Tag: War on Gaza
Why have Albanese and other politicians been referred to the ICC...
ANALYSIS: By Donald Rothwell, Australian National University
In an unprecedented legal development, senior Australian politicians, including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, have been referred to the...
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...
DAWN calls on UN to set up global protection force for...
Asia Pacific Report
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) should act urgently to establish an international protection force to safeguard Palestinian civilians and ensure...
NZ’s shameful act over Hamas in defiance of Gaza atrocities reality
COMMENTARY: By David Robie
New Zealand has taken another shameful act in its tone deaf approach to Israel’s War on Gaza this week by declaring...
NZ news media under fire for ‘bias, propaganda’ in Gaza coverage
Pacific Media Watch
New Zealand news media came under fire at today’s Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland calling for an immediate ceasefire in the war...
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...
Al Jazeera’s Bishara says ICJ critics ‘demolished shameless defences’ of Israel...
Pacific Media Watch
The International Court of Justice (ICC) has held its last day of hearings examining the legality of Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestinian...
John Minto: Why New Zealand should not designate Hamas a terrorist...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
The New Zealand government is shortly to announce whether it will designate Hamas a “terrorist” group in response to the October...
Amnesty International accuses Israel of ‘defying’ ICJ ruling over genocide
Asia Pacific Report
Amnesty International has accused Israel of defying last month's International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling to prevent genocide by failing to allow...
‘Time for talking is over’ – Turkish plan to break Gaza...
Kia Ora Gaza
The head of the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), Bulent Yildirim, has announced that the organisation will head a naval fleet to...
Kia Ora Gaza organiser condemns ‘open genocide’ in Gaza Strip
While telling today's Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland about "good news" over creative humanitarian aid plans to help Palestinians amid the 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...