Category: 1. Palestine

  • Russia closing Polish consulate in Kaliningrad in tit-for-tat move | Politics News

    Russia closing Polish consulate in Kaliningrad in tit-for-tat move | Politics News

    In May, Poland ordered Russia’s consulate in Krakow to shut after accusations Moscow orchestrated fire at Warsaw shopping centre.

    Russia says it will close Poland’s consulate in Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania, after Warsaw decided to shut down the Russian consulate in Krakow.

    The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the move on Friday.

    This follows Poland ordering the Russian consulate in the southern city of Krakow to shut in May after authorities…

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • ‘Darkest Chapter’: Spain Urges EU to Cut Ties with Israel over Gaza Genocide

    ‘Darkest Chapter’: Spain Urges EU to Cut Ties with Israel over Gaza Genocide

    Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. (Photo: Frederic Esteve, Supplied)

    By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

    Pedro Sanchez urged the EU to suspend its agreement with Israel, citing genocide and human rights violations in Gaza.

    Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez urged on Friday the immediate suspension of the European Union’s Association Agreement with Israel, citing its involvement in what he described as genocide in Gaza.

    Speaking before the Spanish Parliament, Sánchez sharply…

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    News Source: www.palestinechronicle.com

  • UK Government Rejects Hamas Appeal for Removal from ‘Terror’ List

    UK Government Rejects Hamas Appeal for Removal from ‘Terror’ List

    Hamas announced that it had submitted a legal filing to the British Home Office requesting the cancellation of its continued designation as a “banned organization.” (Design: Palestine Chronicle)

    By Palestine Chronicle Staff – Gaza

    Hamas has said it was “no secret that the British government created the tragedy of the Palestinian people when it uprooted them from their land and handed over their homeland to zionist gangs brought from all over the world.”

    The British government…

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    News Source: www.palestinechronicle.com

  • Rohingya refugees in peril in Bangladesh as support wanes: UN | Rohingya News

    Rohingya refugees in peril in Bangladesh as support wanes: UN | Rohingya News

    The US and other Western countries have been reducing their funding, prioritising their defence spending instead.

    The plight of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh could rapidly deteriorate further unless more funding can be secured for critical assistance services, according to the United Nations refugee agency.

    Bangladesh has registered its biggest influx of Myanmar’s largest Muslim minority over the past 18 months since a mass exodus from an orchestrated campaign of death, rape and…

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • Israel Exhumes Graves, Steals Bodies from Khan Younis Cemetery, Gaza Ministry Says

    Israel Exhumes Graves, Steals Bodies from Khan Younis Cemetery, Gaza Ministry Says

    Gaza (Quds News Network)- Israeli forces have exhumed graves and stolen bodies from the Turkish Cemetery in western Khan Younis, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs. The incident took place at dawn on Thursday, July 10, a brutal military raid.

    Tanks and bulldozers reportedly stormed Al-Mawasi area, destroying graves and desecrating the cemetery grounds. The ministry called it “a scene that defies all humanity” and stated that Israel has violated…

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  • Why are mass murderers from the Srebrenica genocide still free? | Genocide

    Why are mass murderers from the Srebrenica genocide still free? | Genocide

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    Thousands of Bosnian Serbs participated in the Srebrenica genocide in July 1995, killing more than 8,000 mostly Muslim men and boys in just three days. But only 54 people have ever been convicted. So why are so many killers walking free? Soraya Lennie has the details.

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • UN expert Albanese says US sanctions won’t stop her | Newsfeed

    UN expert Albanese says US sanctions won’t stop her | Newsfeed

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    Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, says sanctions by the Trump administration aim to silence her for exposing genocide and calling out those who profit from it. She urges people to “stand united, denounce, and push back”.

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • Satellite images show Israel’s Gaza ‘concentration camp’ preparations

    Satellite images show Israel’s Gaza ‘concentration camp’ preparations

    Satellite images appear to show Israel has begun preparing the rubble in Rafah for its 'concentration camp' plan.

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • Why has Trump hit Canada with a 35 percent trade tariff? | Donald Trump News

    Why has Trump hit Canada with a 35 percent trade tariff? | Donald Trump News

    United States President Donald Trump has announced that he will raise import tariffs on most Canadian goods to 35 percent, even though Canada has agreed to rescind its planned digital services tax as the US demanded.

    This comes as Trump sends “tariff letters” to a host of countries this week, notifying them of planned US trade levies to take effect on August 1 if trade deals are not struck before then.

    What has Trump announced for Canada?

    In late June, Trump threatened to end trade talks…

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • Inhumane, ‘Second Nakba’ – UNRWA Slams Israel’s ‘Humanitarian City’ Plan

    Inhumane, ‘Second Nakba’ – UNRWA Slams Israel’s ‘Humanitarian City’ Plan

    Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are internally displaced in Gaza. (Photo: via QNN)

    By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

    UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini also denounced Israel’s plan, calling it a “second Nakba” that would “de-facto create massive concentration camps.”

    UNRWA has condemned Israel’s plan to force Gaza’s population into a “humanitarian city” on the ruins of Rafah as inhumane.

    “Calling it a humanitarian city is an insult to the humanitarian…

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    News Source: www.palestinechronicle.com