UN humanitarian official Lynn Hastings has said that the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is only going to get worse amid Israel’s expanding assault [Getty] A UN official warned on Monday that “an even more hellish scenario” looms in Gaza in which humanitarian aid simply grinds to a halt. “The conditions required to deliver aid to the people of Gaza do not exist,” …
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‘A young girl died in front of us’: The Gaza war through the eyes of a 12-year-old
Farah recalls a traumatic journey from north to south, as her family desperately sought refuge from Israeli attacks Children react during the funeral of the Faojo family, killed in Israeli bombing on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on 11 November, 2023 (AFP) From the moment Farah first opened her eyes, she was living in the world’s biggest open-air prison. …
Read More »Israel-Palestine war: How the collapse of western moral values is fuelling genocide
Regrettably, most western European nations have aligned with an American-led imperialism that suppresses liberation movements and stifles global dissent US President Joe Biden looks on during a meeting with Angolan President Joao Lourenco in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on 30 November, 2023 (AFP) There is a prevalent belief in the dominance of western civilisation, …
Read More »Israel-Palestine war: How the collapse of western moral values is fuelling genocide
US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin said Israel may face a strategic defeat in the Gaza Strip if Palestinian civilians are not protected. “In this kind of a fight, the centre of gravity is the civilian population. And if you drive them into the arms of the enemy, you replace a tactical victory with a strategic defeat,” Austin said at …
Read More »Muslims in Europe feel vulnerable as hostilities rise
People holds a copy of the Quran while speaking outside the Netherlands embassy during the protest against the recent of a Dutch, an anti-Islam group [Wong Fok Loy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images] by Reuters Reuters Jian Omar, a Berlin lawmaker of Kurdish-Syrian background, feels unprotected by police after suffering hate-filled flyers mixed with glass and faeces, a broken window and a …
Read More »The PA foreign minister promotes Israeli impunity
Palestinian Foreign Affairs Minister, Riyad al-Maliki in Ramallah, West Bank on March 13, 2023 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency] by Ramona Wadi walzerscent Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki keeps generating contradictions in his diplomatic endeavours. The concept of “waiting” is one of Al-Maliki’s favourite terms to resort to, reminding diplomats of how Palestinians have been forced to wait by the international community …
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