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Aid flotillas like the one preparing to leave for Gaza would not be necessary if governments upheld international law, rights activist Greta Thunberg told AFP Saturday.

“It should not have to be up to us,” said the 22-year-old Swedish campaigner, who will join the flotilla when it sets off from Barcelona on Sunday.

“A mission like this should not have to exist,” she added.

“It is the responsibility of countries, of our governments and elected officials to act to try to uphold international law,…

At least 61 Palestinians were killed in fresh Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip on Saturday, as the army intensified its offensive on Gaza City, medics said, Anadolu reports.

According to the Israeli news outlet Walla, the army has expanded its military operations in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City since midnight.

An Anadolu correspondent said the Israeli army launched at dawn a series of airstrikes and carried out demolition operations in the city’s Zeitoun and Sheikh Radwan…

Yemen’s Houthi group confirmed Saturday that the prime minister of its government was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the capital Sanaa, Anadolu reports.

In a statement, the Houthis said Prime Minister Ahmed Ghaleb al-Rahawi and a number of ministers were killed in the attack that targeted Sanaa on Thursday.

Several other ministers were also injured in the strike, it added.

The Israeli army said Thursday that it “precisely” hit a Houthi military target in…

Thousands protested Saturday against Israel’s siege of Gaza on the sidelines of the Venice Film Festival, seeking to move the spotlight from movie drama to real-world trauma.

Organised by left-wing political groups in northeast Italy, the demonstration began in the early evening a few kilometres from the festival where George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Emma Stone have walked the red carpet in recent days.

“The entertainment industry has the advantage of being followed a lot, and so they should…