Tel Aviv, April 6 (RHC)-- A doctor at an Israeli field hospital for detained Gazans said in a letter to government officials: “We are all complicit in breaking the law,” as they described the horrific conditions for Palestinian patients.... More
Tel Aviv, April 5 (RHC)-- Israel says it will open Gaza aid routes, including the northern Erez border crossing, after U.S. President Joe Biden called for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza in a phone call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday. ... More
New York, April 5 (RHC)-- Another video has emerged showing Israeli forces shooting an unarmed Palestinian as he attempted to collect aid. ... More
Geneva, April 5 (RHC)-- Doctors Without Borders, also known as MSF, has refuted Israel’s claim that the April 1 airstrike which killed seven aid workers was merely a “regrettable incident.” The tragic strike hit a convoy transporting seven workers from the World Central Kitchen, an organization dedicated to providing food relief in crisis and conflict zones.... More
San Francisco, April 5 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of California, activists blocked all entrances to Lockheed Martin’s research campus in Sunnyvale, laying down in the rain to prevent employees from entering. ... More
Detroit, April 5 (RHC)-- Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, a longtime leader in the U.S. Catholic peace and justice movement, has died at the age of 94 in Detroit. He helped found Pax Christi and Bread for the World and was a war tax resister. ... More
Chicago, April 5 (RHC)-- McDonald’s has announced it will buy its 30-year-old Israel franchise from Alonyal, taking back ownership of 225 outlets that employ more than 5,000 people.... More
Warsaw, April 5 (RHC)-- A diplomatic crisis has erupted between Poland and Israel following the death of a Polish aid worker in Gaza, with the Polish president denouncing a comment by the Israeli ambassador as “outrageous” and the foreign ministry in Warsaw saying it was summoning him for a meeting.... More
Rafah, April 5 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization is warning many patients could soon die if they are not evacuated from Al-Shifa Hospital, which has been left in ruins after a two-week Israeli military siege. ... More
Beirut, April 5 (RHC)-- Hamas says Israel targets aid distribution sites to terrorize humanitarian organizations in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian resistance movement said in a statement on Wednesday, “We call on the international community and the UN Security Council to denounce this heinous act.”... More
Oklahoma City, April 5 (RHC)-- The last two survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre appeared at Oklahoma’s Supreme Court this week in a bid to revive their reparations lawsuit. An estimated 300 Black people were killed when a white mob burned down what was known as “Black Wall Street,” the thriving African American neighborhood of Greenwood. ... More
Washington, April 5 (RHC)-- The founder of World Central Kitchen, Chef José Andrés, has accused Israel of systematically targeting the seven aid workers who were killed Monday in a series of drone strikes in Gaza. ... More
Nantes, April 4 (RHC)-- Descendants of the Caribbean people enslaved by France have come forward to raise awareness about the country’s blotted history of slave trade.... More
Washington, April 4 (RHC)-- On the same day as Israeli forces carried out a hugely controversial and horrific killing of seven international aid workers for food charity World Central Kitchen in Gaza, the Biden administration approved yet another transfer of thousands of bombs to Israel, new reporting reveals, undermining U.S. officials’ public statements lamenting the workers’ killings.... More
East Jerusalem, April 4 (RHC)-- The Israeli military’s reported use of an untested and undisclosed artificial intelligence-powered database to identify targets for its bombing campaign in Gaza has alarmed human rights and technology experts who said it could amount to war crimes.... More
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