Gaza City, May 9 (RHC)-- A senior Hamas official says the Israeli regime is prolonging underway negotiations on a potential truce in Tel Aviv’s months-long war on the Gaza Strip so it can carry out a full-scale invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah.... More
Amsterdam, May 9 (RHC)-- Dutch riot police have arrested 32 anti-war protesters after moving in to remove barricades set up at the University of Amsterdam (UVA), where there have been clashes between demonstrators and police since Monday.... More
Dublin, May 9 (RHC)--Students at Trinity College in the Irish capital have ended their protest and will dismantle their Gaza solidarity encampment after their demands to divest from Israel were met by the university’s leadership.... More
Washington, May 9 (RHC)-- The powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has hit out at US President Joe Biden for his decision to delay arms shipment to Israel. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that Biden’s decision to hold up delivery of high payload munitions to the Israeli regime was taken over a possible Israeli ground offensive in Rafah, in southern Gaza. Austin further claimed that Washington allegedly believed such shipment could put Palestinian civilians at risk.... More
Geneva, May 9 (RHC)-- There is enough fuel to run hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip for only three more days, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warns after Israeli forces seized control of the Rafah border crossing.... More
Mexico City, May 9 (RHC)-- Activists from the Interuniversity and Popular Assembly in Solidarity with the People of Palestine erect a tent in front of the Rectory Tower of the National Autonomous University of Mexico as part of a camp to protest Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip and demand from the authorities the breaking of academic, political and economic relations between Mexico and Israel, in Mexico City.... More
Washington, May 8 (RHC)-- The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has approved another $827 million for weapons and equipment for the Israeli military. ... More
Providence, May 8 (RHC)-- In the U.S., at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), students barricaded themselves inside a campus building which they renamed Fathi Ghaben Hall, after the acclaimed Palestinian artist who died after being unable to get care in Gaza. ... More
Gaza City, May 8 (RHC)-- Health workers in northern Gaza have recovered more bodies from yet another mass grave at Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s media office reports, saying there were bodies “without heads.”... More
Brasilia, May 8 (RHC)-- The death toll from tremendous flooding in southern Brazil has reached 100, the local civil defense agency said, as emergency crews continued to search for dozens of missing people.... More
Washington, May 8 (RHC)-- Police in Washington, DC have broken up a student protest encampment at George Washington University, one of dozens of tent camps set up on campuses across the country in support of Palestinians in Gaza.... More
Tel Aviv, May 8 (RHC)-- Israel claims it is reopening the main crossing point for humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip as its military launched new attacks across the Palestinian territory and was building its offensive on southern Rafah despite ongoing talks for a ceasefire.... More
United Nations, May 8 (RHC)-- Critical diesel fuel supplies needed to power drinking water pumps, maintain communications and deliver humanitarian aid within the war-torn Gaza Strip will run out today, a senior UN official said after Israel’s closure of the two key border crossing points into the Palestinian territory... More
Washington, May 8 (RHC)-- U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the Israeli regime forces seized control of the Rafah crossing.... More
Tel Aviv, May 8 (RHC)-- Israel has acknowledged bombing a building belonging to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in the besieged Gaza Strip. Israel’s broadcaster KAN said the military hit the UN facility last weekend on the proclaimed grounds that it was being used as a "military command center" by the resistance movement Hamas.... More
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