Gaza City, November 17 (RHC)-- More than 20 patients have died at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital in the last two days as Israeli forces continue to raid the facility, according to a hospital official and the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza.... More
Ottawa, November 17 (RHC)-- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is among the four officials who have been served with the notice of intention towards prosecution of senior Canadian government officials for complicity in the Israeli regimes war crimes.... More
Seattle, November 17 (RHC)-- Thousands of Starbucks workers held a one-day strike Thursday on “Red Cup Day,” one of Starbucks’s busiest days of the year. Workers say frequent promotional events and giveaways like yesterday’s create extra stress and unmanageable workloads. ... More
Ramallah, November 17 (RHC)-- A number of hospitals were surrounded and at least three people killed as Israeli forces launched a major raid on Jenin in the occupied West Bank. The attacks, launched overnight and lasting into Friday, also left at least 14 others injured, according to Palestinian sources. The raid ended after several hours.... More
Gaza City, November 17 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have raided al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in the Gaza Strip, amid a new communications blackout. Israeli troops on Friday carried out building-by-building searches at al-Shifa, where thousands of patients, premature babies, staff, and displaced people are trapped.... More
Gaza City, November 17 (RHC)-- The United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) said only 10 percent of the necessary food supplies are entering Gaza and people in the besieged and bombed Palestinian enclave face “the immediate possibility of starvation.”... More
Damascus, November 17 (RHC)-- Syrian air defense units have managed to intercept and bring down most of the missiles launched by Israeli military aircraft at targets in the vicinity of the Arab country’s capital city of Damascus.... More
Los Angeles, November 17 (RHC)-- The Los Angeles Times has become the first major U.S. newspaper to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. ... More
San Francisco, November 17 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of California, hundreds of protesters shut down all westbound lanes of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge for several hours on Thursday morning, demanding President Biden call for an immediate ceasefire and an end to U.S. military aid to Israel. Police arrested 81 people. ... More
Tel Aviv, November 17 (RHC)-- The head of U.S. forces in the Middle East is in Israel today for talks with senior Israeli officials. Axios reports General Michael Erik Kurilla, the commander of U.S. Central Command, is meeting Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and top general Herzi Halevi to discuss Israel’s assault on Gaza and fighting along Israel’s border with Lebanon.... More
Beirut, November 17 (RHC)-- Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance movement has announced the destruction of another Israeli tank in an operation carried out in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, who have come under an unrelenting Israeli war.... More
Oslo, November 17 (RHC)-- Norway’s parliament has adopted a resolution calling on the government to be ready to recognize an “independent” Palestinian state. The proposal was made on Thursday by the ruling coalition to counter a resolution by smaller parties calling for an immediate recognition of a Palestinian state.... More
Beirut, November 17 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Islamic resistance movement Hamas has disproven the Israeli regime's allegation about the resistance movement's running a "command center" underneath the Gaza Strip's largest hospital, which the regime has been using to assault the facility.... More
New York, November 17 (RHC)-- More than 40 student groups at Columbia University in New York City have formed a coalition to demand the university divest from Israeli apartheid and “challenge the settler-colonial violence” that Israel has been perpetrating with the support of the United States and its allies.... More
Ankara, November 17 (RHC)-- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called Israel a “terror state”, stepping up his condemnation of the Israeli assault on the besieged Gaza Strip ahead of a sensitive visit to Germany. Erdogan said that Israel’s military campaign against the Palestinian armed group Hamas included “the most treacherous attacks in human history” with “unlimited” support from the West.... More
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