge in casualties, with Israel killing 51 Palestinians and injuring 75 as it continued its war on the region. Despite international warnings, Israel is advancing its planned ground invasion of Rafah, while relentlessly shelling its eastern part. Meanwhile, the discovery of three mass graves c...
London, United Kingdom — AFP Amnesty International has said that the post-World War II order is on the “brink of collapse”, threatened by bitter conflict on multiple fronts as well as the unregulated rise of artificial intelligence. “Everything we’re witnessing over the last 12 months is indicating that the intern...
Los Angeles, United States – AFP Pro-Palestinian protests spread to more college campuses in the United States on Thursday as police began to push back forcefully. Riot officers used chemical irritants and tasers at one university as administrators at some of the country’s most prestigious institutions battled to prevent occupation...
Gaza’s civil defense agency has reported the discovery of three mass graves holding 392 bodies, showing signs of executions and live burials. Only 65 bodies have been identified due to decomposition and mutilation. The search in Khan Younis continues amid demands for answers from Israeli leaders. Addressing a press conference Thursday, the hea...
The Muslim Public Affairs Council has condemned the potential deployment of the National Guard against Columbia University’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment protesters. The students are opposing the university’s investments in companies profiting from Israel’s war and violence in Palestine. The Council argues that Columbia’s over-policing infring...
The Wisconsin Coalition for Justice in Palestine has condemned the vandalism of a memorial at Marquette University honoring Palestinians killed in Gaza. Coalition co-chair Janan Najeeb decried the lack of media coverage of the incident, in which one of the vandals reportedly was carrying a loaded gun. The coalition of 64 diverse organizations...
Washington, United States – AFP President Joe Biden on Wednesday demanded that new humanitarian aid be allowed to immediately reach Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. “We’re going to immediately secure that aid and surge it… including food, medical supplies, clean water,” Biden said after signing a massive military ...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Palestinian resistance group Hamas released Wednesday a video of an Israeli-American man held hostage in Gaza who is seen alive and saying that the captives are living “in hell”. He identifies himself as Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, one of the hostages abducted from the Nova music festival in southe...
