Ramallah, December 30 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have attacked money exchange offices in the West Bank and confiscated $2.8 million, accusing them of transferring money to the Palestinian resistance movements Hamas and the Islamic Jihad in Gaza.  According to the Israeli Army Radio, around 10 million shekels ($2.8 million) were seized by the Israeli forces in raids against nine shops in Ramallah, Jenin and Hebron.... More


Gaza City, December 30 (RHC)--Another 187 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza over the past 24 hours as Israel continues to attack refugee camps and other areas across the Gaza Strip.  Gaza health officials say the Israeli assault has killed more than 21,500 Palestinians over the past 12 weeks.... More


New York, December 30 (RHC)-- Gun violence in the United States has taken the lives of more than 42,300 people in 2023, a report has said, emphasizing that Americans used guns mostly to commit suicide, followed by homicide, self-defense and unintentional shootings.... More


The Hague, December 30 (RHC)-- South Africa has instituted proceedings against Israel at the International Court of Justice over the regime’s "genocidal" onslaught on Gaza, which has so far killed over 21,000 Palestinians.  The lawsuit says Israel’s actions are “genocidal in character because they are intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part of the Palestinian national, racial and ethnical group”.... More


Buenos Aires, December 29 (RHC)-- Argentina’s far-right President Javier Milei said Tuesday his government would not renew contracts for more than 5,000 employees hired this year before his inauguration earlier this month.  ... More


Geneva, December 29 (RHC)-- The UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing has called for establishing a new international tribunal if the International Criminal Court (ICC) does not take swift action regarding the barbaric Israeli hostilities in the besieged Gaza Strip.... More


New York, December 29 (RHC)-- The world’s 15 largest weapons manufacturers have seen revenues soar in the 2020s as governments placed new orders for heavy weaponry and record supplies of ammunition.  That’s according to the Financial Times, which found in a new analysis that such expenditures soared in 2022 by more than 10%, compared two years prior, as the U.S. and NATO allies poured billions of dollars’ worth of arms into Ukraine. ... More


Geneva, December 29 (RHC)-- The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said the health system in Gaza is being destroyed as Israel intensifies its aerial and artillery strikes on the besieged Palestinian territory. ... More


Rafah, December 29 (RHC)-- The Gaza government's media office says Israel has handed over the mutilated bodies of 80 martyrs after harvesting their organs.  In a statement released on Tuesday, the media office said that the bodies were unidentified and that the occupying regime refused to specify the victim’s names or the places they were kidnapped from.... More


United Nations, December 29 (RHC)-- The UN human rights office (OHCHR) has expressed deep concern over Israel’s deadly airstrikes on central areas of the Gaza Strip amid a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in the besieged Palestinian territory.... More


Gaza City, December 29 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization warns tens of thousands of Palestinians are fleeing Israeli attacks on central and southern Gaza as devastating airstrikes continue to kill civilians.  Palestinian health officials say the latest assaults have killed at least 50 people in areas including Beit Lahia, Khan Younis and Maghazi. ... More


Tehran, December 29 (RHC)-- Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says Hamas has informed the Islamic Republic that it has sufficient capabilities to continue the confrontation with Israel in the besieged Gaza Strip for months.... More


Gaza City, December 29 (RHC)-- Israel’s indiscriminate strikes have killed dozens more civilians across Gaza, with refugee camps being the main targets of the regime’s genocidal war.  More than 20 people were killed on Thursday after an air attack hit a residential building in the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip.... More


Geneva, December 29 (RHC)-- The United Nations has called on Israel to end “unlawful killings” and settler violence in the occupied West Bank, warning of a rapidly deteriorating human rights situation during intensified Israeli raids.... More


Ramallah, December 28 (RHC)-- Israel’s military has launched its most intense raids in the occupied West Bank since Israel began its assault on the Gaza Strip following Hamas’s attack on October 7th. ... More


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