United Nations, December 22 (RHC)-- Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations has warned against “any provocative measures by the Israeli regime that could seriously impact peace and security in the region.”... More


Gaza City, December 22 (RHC)-- Palestinian officials say the death toll from 75 days of Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has passed 20,000 — or nearly 1% of the population of the besieged territory.  At least 8,000 children are among the dead. ... More


Rafah, December 22 (RHC)-- Israel continues to attack southern Gaza.  On Wednesday, a 3-day-old infant was pulled from the rubble, alive but injured, after Israeli strikes flattened residential buildings in Rafah.... More


Buenos Aires, December 21 (RHC)-- In Argentina, newly inaugurated President Javier Milei ordered a major deregulation of the national economy Wednesday.   The far-right libertarian followed through on his campaign promise, using executive powers to undo or change 300 rules.  These include eliminating laws regulating rents and preventing the privatization of state companies. ... More


Paris, December 21 (RHC)-- France’s health minister tendered his resignation Wednesday to protest an anti-immigrant bill backed by President Emmanuel Macron and approved by a wide margin in the French Parliament. ... More


Tehran, December 21 (RHC)-- Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi says the world is amazed by the resistance of the Palestinian people against the Israeli regime.  Addressing a large crowd of people in the northern Iranian city of Gorgan on Thursday, Raeisi hailed the resistance of the strong Palestinian people in Gaza in the face of more than two months of unrelenting Israeli assaults.... More


Ramallah, December 21 (RHC)-- Around 20 prison guards of the Israeli regime have severely beaten Palestinian inmate Thayer Abu Assab to death, the Tel Aviv regime admits, according to a report.... More


Geneva, December 21 (RHC)-- The United Nations human rights office has called for an independent inquiry into allegations that Israeli forces “summarily executed” at least 11 Palestinian men in Gaza in what it called “a possible war crime.”... More


Rafah, December 21 (RHC)-- An Israeli air raid has killed a Palestinian border crossing director in southern Gaza, according to Palestinian officials and Hamas.  Bassem Ghaben, the director of the Israeli-controlled Karem Abu Salem crossing – called Kerem Shalom in Israel – was killed along with three other people by Israeli fire, Gaza health and border authorities said on Thursday.... More


Geneva, December 21 (RHC)-- The United Nations has condemned as “sadistic” Israel’s attacks on the health sector of the besieged Gaza Strip, as the death toll in the war-torn Palestinian enclave exceeds 20,000, the majority of that number women and children.... More


Ramallah, December 21 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have continued their large-scale raids in several areas across the occupied West Bank, triggering violent confrontations with local Palestinian residents, amid the regime’s continuous bombardment of the Gaza Strip.... More


Tel Aviv, December 21 (RHC)-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled out the prospect of any ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, which has been the subject of a genocidal war by the occupying regime for the past 75 days.... More


Rafah, December 21 (RHC)-- At least 20,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Israel began bombarding the enclave more than 10 weeks ago, according to Palestinian officials.  More than 8,000 children and 6,200 women are among those killed, Gaza’s Government Media Office said on Wednesday.... More


Geneva, December 20 (RHC)-- Limited access to clean water and sanitation amid Israel’s relentless bombardment pose a grave risk to children in Gaza, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned.... More


Jakarta, December 20 (RHC)-- The Malaysian government has imposed an indefinite ban on vessels owned by an Israeli shipping cargo company from docking at its ports in response to the bloody Israeli onslaught against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.... More


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