Tag: War on Gaza

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...

Asia Pacific Report Following an open letter by Auckland University academics speaking out in support of their students' right to protest against the genocidal Israeli...

Asia Pacific Report The Aotearoa chapter of the Women's International league for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) has appealed to the New Zealand government to call...

Asia Pacific Report About 500 people honoured Palestinian journalists in the heart of the New Zealand city of Auckland today for their brave coverage of...

By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch Along with the devastating death toll – now almost 35,000 people, hundreds of aid workers and hundreds...

RNZ News A group of academic staff at New Zealand's largest university have expressed concern at the administration's move to block a protest encampment that...

Asia Pacific Report The prosecutor’s office at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has appealed for an end to what it calls intimidation of its staff,...

Asia Pacific Report Ngāti Kahungunu in Aotearoa New Zealand's Hawkes Bay region has become the first indigenous Māori iwi (tribe) to sign a resolution calling...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Eugene Doyle He is the most popular Palestinian leader alive today -- and yet few people in the West even know his...

Asia Pacific Report The Pacific state of Hawai'i’s House of Representatives has joined the state’s Senate in calling for a ceasefire in Israel's war on...

Asia Pacific Report A score of Palestine solidarity protesters draped themselves in white shrouds with mock blood in a sombre “die-in” demonstration at Te Komitanga...

Pacific Media Watch US President Joe Biden has spoken at the annual White House Correspondents’ dinner in Washington in spite of protests over alleged "complicity"...

Asia Pacific Report From France to Australia, university pro-Palestine protests in the United States have now spread to several countries with students pitching on-campus camps. And...

Asia Pacific Report The Freedom Flotilla is ready to sail to Gaza, reports Kia Ora Gaza. All the required paperwork has been submitted to the port...

Pacific Media Watch Palestine solidarity protesters today demonstrated at the Auckland headquarters of Television New Zealand, accusing the country’s major TV network of broadcasting “propaganda”...

Asia Pacific Report Chief Mandla Mandela, a member of the National Assembly of South Africa and Nelson Mandela’s grandson, has joined the Freedom Flotilla in...

ANALYSIS: By Olli Hellmann, University of Waikato When New Zealanders commemorate Anzac Day today on April 25, it’s not only to honour the soldiers who...

Asia Pacific Report Students and activist staff at Australia’s University of Sydney (USyd) have set up a Gaza solidarity encampment in support of Palestinians and...

COMMENTARY: By Malcolm Evans Last week’s leaked New York Times staff directive, as to what words can and cannot be used to describe the carnage...

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...

By Salwa Amor in Istanbul Palestine solidarity activists are preparing a flotilla to deliver urgently needed humanitarian aid to Gaza, vowing to break Israel's blockade...

Pacific Media Watch Australians are being urged to stay united following the horrific events in Sydney last week, reports the ABC's Saturday Extra programme. Five women...