New York, December 28 (RHC)-- In New York City, at least 26 people were arrested Wednesday as they blocked an expressway leading to JFK Airport in a nonviolent civil disobedience protest demanding a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. ... More


United Nations, December 28 (RHC)-- The UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in occupied Palestinian territories says the level of oppression Palestinians have experienced in Gaza is unmatched and unprecedented in recent history.... More


Tehran, December 28 (RHC)-- A Gaza journalist has hailed Iran’s unwavering support for the Palestinian cause throughout decades, saying the Palestinian lands would’ve been liberated from Israeli occupation if all Muslim governments had helped Palestinians the way Iran does.... More


Tel Aviv, December 28 (RHC)-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly endorsed expelling all Palestinians from Gaza.  Israeli news outlets report that Netanyahu earlier this week told a group of Israeli lawmakers: “Regarding voluntary immigration … This is the direction we are going in.” ... More


Gaza City, December 28 (RHC)-- Israel’s bombardment of Gaza has led to a growing public health catastrophe as disease spreads due to contaminated water supplies, the buildup of untreated sewage and the lack of medical care. Some Israeli officials have openly praised the spread of diseases in Gaza. ... More


Geneva, December 27 (RHC)-- The head of the United Nations' health agency has warned of the “toxic mix of disease, hunger and lack of hygiene and sanitation” faced by people in Gaza as he called for an immediate ceasefire in Israel's war of aggression.... More


Geneva, December 27 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of severe shortage of food and the resulting “desperation” in the Palestinian hospitals almost twelve weeks into Israel’s constant siege and bombardment of the Gaza Strip. ... More


Tehran, December 27 (RHC)-- Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi says the Israeli regime will definitely pay the price for its criminal act of killing a senior military advisor of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in Syria.... More


Tel Aviv, December 27 (RHC)-- Israel’s government has agreed to give Intel Corp a $3.2 billion grant for a new $25 billion chip plant it plans to build in southern Israel, both sides have said.  The news on Tuesday comes as Israel remains locked in an intense war of aggression on the Gaza Strip, which has killed close to 21,000 Palestinians since October 7, and ushered global calls to boycott Israel and companies that benefit from its occupation of Palestinian lands.... More


Geneva, December 27 (RHC)--  A Geneva-based rights group says the Israeli military has executed dozens of elderly Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in “direct shooting operations” since the start of the regime’s brutal onslaught against the besieged territory in early October.... More


New Delhi, December 26 (RHC)-- British maritime security firm Ambrey says a merchant vessel affiliated to the Israeli regime has been targeted by a drone in the Arabian Sea off the western coast of India.  The firm said on Saturday the fire on the Liberian-flagged chemical products tanker, identified as MV Chem Pluto, was extinguished without crew casualties in the incident 200 kilometers (120 miles) southwest of Veraval.... More


Gaza City, December 26 (RHC)-- A United Nations official has been killed along with more than 70 members of his extended family in an Israeli airstrike near Gaza City, as the world body condemned a series of mass massacres and successive crimes committed by the Israeli crimes in the besieged territory.... More


Ramallah, December 26 (RHC)-- A number of Palestinians abducted by the Israeli forces during their ongoing onslaught on the Gaza Strip say they have been subjected to severe torture by the regime's forces.  The revelation was made on Sunday by 22-year-old Nayef Ali and 55-year-old Khamis al-Bardini, along with Marwan al-Hams, a hospital director in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, who were quoted by AFP.... More


Geneva, December 26 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization has denounced a recent airstrike by the Israeli regime on a refugee camp in the besieged Gaza Strip, which claimed the lives of at least 70 Palestinians.  "WHO's team heard harrowing accounts shared by health workers and victims of the suffering caused by the explosions," the UN health agency's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a Monday post on X social media platform.... More


Tel Aviv, December 26 (RHC)-- Israel’s campaign of relentless bombardment against the Gaza Strip had been raging for three weeks when the country’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked to address the heavy civilian death toll in the Palestinian enclave.... More


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