Washington, December 14 (RHC)-- In the United States, Biden administration staffers held a vigil in front of the White House on Wednesday to call on President Joe Biden to support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.... More
Gaza City, December 14 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Ministry of Health reports Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed 200 Palestinians in the past 24 hours. Among the dead are at least 20 people killed in overnight air raids on Rafah near the southern border with Egypt, where nearly half of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million is sheltering from Israel’s unrelenting bombardment. ... More
Washington, December 14 (RHC)-- U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has urged President Joe Biden to end unconditional assistance to Israel’s military, saying the United States was complicit in a “mass atrocity” in Gaza. ... More
Washington, December 14 (RHC)-- U.S officials have revealed that the administration of President Joe Biden has no plans to withhold military aid from Israel despite the aggravating humanitarian situation caused by the regime’s relentless war in Palestine’s Gaza.... More
London, December 14 (RHC)-- British lawmakers have called on London to halt the current flow of arms exports to Israel over its war crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which has been under intense bombardment for over two months.... More
Washington, December 14 (RHC)-- Palestinian fighters are continuing to put up resistance to Israel’s advance north and east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip using small arms, mortars, anti-personnel mines and rocket-propelled grenades, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).... More
Washington, December 14 (RHC)-- Huwaida Arraf’s house is usually the most brightly decorated in her Michigan neighbourhood at Christmastime. But this year, with war raging in Gaza, the Palestinian American human rights lawyer is hanging only one sign in her front yard: “Bethlehem canceled Christmas because Israel is slaughtering Palestinians #GazaGenocide.”... More
Rafah, December 14 (RHC)-- Heavy rains and cold winds in Gaza overnight have worsened the misery of displaced Palestinian families forced from their homes and now huddling in flimsy and flooded tents. At a tent camp in Rafah, located on sandy terrain strewn with rubbish, people were seen trying to recover from a horrible night, carrying buckets of sand to cover puddles inside or around their tents, and hanging up soggy clothes.... More
Tel Aviv, December 13 (RHC)-- A Haaretz report about a Telegram channel said to be managed by the Israeli Defense Forces has provoked horror and comparisons to the Abu Ghraib military prison in Iraq. The channel, launched shortly after the start of the Israeli assault, is called “72 Virgins — Uncensored” and posts graphic videos and photos showing the killing and torture of Palestinians. ... More
Dubai, December 13 (RHC)-- For the first time ever, the U.N. climate summit ended with a global agreement to transition away from fossil fuels. The deal was announced earlier today in Dubai as negotiations went into overtime, and hailed as “historic” by COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber. ... More
London, December 13 (RHC)-- A British-Palestinian man, who has lost nearly 20 kg since starting a hunger strike 50 days ago, is demanding the UK government act to stop Israel's months-long bombardment of the Gaza Strip. Wael Arafat, originally from Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, said he planned to continue his hunger strike until the British government backed a ceasefire.... More
Boston, December 13 (RHC)-- The Harvard Corporation, Harvard University’s highest governing body, has rejected calls to fire President Claudine Gay following a contentious congressional hearing on antisemitism and a broader effort to restrict pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses. ... More
Dubai, December 13 (RHC)-- In Dubai, frustration is mounting as a draft agreement for the U.N.'s COP28 climate summit so far omits the phasing out of fossil fuels, drawing widespread criticism from climate activists who've denounced the draft text as a death warrant for the planet. ... More
Gaza City, December 13 (RHC)-- The Israeli military has abducted the director of a main hospital in the northern Gaza Strip after he condemned the occupying regime's days-long siege of the facility and its draconian and deadly repercussions.... More
Gaza City, December 13 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, after besieging and shelling it for several days, sources and the Palestinian Ministry of Health said. Ashraf al-Qudra, a ministry spokesman, said Israeli troops were rounding up men and boys in the courtyard of the hospital in Beit Lahiya, including medical staff, on Tuesday.... More
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