“The humanitarian tragedy (in the Occupied Palestinian Territory) has reached catastrophic proportions,” Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN, told the 15-member Council on Tuesday. “We, this Council, and those most responsible, are being judged, and will be judged in posterity; Let us come together, and act, united, in the interest […]
Israel halted all aid from entering the war-ravaged Palestinian territory on March 2. The United Nations and aid agencies have repeatedly warned of a growing humanitarian catastrophe for the roughly 2.4 million people in Gaza, amid dwindling supplies of everything from fuel and medicine to food and clean water. Aid reaches Gaza mainly through Israeli-controlled […]
“The return of Edan Alexander is the result of serious communications with the US administration and the efforts of mediators, not a consequence of Israeli aggression or the illusion of military pressure,” the Palestinian militant group said in a statement. “Netanyahu is misleading his people and has failed to bring back his prisoners through aggression,” […]
“We cannot remain silent while genocide is taking place in Gaza,” read the letter initiated by several pro-Palestinian activist groups and published in the French newspaper Liberation and the US magazine Variety. The signatories, which include acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodovar and former Cannes winner Ruben Ostlund, decried the death of Gazan photojournalist Fatima Hassouna. […]
“The (Ezzedine) Al-Qassam Brigades have just released the Zionist soldier and American citizen Edan Alexander, following contacts with the US administration, as part of the efforts undertaken by mediators to achieve a ceasefire,” Hamas said in a statement. Israel’s military said he was back inside Israel and “on his way to an initial reception point […]
The move followed hours after the U.S.-based World Central Kitchen (WCK) charity announced that it had run out of the ingredients necessary to provide much-needed free meals and had been prevented by Israel from bringing in aid. Amjad al-Shawa, director of the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (PNGO) in Gaza, told Reuters that most of the […]
At least 40 to 50 students, their hands cuffed with plastic zip-ties, were seen being loaded into New York Police Department vans and buses outside Butler Library as NYPD officers swept through the six-story building to round up other protesters who refused to leave. Police arrived on campus in force at the request of Columbia […]
Trump said that 24 hostages were alive when he received a recent visit by former Israeli hostages, but “as of today, it’s 21, three have died.” “Twenty-one, plus a lot of dead bodies,” the president said at a White House swearing-in ceremony for his Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff. He did not provide any further […]
Gaza civil defence media officer Ahmad Radwan told AFP that a total of 31 people were killed and dozens more wounded in Israeli strikes “on a school sheltering displaced persons” in the Bureij refugee camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military, meanwhile, said in a statement that its forces had struck […]
“This will inevitably lead to countless more civilians killed and the further destruction of Gaza,” Farhan Aziz Haq, the deputy spokesperson, said, responding to a journalist’s question during the regular media briefing in New York. “What’s imperative now is an end to the violence, not more civilian deaths and destruction. Gaza is, and must remain, […]
