Tag: Rafah
Protesters picket Rakon offices and demand NZ halt Israel-bound sales
Asia Pacific Report
Pro-Palestine protesters picketed the offices of Auckland-based electronics manufacturer Rakon today, accusing it of exporting military-capable products for Israel, which is under...
Global outrage continues over Israeli defiance of World Court Rafah order
Asia Pacific Report
International outrage continues to reverberate as Israel ignores the International Court of Justice's order to immediately cease its attack on southern Rafah,...
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...
Protests demand UNRWA funding restored as Israel starves Palestinians
By Alex Bainbridge, Peter Boyle, Isaac Nellist, Jacob Andrewartha, Jordan Ellis, Alex Salmon, Stephen W Enciso and Khaled Ghannam of Green Left
Thousands marched for...
Other nations are applying sanctions and going to court over Gaza...
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato
Despite the carnage, United Nations resolutions and international court rulings, Israel's war in Gaza has the potential to...
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...
Palestinian foreign minister tells ICJ of ‘besieged, bombed and killed’ Gazans
Asia Pacific Report
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki began his address to the week-long "historic" International Court of Justice hearings into the status of the...
NZ’s weak criticism of Israel’s ethnic cleansing war crime too little...
COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog
Winston Peters says Israel’s actions getting ‘out of hand’ ahead of planned Rafah offensive
Prime Minister Christopher...
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...
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...