Category: 1. Palestine

After deporting 238 alleged Venezuelan gang members and 23 members of a Salvadoran gang to a maximum-security El Salvador prison last month, US President Donald Trump is now contemplating deporting criminals who are United States citizens there as well, he told reporters on Monday.

But Trump’s latest plan will probably face multiple legal challenges. Forcibly sending American passport holders outside the country is likely illegal, experts say, and Trump himself signed a bill during his…

A trio of nameless statues buried in the archives of the Australian Museum triggers a great-granddaughter’s quest to honour her ancestors and reclaim their life stories. In 1925, Australia’s Census declared Aboriginal people a “dying race”.

The Australian Museum commissioned three statues of Aboriginal people: a child, a man and a woman, exhibited as nameless objects to be…

“There’s no place left for us to go,” said Malek, a Palestinian father of two in his mid-thirties who was displaced to the Mawasi area of Khan Younis after Israel resumed its carpet-bombing campaign in Gaza in mid-March. “Now the occupation army has dropped leaflets ordering people to evacuate almost every place in Gaza. They’re telling us to evacuate everywhere.” 

“So, I know that my family and I will have to move again not before long,” Malek surmised. 

Malek…

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 Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said that the Gaza Strip has become a “mass graveyard for Palestinians and those who rush to their aid” due to the Israeli occupation’s aggression and the denial of humanitarian aid.

Amand Bazirol, the organization’s emergency coordinator for the Gaza Strip, said, “We are currently witnessing the annihilation and forced displacement of the population of Gaza,” noting that “the humanitarian response is severely affected by…

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The number of civilians killed in the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 51,025, with 116,432 others injured since October 7, 2023.

According to medical sources, the toll includes 1,652 civilians who were killed and 4,391 others who were injured since March 18 alone.

Over the past 24 hours, 25 people have been killed and 89 others have been injured, the sources reported.

Many victims remain trapped under the rubble of destroyed homes and…

The measure enables Ukraine to further delay elections, despite pressure for a presidential vote from the US and Russia.

Ukraine’s parliament has voted to extend martial law and military mobilisation for another three months, prolonging the wartime measures until at least August 6.

Lawmaker Yaroslav Zheleznyak said the extension of martial law passed by a 357-1 vote, while a measure to maintain troop mobilisation was approved 356-1.

Under Ukraine’s constitution, elections cannot be held…

Thousands of people in Gaza require artificial limbs after being maimed in Israeli attacks. Technicians are making prosthetic arms and legs from recycled materials as medical supplies are blocked by Israel’s siege.

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 The Palestine News Network (PNN) has officially launched its new platform, Hayat Podcast, in a bid to shed light on various facets of Palestinian life by telling real-life stories and experiences, aiming to deliver an authentic image of Palestine to the world.

The launch event was attended by Bethlehem Governor Muhammad Taha Abu Alia, members of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate’s administrative council Musa Al-Shaer and Hasan Abdel Jawad, along…

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 Dr. Amal Jadou Shakaa, Palestine’s Ambassador to the European Union, Luxembourg, and the Kingdom of Belgium, said recent meetings in Luxembourg marked a historic milestone as the first official political dialogue between the State of Palestine and the European Union’s senior leadership.

The talks brought together EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas, EU Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement Dubravka…