OIC slams Israeli attack on UN convoy to Gaza City
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Monday condemned an Israeli attack on a UN convoy heading to Gaza City, reported Xinhua. The global Islamic body stated that the attack contravenes international law and resolutions, denouncing the Israeli army’s ongoing deprivation of Palestinian civilians of food, water, medical care, and other essential services. Read More
‘Torn up bodies’: Israel intensifies bombing campaign in Gaza
Israeli attacks kill dozens, including local journalist, as Palestinian death toll in besieged territory nears 39,000. The Israeli military has continued its relentless bombardment of Gaza with strikes hitting the southern, central and northern parts of the territory. The Palestinian Civil Defence said on Saturday that its crews retrieved the bodies of 12 people who […]
What impact could the latest ICJ ruling on Israel have?
Inside Story Top UN court rules that Israel’s decades-long occupation of the Palestinian territory is unlawful. Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law, have been steadily expanding in the Palestinian territory for years. Now, the top court of the United Nations says it’s time for Israel to stop, reverse course and repair the damage. […]
‘Impunity must end’: World reacts to ICJ ruling against Israeli occupation
International reaction has poured in since a ruling by the top United Nations court that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful and should swiftly be brought to an end. Palestinian officials have hailed the International Court of Justice ruling as a “watershed moment” in their decades-long fight for justice. Israel quickly […]
Israel says it struck Yemen’s Hodeidah in response to Houthi attacks
The Israeli military has said it has conducted strikes against Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeidah in response to attacks by the Houthi group. The Ministry of Health, which operates in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, said three people were killed and 87 wounded, many with severe burns as a result of the Israeli strikes. […]
PM urges UN to implement ruling against Israeli actions
Listen to article ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday welcomed the historic International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on Israel’s illegal actions in Palestinian territories. “The ICJ ruling that Israel must end its occupation & illegal settlements is vindication of the legitimate struggle of the brave Palestinian people,” said a post on PM’s official X account. […]
A look at the arsenals of Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia as cross-border strikes escalate
BASSEM MROUE and JON GAMBRELL Updated Wed, February 14, 2024 at 4:51 PM EST·4 min read BEIRUT (AP) — The slow-simmering cross-border conflict between Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group and Israeli forces escalated Wednesday, reviving fears that the daily clashes could expand into an all-out war. A rocket fired from Lebanon struck the northern Israeli town of Safed, killing […]
Who Has the Right to Self-Defence, the Occupier or the Occupied?
ARENA ONLINE / ALI KAZAK 10 NOV 2023 To say Israel has the right to defend itself is like saying a chronic abuser has the right to defend himself because his victim hit him. Israel is not an innocent party under attack and defending itself, as it is being portrayed by much of the international […]
Al Jazeera bureau chief’s son Hamza al-Dahdouh among journalists killed in Gaza
By Shaimaa KhalilBBC News, Jerusalem The eldest son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief has been killed in an Israeli strike in southern Gaza. Hamza al-Dahdouh, an Al Jazeera network journalist and cameraman, was driving in a car with other journalists along a road between Khan Younis and Rafah on Sunday when it was hit. […]
Pinkwashing
INTRODUCTION WHEN USED IN RELATION TO THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT, the word “pinkwashing” refers to Israel’s putatively dishonest abuse of its sterling record on LGBT human rights to conceal or “whitewash” its struggles with the Palestinians. Alleged to constitute an invidious “cover up”, pinkwashing actually represents a term of art deployed to deceive and fabricate fallacious arguments […]
