Ramallah, December 15 (RHC)-- In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces killed an unarmed 17-year-old boy inside the Khalil Suleiman Hospital. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, has witnessed Israeli soldiers blocking medical workers in ambulances carrying discharged patients home. Drivers were forced to get out of their vehicles, strip down and kneel in the streets. ... More
Gaza City, December 15 (RHC)--In the Gaza Strip, at least 33 people were killed when Israel’s military struck a United Nations school in Khan Younis being used as a “shelter of last resort” for Palestinians expelled from their homes. ... More
Rafah, December 15 (RHC)-- Two Al Jazeera Arabic journalists have been wounded while covering an Israeli attack on a school in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.... More
Rafah, December 15 (RHC)-- At least 27 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on two residential buildings in Rafah in southern Gaza, with victims still being reported to be under the rubble. Footage from the scene shared online on Thursday showed local residents trying to extinguish a fire and rescue survivors as black smoke rose from one of the buildings.... More
Jenin, December 15 (RHC)-- Israeli troops have broken into a number of mosques in the occupied West Bank, using loudspeakers to sing Jewish songs in a “provocative step” on the third day of an onslaught on Jenin. Videos circulated on social media show the troops storming the mosques and using the loudspeakers that broadcast the Muslim call to prayer. They start singing Jewish songs afterward. ... More
Brussels, December 15 (RHC)-- A growing number of countries in the European Union have expressed support for a humanitarian ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war as Israel’s assault on Gaza plunges the Palestinian territory into a dire humanitarian crisis. In remarks at an EU summit focused largely on Ukraine, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar urged his colleagues to take a firmer stance and call for an end to the fighting between Israel and the Palestinian armed group Hamas in the besieged Gaza Strip.... More
Washington, December 15 (RHC)-- Influential labor leaders in the United States have joined progressive legislators in the United States Capitol to push the administration of President Joe Biden to support a ceasefire in war-torn Gaza. In a news conference on Thursday, representatives from United Auto Workers (UAW), United Electrical Workers and the American Postal Workers Union framed their appeal as part of a long history of labour movements supporting human rights at home and abroad.... More
Gaza City, December 15 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have laid a heavy siege on Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan hospitals in northern Gaza, with several Palestinians killed and injured.... More
United Nations, December 15 (RHC)-- The United Nations humanitarian office has said that people in the Gaza Strip are facing a “public health disaster” as the Israeli regime presses ahead with its brutal assault against Palestinians. ... More
United Nations, December 15 (RHC)-- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) says at least 288 displaced people in its shelters in Gaza have been killed amid the ongoing Israeli war on the besieged strip.... More
Rome, December 15 (RHC)-- The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is facing fresh pressure to explain why it deleted key emails exchanged with Swedish prosecutors over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.... More
Washington, December 15 (RHC)-- The Washington Post has confirmed that Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus in attacks on southern Lebanon. White phosphorus poses a high risk of excruciating burns and lifelong suffering, and its use as an incendiary weapon in civilian areas is a war crime — which under U.S. law should have implications for future military aid to Israel. ... More
New York, December 15 (RHC)-- Tesla has recalled software from nearly all of its two million vehicles on U.S. roads after regulators found the electric car manufacturer failed to ensure that drivers remain attentive while using Autopilot, a system that can drive autonomously. ... More
Jenin, December 15 (RHC)-- In the occupied West Bank, Israel’s military has killed at least 11 Palestinians since Tuesday as it carries out its most intense raids since Hamas’s surprise attack on October 7th. ... More
Ramallah, December 15 (RHC)-- A wartime opinion poll among Palestinians shows a rise in support for the resistance movement Hamas, which appears to have ticked up even in the Israeli-bombarded Gaza Strip. The survey was conducted from November 22nd to December 2nd among 1,231 people in the occupied West Bank and Gaza and had an error margin of 4 percentage points. In Gaza, poll workers conducted 481 in-person interviews during a weeklong cease-fire that ended on December 1st.... More
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