Friday, May 3, 2024

Topic: Gaza

“I would not exchange my freedom for my dignity”: Brazil’s Lula blasts Israel’s ‘genocide’ in Gaza – again

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has doubled down on his criticism of Israel, saying, once again, that what “the Israeli government is doing is not war, it is genocide”.

At least 40 killed in ‘heinous massacre’ in central Gaza, “all of them women, children,” says Hamas

Israeli army shelling of residential homes in central Gaza late on Thursday killed at least 40 Palestinians and injured over hundred, local authorities said.

Immediate ceasefire is ‘common wish’ of international community, says China

Speaking at the United Nations Security Council, China’s representative to the UN, Zhang Jun, has said that a ceasefire in Gaza is an “urgent imperative to save innocent lives and to prevent a wider war.”

Gaza has become a ‘death zone’, warns WHO chief

“Gaza has become a death zone,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organisation’s Director-General told reporters on Wednesday during a press briefing in Geneva. “Much of the territory...

Nasser Hospital in Gaza ‘place of death’, says UN

Besieged hospital in Gaza’s Khan Younis, Nasser Medical Complex, has become “place of death”, says United Nations official after aid visit.

Book review: My People Shall Live by Leila Khaled

‘My People Shall Live’ is the autobiography of the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) revolutionary Leila Khaled who attempted two plane hijacks- TWA Flight 840 and El-Al Flight 219 in 1969 and 1970 in order to free her people who were being held as prisoners in Israel, as well as bring the Palestinian cause to the forefront. The book, originally published in 1973, was edited by George Hajjar.