Tag: Humanitarian aid

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The empire’s war on activism and journalism continues to escalate as the Trump administration targets leftwing streamer Hasan Piker and antiwar...

By Niva Chittock, RNZ WorldWatch presenter/producer New Zealand has joined international condemnation of Israel's far-right national security minister, even summoning the Israeli ambassador to convey...

Asia Pacific Report New Zealand needs to summon Israeli ambassador to protest over the illegal and brutal treatment of Global Sumud Flotilla humanitarian aid activists...

Asia Pacific Report Türkiye has condemned Israel’s intervention against the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters, describing it as “a new act of piracy”,...

By Jamil Chade The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has condemned Israel, saying it has no right to detain Brazilian activist Thiago Ávila and...

By Brett Wilkins Greenpeace International has announced that the MY Arctic Sunrise -- one of its largest vessels -- will be taking part in the...

ANALYSIS: By Alessandra Bajec Last week, the UN Security Council endorsed President Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza, effectively installing American supervision over the Palestinian territory’s...

Asia Pacific Report Middle East political analyst Zeidon Alkinani says Israel’s military is continuing “business as usual” to the east of the yellow line in...

Pacific Media Watch New Zealand's Space Minister Judith Collins was warned just two months into Israel's war on Gaza that new BlackSky satellites being launched...

Pacific Media Watch United States top diplomat Marco Rubio says the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) “is not going to play any role”...

Kia Ora Gaza Fifteen years ago today a contingent of six New Zealanders drove three aid-packed ambulances into Gaza as part of the epic international...

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: Israel’s government has approved the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal, that includes a pause in Israeli attacks and the...

RNZ News More than 100 people who were part of the intercepted flotilla to Gaza -- including those from New Zealand -- have entered Jordan. The...

RNZ Pacific The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres will address Papua New Guinea's national Parliament today. The UN chief is in Papua New Guinea on a...

Two New Zealand Palestinians, Rana Hamida and Youssef Sammour, left Auckland today to join the massive new Global Sumud Flotilla determined to break Israel's...

RNZ News New Zealand has joined more than two dozen other countries to call for "immediate and independent" foreign media access to Gaza. Earlier this month,...

By Niva Chittock, RNZ News WorldWatch presenter/producer Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark says she has witnessed Israel deliberately obstructing life-saving humanitarian aid into...

ANALYSIS: By Ilan Noy, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington The words and pictures documenting the famine in the Gaza strip are horrifying. The...

Asia Pacific Report A former senior UN aid official has condemned the bloodshed at the notorious US and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's aid food depots,...

By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News acting political editor New Zealand is lagging behind the rest of the world through its failure to recognise Palestinian statehood,...

No New Zealanders were on board the Handala in the latest arrest and abductions of Freedom Flotilla crew on humanitarian siege-busting missions to Gaza....

Asia Pacific Report An activist on board the Handala, a Gaza Freedom Flotilla ship carrying aid to the besieged enclave in a bid to break...