Washington, November 3 (RHC)-- The United States House of Representatives has passed a Republican plan providing $14.5 billion in military aid for Israel. The plan, which is funded by cuts to the Internal Revenue Service, passed on Thursday by 226 votes to 196, largely along party lines.... More
Gaza City, November 3 (RHC)-- Israel continues deadly air attacks on Gaza early on Friday, even as the number of people killed in the Palestinian enclave rises to at least 9,061. The Israeli military says it has surrounded Gaza City and is pressing forward, with a spokesperson adding that a ceasefire is “not on the table” despite international pressure.... More
Washington, November 3 (RHC)-- A climate of intolerance to dissent over the Israel-Hamas war has led many in the United States to worry about the consequences of making public any pro-Palestinian sentiment.... More
Al-Maghazi, Gaza Strip, November 3 (RHC)-- Days after a UNRWA school in the central Gaza Strip was hit by Israel, killing at least six people, clothes and blankets still hang from the windows and balconies of its other schools, turning the traditional white and blue colours of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency into a patchwork of bright colours.... More
Cambridge, November 3 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Massachusetts, nine activists were arrested by the Cambridge Police Department during a rally organized by Palestine Action U.S. at the Cambridge office of Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms company. ... More
Minneapolis, November 3 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Minnesota, President Joe Biden’s speech to political donors on Wednesday night was interrupted by a member of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), a Jewish-led anti-Zionist organization that has been calling for an end to Israel’s genocidal war on Palestinians in Gaza.... More
Beirut, November 2 (RHC)-- Lebanon's Hezbollah says it mounted multiple strikes on Israeli army positions including its first using explosive drones. The powerful resistance movement has been exchanging fire with Israeli forces across the Lebanese border since October 7th, in the most serious escalation at the frontier since a 2006 war.... More
La Paz, November 2 (RHC)-- Citing "crimes against humanity," Bolivia's socialist administration on Tuesday became the first in the world to completely sever diplomatic relations with Israel over its war on Gaza, while the leftist governments of Chile and Colombia and Jordan's monarchy recalled their ambassadors from Tel Aviv.... More
Gaza City, November 2 (RHC)-- In front of the now-damaged Sharq Bakery, blood mixes with a bag of bread that was dropped after an Israeli air raid targeted the area. The attack on Thursday on Nasr Street in Gaza City resulted in dozens wounded and killed, Palestinian sources said.... More
Geneva, November 2 (RHC)-- The United Nations human rights office says Israel’s barrage of airstrikes on Jabalia refugee camp in the besieged Gaza Strip could amount to a “war crime," as the deadly strikes have so far claimed scores of Palestinian lives.... More
United Nations, November 2 (RHC)-- Cuba's resolution at the United Nations General Assembly was put to a vote on Thursday for the 31st time -- annually since 1992 -- with a vote of 187 against and 2 in favor of Washington's blockade, with one abstention. ... More
United Nations, November 2 (RHC)-- The United Nations child rights committee has strongly condemned the Israeli killing of children in the Gaza Strip, saying there were "no winners in a war where thousands of children are killed."... More
Paris, November 2 (RHC)-- The sudden revocation of the permit for a pro-Palestine protest march gave the French police legal justification to use a tool of political repression not seen since the yellow vests, massive fines.... More
Beijing, November 2 (RHC)-- China says it has been “deeply shocked” by a barrage of Israel’s airstrikes on a refugee camp in Gaza, calling for an immediate ceasefire before the regime's war machine claims more lives in the besieged Palestinian enclave.... More
Providence, November 2 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Rhode Island, peace activists held a die-in protest inside a local office of Democratic Senator Jack Reed. The protesters were urging Reed to vote against sending an additional $14 billion to Israel.... More
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