Tel Aviv, January 19 (RHC)-- The mother of a slain Israeli soldier says the regime’s forces gassed her son to death while he was being held in a tunnel in Gaza, raising speculations about the regime's increasing use of Hannibal Directive. ... More
United Nations, January 19 (RHC)-- A United Nations human rights official has called for an end to the mistreatment of Palestinian detainees by Israeli security forces in the Gaza Strip, who were subjected to weeks of imprisonment in unknown locations and physical abuse.... More
Kampala, January 19 (RHC)-- Leaders of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) countries have denounced Israel’s military campaign on the Gaza Strip and demanded an immediate ceasefire during a summit of the 120-member bloc.... More
Ramallah, January 19 (RHC)-- The Palestinian foreign ministry has welcomed a request by Chile and Mexico for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate crimes against civilians, as Israel’s war on Gaza continues unabated.... More
Rafah, January 19 (RHC)-- In Gaza, at least 16 Palestinians, including many children, have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a home in Rafah, which had been designated by Israel as a so-called safe zone. The families killed had reportedly come to Rafah for safety after being displaced three times over the past 100 days. ... More
Tripoli, January 19 (RHC)-- In the pitch-black hours of early Thursday morning, the Humanity 1 rescue ship approached a sky-blue wooden boat in distress in the central Mediterranean Sea. On board were at least 126 people who were suffering from hypothermia, dehydration and exhaustion from clinging to the boat for hours as it struggled to stay upright amid waves as high as two metres (six feet).... More
Davos, January 18 (RHC)-- The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, denounced capitalism this Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and described the current cooperation scheme between countries as "handouts from the North to the South" that "does not resolve the problem."... More
Davos, January 18 (RHC)-- At the World Economic Forum in Davos, the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, supported capitalism in his speech and said that the Western world is in danger because "a vision of the world that leads to socialism" prevails in that hemisphere.... More
London, January 18 (RHC)-- The United Kingdom's lower chamber of Parliament has approved Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's controversial Rwanda deportation bill. The legislation titled Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill passed the House of Commons on Wednesday by 320 votes to 276, with a majority of 44.... More
Kampala, January 18 (RHC)-- Iran has called on members of the Non-Aligned Movement to renew their solidarity with the Palestinian nation, as the Israeli regime’s onslaught on Gaza continues to claim innocent Palestinian lives in the besieged coastal territory.... More
Geneva, January 18 (RHC)-- A new study finds Greenland’s ice cap is losing an average of 30 million tons of ice every hour due to the effects of the climate crisis. ... More
Sanaa, January 18 (RHC)-- The U.S. military has attacked Yemen for the fourth time in a week, launching ship and submarine missile strikes on Houthi-controlled areas on Wednesday. The attack came a day after the Biden administration redesignated the Houthis, who rule much of Yemen, as a global terrorist group. ... More
New York, January 18 (RHC)--Israel emerged as one of the world’s leading jailers of journalists in 2023, according to a report by a press freedom watchdog, with the number of reporters behind bars soaring after the start of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.... More
Gaza City, January 18 (RHC)-- A weeklong telecommunications blackout in the Gaza Strip has become a “matter of life and death” and should end immediately, digital civil rights group Access Now says during the longest continuous outage since Israel’s war began.... More
Rafah, January 18 (RHC)-- Israel’s blockade of food and attacks on Gaza’s food system is so severe that Palestinians in Gaza are at severe risk of starving to death while humanitarian aid trucks “filled with food” sit just across the border awaiting entry, the head of the World Food Program has warned.... More
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