White House says it won’t pull funding from Israel despite aid blockade to Gaza – CBS News Watch CBS News National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby bristled at the idea the White House would pull funding from Israel over the blockage of humanitarian aid getting into Gaza during Tuesday’s White House briefing. “‘Well if [Israel’s] … Read more
Passport Canada has issued an apology after informing a 90-year-old woman that she could not list Palestine as her country of birth on her new passport. The department was forced to retract and explain its clerical error after the elderly woman’s granddaughter shared the incident on social media platform, TikTok, which has garnered over a … Read more
India is committed to support a two-state solution where the Palestinian people are able to live freely in an independent country, with due regard to the security needs of Israel, India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ruchira Kamboj has said. Delivering an address at the United Nations General Assembly Meeting on the Use of … Read more
“They were all dead. Their father took them and left me behind,” said Rania Abu Anza, a 29-year-old grieving mother in Gaza. After trying to conceive for 10 years, including three rounds of in vitro fertilisation (IVF), Rania gave birth to twins in October last year. But at just five months old, babies Naeim (male) … Read more
In January 1973, Hussein al-Bashir, a representative in Cyprus of Fatah, the largest faction of the PLO, was killed in Nicosia by a bomb under his hotel bed. Next, and again in Paris, it was the turn in April 1973 of Basil al-Kubaisi, a Beirut law professor suspected of assisting with logistics for Munich. He … Read more
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi group said it will continue to attack British shipping in the Red Sea after sinking the MV Rubymar, which went under over the weekend. “Yemen will continue to sink more British ships, and any repercussions or other damages will be added to Britain’s bill,” Hussein al-Ezzias, deputy foreign minister in the Houthi … Read more
Oil and fertilizer have poured into the Red Sea from a sinking cargo ship attacked by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, putting the local environment and a critical waterway for cargo shipments to Europe at risk. U.S. officials confirmed early Sunday that U.K.-owned MV Rubymar carrying 21,000 metric tons of fertilizer had sunk two weeks after it … Read more
Galloway ran his campaign from a Suzuki car dealership, which is both darkly funny, and a metaphor for the way in which democracy can feel like another glib consumer choice. Do you want a car and a dream? Or just a car? I stood outside the dealership, and looked at the tiny pictures of Galloway … Read more
“She knew she would die”, said Ahmad al Ghuferi after his wife, daughters and 103 relatives were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their family home in Gaza City. When Hamas launched its unprecedented attack on Israel last year, which saw around 1,200 civilians killed and more than 240 people captured by the proscribed terror … Read more
The deteriorating Gaza crisis is taking a heavy toll on Palestinian children as acute malnutrition is increasing in the population, says a new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO). According to a detailed analysis done by the Global Nutrition Cluster of WHO, malnutrition in Gaza children has seen a steep rise since the Israel-Hamas … Read more
