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After a long overnight deliberation, the Israeli government approved a hostage release deal and ceasefire today with Hamas. The main details of the agreement, brokered by Qatar, will include the gradual release of 50 to 80 Israeli women and children held in the Gaza Strip. That’s only a fraction of the 240 hostages who were abducted on October 7 during Hamas’ violent …

Since the February 2022 outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, there has been global debate about whether war crimes have been committed by Russian soldiers, military leaders and politicians. Regular protests have been held in Canberra, outside the Russian embassy, where signs proclaim “Putin is a War Criminal”. Australia has also been focusing on war crimes, highlighted by the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation …

Who is Rami Ungar – the billionaire whose vessel was recently hijacked – and what does Israeli intelligence have to do with him? © RT / RT This week a new ‘front’ in Israel’s war with Gaza was opened, when Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement seized an Israeli-owned cargo ship in the Red Sea. Prior to that, Brigadier General Yahya Saree had stated that the …

GENEVA (16 November 2023) – Grave violations committed by Israel against Palestinians in the aftermath of 7 October, particularly in Gaza, point to a genocide in the making, UN experts said today. They illustrated evidence of increasing genocidal incitement, overt intent to “destroy the Palestinian people under occupation”, loud calls for a ‘second Nakba’ in Gaza and the rest of …

At the head of a multilateralism ranking is Barbados, with a voting record that Jeffrey Sachs and Guillaume Lafortune  commend as a global model. War, climate, sanctions and the Cuban blockade put the U.S. in last place. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to U.N. on Oct. 13. (UN Photo/Manuel Elías) By Jeffrey D. Sachs and Guillaume LafortuneCommon Dreams As part of our academic research on how to …

The Iranian president requested that West Jerusalem’s alleged war crimes be investigated and the blockade of Gaza be broken Ruins of Beit Lahia in Gaza after Israeli airstrikes ©  Getty Images / Abdulqader Sabbah Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi called on the BRICS nations to designate the Israeli government and its military as terrorist organizations over their alleged war crimes against the Palestinians. …