United Nations, October 27 (RHC)-- A resolution calling for a Gaza ceasefire has overwhelmingly passed the United Nations General Assembly.... More


Gaza City, October 27 (RHC)-- Israel has intensified its bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip as internet and mobile communications services collapsed in the Palestinian territory.  An extended series of large explosions have lit up the sky over Gaza City after nightfall on Friday, and an Al Jazeera correspondent said northern Gaza was being pounded by air raids and artillery.... More


Gaza City, October 27 (RHC)-- Gaza’s Health Ministry has published the names of more than 6,700 Palestinians killed since Israel launched its assault on the Gaza Strip three weeks ago.  The 200-plus page report lists the name, age, gender and ID number of each victim of Israel’s bombardment. ... More


Gaza City, October 27 (RHC)-- Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh returned to the airwaves Thursday, just one day after an Israeli airstrike killed 12 members of his family.  Dahdouh resumed broadcasting from a Gaza rooftop hours after he led prayers at a funeral for his wife, son, daughter, grandson and other relatives.... More


Panama City, October 27 (RHC)-- In Panama, nationwide Indigenous-led protests and blockades intensified this week, demanding the government reverse its approval of a 20-year contract for a foreign-owned open-pit copper mine. ... More


Paris, October 27 (RHC)-- Racism towards Black people has been on a rising trend in the European Union countries, with Germany in the lead, a recent poll has found.... More


United Nations, October 27 (RHC)-- The United Nations human rights chief says he was "deeply disappointed" that Australians failed to recognize Indigenous people in the constitution in a referendum earlier this month.... More


Tehran, October 27 (RHC)-- Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi says the Western backing for the Israeli regime’s continued atrocities against the besieged Gaza Strip exposes their racist, colonialist nature.... More


Brasilia, October 27 (RHC)-- Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva condemned Thursday the attacks against civilians in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which to date have caused the death of more than seven thousand people, including women and children.... More


Gaza City, October 27 (RHC)-- Israeli infantry backed by warplanes mounted an incursion deeper into Gaza, the army said Friday, as it readies for a ground offensive against Hamas for the deadliest attack in the country's history.... More


Gaza City, October 27 (RHC)-- Doctors in Gaza report that they no longer have shrouds to bury their dead.  One doctor, Hussam al-Madhoun, told reporters that at al-Awda hospital in northern Gaza, there is "no space to walk" as thousands of civilians have also taken refuge there from the Israeli bombing.... More


Glasgow, United Kingdom, October 27 (RHC)-- Dozens of young British trade unionists blocked access into Instro Precision Ltd – a subsidiary of Elbit Systems which manufactures Israeli military apparatus – on Thursday in protest at Israel’s continuing bombardment of the Gaza Strip.... More


Gaza City, October 27 (RHC)-- Footage recorded at Nasser Hospital in Gaza on Thursday reveals one of the pediatric units, as health workers can be seen caring for the hospitalized children, while their families anxiously await their recovery.... More


Gaza City, October 27 (RHC)-- Doctors in northern Gaza are sounding the alarm about a humanitarian "catastrophe" as Israel continues its ferocious bombardment of the besieged Palestinian coastal territory for a third week, media reports say.    ... More


United Nations, October 27 (RHC)-- The Palestinian envoy to the United Nations has implored member states to vote to end the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip and to increase aid deliveries to the 2.3 million Palestinians living in the besieged territory.... More


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