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 …
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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 …
Read More »Pentagon chief warns Israel of ‘strategic defeat’
The IDF will only prevail in urban warfare against Hamas if it protects civilians in Gaza, Lloyd Austin says Mourners recite a prayer over the bodies of victims killed Israeli bombing in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. © AFP / Mahmud Hams Israel’s victory over Hamas will become a “strategic defeat” if the country doesn’t prevent civilian casualties during its military operation in …
Read More »Watch | Why Israel’s Reported ‘Resettlement’ Plan for Gaza Could Amount to a Holocaust
The plan is to push up to 2 million Palestinians, sheltering in south Gaza, into a small portion called al-Mawasi, which is just 2.5 kilometres wide and 4 kilometres long. Karan Thapar interviews well-known Palestinian professor Dalal Iriqat on the same. Israel’s alleged plans for the people of Gaza, reported on Saturday by the BBC’s highly respected diplomatic correspondent, Paul …
Read More »Israel-Palestine: Army detains 12-year-old Palestinian child after house raid
Family say they are shocked by arrest of Karim Ghawanmeh, a young boy who still sleeps with his toys Karim Ghawanmeh was arrested without charge by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah (Social media) By Fayha Shalash in Ramallah, occupied Palestine Israeli troops detained a 12-year-old Palestinian child after storming his family home in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on …
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