Tel Aviv: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu railed on Sunday against growing criticism from the United States against his leadership amid the devasting war with Hamas, saying the pressure won’t stop Israel from achieving “total victory.” In recent days, top officials from the US, Israel’s staunchest ally which has provided key military and diplomatic support […]
New Delhi: The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has called on Israel to halt its ground assault on Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, saying 1.2 million people there have nowhere safe to go. “I’m gravely concerned about reports of an Israeli plan to proceed with a ground assault on Rafah,” WHO chief […]
‘All we can do for Gaza is just offer our Du’a.” This is an oft-repeated statement by enraged Arabs and Muslims who feel helpless before the Israeli genocide in Gaza. But is it true that only invocations and supplications are possible, as tens of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are being killed and […]
Stars wear pins calling for immediate ceasefire in Gaza as well as release of captives Los Angeles: Celebrities, including musicians Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, Poor Things star Mark Ruffalo, and comedian Ramy Youssef, wore red pins at the 96th Academy Awards to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. But what is the symbolism behind […]
Cairo: Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh blamed Israel for stalling ceasefire talks and rejecting Hamas’s demand to end the war on Gaza, but said the group was still seeking a negotiated solution. Haniyeh said Israel hadn’t yet given a commitment to end its military offensive, pull out its forces and allow displaced Palestinians to return to […]
Washington: United States President Joe Biden has warned that there are “red lines” Israel should not cross in its war in Gaza while insisting he would never abandon the US ally. In a contradictory and confusing interview with MSNBC aired on Saturday, Biden said that an Israeli invasion of the city of Rafah would be […]
Jared Kushner, a former US official whose relationship to power is that he married the wealthy daughter of a man who was later to become the US president, once attempted to teach Palestinians how to handle their own struggle for freedom. In 2020, he advised Palestinians to stop ‘doing terrorism’, summing up the Palestinian problem […]
Gaza: A United Nations (UN) expert has condemned Israel’s “destruction” of the food system in Gaza and urged an end to the “starvation campaign” there. At a meeting of the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food Michael Fakhri said that nearly 75 per […]
Tel Aviv: Israel has decided not to send a delegation to Cairo for discussions regarding a ceasefire and the release of hostages from Gaza, CNN reported on Sunday, citing a senior Israeli official. The decision stems from Hamas’ failure to respond to two key Israeli demands — providing a detailed list of hostages, specifying those […]
The Palestinian city of Rafah is not just older than Israel, it is as old as civilization itself. It has existed for thousands of years. The Canaanites referred to it as Rafia, and Rafia has been almost always there, guarding the southern frontiers of Palestine, ancient and modern. As the gateway between two continents and […]