Washington, February 14 (RHC)-- The U.S. State Department has confirmed a 17-year-old Palestinian American teenager with U.S. citizenship was shot dead over the weekend in the town of Biddu in the occupied West Bank. ... More


Beirut, February 14 (RHC)-- The Israeli military has launched new airstrikes on Lebanon as tensions remain high along Lebanon’s southern border where the Hezbollah resistance movement and Israeli forces keep exchanging fire on a daily basis.... More


Khan Younis, February 14 (RHC)-- The Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders has expressed concerns about the unfolding situation at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, calling on Israeli occupation forces to make sure civilians and medical staff trapped inside are unharmed.... More


Geneva, February 14 (RHC)-- Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor says Israeli forces have brought civilian groups to the regime’s detention centers to watch and film Palestinian detainees being tortured.  Citing testimonies from recently released Palestinian detainees, the rights group said Israeli soldiers “brought Israeli civilians to watch our nude torture.”  It said that “groups of ten to twenty Israeli civilians at a time were permitted to watch and laughingly film Palestinian detainees in their underwear while Israeli army soldiers subjected them to physical abuse.”... More


Tel Aviv, February 14 (RHC)-- While the United Nations is warning Gaza is on the brink of famine, Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has admitted he is blocking a U.S.-funded shipment of flour into Gaza despite a promise that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu personally made to President Biden several weeks ago. ... More


Brasilia, February 14 (RHC)-- The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, reports on his account on the social network X that this Tuesday he has traveled to Egypt, and later will attend the meeting of the African Union.... More


Tel Aviv, February 13 (RHC)-- Global emergency protests against Israel's expected invasion of Rafah continued Tuesday, a day after demonstrators took to the streets of cities around the world to say "hands off" the southern Gaza city whose population has swelled more than fivefold due to the influx of Palestinian war refugees.... More


Washington, February 13 (RHC)-- Protesters took to the streets across the United States as fear mounts over an all-out attack on Rafah.  Rallies took place outside the White House in Washington, D.C., in Los Angeles and other major cities. ... More


Khan Younis, February 14 (RHC)-- In an extraordinary act of bravery, Palestinian physician Amira al-Assouli ran toward an injured man, with her back bent, braving the Israeli sniper fire outside the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.... More


Dubai, February 14 (RHC)-- The secretary general of the Arab League has warned any seizure of the Gaza Strip or the occupied West Bank by Israel would mean “a confrontation for the next thousand years.”... More


Cairo, February 13 (RHC)-- Talks between the United States, Egypt, Israel and Qatar on a possible Gaza truce have ended without a breakthrough as calls grow for Israel to hold back its planned assault on the southern end of the enclave, where more than a million Palestinians are now displaced.... More


Rafah, February 13 (RHC)-- Thousands of Palestinians are fleeing Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah after Israeli forces attacked the area where at least 1.4 million internally displaced people have been sheltering.... More


Sanaa, February 13 (RHC)--The United States and Britain have once again carried out joint airstrikes on Yemen as the country says it is fully prepared to fight off a potential ground invasion by the outsiders.  The airstrikes targeted areas in Tuhayta district of the western province of Hudaydah on Tuesday.... More


Tehran, February 13 (RHC)-- Iran has censured the United States for the illegal seizure of a Venezuelan cargo plane formerly owned by an Iranian firm, saying the move amounts to “hijacking.”  In a statement on Monday, the U.S. Justice Department said the government had seized a Boeing 747-300 cargo plane officials said was previously sold by the banned Iranian airline Mahan Air to Venezuelan state airline Emtrasur, likewise under U.S. sanctions.... More


Khan Younis, February 13 (RHC)-- Two journalists, including an Al Jazeera reporter, have been wounded in an Israeli attack north of Rafah in southern Gaza.  The condition of Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Ismail Abu Omar and his cameraman Ahmad Matar was described as serious and both were transferred to the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Younis for treatment on Tuesday.... More


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