Gaza City, May 15 (RHC)-- The Israeli regime has intensified its attacks on the Gaza Strip. The Israeli air and ground army are involved in attacks against civilians in the Gaza Strip, with residents of northern parts of Gaza forced to leave their homes due to Israeli strikes.... More
Bogota, May 15 (RHC)-- Users of social networks have denounced the repression of agents of the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad (ESMAD) against the demonstrations carried out in the municipality of Popayán, capital of the department of Cauca, in rejection of police sexual violence after the suicide of a 17-year-old girl... More
Berlin, May 15 (RHC)-- Germany issued on Friday a travel alert for Israel and the Palestinian-run territories as the Gaza conflict escalates, Anadolu Agency reported. "At the moment, we strongly advise against traveling to Israel and the Palestinian territories," Foreign Ministry deputy spokesman Christofer Burger told reporters in Berlin.... More
Gaza City, May 15 (RHC)-- Six children of a Palestinian family have been killed in an Israeli airstrike against a refugee camp in the besieged Gaza Strip. In the pre-dawn airstrike by Israeli warplanes against al-Shati refugee camp, the six children and at least another member of their family were killed, the Palestinian Ma'an news agency reported.... More
New York, May 15 (RHC)-- In U.S. labor news, McDonald’s workers are planning a strike next Wednesday, May 19th, to demand a minimum wage of $15 an hour. ... More
London, May 15 (RHC)-- In Britain, journalists and freedom of speech advocates are sounding the alarm after former Ambassador Craig Murray was sentenced to eight months in prison over his reporting of a Scottish politician’s sexual assault trial. ... More
Ramallah, May 15 (RHC)-- As Israel’s bombardment of Gaza intensifies and the Palestinian death toll mounts, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is issuing a fresh call to action for consumers around the world to vote with their wallets and bring economic pressure to bear on Israeli and multinational firms it labels as “complicit” in Israel’s abuse of Palestinian human rights.... More
Bogota, May 15 (RHC)-- Non-governmental organizations and leftist senator Iván Cepeda filed on Thursday before the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the United Nations Security Council a complaint against the government of Colombian President Iván Duque for crimes against humanity that occurred during the National Strike demonstrations.... More
Ramallah, May 15 (RHC)-- Israeli security forces have killed at least 10 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank, as multiple protests erupted amid growing anger over Israel’s intensifying aerial bombardment in Gaza and the threat of forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem.... More
Gaza City, May 14 (RHC)-- On Friday, Israel continued its campaign of death and destruction against Gaza, mounting more air strikes against Palestinians in the besieged enclave, as confrontations entered their fifth consecutive day.... More
London, May 14 (RHC)-- World governments must cease all military aid to Israel and demand an end to its “ferocious” assault on the Gaza Strip, Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters told RT, amid a sharp escalation of violence in the Palestinian enclave.... More
Bogota, May 14 (RHC)-- On the social network Twitter, the non-governmental organization Temblores presented the balance made by the referred Platform on the repression of members of the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad (ESMAD) and the Colombian Army against the demonstrations.... More
Washington, May 14 (RHC)-- The Pentagon says it has pulled 120 U.S. military and civilian personnel from Israel amid rising tensions in the occupied territories of Palestine. The group, who were there to plan military exercises, had left on a C-17 military aircraft to return to a base in Germany, the Pentagon confirmed Thursday.... More
Gaza City, May 14 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Islamic Resistance movement Hamas says it has targeted the Israeli regime’s Iron Dome stations and an Israeli air base which is used by Israeli warplanes to bombard civilian targets in the besieged Gaza Strip.... More
Geneva, May 14 (RHC)-- The International Criminal Court's Fatou Bensouda told Reuters she would press ahead with her inquiry even without the cooperation of Israel, which accuses her office of anti-Semitic. Tel Aviv, just like its closest ally the United States, has rejected membership in the treaty-based court, objecting to its jurisdiction.... More
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