Tag: Hamas
27 years in captivity – free Marwan Barghouti, ‘Palestine’s Mandela’
SPECIAL REPORT: By Eugene Doyle
He is the most popular Palestinian leader alive today -- and yet few people in the West even know his...
NZ’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters ‘defers’ recognition of Palestine
By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital political journalist
New Zealand's Foreign Minister Winston Peters is putting off recognition of Palestine as a state, despite opposition...
Fiji’s position over Israeli war on Gaza – international blunder or...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Richard Naidu, editor of Islands Business
South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has been described...
‘The Forever War’ – ABC Four Corners reports on the assault...
Pacific Media Watch
The War on Gaza will be etched in the memories of generations to come -- the brutality of Hamas's 7 October 2023...
Media watchdog calls out biased UK reporting over Israel’s war on...
Pacific Media Watch
A report by a media watchdog has revealed the United Kingdom’s media bias in covering the Hamas attack on October 7 and...
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...
NZ govt designates political wing of Hamas a ‘terrorist’ entity
RNZ News
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has designated the political wing of Hamas as a "terrorist" entity.
New Zealand designated the military wing of Hamas as...
John Minto: Why New Zealand should not designate Hamas a terrorist...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
The New Zealand government is shortly to announce whether it will designate Hamas a “terrorist” group in response to the October...
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...
Defunding UNRWA will cause Gazans ‘more misery and suffering’, warns former...
Asia Pacific Report
Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark, who led the UN Development Programme which oversees UNRWA, told RNZ Morning Report today it...
War on Gaza: The US plan to revamp Palestinian Authority is...
ANALYSIS: By Samer Jaber
For two months now, the United States and other Western countries backing Israel have been talking about “the day after” in...
Israel blows up last university in Gaza as air strikes continue...
By Laura Pollock
Gaza's last standing university has been destroyed by the Israeli army as military continued to strike targets in areas of the besieged...
South Africa’s genocide case against Israel over Gaza ‘chilling’ in detail
Asia Pacific Report
South Africa has accused Israel of "genocidal intent" over its war on the besieged enclave Gaza Strip, and pleaded with judges at...
Since the war on Gaza began, violence against Palestinians has surged...
ANALYSIS: By Tristan Dunning, University of Queensland, and Martin Kear, University of Sydney
While the world remains fixated on the devastating October 7 Hamas attacks...
Behind the war on Gaza – how Israel profits globally from...
REVIEW: By David Robie
Just months before the outbreak of the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza after the deadly assault on southern Israel by Hamas...
Mediawatch: Media in the middle of Gaza claims and counterclaims
RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
Major media organisations all over the world are copping criticism for the way they’re reporting what’s happening...
RSF condemns Middle East ‘bloody week’ with seven journalists killed
Pacific Media Watch
Global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Israeli authorities to end military pactices that "violate international law" with...
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...
Operation Al Aqsa Storm: How, why, and where to now in...
ANALYSIS: By Mouin Rabbani
Almost 50 years to the day after the joint Egyptian-Syrian offensive that launched the 1973 October War, Israel has once again...
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...
Gaza blockade: Hamas’s tragic attack a response to longterm and escalating,...
COMMENTARY: By Marilyn Garson, Fred Albert, Sue Berman and Justine Sachs of the Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ)
Hamas has responded to Israel’s escalating violence with...
Palestine solidarity group calls on NZ to end ‘blind eye’ policy...
Asia Pacific Report
The New Zealand government bears heavy responsibility for loss of life of Palestinians and Israelis in the latest fighting in Israel/Palestine and...