Jawdat Sami al-Madhoun eventually left after seeing his friend’s death and comforting a young kid who want to pass away with her parents. Gaza Strip’s Deir el-Balah When the gates of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital materialized in front of Jawdat Sami al-Madhoun, he was almost taken aback by the sight. The 26-year-old medical assistant was able…
The International Criminal Court has been urged to look into claims of war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza by President Cyril Ramaphosa. The ruling party in South Africa has said that it would back a parliamentary vote demanding the closure of the Israeli embassy there. The African National Congress (ANC) applauded President Cyril Ramaphosa’s…
Why did Israeli military assault the biggest hospital in Gaza? A full-scale military operation has been initiated by Israeli soldiers while hundreds of ill and injured Palestinians are actively seeking sanctuary inside al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. We wonder what, if anything, lies beneath the hospital and what will it take for the violence to stop…
A federal complaint demands that the US stop providing Israel with its $3.8 billion in military aid each year. A lawsuit has been filed against the US president and two cabinet officials for their alleged failure to stop and encouragement of “genocide” in Gaza. President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Secretary of…
Human rights organizations claim that Sikhala and other opposition activists are the focus of Zimbabwean authorities that “weaponize the law.” Zimbabwe’s Harare – The previous 17 months that Job “Wiwa” Sikhala has been detained in pre-trial custody at Zimbabwe’s Chikurubi maximum-security prison represent the longest period of time an opposition politician has been detained in…
Families in Gaza struggle to locate water and food for their children while Israeli airstrikes land on the area. Amal al-Robayaa sets out every morning at 8 a.m. to find food from the United Nations school, where she has sought safety with her extended family since the start of the Gaza War. “I always consider…
The 2,000 cancer patients in the Gaza Strip have terrible health conditions as they receive no appropriate care or therapy. Gaza Region: Saida Barbakh sits in her wheelchair and surveys the packed classroom of the United Nations-run school she currently resides in in Khan Younis. She lets out a long sigh. The prescription for the…
Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich calls the move the ‘right humanitarian solution’. Critics call it ‘ethnic cleansing’. The “right humanitarian solution” for the beleaguered enclave and the region is the “voluntary migration” of Palestinians in Gaza, according to Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. Palestinian authorities compared this to advocating “ethnic cleansing.” Smotrich’s remarks follow…
Al Jazeera has discovered that Malta has distributed a fresh draft resolution that centers on the children of Gaza. Will there be a US veto? As death and despair descend on Gaza, tense and challenging deliberations in the UN Security Council continue in an attempt to break the impasse that is crippling the world’s most…
Chinese companies are allegedly providing Russia with weaponry for the conflict in Ukraine, according to US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has urged Beijing to take tough measures against Chinese companies supporting Russia’s conflict in Ukraine, while also highlighting the need of “healthy economic relations” between the US and China. Yellen…
