Tag: Ceasefire
Israel accused of being a ‘rogue state’ trying to destabilise Middle...
Asia Pacific Report
Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian political leader and a former member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee, says Israel’s “gangster style...
Assassinated – Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian refugee who became the political...
The Palestine Chronicle
Ismail Haniyeh, a prominent Palestinian political leader and the head of Hamas’ political bureau, has been assassinated today in an Israeli airstrike...
World has ‘failed’ Palestinians, says Palestine’s UN envoy
Asia Pacific Report
Palestine's Ambassador the United Nations, Dr Riyad Mansour, has slammed the UN Security Council for failing to secure a ceasefire and bring...
End this ‘cruel, barbaric use of force’ on Gaza – WILPF...
Asia Pacific Report
The Aotearoa chapter of the Women's International league for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) has appealed to the New Zealand government to call...
Ngāti Kahungunu becomes NZ’s first iwi to call for a Gaza...
Asia Pacific Report
Ngāti Kahungunu in Aotearoa New Zealand's Hawkes Bay region has become the first indigenous Māori iwi (tribe) to sign a resolution calling...
PSNA’s Minto slams Peters over ‘bluster’ speech on Gaza at UN
Asia Pacific Report
The leader of a New Zealand solidarity group of Palestinian self-determination supporters has accused the country's Foreign Minister Winston Peters of making...
NZ’s Peters criticises Security Council at UN, says Gaza ‘a wasteland’
RNZ News
New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has told the United Nations the situation in Gaza is an "utter catastrophe" and criticised the...
NZ Palestine protesters praise Irish solidarity over Gaza on St Patrick’s...
Asia Pacific Report
Speakers at a Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland’s Takutai Square today hailed the strong stance of Ireland over Israel’s genocidal war against...
NZ’s shameful act over Hamas in defiance of Gaza atrocities reality
COMMENTARY: By David Robie
New Zealand has taken another shameful act in its tone deaf approach to Israel’s War on Gaza this week by declaring...
Muslim Americans decry Biden’s support for Gaza ‘genocide’ – Palestinian envoy...
Palestine's UN envoy Riyad Mansour speaking at the International Court of Justice on Monday. Video: Dawn News
Pacific Media Watch
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)...
Israeli offensive in Rafah ‘not a way forward’ for Gaza, says...
RNZ News
With an "appalling" loss of life unfolding in Gaza, it's essential Israel halts plans for an assault on the city of Rafah, Prime...
Canberra ‘ignores public’ over Gaza war – UNRWA fund cuts...
Asia Pacific Report
Senator and deputy leader of the Australian Greens party Mehreen Faruqi says the survival of millions of people in Gaza depends on...
NZ legally obliged to step up and speak out after World...
New Zealand’s commitment to the international rule of law means it must also go beyond the UN court’s genocide case findings on Gaza, writes...
ICJ’s stunning blow over Gaza war genocide charge ups pressure on...
ANALYSIS: By Trita Parsi
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled against Israel and determined that South Africa successfully argued that Israel’s conduct plausibly...
Peace doesn’t come by trying to bludgeon the Middle East into...
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone
The US has carried out another air raid on Yemen, with targets reportedly including the international airport in the capital city...
NZ pro-Palestine protesters slam ‘tea break’ and call for full Gaza...
Asia Pacific Report
Protesters were out in force at 17 centres around Aotearoa New Zealand -- from Rawene in the north to Invercargill in the...
War on Gaza: Israeli failures, US charades and a negotiated truce
ANALYSIS: By Mouin Rabbani
In the early hours of November 22, Qatar formally announced that an agreement had been reached for an Israeli-Palestinian exchange of...
Te Pāti Māori calls for NZ to insist on Israel-Gaza ceasefire,...
RNZ News
Te Pāti Māori wants the incoming and outgoing governments of Aotearoa New Zealand to use the country's strong international voice to insist on...
Foreign policy group Te Kuaka calls on NZ to urge immediate...
Asia Pacific Report
A progressive foreign policy group is calling for the New Zealand government to condemn the siege of Gaza, and demand an immediate...
Marwan Bishara: Why Netanyahu thinks America is stupid
COMMENT: By Marwan Bishara in Doha
The United States has provided Israel with the military means and diplomatic cover it needs to defeat Hamas in...
Philippines Communist Party: We’ll issue ceasefire if govt does same
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte made an announcement in his first State of the Nation Address and ahead of his administration's first formal talks with...