Tag: Gaza ceasefire

COMMENTARY: By Sara Awad On October 10, a ceasefire in Gaza was officially announced. International news media were quick to focus on what they now...

This brutal war on Palestinians has not just unleashed Israel’s demons. It has unmasked our own regimes, as they crack down on humanitarian activism....

RNZ News Three New Zealanders, who were detained in Israel, after taking part in an international flotilla heading to Gaza, claim they were treated like...

COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto of G News This morning New Zealand Herald columnist and political commentator Matthew Hooton was paid to write an article justifying...

Asia Pacific Report New Zealand advocacy and protest group Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) has "cautiously welcomed" the Gaza ceasefire and proposed exchange of hostages...

ANALYSIS: By Elijah J Magnier Two years ago, Israel suffered what was perhaps the most jarring day in its modern history. The events of October...

ANALYSIS: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent The signing of the Papua New Guinea-Australia Mutual Defence Treaty -- officially known as the Pukpuk Treaty...

Asia Pacific Report "Grow a spine for Palestine!" was a frequent theme among about 5000 people protesting in the heart of New Zealand's largest city...

ANALYSIS: By John Hobbs Aotearoa New Zealand once earned praise for its “principled” and “independent” foreign policy. Think nuclear-free Pacific, for example. Yet that reputation doesn’t...

RNZ News New Zealand has joined 24 other countries in calling for an end to the war in Gaza, and criticising what they call the...

Asia Pacific Report A prominent academic has criticised the New Zealand coalition government for compromising the country's traditional commitment to upholding an international rules-based order...

COMMENTARY: By Nour Odeh There was faint hope that efforts to achieve a ceasefire deal in Gaza would succeed. That hope is now all but...

Asia Pacific Report Pope Francis, the spiritual leader of the world's 1.4 billion Roman Catholics, has died aged 88 a day after he made his...

Asia Pacific Report A Palestinian advocacy group has called on NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Minister Winston Peters to take a firm stand...

Pacific Media Watch Global media freedom groups have condemned the Israeli occupation forces for assassinating two more Palestinian journalists covering the Gaza genocide, taking the...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Saige England in Christchurch Like a relentless ocean, wave after wave of pro-Palestinian pro-human rights protesters disrupted New Zealand deputy Prime Minister...

Asia Pacific Report Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick called on New Zealand government MPs today to support her Member’s Bill to sanction Israel over its...

By Russell Palmer, RNZ News political reporter Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick says the need for Aotearoa New Zealand to impose sanctions against Israel has...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Today I attended a demonstration outside both Aotearoa New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Israeli Embassy in...

Asia Pacific Report At least 400 people have been killed after a surprise Israeli attack on Gaza in the early hours of Tuesday. The Israeli government...

Asia Pacific Report A national Palestinian advocacy group has called on the Aotearoa New Zealand government to immediately condemn Israel for its resumption today of...

ANALYSIS: By Robert Patman New Zealand's National-led coalition government’s policy on Gaza seems caught between a desire for a two-state diplomatic solution to the Israeli-Palestinian...