Tag: Occupied Palestine
Israel destroys only a quarter of Gaza tunnels in 18 months...
The New Arab
The Israeli military has reportedly only destroyed 25 percent of tunnels used by Hamas in the Gaza Strip since October 2023,...
100 children killed or wounded every day since Gaza ceasefire broken
Asia Pacific Report
The chief of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has described Gaza as “no land” for children, as two rallies were held...
Stoush breaks out between NZ Human Rights Commissioner and Jewish leader...
By Anneke Smith, RNZ News political reporter
A stoush between the Chief Human Rights Commissioner and a Jewish community leader has flared up following a...
It will take more than an Oscar to stop Israel’s West...
By Leilani Farha of The New Arab
"I started filming when we started to end." With these haunting words, Basel Adra begins No Other Land,...
NZ protesters honour killed Gaza journalists – ‘targeted’ say press freedom...
Pacific Media Watch
Global press freedom organisations have condemned the killing of two journalists in Gaza this week, who died in separate targeted airstrikes by...
Fiji solidarity group condemns Rabuka plans for embassy in Jerusalem
Asia Pacific Report
A Fiji-based Pacific solidarity group supporting the indigenous Palestine struggle for survival against the Israeli settler colonial state has today issued a...
Green Party’s Swarbrick calls for urgent NZ action over Israel’s ‘crazy’...
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...
Israel’s former chief justice Aharon Barak fears state risks ‘civil war’
Pacific Media Watch
Israel’s most revered jurist, former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak, says that he fears the Netanyahu government’s latest actions, including moves to...
Free press under threat in US – Columbia J-School speaks out
Columbia Journalism School
Freedom of the press -- a bedrock principle of American democracy -- is under threat in the United States.
Here at Columbia University...
Thousands in Melbourne rally for International Women’s Day, Gaza
By Mary Merkenich in Naarm/Melbourne
More than 2000 people -- mostly women and union members -- marked International Women’s Day two days early last week...
Gallery: NZ women call for long-term peace and justice in Palestine
Asia Pacific Report
Women from Aotearoa, Philippines, Palestine and South Africa today called for justice and peace for the people of Gaza and the West...
The world cannot ignore Trump’s death threat to my people of...
COMMENTARY: By Ahmed Najar
'To the People of Gaza: A beautiful Future awaits, but not if you hold Hostages. If you do, you are DEAD!...
Jewish Council slams Australian universities’ ‘dangerous, politicised’ antisemitism definition
Asia Pacific Report
An independent Jewish body has condemned the move by Australia’s 39 universities to endorse a "dangerous and politicised" definition of antisemitism which...
Fiji’s diplomatic move to Jerusalem sparks controversy with Palestine
RNZ Pacific
Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka's announcement this week that the island nation will open a diplomatic mission in Jerusalem has been labelled "an...
Palestine and Gaza’s Hamas resistance condemn Fiji over embassy plan
By Anish Chand in Suva
Palestine has strongly condemned Fiji’s decision to open a Fiji embassy in Jerusalem, calling it a violation of international law...
Open letter from local Jewish Voices condemns Zionist ‘colonisation’ project
Asia Pacific Report
Two independent Jewish Voices groups in Aotearoa New Zealand have written an open letter to the government condemning the Zionist "colonisation" project...
Hamas report to mediators accuses Israel of pervasive Gaza ceasefire violations
As Benjamin Netanyahu threatens to resume war, Hamas outlines widespread Israeli ceasefire violations in document sent to the mediators.
By Jeremy Scahill and Sharif Abdel...
Trump’s ‘Riviera’ plan for Gaza heralds an age of naked fascism
COMMENTARY: By Sawsan Madina
I watched US President Donald Trump’s joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week in utter disbelief. Not...
Ōtautahi man says family in Gaza will never leave despite US...
By Rachel Helyer Donaldson, RNZ News journalist
A Palestinian man living in Aotearoa New Zealand who has lost 55 relatives in three Israeli airstrikes on...
Eugene Doyle: Trump and foolish old men who redraw maps
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
It generally ends badly. An old tyrant embarks on an ill-considered project that involves redrawing maps.
They are heedless to wise counsel...
Palestine prisoners’ release ‘symbolic win’ showing unity in face of occupation,...
Asia Pacific Report
Sultan Barakat, a professor at Qatar’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University, says the release of Palestinian prisoners is a “symbolic win” rather than...
‘Ignore Trump’s bully’ and take stand over genocide, PSNA tells Peters
Asia Pacific Report
A defiant Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) national chair, John Minto, has appealed to Aotearoa New Zealand to stand with the "majority...