ATHENS (AA) – The Palestinian struggle at its very core is an “anti-imperialist character,” according to a Palestinian community leader in Greece. While the world’s attention is again on the Palestine-Israel issue due to the ongoing Gaza crisis, Mohammed al-Sayyed, president of the Palestinian Community in Greece, emphasized the need to view t...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – More than 60 left-wing politicians from Europe and Latin America have signed a petition calling on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate Israeli leaders for genocide. “We’re not going to allow a genocide with our silence and complicity,” said Ione Belarra, Spanish minister for social rights, as she launched...
GENEVA (AA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the “best way” to ensure the safety of patients as well as civilians taking shelter at Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital is not a risky evacuation but “stopping hostilities now.” At a UN press conference in Geneva, WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris said t...
WASHINGTON (AA) – More than 400 US officials from 40 government agencies have sent a letter to President Joe Biden, opposing his support for Israel in its war on the Gaza Strip, and demanding a cease-fire. The letter, first reported by the New York Times, signed by political appointees and staff members from the State […]
Israel’s war on Palestine: Day 40 Death & Injury Toll: Total Palestinian deaths from Israeli aggression: 11,240 (75% children, women, elderly) Children: 4,630 Women: 3,130 Elderly: 678 Palestinians under rubble: >3,500 (including 1,740 children) Injured people: >29,000 (mostly children and women) Family massacres: 1,153 Al-Ahli Bapt...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has rejected growing calls for a cease-fire in Gaza and reaffirmed its support for Israel’s strikes which have claimed more than 11,100 lives, many of them children. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock expressed doubts about a cease-fire, arguing that it was not clear how this could be negotiated, how it could [&hel...
NEW DELHI (AA) – A senior leader of India’s main opposition Congress party has hit out at the international community, calling the death toll of 11,000 from Israeli strikes on Gaza “a deplorable and disgraceful milestone.” “…over 11,000 people killed in Gaza of which almost half are children. One child is being killed every ten […...
Brussels, Belgium – – AFP The EU’s humanitarian aid chief has called for “meaningful” pauses in Israel’s war on Gaza and urgent deliveries of fuel to keep hospitals working in the territory. “It is urgent to define and respect humanitarian pauses,” Janez Lenarcic, European Commissioner for Crisis...
Geneva, Switzerland — AFP Flags flew at half-mast at United Nations compounds across the globe on Monday, as staff observed a minute’s silence in memory of colleagues killed in Gaza by Israel’s indiscriminate bombing on hospitals, schools, UN shelters and other facilities. The blue and white UN flag was lowered at 9:30 am loc...
JERUSALEM (AA) – A Palestinian detainee has died at the Megiddo prison in northern Israel, the Israeli prison authorities have declared. In a statement, the Israeli Prison Service said the 33-year-old detainee, from the West Bank died after “feeling unwell.” The statement, however, did not provide any further details There are more...
