Gaza City, May 19 (RHC)-- The Israeli army has stepped up attacks across Gaza, killing dozens of Palestinians in the central part of the besieged enclave, as U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan travelled to Israel to hold talks with senior officials.... More
Geneva, May 19 (RHC)-- Nearly 800,000 Palestinians have been displaced from Rafah since Israel launched its offensive against the southern Gaza city last week, Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has said. Lazzarini decried the repeated displacement of Palestinians in the statement on Saturday.... More
Tehran, May 19 (RHC)-- Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian were on board a helicopter that suffered a “hard landing” in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province, says Iranian state media.... More
Geneva, May 19 (RHC)-- A new report says 3.4 million people were displaced in the Gaza Strip by Israel's war, a figure that represents 17 percent of total conflict displacements worldwide last year.... More
Geneva, May 19 (RHC)-- The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories says sanitized jargon used by the Israeli military during assaults against civilians in Gaza is designed to “camouflage” killing.... More
Rafah, May 18 (RHC)-- The International Rescue Committee is warning the scale of the crisis in southern Gaza “defies imagination” as Israel intensifies its attack on Rafah while key border crossings remain shut down. ... More
New York, May 18 (RHC)-- The Washington Post reports a group of billionaires and business interests privately pressured New York City Mayor Eric Adams to deploy police on pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University. ... More
United Nations, May 18 (RHC)-- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has reiterated his call for a two-state solution, saying Israel’s ongoing war on the besieged Gaza Strip “is an open wound that threatens to infect the entire region." ... More
London, May 18 (RHC)-- Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets in central London, calling for an immediate halt to Israel's savage war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli regime's bloodiest-ever war on the besieged territory has so far claimed the lives of more than 35,380 people, the Gaza health ministry said Saturday.... More
Chicago, May 18 (RHC)-- Police continued their violent crackdown on student Gaza solidarity protests, with arrests and raids at the University of California / Berkeley, as well as DePaul University in Chicago. ... More
Madrid, May 18 (RHC)-- Spain has denied port access to an Israeli-bound ship from India carrying explosives. Spain says it will no longer allow ships with weapons for Israel to use its ports. The country has also vowed to recognize Palestinian statehood by July.... More
Rafah, May 18 (RHC)-- Israel’s deadly attacks throughout the Gaza Strip are intensifying with thousands more Palestinians in northern Gaza now cut off from food and water as Israel says its troops are fighting in Jabaliya’s “city center.” ... More
Detroit, May 18 (RHC)-- The acclaimed Israeli historian Ilan Pappé has revealed he was interrogated for two hours by federal agents at an airport in Detroit after flying into the United States... More
Rafah, May 17 (RHC)-- Fighting between the Palestinian resistance forces and Israeli troops have raged in Gaza after Tel Aviv vowed to intensify its ground invasion in Rafah. Witnesses on Friday reported fierce battles overnight in and around the Jabalia refugee camp in the north of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.... More
Gaza City, May 17 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have continued to bombard the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, where Israel’s military offensive is deepening a humanitarian crisis in the already ravaged part of the Palestinian enclave.... More
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