JERUSALEM | Xinhua | At least six people were killed in a shooting attack at a bus stop in Jerusalem on Monday, Israeli authorities said. Police said two assailants opened fire at a bus stop and then at a bus before security personnel and a civilian returned fire, …
Read More »Why is a Gaza ceasefire deal so hard to reach?
CAIRO, EGYPT | Xinhua | Two weeks after Hamas accepted a peace proposal mediated by Egypt and Qatar, Israel has yet to issue a formal response. Instead, it has focused on bolstering its forces around Gaza City in preparation for an expanded offensive to seize the enclave’s largest urban center. …
Read More »Israel’s lurch toward pariah status
Netanyahu remains unmoved but at home and abroad, Israelis are suffering the consequences ANALYSIS | ASHER KAUFMAN | Israel’s conduct in Gaza increasingly risks turning the state into a pariah. Whereas world leaders initially rallied around Israel after the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre by Hamas militants, the resulting destruction inside the …
Read More »Letter from Mideast: The elusive Gaza peace – from unilateral withdrawal to full takeover?
CAIRO | Xinhua writer Wang Hao | Back in the summer of 2005, I was a Xinhua reporter commissioned into the Gaza Strip to cover the implementation of a unilateral disengagement plan by then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Settlements were seen dismantled, and thousands of Israelis repatriated from Gaza. …
Read More »Palestinian statehood is not the answer
COMMENT | Manal A. Jamal | DC – In response to Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and its escalating human-rights violations in the West Bank, the international community has revived the push for Palestinian statehood. At the end of July, France and Saudi Arabia co-chaired a high-level meeting in New York, attended …
Read More »Starvation in Gaza and Our Global Shame
COMMENT | BINAIFER NOWROJEE | Starvation is the slow, silent unmaking of the body. Deprived of basic sustenance, the body first burns through sugar stores in the liver. Then it melts muscle and fat, breaking down tissue to keep the brain and other vital organs alive. As these reserves are …
Read More »Open letter to Israel foreign minister Sa’ar
The great threat to Israel’s survival is not the Arab nations, the Palestinians, or Iran, but the policies of its government COMMENT | JEFREY D. SACHS | Dear Mr. Minister, I write to you following your speech at the United Nations Security Council on August 5. I attended the session but …
Read More »Israel under pressure as Palestine gains recognition
French President Macron to recognise Palestine as momentum builds against Israel ANALYSIS | THE INDEPENDENT & AGENCIES | French President Emmanuel Macron announced July 24 that France will recognise Palestine as a state, in a bold diplomatic move amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza. Israel denounced the decision. …
Read More »Israel to temporarily pause fighting in Gaza
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL | Xinhua | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided on Saturday night to temporarily pause Israel’s fighting in Gaza throughout Sunday, Israeli media outlets reported. According to Israel’s state-owned Kan TV News, the decision was made after Netanyahu consulted with Defense Minister Israel Katz, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, …
Read More »Israel’s genocide in Gaza
World unites to end Israel’s U.S.-backed crimes against occupied Palestine ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | Ministerial delegates from more than 30 nations gathered in the Colombian capital Bogotá on July 15 for an emergency summit focused on “concrete measures” to end Israel’s U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza and other crimes against occupied Palestine. …
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