New York, December 24 (RHC)-- Black Americans’ solidarity with the Palestinian cause has seen a significant growth following Israel’s new rounds of violence in the Gaza Strip and an unprecedented bombing campaign against the besieged territory, a report reveals.... More


Washington, December 23 (RHC)-- The Israeli killing machine has continued its assault on the besieged Gaza Strip, with regime forces boasting about how they have struck 300 targets in a span of 24 hours, which included a series of hospitals and homes.  Tel Aviv said it had detained men while searching for resistance fighters and expelling others taking refuge.... More


Ramallah, December 23 (RHC)-- The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has denounced Israel's persistent attacks on Palestinian health workers and facilities in the besieged Gaza Strip as "unprecedented major crimes" in the history of warfare.... More


New York, December 23 (RHC)-- Israel has bombed several areas in the Gaza Strip to which it had directed Palestinians to “seek safety,” a new analysis shows.   A CNN analysis has found that the regime’s forces struck at least three locations in the Palestinian territory to which it had ordered civilians to evacuate, since a fragile ceasefire ended earlier this month.... More


Cairo, December 23 (RHC)-- More shipping firms have decided to avoid the Red Sea although the US has created a naval coalition purportedly aimed to safeguard shipping after Yemen’s retaliatory attacks on Israel-linked vessels.  Earlier this week, the Norwegian shipping company Gram Car Carriers, which specializes in pure car truck carriers, said its vessels were restricted from passing through the Red Sea.... More


Niamey, December 23 (RHC)-- The last French troops in Niger have withdrawn, marking an end to more than a decade of French operations to fight armed groups in West Africa’s Sahel region.  “Today’s date … marks the end of the disengagement process of French forces in the Sahel,” Niger army Lieutenant Salim Ibrahim said on Friday.... More


Geneva, December 23 (RHC)-- A Geneva-based rights group has found that 71 percent of people in the Gaza Strip suffer from extreme hunger due to Israel’s devastating war on the Palestinian territory and the regime's method of using starvation as a weapon.... More


Gaza City, December 23 (RHC)-- Elite Israeli forces waging the occupying regime's ongoing genocidal war against the Gaza Strip have reportedly given up control of a neighborhood in the Gaza City after suffering heavy losses there.... More


United Nations, December 23 (RHC)-- The entire 2.3 million population of Gaza is facing crisis levels of hunger and the risk of famine is increasing each day, a United Nations-backed report says.  The proportion of households in Gaza affected by high levels of acute food insecurity is the largest ever recorded globally, according to the report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) published on Thursday.... More


Deir al-Balah, December 23 (RHC)-- At least 297 displaced people in Gaza have been killed since the Israeli aggression against the narrow strip of land began, according to a statement from the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).  The number comes from those who were sheltering in facilities run by United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East  (UNRWA).... More


Washington, December 22 (RHC)-- The commercial ship Swan Atlantic, which was targeted in the Red Sea on Monday, “was attacked by a one-way attack drone and an anti-ship ballistic missile launched from a Houthi-controlled area in Yemen,” according to U.S. Central Command.... More


New York, December 22 (RHC)-- Rudy Giuliani has filed for bankruptcy, just days after he was ordered to pay $148 million to two former Georgia election workers he falsely accused of fraud as he worked to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential election loss.... More


Austin, December 22 (RHC) -- Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott chartered a flight Tuesday that brought more than 120 immigrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to Chicago.  It’s a major escalation of Abbott’s policy of transporting asylum seekers to Democratic-led cities and comes just after Abbott signed Senate Bill 4, which makes it a state crime to enter Texas outside of a U.S. port of entry. ... More


London, December 22 (RHC)-- Junior doctors in England have staged a strike in the run-up to Christmas in an attempt to force the government to make a fresh effort to improve their pay and working conditions.   The two-phase nine-day strike, which started on Wednesday, was the longest industrial action by the junior doctors yet.... More


Geneva, December 22 (RHC)-- As Israeli forces pound the Gaza Strip, journalists are being killed at a rate with no parallel in modern history, a press freedom watchdog says.  The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Thursday that 68 media workers have been killed in the 10 weeks of fighting – 61 of them Palestinian, four Israeli and three Lebanese.... More


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