Geneva, January 8 (RHC)-- The UN reports that the World Health Organization and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) staff visited the Al-Aqsa Hospital on Sunday, January 7th where the hospital director told them most local health workers and some 600 patients had been forced to leave the facility due to increasing hostilities and Israeli evacuation orders.... More


Khan Younis, January 7 (RHC)-- At least two more journalists have been killed after their vehicle was targeted and blown up in an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip.   The Palestinian journalists who have been identified as Hamza Wael al-Dahdouh, the son of al-Jazeera Gaza bureau chief Wael Al-Dahdouh, and Mustafa Thuraya, were killed in the Israeli bombing of their car in the city of Khan Younis on Sunday.... More


Gaza City, January 7 (RHC)-- The Israeli army has looted nearly $25 million worth of money and gold artifacts from the Palestinians’ houses across the Gaza Strip amid the ravages of a three-month war, according to a report by Gaza Media Office.... More


London, January 7 (RHC)-- Hundreds of demonstrators blocked access to a bridge near the British parliament on Saturday, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza in an act of civil disobedience.  London, like other Western cities, has seen regular and sometimes large demonstrations calling for an end to Israel’s bombardment of the besieged strip.... More


Athens, January 7 (RHC)-- Crowds of demonstrators rallied outside the Greek parliament building in Athens on Saturday in a show of solidarity with the people of Palestine amid the continued Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip. ... More


Beirut, January 7 (RHC)-- Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance group says it has hit an Israeli aerial surveillance base with scores of missiles in its first response to Tel Aviv’s assassination of a deputy political leader of Hamas.  ... More


Washington, January 6 (RHC)-- The future of Israel’s war on Gaza is uncertain, but the Biden administration says it will continue supporting the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), even as the horrific war divides fellow Democrats and stokes fear that the United States is being pulled into a violent regional conflagration.... More


New York, January 6 (RHC)-- CNN has for years maintained a policy of running all of its coverage on Israel and Palestine, including its recent Gaza coverage, past its bureau in Jerusalem, where it is subject to the censorship policies set by Israel’s military, damning new reporting by The Intercept has revealed.... More


Ramallah, January 6 (RHC)-- The Palestinian government has strongly rejected an Israeli scheme referred to as the regime’s post-war Gaza vision, indicating that it is not open to the so-called “day after plan” for Gaza outlined by the Israeli regime war minister.... More


Beirut, January 6 (RHC)-- The secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah says Israel is concealing the “heavy losses” it has suffered in the war on the southern Lebanese border as the resistance movement’s operations against the occupying regime are “very exhausting.”... More


New York, January 6 (RHC)-- The CEO of McDonald’s Chris Kempczinski has admitted that the world’s largest burger chain is facing significant financial losses due to the international anti-Israel boycott movement over the firm’s links to the Zionist regime amid its genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip.... More


Sacramento, January 6 (RHC)-- Hundreds of Jewish progressives in California on Wednesday led the latest mass protest to reject “business as usual” amid Israel’s U.S.-backed slaughter of Palestinian civilians, shutting down the first day of the 2024 legislative session at the state Capitol in Sacramento to demand an immediate, permanent cease-fire in Gaza.... More


Geneva, January 5 (RHC)-- The United Nations humanitarian chief has strongly deplored the situation in the Gaza Strip, which has been suffering under nearly three months of an unrelenting genocidal Israeli war.... More


Washington, January 5 (RHC)-- U.S. Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren says Washington needs to stop "writing a blank check" for Israel since the regime continues to demonstrate “an appalling disregard for Palestinian lives" in the Gaza Strip.... More


Tel Aviv, January 5 (RHC)-- Israeli officials have reportedly held talks with a number of African nations, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Chad, about accepting Palestinians pushed out of Gaza. ... More


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