LONDON (AA) – UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron has welcomed the UN Security Council’s adoption of a US draft resolution aimed at a comprehensive cease-fire in Gaza, calling it a crucial step towards ending Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. In a statement on X, Cameron emphasized the importance of the resolution in alleviating the p...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Free Palestine movement supporters gathered Monday at Union Square in New York City to demonstrate against Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza and express solidarity with Palestinians. Waving Palestinian flags, they chanted slogans such as “Free, free Palestine” and “Gaza is watching us.” Officers from the Ne...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 1.5 million displaced individuals in the Gaza Strip have contracted infectious diseases due to absence of waste and sewage disposal facilities because of the Israeli war on the besieged enclave. In a statement, the media office reported: “1,477,748 Palestinian displaced individuals have contracted inf...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Distress calls are coming in from people injured by Israeli attacks on Rafah in southern Gaza, but Israeli military vehicles are keeping rescuers out, says the Gaza Civil Defense Agency. “We’re getting distress calls from injured and trapped people in the Al Qarya as Suwaydiya area in western Rafah, but [&hell...
ATHENS (AA) – Seventeen countries from around the globe have lent their support to the new roadmap for a cease-fire in Gaza revealed by President Joe Biden. “We fully support the movement towards a cease-fire and hostage release deal now on the table and as outlined by President Biden on May 31, 2024. There is […]
GENEVA (AA) – A large number of delegates left an International Labor Conference session in Geneva in protest when an Israeli government delegate and an employer took the floor. The incidents occurred during a special sitting on the situation of workers in Israel where many countries voiced solidarity with Palestinian workers amid the on...
More than 40,000 New Jersey voters have chosen the uncommitted option on the ballot, signaling support for a cease-fire in Gaza. Although President Joe Biden secured 88% of the vote, nearly 9% of Democratic voters in the state remain uncommitted. In New Mexico, the uncommitted vote, driven by opposition to Biden’s handling of Israel’s w...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – The EU foreign policy chief has said that he noticed a “clear lack of empathy for what’s happening in Gaza,” from the conservative European People’s Party. Speaking at a Socialist Party campaign event in Madrid ahead of the EU elections, Josep Borrell criticized EU Commission President Ursula von de...
ISTANBUL (AA) – An activist group in Morocco has urged the government to block a Japanese-owned cargo ship, Vertom Odette, suspected of transporting weapons to Israel from passing through its territorial waters. Sailing under the flag of Luxembourg, the commercial ship departed from India on April 18 and is set to arrive at the Spanish [...
ANKARA (AA) – The opening ceremony of the UN Bonn Climate Change Conference had to be suspended for a while as two Free Palestine movement demonstrators took the stage to protest continuing Israeli attacks on Gaza. Climate talks in Bonn, Germany, were disrupted as the activists raised a Palestinian flag and a banner with the […]
