A report by a UN rapporteur says there are “reasonable grounds” indicating that Israel has committed genocidal acts in Gaza. Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur on Palestine, has found Israel’s actions violating three of the five acts mentioned under the UN Genocide Convention. These are killing members of a group; ca...
Defying the UN Security Council’s cease-fire resolution passed on Monday, Israeli forces have continued their assault on Gaza. As many as 81 people were killed and 93 wounded in 24 hours, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Among the casualties of an overnight bombing of a home in Rafah are 18 people, including nine children. [&hel...
Israeli strikes killed veteran Palestinian journalist Saher Akram Rayan and his son Anas on Monday in Gaza City. Rayan worked for the Palestinian news agency Wafa for two decades. They were killed while trying to help wounded neighbors. On Saturday, three journalists — Muhammad Al-Rifi, Abdul Rahman Saima and Mahmoud Imad Issa — had been [&...
President Joe Biden has signed the bill passed by Congress banning funding UNRWA, the U.N. agency which feeds Palestinians, for at least a year. The U.S. was the refugee agency’s largest donor providing $300 to million annually. The new law also bans funding of the U.N. agency investigating Israel, known as the U.N. Commission of […]
Israeli strikes killed 107 Palestinians and left 176 wounded in 24 hours. Palestinian medics say Israeli forces targeted Rafah in southern Gaza, killing 30 civilians. Despite warnings from international leaders, Israel continues bombing Rafah. It is planning a ground invasion of southern Gaza, which currently houses about 1.4 million displac...
The U.N. Security Council has adopted a resolution urging an immediate cease-fire in Gaza after five months of Israel’s war there. Introduced by Algeria, the resolution calls for an immediate humanitarian cease-fire during Ramadan that is to be “respected by all parties leading to a lasting sustainable cease-fire.” Despite Israeli objection...
Beijing, China – AFP China said Monday it supported a new draft resolution at the UN Security Council on an “immediate” cease-fire in Gaza, after it and Russia vetoed an earlier text proposed by the United States. “China supports this draft resolution and commends Algeria and other Arab countries for their hard work in ...
Palestinian Territories – AFP The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees has said that Israel has definitively barred it from making aid deliveries in northern Gaza, where the threat of famine is highest. “Despite the tragedy unfolding under our watch, the Israeli Authorities informed the UN that they will no longer approve...
Cairo, Egypt – AFP United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said Sunday in Cairo that delivering the necessary aid to famine-threatened Gaza “requires Israel removing the remaining obstacles and chokepoints to relief”. Guterres repeated his call for an “immediate humanitarian cease-fire” to alleviate “the pligh...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has called on Israel to investigate “credible allegations of law of war violations” after a video showed an Israeli drone targeted four unarmed Palestinians in Khan Younis. Asked about the video, a State Department spokesperson said that the “contents of the video are disturbing.” “We have not verified the foota...
