Tag: Gaza blockade
Echoes of a Lost Gaza – Al Jazeera documentary on a...
Pacific Media Watch
Mariam Shahin has been making films about Gaza for more than 30 years.
She has also made many documentaries and short films for...
NZ rallies protest over Israeli killings of children as world condemns...
Asia Pacific Report
Speakers at a large rally in the heart of New Zealand's largest city today strongly condemned Israel's indiscriminate killing of Palestinian children...
Buttu debunks Israeli ‘myths’ about Gaza siege – ‘vital to break...
Kia Ora Gaza
An international lawyer and former spokesperson for the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Diana Buttu, says it is a myth that the siege...
Rafah ‘last place of safety’ in Gaza, UN aid boss warns
RNZ News
As Israel presses ahead with strikes in Rafah and seizing the Rafah crossing from Egypt, aid agencies are sounding the alarm of a...
NZ called on to demand Israel ends ‘inhumane blockade’, and give...
Asia Pacific Report
Three Palestinian solidarity groups have joined the humanitarian aid charity Kia Ora Gaza in calling on New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon...
NZ government urged to help evacuate Palestinians from war on Gaza
By Katie Scotcher, RNZ News political reporter
The New Zealand government is being urged to create a special humanitarian visa for Palestinians in Gaza with...
Kia Ora Gaza organiser condemns ‘open genocide’ in Gaza Strip
While telling today's Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland about "good news" over creative humanitarian aid plans to help Palestinians amid the War on Gaza,...
The West’s double standards are once again on display in Israel...
ANALYSIS: By M. Muhannad Ayyash, Mount Royal University
American President Joe Biden is among the latest Western politicians to land in Tel Aviv in a...
When all the world’s failings end in Gaza – Selwyn Manning,...
By Selwyn Manning, editor of Evening Report
As we prepared for this podcast, representatives of Arab states have presented a united front at the United...
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...
War on Gaza: Bombed hospital a turning point? Hegemonic security v...
ANALYSIS: By Marwan Bishara
The Israeli bombing of the Baptist hospital in Gaza killing hundreds of innocent Palestinians may have been a turning point in...
Donna Miles: We can condemn the Hamas attacks and Israel’s occupation
An Israeli air strike has hit Al Ahli hospital in Gaza City where thousands of civilians are seeking medical treatment and shelter from relentless...
John Minto: A shameful NZ response to genocide of Palestinians in...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
The Aotearoa New Zealand government announcement of $5 million in humanitarian aid to “Israel, Gaza and the West Bank” is a...
Israel-Gaza conflict: NZ govt providing $5m towards humanitarian aid
RNZ News
The New Zealand government is putting $5 million to address urgent humanitarian needs in Gaza, Israel and the occupied West Bank.
The initial contribution...
Israel-Palestine conflict: Auckland Museum apologises over light display
RNZ News
Auckland Museum has apologised for the hurt caused after it staged a light display in support of Israel on Sunday night.
Auckland Museum lit...
Pro-Palestine supporters call on Auckland Museum to apologise over lights fiasco
Asia Pacific Report
A peace researcher and other pro-Palestinian supporters are calling on Auckland Museum to apologise over a furore about the "unethical" lighting of...
Asian states shocked by Hamas raids but no ‘blind support’ for...
ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne in Singapore
In the aftermath of Palestinian group Hamas’ terror attack inside Israel on October 7 and the Israeli state’s even...
Jakarta workers protest outside US Embassy, call for end to Hamas-Israeli...
By Novianti Setuningsih in Jakarta
Many labour organisations have protested in front of the US Embassy in Central Jakarta, calling for an end to the...
Big Auckland rally shows solidarity with Palestine over ‘genocidal’ war
Asia Pacific Report
About 2000 people from Aotearoa New Zealand communities, including many families, staged a vibrant rally in Auckland's Aotea Square and marched down...
Israel-Gaza crisis: NZ must condemn atrocities but keep pushing for a...
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato
It was perhaps inevitable that the shock Hamas attack on Israel would become a minor election sideshow in...
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...
John Minto: A prime minister with Gaza ‘blood on his hands’
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
Aotearoa New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins is correct to condemn Hamas killing Israeli civilians in its attacks on Israel this...