Tag: War on Gaza
PSNA calls on NZ govt to condemn renewed Israel air strikes...
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...
New Zealand and Gaza: Confronting and not confronting the unspeakable
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...
Australian university workers: ‘We will not be silenced over Palestine’
SPECIAL REPORT: By Markela Panegyres and Jonathan Strauss in Sydney
The new Universities Australia (UA) definition of antisemitism, endorsed last month for adoption by 39...
Hamas accuses Israel of ‘blackmail’ over aid, demands end of US...
Asia Pacific Report
The Palestinian resistance group Hamas has accused Israel of "blackmail" over aid for Gaza and urged the US government to act more...
Barred European Union politician brands Israel as ‘a rogue state’
Asia Pacific Report
Israel has now banned another European Union parliamentarian from entering the country, reports Al Jazeera.
The government gave no reasons why Lynn Boylan,...
Hamas handover spectacles are demo to world of ‘keeping captives safe’,...
Asia Pacific Report
Hamas stages elaborate ceremonies for the release of Israeli captives in Gaza in a bid to signal they are responsible stakeholders by...
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...
Fiji and Israel strengthen bilateral relations, plan embassy opening
Pacific Media Watch
Fiji has reaffirmed its commitment to establishing an embassy in Israel, with plans to open the embassy in Jerusalem, despite global condemnation...
How would Israel respond if Trump called for death camps in...
The issue is no longer a hypothetical one. US President Donald Trump will not explicitly suggest death camps, but he has already consented to Israel's...
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...
Analyst condemn’s Netanyahu’s ‘crocodile tears’ over captives as ‘beyond absurd’
Asia Pacific Report
Speaking about the frail, disoriented appearance of the three freed Israeli captives yesterday, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara said: “People...
NZ must take robust Gaza stance – ‘stop tip-toeing’ around Trump,...
By Rachel Helyer Donaldson, RNZ News journalist
New Zealand should be robust in its response to the "unacceptable" situation in Gaza but it must also...
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...
As Donald Trump plays God in Gaza, Israel acts like spoiled...
The Gaza ceasefire deal proves that Israeli politics can only survive if it is engaged in perpetual war.
COMMENTARY: By Abdelhalim Abdelrahman
US President Donald Trump...
‘All I wanted was to bid my daughter a final farewell’...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Watching footage of Palestinian parliamentarian and hostage Khalida Jarrar emerge from Israeli captivity was jarring -- a far, muffled cry from...
Israel jeopardising ‘any prospect of peace’, says UNRWA chief
The New Arab
Implementation of Israel's ban on the UN Palestinian relief agency UNRWA will be disastrous, the aid agency's chief has told the Security...
The Listening Post: ‘They have been targeting media – anybody who...
Pacific Media Watch
With a ceasefire in force in Gaza for a week, the Israeli army and settlers have intensified their attacks against Palestinians in...
NZ Palestinian network advocate Janfrie Wakim praises ‘heroic Gaza’, calls for...
Asia Pacific Report
One of the key early leaders of a national Palestinian solidarity network in Aotearoa New Zealand today praised the "heroic" resilience and...
Fiji solidarity network welcomes Gaza ceasefire but calls for ‘justice, accountability’
Asia Pacific Report
The Fijians for Palestine Solidarity Network (FPSN) and its allies have called for "justice and accountability" over Israel's 15 months of genocide...
Climate crisis: The carbon footprint of the Gaza genocide
SPECIAL REPORT: By Jeremy Rose
The International Court of Justice heard last month that after reconstruction is factored in Israel’s war on Gaza will have...
Israel has ramped up West Bank raids to ‘distract’ from ceasefire,...
Asia Pacific Report
Israeli forces have been ramping up operations in the occupied West Bank-- mainly the Jenin refugee camp – to “distract” from the...