Geneva, May 12 (RHC)-- UN rights chief Volker Turk says a full-scale Israeli assault on the city of Rafah “cannot take place.”... More
Berlin, May 12 (RHC)-- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has warned Israel against expanding its military operations to Rafah. “We consider an offensive on Rafah … to be irresponsible,” Scholz said on Saturday at a talk show organised by the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND) media group in Potsdam just outside Berlin.... More
Bogota, May 12 (RHC)-- The Colombian Foreign Ministry has issued a statement in which it asks for respect from the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, for having described President Gustavo Petro as an anti-Semitic.... More
Gaza City, May 12 (RHC)-- The death toll from the seventh month of the Israeli military offensive in Gaza has topped 35,000, according to the Health Ministry in the Palestinian enclave.... More
United Nations, May 12 (RHC)-- A joint study by the UNDP and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), found that the poverty rate in Palestine has surged to 58.4 percent since Israel’s Gaza offensive, pushing nearly 1.74 million additional people into poverty.... More
Brussels, May 12 (RHC)-- European Union diplomat Josep Borrell has strongly criticized Israel’s latest evacuation orders for Rafah, saying forcing civilians to evacuate “to unsafe zones is intolerable.” He again urged Israel not to go ahead with a ground assault on the southern city, saying the move would “further exacerbate an already dire humanitarian situation.”... More
Richmond, May 12 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Virginia, the Shenandoah County School Board has voted to restore the former names of two elementary schools to honor Confederate leaders. ... More
Caracas, May 11 (RHC) --The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) expressed this Saturday its support for the people and Government of Cuba in the face of the acquittal of the terrorist who attacked with a weapon set fire to its diplomatic mission in Washington in the early hours of April 30, 2020.... More
Malmo, May 11 (RHC)-- Thousands of people have protested in the Swedish city of Malmo against Israel’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest, with Israel’s war on Gaza casting a shadow over the final of the glitzy contest.... More
Rafah, May 11 (RHC)-- Israel issued new evacuation orders in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, forcing tens of thousands more people to move as it prepares to expand its military operation. With Saturday’s orders, Israeli forces have now evacuated the eastern third of Rafah, pushing into the edges of the heavily populated central area.... More
Washington, May 11 (RHC)-- Police tear-gassed anti-war demonstrators and arrested dozens of students after clearing their encampments at colleges and several universities across the United States.... More
Gaza City, May 11 (RHC)-- The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says what has been reported by the US-based news channel CNN about how Israel treats prisoners taken from Gaza in a jail near the strip is only a tip of the iceberg.... More
Ramallah, May 11 (RHC)-- The government media office in the Gaza Strip says another Palestinian journalist has been killed in an Israeli airstrike in the besieged coastal sliver, taking the death toll to 143 since the Tel Aviv regime unleashed its military raids, bombardments and missile attacks last October. ... More
Mexico City, May 11 (RHC)-- Mexican health authorities reported the deaths of at least ten people related to a heat wave that has pushed temperatures above 50 degrees Celsius in the center of the country.... More
Atlanta, May 11 (RHC)-- Israeli whistleblowers have exposed appalling and inhumane conditions at the Sde Teiman military base that also serves as a detention center in the Negev desert in the southern part of the occupied territories.... More
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