Category: 1. Palestine

Gaza (Quds News Network)- The United Nations has urged Israel to lift its blockade on humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, describing it as a “cruel collective punishment” as the blockade enters its third month.

“International law is unequivocal: as the occupying power, Israel must allow humanitarian support in. Aid, and the civilian lives it saves, should never be a bargaining chip,” Tom Fletcher, the UN’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said in a…

US President Donald Trump boasted that he could broker a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire in his first 24 hours in office. 100 days later, fighting continues, and both sides are questioning the plan the Trump administration has laid out. Why is there still no agreement on a ceasefire proposal, and what does it reveal about the limits of American power?

United States President Donald Trump has announced he plans to reassign Mike Waltz, removing him from his current role as his national security adviser and nominating him instead to be ambassador to the United Nations.

The revelation on Thursday comes after a morning of intense speculation that Waltz and his second-in-command, Deputy National Security Adviser Alex Wong, had been pushed out of their roles.

“I am pleased to announce that I will be nominating Mike Waltz to be the next United…

“It was 5 in the morning, and my wife and children were still sleeping when I saw three bulldozers coming from a distance on the village’s main road,” said Raed Srour, 45. “When they approached, I could see that they were accompanied by several military jeeps, and I understood that it was an occupation demolition mission on its way to the village. I wondered where they might be headed. It didn’t occur to me that they were coming for my house.”

A father of four, Raed…

By Ronnie Kasrils

The genocidal apartheid state requests the West for help to fight the fires, whilst, without any scruples whatsoever, its military burns children and adults alive in Gaza.

The forests that cover the demolished Palestinian villages of the 1948 Nakba are ablaze at a time when Israel prepares to celebrate its 80th anniversary of colonial settler independence. 

This is an apt symbol for the smoldering…

Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, one of the most popular and highest-paid athletes, is set to face an unbeaten challenger, William Scull, in a highly anticipated boxing fight that will crown the men’s undisputed super middleweight champion of the world.

The bout will take Alvarez to Saudi Arabia for the first time as part of his deal with Riyadh Season and will present him with a chance to regain his IBF belt.

Here’s what you need to know about the fight:

When is the Alvarez vs Scull…

Joseph Kabila denies charges of treason and war crimes amid escalating tensions in volatile eastern provinces.

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have asked the Senate to lift the immunity of former President Joseph Kabila so he could face trial on charges of supporting a rebel uprising in the country’s east, the justice minister says.

Constant Mutamba told reporters in the capital, Kinshasa, on Wednesday evening that authorities have amassed clear evidence…

“I wish I could go back to how I was,” Rashaf, a 12-year-old starving girl from Gaza, released a video pleading to be taken abroad for medical treatment. Israel’s total blockade of the enclave has caused a hunger crisis.

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

The doctors said in a statement that they were calling on members of Congress and the Sentate to call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire.

Members of Doctors Against Genocide (DAG) visited the US Congress and Senate on Wednesday to advocate for immediate action to end the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.

“Bread Not Bombs!, Let The Children Eat!” the…

Israeli air attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 29 people, Gaza’s civil defence agency said, as the United Nations demanded that Israel lift its blockade of the Palestinian territory and allow humanitarian aid to enter.

At least eight people were killed in an Israeli attack that hit the Abu Sahlul family home in Khan Younis refugee camp in southern Gaza, according to civil defence official Mohammed el-Mougher.

Four others were killed in an air strike in the Tuffah neighbourhood…