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Southern France province bans pro-Palestine rally

A pro-Palestine rally that was scheduled to take place in France’s southern city of Nice has been banned by the local administration on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. The demonstration, scheduled for Saturday, has been banned owing to the risk of disturbances to public order, clashes, the persistence of the terrorist threat, and an increase in anti-Semitic acts, claimed the provincial administration of Alpes-Maritimes, which includes Nice. Defying international calls for a ceasefire, […]

2 December 2023

International

‘We want permanent ceasefire,’ Palestinians in Gaza say as truce extended

The four-day humanitarian pause has quietened the skies over Gaza but has shone a light on the suffering of displaced Palestinians. Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip – Ayman Harb, a father of three children, stuck it out with his family in the Gaza City neighbourhood of Shujayea for more than a month of the war, even as Israeli bombs and tanks destroyed the besieged enclave’s largest urban centre. Last week, just before a four-day […]

28 November 2023

International

Israel-Palestine war: Western powers giving ‘warrant for genocide’, says prominent Israeli historian

Western powers are giving Israel a "warrant for genocide" in the Gaza Strip, a prominent Israeli historian has warned. Avi Shlaim, a prominent Israeli-British historian and emeritus professor of international relations at Oxford University, told an audience in London that US, UK, and European Union support for Israel - including military support - have made them complicit in "mass slaughter" in the Gaza Strip. "The Western response to the crisis is the […]

31 October 2023

International

Egypt: A new generation threatens Israel

A 7-year-old girl drew a Palestinian flag with her coloured pencils; a 10-year-old boy chanted while carrying his school bag, “No way, no how, we will not give up the land” and a 15-year-old girl wrote the word Gaza on her hands. Perhaps Israel does not realise the extent of the repercussions left by its brutal war on the Gaza Strip, which continues in its fourth week. It has reaped […]

31 October 2023

International

Israel stages large overnight ground raid into Gaza Strip

Israeli troops and tanks have carried out a brief yet relatively large overnight ground incursion into Gaza ahead of a widely expected full-scale ground invasion after nearly three weeks of devastating air raids on the besieged Palestinian enclave. Video of the overnight action issued by the Israeli army on Thursday showed armoured vehicles proceeding through a sandy border zone. A bulldozer is seen levelling part of a raised bank, tanks […]

26 October 2023

International

Unborn baby saved by doctors in Gaza after Israeli airstrike

Palestinian doctors have saved the life of an unborn baby after his mother was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, Anadolu Agency reports. “His mother was admitted to hospital after she was killed in an Israeli strike,” Asaad Al-Nawajha, a doctor at the Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis, told Anadolu on Tuesday. Immediately, doctors delivered the baby from the dead mother. “He was still alive,” Al-Nawajha said. […]

25 October 2023

International

How do you wipe out a ghost army?

First it was Israeli Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, who announced to the world that Israel will “wipe out” Hamas off the face of the earth. The General went on to say “this thing called Hamas, ISIS-Gaza, will cease to exist.” He made the announcement after a war cabinet was formed to manage the war against the Palestinians. Then the Prime Minister, Netanyahu, signed up to the same pledge following the first cabinet […]

19 October 2023

International

France’s Macron condemns Israel strike on Gaza hospital, calls for humanitarian access to Strip

France’s President, Emmanuel Macron, has condemned the reported deadly Israeli strike on a hospital in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday night, urging for humanitarian aid to be allowed into the besieged Territory. On Tuesday night, a missile struck the compound of the Al-Ahli Arabi hospital in Gaza City, with a massive explosion being seen and heard, killing at least 300. Other reports put the number at over 500, and some at over […]

19 October 2023

News

Thousands of Palestinians displaced and murdered due to ongoing aggressions in the Gaza strip

By Loushe Jordaan Gilbert With thousands of Palestinians displaced, killed, and trying to find shelter, a massive blast rocked a hospital killing at least 500 people on Tuesday. Speaking to VOC Drive Time presenter Shafiek Morton on Tuesday, Gaza resident Ahmed Elraai described the situation in Gaza as inhumane with many fearful of what will happen next and who will be hurt in the process as attacks on the Palestinians […]

18 October 2023

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