Gaza City, October 29 (RHC)-- Israeli warplanes have conducted airstrikes on areas close to the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, as the regime’s genocidal war on the besieged enclave enters its 23rd day.... More


Istanbul, October 29 (RHC)-- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that his government is set to declare Israel a “war criminal” -- also blaming the West for the regime’s “massacre” of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.... More


Canberra, October 29 (RHC)-- The prime minister says he discussed the case of Julian Assange with the U.S. president during their Oval Office meeting this week – but he isn't demanding Joe Biden intervene in the Justice Department process.... More


Gaza City, October 29 (RHC)-- Hamas has said the Israeli regime is trying to project itself as the victor in its ongoing war against the Gaza Strip by intensifying its terrorist aggression against the Palestinian territory, while the resistance is on course to score a "heroic epic" in the battle.... More


Gaza City, October 29 (RHC)-- Gaza remains under a communications blackout for a second day as aid groups say they are unable to contact teams on the ground.... More


Doha, October 28 (RHC)-- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has criticized the "escalation of the bombardments" and "devastation" of Gaza, calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire as the Israeli regime intensifies its "unlawful" attacks against the entrapped people in the occupied Palestinian lands.... More


Gaza City, October 28 (RHC)-- Palestinians say the devastating war between Israel and Hamas is robbing them not only of their loved ones but also of the funeral rites that long have offered mourners some dignity and closure in the middle of grief.... More


Ramallah, October 28 (RHC)-- Israeli security forces restricted young Palestinians from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem for prayers on Friday and deployed in strength across the Old City and beyond to quell any unrest spilling over from the conflict in Gaza.... More


Ramallah, October 28 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has condemned “in the strongest terms” the vicious verbal assaults by Israel against the secretary general of the United Nations, describing them as “unjustified, premeditated” and representative of the Israeli regime’s lack of respect and commitment to the world body, its Charter and resolutions regarding  Palestine.... More


Miami, October 28 (RHC)-- Florida’s state university system, in collaboration with Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, has issued a memo ordering college campuses to shut down a Palestinian solidarity student organization. Florida officials accused Students for Justice in Palestine of providing “harmful support for terrorist groups.”... More


Gaza City, October 28 (RHC)-- As the Israeli bombs thundered and shook the world around them, Sara al-Khalidi and her four children clung to each other on the floor of their living room in Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood, trembling with fear.... More


Khan Yunis, October 28 (RHC)-- The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warns that the humanitarian situation is "more than catastrophic" in the Gaza Strip, as Israel’s relentless bombing and severe fuel shortages are turning the hospitals into "graves" across the besieged territory.... More


Brussels, October 28 (RHC)-- European Union leaders have called for a “humanitarian pause” to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza but stopped short of calling for a ceasefire.   On Friday, many European nations chose to abstain from the vote on the humanitarian resolution on Gaza at the UN General Assembly, rather than "take sides."   One political observer noted: "In this situation, faced with genocide, we must take the side of humanity." ... More


Washington, October 28 (RHC)-- U.S. activists from around the country are calling for a National March on Washington for next Saturday, November 4th.  ... More


United Nations, October 27 (RHC)-- The United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian truce in Gaza -- but the United States and Israel, along with a handful of other client states, voted against it.... More


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