Category: 1. Palestine

Nearly half the global population has also been exposed to dust levels exceeding WHO safety thresholds.

A new report by the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has found that sand and dust storms are leading to “premature deaths” due to climate change, with more than 330 million people in 150 countries affected.

On Saturday, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) marked the International Day of Combating Sand and Dust Storms and its designation of 2025 – 2034 as the UN…

As Netanyahu courts Trump with peace prizes and platitudes, divisions over Israel in the MAGA media space are deepening.

Contributors:
Laura Albast – Fellow, Institute for Palestine Studies
Mitchell Plitnick – Author, Except for Palestine
Mouin Rabbani – Co-editor, Jadaliyya
Jude Russo – Managing editor, The American Conservative

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Since the US-Israeli GHF took over the distribution of aid, more than 800 Palestinians have been killed while attempting to collect it. New…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- The Israeli military has issued a warning to Gaza residents, stating that entering the sea, their last remaining breathing space, “puts you at risk.”

“We urge fishermen, swimmers, and divers to refrain from entering the sea. Entering the sea along the Strip puts you at risk,” Israeli military spokesperson said in a statement on Saturday.

In the Israeli-besieged Gaza, where every path is blocked by Israel amid heavy bombardment and forced…

Azerbaijan’s Arguj Kalantarli notes ‘humanitarian catastrophe on unimaginable scale’ in Gaza, in member state Palestine.

The Secretary-General of the International Civil Defence Organization (ICDO) has been elected at a session held in Baku, according to the Azerbaijan Press Agency (APA)

The head of the international relations department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Colonel Arguj Kalantarli, was unanimously elected to the post.

Kalantarli…

I live near Nasser Hospital in the west of Khan Younis city. Almost every day, I hear desperate calls for blood donations made on loudspeakers out of the hospital. It has been like that for more than a year.

The hospital, like other barely functioning health facilities in Gaza, has been regularly overwhelmed with victims of continuing Israeli air attacks. Since the end of May, it has also received many victims shot by Israeli soldiers at aid distribution sites.

I had donated blood before,…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- 67 children in Gaza have died from malnutrition, while over 650,000 are at risk of acute malnutrition in the coming weeks, as Israel has blocked humanitarian aid from entering the enclave for four consecutive months.

In a statement issued on Saturday, Gaza’s Government Media Office said today marks the 103rd consecutive day of the full blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip, since the Israeli occupation forces closed all crossings and banned the entry of…

Added to the World Heritage list are two prisons: Tuol Sleng and M-13, as well as the execution site Choeung Ek.

Three notorious locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites to perpetrate the genocide of Year Zero five decades ago have been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list.

Two prisons and an execution site were inscribed on the list by the United Nations cultural agency on Friday during the 47th Session of the World Heritage Committee in…

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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has sounded the alarm over the severe health risks facing civilians in Gaza, citing a lack of clean water, extreme overcrowding in shelters, and soaring temperatures.

In a brief statement on Saturday posted to its official page on X, UNRWA stressed the urgent need to lift the ongoing blockade and allow the resumption of humanitarian aid deliveries — including hygiene supplies —…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd of starving civilians seeking aid near a US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution site in southern Gaza, killing at least 30 people and injuring dozens more.

Local and medical sources confirmed at least 30 people were killed and 180 others injured while waiting for food after Israeli forces directly opened fire at a crowd seeking aid near the GHF aid site, north of Gaza’s southern city of…

New Delhi, India – Just moments before a fatal Air India crash on June 12, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s fuel-control switches in the cockpit mysteriously moved from the “run” to the “cutoff” position, an early investigation into the disaster has revealed.

Flipping to cutoff almost immediately cuts the engines. The investigation’s report, issued by India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) early on Saturday, found that both engines shut down within the space of one…