Tag: War on Gaza
John Minto: Why is mainstream media in NZ so blatantly ignoring...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
Why is Aotearoa New Zealand media so silent on the Gaza genocide happening before our eyes?
Amid unreported-in-Aotearoa media stories of horrific...
Bainimarama slams Fiji’s support for Israeli occupation of Palestine as ‘disturbing’
RNZ Pacific
Former Fiji prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama says the country's intervention at the International Court of Justice over Israel's occupation of Palestine betrays Fiji's...
Fiji human rights group condemns ‘troubling’ support for Israel at ICJ
Asia Pacific Report
A Fiji human rights advocacy coalition has condemned Fiji's "profoundly troubling" stance as being one of only two countries supporting continued illegal...
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...
PM Luxon leaves Big Gay Out abruptly after heated Gaza war...
RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon abruptly left the Big Gay Out festival in Auckland's Point Chevalier today after being confronted by Gaza...
John Minto: Why are Israeli attacks on UNRWA so much more...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
Unfortunately there was no discussion of foreign policy during Aotearoa New Zealand's general election last year. Aside from the odd obligatory...
War on Gaza: Palestinian journalism has been decimated with impunity
Pacific Media Watch
The toll of four months of war in Gaza on journalism is "nothing short of horrifying" -- Palestinian journalists killed, wounded, and...
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...
Freedom Flotilla on the move again – hopes to break the...
Asia Pacific Report
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) has announced in Istanbul a plan to sail again to challenge Israel’s unlawful and deadly siege of...
NZ police accused of aggression after arrests at pro-Palestine protest
RNZ News
An activist organisation is accusing the Aotearoa New Zealand police of brutality after arrests were made at a pro-Palestine protest in Lyttelton today.
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Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh’s mother dies after he wins global award
Pacific Media Watch
The mother of Al Jazeera’s award-winning Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh has died at a hospital in Gaza due to illness, reports...
Pacific protesters feature in NZ rally against Israel’s war on Gaza
Asia Pacific Report
Pacific protesters were prominent in the 17th week of Aotearoa New Zealand solidarity demonstrations for Palestine and a ceasefire in Israel's genocidal...
Palestinian envoy calls for ‘unity’ and ‘strategy’ for pathway to just...
Asia Pacific Report
The Palestinian Ambassador to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, Dr Izzat Abdulhadi, last night appealed for "unity", "strategy" and "networking" for...
Pressure must go on Israel to comply with World Court genocide...
Aotearoa New Zealand must ramp up pressure on Israel to abide by last month’s International Court of Justice ruling, writes John Minto.
COMMENTARY: By John...
Canberra ‘ignores public’ over Gaza war – UNRWA fund cuts...
Asia Pacific Report
Senator and deputy leader of the Australian Greens party Mehreen Faruqi says the survival of millions of people in Gaza depends on...
NZ legally obliged to step up and speak out after World...
New Zealand’s commitment to the international rule of law means it must also go beyond the UN court’s genocide case findings on Gaza, writes...
Few ‘rotten apples’ shouldn’t prevent NZ aid to thousands of innocent...
RNZ News
New Zealand would likely continue funding the United Nations agency delivering aid in Palestine if concerns about its staff were dealt with, the...
Indonesian and Papuan protesters call for ‘Palestine independence’
Asia Pacific Report
Several democratic, progressive and socialist organisations in Indonesia and in the Melanesian region of West Papua have come together in solidarity with...
Defunding UNRWA will cause Gazans ‘more misery and suffering’, warns former...
Asia Pacific Report
Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark, who led the UN Development Programme which oversees UNRWA, told RNZ Morning Report today it...
‘Ceasefire now’ protesters march on NZ naval base, demand Luxon upholds...
Asia Pacific Report
About 200 protesters marched through the heart of Auckland's tourist suburb of Devonport today to the Royal New Zealand Navy base, accusing...
UN refugee agency a neutral Gaza ‘lifeline for millions’, says aid...
RNZ News
A New Zealander working for the UN refugee agency for Palestinians says having countries pull funding is devastating.
Speaking from Geneva, Hector Sharp told...