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- by MIIsrael launched a sweeping military operation against Iran on Friday, with strikes targeting its nuclear program and long-range missile capabilities, Israeli Army Radio reported. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a speech posted on YouTube that his forces struck the “heart of Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. We struck at the heart of Iran’s nuclear weaponization program.” Netanyahu described the attacks as a “targeted military operation to roll back the […]
- by MITwo activists detained by Israel after attempting to break the Gaza blockade returned to Berlin on Thursday, strongly criticizing Israeli military actions and pledging to continue their humanitarian mission, Anadolu reports. Turkish citizen Suayb Ordu and German citizen Yasemin Acar arrived at Berlin-Brandenburg Airport (BER) where they were greeted by a crowd of Palestine supporters. Amid emotional scenes and chants supporting Palestine, supporters presented flowers to both activists. Speaking to […]
- by MIGaza has experienced a “complete collapse” of digital infrastructure, paralyzing humanitarian operations and cutting off emergency lifelines for civilians, the UN said on Thursday, Anadolu reports. Citing the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UN spokesperson Farhan Haq told a news conference that there is “a complete collapse of internet and data services that is paralyzing aid operations across the Gaza Strip.” “Our partners working on telecommunications say […]
- by MIThis land has witnessed many tyrants, and witnessed eras when injustice was committed with stones, chains, and fire. The palaces of the Pharaohs and the thrones of Nimrod were built on the skulls of the victims. However, never before has injustice been so organised, so brazen, and so open. Compared to what is happening today, the drowning of Pharaoh and the burning of Nimrod, seem like the achievement of justice […]
- by MIIn a world where humanitarian and political crises are spreading with unprecedented speed and intensity, human rights concepts have increasingly become political tools in the hands of global powers. Donald Trump, the current President of the United States, is a prime example of this political exploitation. On one hand, he has revived undocumented and controversial narratives about a “white genocide” in South Africa to attract public attention, while on the […]
- by MIIsrael deported six more international activists from a Gaza-bound aid ship on Thursday, Anadolu reports. The Israeli Foreign Ministry published photos of the six activists at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport on its X account and later aboard the plane. The Israeli rights organization and legal center Adalah earlier identified the six activists as Mark van Rennes from the Netherlands, Suayb Ordu from Turkiye, Yasemin Acar from Germany, Thiago Avila […]
- by MIIsraeli Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf resigned on Thursday over the government’s failure to pass a law exempting ultra-Orthodox Jews from military service, the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said, Anadolu reports. Goldknopf is a member of the Agudat Yisrael Party, which, together with the Degel HaTorah Party, forms the United Torah Judaism (UTJ) alliance that represents the ultra-Orthodox Jews, or Haredi. “The premier had been warned that if no progress had been […]
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- by Marwa AAccording to US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, there is a ‘complication’ when Palestinians want their own state on their own land. Speaking during an interview with Bloomberg, Huckabee undoubtedly awarded Israel with further impunity for its ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, when severing the link between Palestinians and their land, as US foreign policy has been doing for decades. Asked if the US envisages a Palestinian state, Huckabee […]
- by MISerbia’s deputy parliament speaker on Thursday called for an immediate halt to the country’s arms exports to Israel, Anadolu reports. Edin Djerlek told parliament that the Israeli army is “carrying out genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza, in one of the most brutal ways the modern world remembers – by heartlessly starving and killing innocent civilians, mostly women and children,” according to the Fonet News Agency. He said his […]