United Nations, March 18 (RHC)-- The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees has warned that one-third of children under two years old in northern Gaza are acutely malnourished as famine looms amid Israel’s complete blockade of the coastal territory.... More


United Nations, March 18 (RHC)-- Israel has killed more than 13,000 children in Gaza since October 7th while others are suffering from severe malnutrition and do not “even have the energy to cry,” says the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).... More


Tel Aviv, March 18 (RHC)-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reiterated that Israel would push on with its ground offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah despite growing international pressure.... More


Sanaa, March 17 (RHC)-- The Yemeni armed forces have carried out military training exercises that simulate confronting a potential attack by the U.S. and British troops against the country.  Yemen's Saba news agency reported that Units of the Special Forces of the Central Military District carried out one of their largest combat training and military maneuvers, entitled “The Promised Day Maneuver,” on the outskirts of the capital, Sana'a.... More


Cairo, March 17 (RHC)-- Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has reiterated that his country is opposed to any plan to forcefully displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.  Sisi said in a Sunday meeting with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen that Egypt would not allow forced displacement of the Palestinians outside their land after reports suggested that the Israeli regime is still seeking to expel people from Gaza amid its brutal war on the territory.... More


Geneva, March 17 (RHC)-- The Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor says the Israeli military has systematically targeted dozens of information technology experts in the Gaza Strip, as part of its genocidal war against the besieged territory.... More


Vandalia, March 17 (RHC)-- U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said that if he does not "get elected in the November presidential elections, "it’s going to be a bloodbath" in the United States.... More


Beirut, March 17 (RHC)-- Fighters from the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement have separately targeted espionage equipment and a gathering of Israeli soldiers stationed at a military outpost close to the border with southern Lebanon in response to the regime’s ongoing genocidal war in the Gaza Strip.... More


New York, March 17 (RHC)-- One evening in 2004, when John Francis Mulligan, a U.S.-born Irish citizen, was in the West Bank, a stranger asked him to walk her to a funeral.  It was after curfew in Nablus, and Palestinians weren’t allowed out on the streets.  A young man had been killed earlier that day, and because of religious beliefs, his family needed to bury him within 24 hours, Mulligan recalls. But if they went outside, the Israel armed forces “would open fire on them for violating curfew”.... More


Tehran, March 17 (RHC)-- Iran has censured the United States’ use of human rights as an instrument, saying Washington is the main defendant of violations of rights in the world and in Israel’s months-long crimes against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.... More


Tegucigalpa, March 17 (RHC)-- The president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, whose country holds the pro tempore presidency of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), asked the United Nations (UN) on Saturday for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, while denouncing the complicity of the US with the genocide committed by Israel against the Palestinian people.... More


Brussels, March 17 (RHC)-- Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo says Israel’s inhumane “tactics of starvation” in Gaza are “inadmissible."  In a message on X, formerly known as Twitter, the Belgian leader said the regime in Tel Aviv has to urgently “provide more humanitarian access to Gaza.”... More


Beirut, March 17 (RHC)-- Twenty-one years ago -- on March 16, 2003 -- an Israeli soldier drove an 80,000-pound (26,287kg) bulldozer over a 23-year-old woman from Olympia, Washington.  Her name was Rachel Corrie, and she was part of an international team of peace activists who had volunteered to protect Palestinian homes from demolition by Israeli settlers.  ... More


Tel Aviv, March 17 (RHC)-- Israeli media outlets have scoffed at previous statements by the regime’s officials that Tel Aviv will “return Lebanon to the Stone Age” in any war against Hezbollah.  The media argued that the reality is the opposite and the Lebanese resistance movement is inflicting heavy losses on Israeli forces.... More


Geneva, March 17 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization (WHO) strongly urges the Israeli regime to decide against its planned ground invasion of the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, which is enduring a genocidal Israeli war.... More


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