Thursday, April 25, 2024

World

Half of Gaza’s population ‘starving’, food relief a ‘drop in the ocean’ of need: WFP

The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has said half of Gaza’s population – estimated to be some 2.3 million people – are starving.

After Columbia, Pro-Palestine protests expand to major US universities

Students of major universities in the United States have launched pro-Palestinian protests demanding divestment from companies involved in...

Leicester Ram Navami procession: Muslim groups seek police action against Hindutva mob for Islamophobic chants

Multiple Muslim organisations lodged complaints with Leicestershire police seeking action against a Hindutva mob for their Islamophobic chants raised during Ram Navami procession.

Setback for BJP as foreign parliamentarians demand action on human rights violations in India

Parliamentarians from several countries have come together to express their profound concern over escalating human rights violations in India.

Two days after Israeli forces pronounced him dead, Abu Shujaa appears ‘alive’ in Tulkarm

Earlier this week, Israeli occupation forces carried out a brutal three-day raid of Tulkarm's Nour Shams refugee camp. During the onslaught, Israeli soldiers carried out mass arrests to end rebellious movements in the occupied West Bank.

Israel uses starvation as a war weapon, asserts UN body

Israel has failed to comply with the International Court of Justice’s court order which was pronounced in South Africa’s genocide case on 26 – Jan 2024, Human Rights Watch...

Hungry Palestinian toddler dies after eating bread made from animal feed

A two-year-old Palestinian child called Khaled has died after eating bread made from animal feed in the northern Gaza Strip on 27 February.
- Advertisement -

“I’m not afraid”: Gaza’s 11-year-old reporter

11-year-old Sumayya Wushah, one of Gaza’s youngest journalists-in-the-making, says she is “not afraid” to report from the war-torn Strip, where more than 100 journalists have been killed by Israeli attacks since October 7.

Indian among 23 convicted for deaths in Uzbekistan due to contaminated cough syrup

On Monday, a court in Uzbekistan handed down jail sentences to 23 individuals, one of whom is Indian, in connection with the deaths of 68 children caused by contaminated cough syrup manufactured by Marion Biotech Limited, a company based in Noida.
- Advertisement -

“His name has been immortalised as a defender of humanitarian values…”: Hamas on US airman Aaron Bushnell

Hamas has expressed condolences to the US airman Aaron Bushnell’s family and friends, likening Bushnell to US activist Rachel Corrie who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to protect a Palestinian home in Gaza from demolition in 2003.

Palestinian Prime Minister resigns over Gaza genocide

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh announced the resignation of his government, which controls parts of the occupied West Bank, due to the increase of settler violence in the occupied...
- Advertisement -

Gaza genocide: US soldier self-immolates in protest at Israeli Embassy

An active duty US soldier on Sunday set himself on fire as an act of protest against Israel's genocidal war on Gaza and the complicity of the US in the whole campaign.

Last time food delivered to northern Gaza was Jan 23: UNRWA

The last time the the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near Easta (UNRWA) was able to deliver food aid to northern Gaza was on 23 January, said UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini.
- Advertisement -

Acclaimed academic of Kashmiri origin, Nitasha Kaul, not allowed to enter India, detained and deported to London

Nitasha Kaul, a British writer of Kashmiri descent and a politics professor at the University of Westminster in London, alleged that she was denied entry to India on the orders of the Union government, “for speaking on democractic and constitutional values.”

Indian journalist Fazli Khan dies in New York apartment fire

A 27-year-old Indian national, who worked as a journalist in the United States, tragically lost his life in a fire incident in an apartment building in New York's Harlem.
- Advertisement -

Two-month old child dies after family unable to find milk in northern Gaza

A two-month-old child, named Mahmoud Fattouh, has died of malnutrition in Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, the Wafa news agency is reporting, citing medical sources.

“Let our enemy know that our anger is imminent…”: Hamas warns Israel against Al-Aqsa Mosque restrictions in Ramadan

“Let our enemy know that souls are boiling … [our] anger is imminent … and an explosion is coming in response to any restrictions on the entry of Muslims to Al-Aqsa Mosque during the month of Ramadan,” Hamas wrote on its Telegram page
- Advertisement -