Tag: War on Gaza
ICC demands end to threats against court amid Gaza war probe
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,...
Ngāti Kahungunu becomes NZ’s first iwi to call for a Gaza...
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...
27 years in captivity – free Marwan Barghouti, ‘Palestine’s Mandela’
SPECIAL REPORT: By Eugene Doyle
He is the most popular Palestinian leader alive today -- and yet few people in the West even know his...
Pacific state of Hawai’i first in US to pass dual Gaza...
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...
Palestine protesters stage Gaza ‘die-in’ as leaders call for step up...
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...
Biden hails ‘press freedom, democracy’ but ignores Gaza media death toll...
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"...
US student Palestine protests against Israel’s war on Gaza inspire global...
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...
Israel delays Gaza Freedom Flotilla departure with bureaucratic ‘block’
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...
Palestine protesters challenge TVNZ over Israeli ambassador’s ‘propaganda’
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”...
Nelson Mandela’s grandson joins Gaza flotilla, slams ‘genocide complicit’ leaders
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...
From Gallipoli to Gaza: remembering the Anzacs not as a ‘coming...
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...
Sydney University students set up Gaza solidarity camp as war marks...
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...
Malcolm Evans: A new low in NZ media’s record of bias...
REVIEW: 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...
NZ’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters ‘defers’ recognition of Palestine
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...
Activists defy Israel with Gaza-bound ‘freedom’ flotilla and humanitarian aid
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...
Australia’s social cohesion under strain, challenges and solutions
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...
‘Stop detracting from Israel’s barbaric crimes’ in Gaza plea from Freedom...
Asia Pacific Report
Hours ago, the news media reported that Israel has attacked Iran. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition publicly declared that it is reminding the...
Rousing farewell for Kiwi doctors flying out to Gaza aid flotilla
Kia Ora Gaza
A passionate haka reverberated through Auckland International Airport as a medical team of three New Zealand doctors received an emotional farewell from...
Fiji’s position over Israeli war on Gaza – international blunder or...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Richard Naidu, editor of Islands Business
South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has been described...
NZ’s Peters criticises Security Council at UN, says Gaza ‘a wasteland’
RNZ News
New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has told the United Nations the situation in Gaza is an "utter catastrophe" and criticised the...
More pressure from US allies could see change to ‘untenable policy’...
Asia Pacific Report
Nour Odeh, a Palestinian political analyst, says that the US is more likely to move in the “right direction” when it comes...
APR editor criticises NZ media coverage over the war on Gaza
Pacific Media Watch
Pacific media commentator and Asia Pacific Report editor David Robie has criticised New Zealand media coverage of Israel's war on Gaza, describing...