Paris, December 8 (RHC)-- James Elder, spokesman for the UN’s child relief agency (UNICEF), says that so-called safe zones in Gaza risk crowding thousands of people in inhumane conditions.... More
Washington, December 8 (RHC)-- The United States understands that there will be a "transition period" in which Israeli forces remain in Gaza after the end of so-called "combat operations" against Hamas, but that cannot be permanent, State Department spokesperson Matt Miller said Wednesday. ... More
Tehran, December 8 (RHC)-- Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has lambasted as “blatant hypocrisy” Washington’s professed concern about West Asia’s security given its unflinching support for Israel’s genocidal war in the besieged Gaza Strip. Nasser Kan’ani made the remarks in a statement on Wednesday in response to recent comments by U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, who said Washington is in talks with other countries about the formation of a task force in the Red Sea to protect maritime security in the region.... More
Tel Aviv, December 8 (RHC)-- Israeli authorities have approved the construction of more than 1,700 new homes, a non-governmental organisation says. Half the “new neighborhood” comprising 1,738 housing units will be in the city’s annexed east, the Israeli NGO Peace Now said.... More
Gaza City, December 8 (RHC)-- An overnight Israeli airstrike killed 18 family members of Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, director-general of the Hamas-controlled Health Ministry in Gaza, the ministry said Thursday. Several of the bodies arrived at the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza as Al-Bursh was on shift there Thursday morning, according to the health ministry.... More
London, December 8 (RHC)-- An investigation by Amnesty International alleges that a U.S.-made weapons guidance system was used in two Israeli airstrikes in Gaza in October in which 43 civilians are said to have been killed.... More
New York, December 8 (RHC)-- In New York City, medical workers with the French charity Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders, held a candlelight vigil outside the United Nations headquarters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza as they honored colleagues who’ve been killed by Israel’s assault on hospitals and clinics. ... More
Beirut, December 8 (RHC)-- International human rights organizations say Israeli strikes that killed a journalist and injured six others in southern Lebanon must be investigated as a war crime.... More
London, December 8 (RHC)-- Four British arms factories supplying components for the F-35 stealth fighter jets used by Israel to bomb Gaza have been temporarily shut down by hundreds of workers and demonstrators protesting against the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Footage posted online on Thursday showed activists blocking the entrances into the factories. ... More
Gaza City, December 8 (RHC)-- Images from Gaza circulating on social media Thursday showed a mass detention by the Israeli military of men who were made to strip to their underwear, kneel on the street, wear blindfolds and pack into the cargo bed of a military vehicle.... More
Gaza City, December 7 (RHC)-- The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) is stopping its ambulance operations in northern Gaza after the lack of fuel and the closure of hospitals in the area made it impossible to evacuate civilians, the organization said in a statement on Wednesday. “Yesterday evening, operations at the PRCS ambulance center in the northern governorate of Gaza came to a halt,” the PRCS said.... More
Israeli envoy says UN secretary general has reached a new moral low after rarely used clause invoked
Tel Aviv, December 7 (RHC)-- Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had reached “a new moral low” after Guterres invoked a rarely used clause on Wednesday. Guterres used the UN charter to formally refer the situation in Gaza to the UN Security Council for discussion, urging its 15 member nations to "avert a humanitarian catastrophe" in the besieged enclave.... More
Rafah, December 7 (RHC)-- The Israeli occupation army has widened its attacks in southern and central Gaza, with some of the heaviest fighting in the war of aggression -- seeing homes sheltering displaced Palestinians bombed, refugee camps hit and no safe place left to evacuate thousands of people already on the move for weeks.... More
Yemen says it fired numerous ballistic missiles into Israeli-occupied territories in support of Gaza
Sanaa, December 7 (RHC)-- Yemen’s Army says it has fired a batch of ballistic missiles at Israeli military positions in support of Gaza’s resistance. Yemen’s Armed Forces said in a statement on Wednesday they targeted Umm al-Rashrash city in the southern part of the occupied Palestine.... More
Gaza City, December 7 (RHC)-- Munir al-Bursh, director-general of the Health Ministry in Gaza, says he has just lost a number of his relatives in an Israeli army attack.... More
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