United Nations, May 22 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have killed over 28,000 women and girls in Gaza since October 2023, according to UN Women.  The staggering toll amounts to one woman or girl killed every hour over the course of the devastating war, which has now entered its 20th month.... More


Jenin, May 21 (RHC)-- Israeli forces stationed at Jenin refugee camp have fired live ammunition at a diplomatic delegation as it was entering the camp to view the living conditions of the refugees.... More


Los Angeles, May 21 (RHC)-- A hunger-striking student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has been hospitalized on the ninth day of her protest action, as hunger strikes in solidarity with Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip continue across campuses in the United States.... More


London, May 21 (RHC)-- A University of Cambridge college says it has decided to divest from companies supplying arms to Israel and those complicit in the occupation of the Palestinian territories, following months of pro-Palestine student protest rallies against the regime’s ongoing genocidal war and blockade of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip.... More


Tel Aviv, May 21 (RHC)-- An Israeli settler living in the illegal Shiloh settlement in the occupied West Bank has publicly advocated for the complete annihilation of Palestinians in Gaza.  Rivka Lafair, who identifies herself as a “proud Jew,” has openly expressed her desire to eradicate Palestinians in Gaza from existence, Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz reported.... More


New York, May 21 (RHC)-- An exclusive article in The Wall Street Journal refutes the narrative that the far right attempted to construct about the departure of opposition members from the country who took refuge in the Argentine embassy.... More


Washington, May 21 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth have laid out their clearest plan yet for the “Golden Dome” missile defense program, which would include putting weapons in space for the first time.... More


Gaza City, May 21 (RHC)-- Gaza health officials say Israeli airstrikes overnight through Wednesday killed at least 52 people, among them multiple women and a newborn baby.  In Khan Younis, where Israel recently issued fresh evacuation orders ahead of an anticipated ground onslaught, 24 Palestinians were killed, including 14 members of a single family.... More


United Nations, May 21 (RHC)-- Children’s educator and YouTube star Ms Rachel has issued an emotional plea to world leaders, urging them to act on the UN’s warning that thousands of babies could die in Gaza within the next 48 hours if Israel’s blockade continues.... More


Brussels, May 21 (RHC)-- The European Union has taken a first formal step towards reassessing its political and economic relationship with the Israeli regime amid Tel Aviv’s ongoing war of genocide on the Gaza Strip and its near-total restriction of humanitarian aid into the Palestinian territory.... More


Gaza City, May 21 (RHC)-- The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says an Israeli delegation in the Qatari capital has no authority to engage in real negotiations or seal a ceasefire agreement.... More


Geneva, May 21 (RHC)-- An international human rights organization says at least 26 Palestinians, among them 9 children, have succumbed to starvation and inadequate medical assistance in the besieged Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours.... More


Gaza City, May 21 (RHC)-- Israeli strikes on Gaza’s hospitals continue and intensify. The World Health Organization has condemned an attack on Nasser Hospital which destroyed one-third of a medical supplies warehouse. ... More


Richmond, May 21 (RHC)-- Another college graduate in the United States is being denied a diploma after speaking out for Palestinian rights.  ... More


Washington, May 21 (RHC)-- The Trump administration has moved to allow the sale of devices that turn semiautomatic rifles like the AR-15 into fully automatic machine guns. ... More


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