Palestine
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Joe Biden disagrees with Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza and has called it a “mistake”. “I think what he’s doing is a mistake. I don’t agree with his approach,” the US president told Univision, a US Spanish-language TV network, in an interview filmed last Wednesday. It’s not the first time Mr Biden…
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World Central Kitchen (WCK) founder José Andrés has accused Israeli forces in Gaza of targeting his aid workers “systematically, car by car”. Monday’s strike which killed seven members of his staff was not a mistake, he said, repeating that Israeli forces had been told of their movements. WCK workers from Australia, Canada, Poland, the UK…
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When the pro-Palestinian marchers came round the corner of the Strand in London, drums beating and megaphones blaring, they saw a row of Israeli flags. The boos were loud and there were plenty of obscene gestures. Both sides chanted “shame on you” at each other, with the police standing between them. The pro-Palestinian protesters shouted…
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President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address came off as “aggressive, arrogant, combative and divisive,” but that’s who he has always been, Rep. Claudia Tenney said. “It was the worst speech I’ve ever seen,” the New York Republican told Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.” “There are only a couple of moments when we could actually agree, and he…
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President Joe Biden was “angry and vitriolic” in his State of the Union address, said Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo. “I was watching his address and thinking, This is the crazy uncle on the corner that yells at everybody to get off his lawn,” Hageman said Saturday during an appearance on Newsmax’s “Saturday Agenda.” “What an angry and vitriolic speech! I just could…
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Palestinians began fasting for Ramadan on Monday as the Muslim holy month arrived with cease-fire talks at a standstill, hunger worsening across the Gaza Strip and no end in sight to the five-month-old war between Israel and Hamas. Prayers were held outside amid the rubble of demolished buildings late Sunday. Some people hung fairy lights…
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country’s forces plan to invade the city of Rafah in southern Gaza despite President Joe Biden claiming that doing so would be crossing “a red line.” In an interview broadcast Saturday, Biden told MSNBC that Netanyahu “must pay more attention to the innocent lives being lost” during the Israel-Hamas war,…
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Joe Biden’s latest comments about the way in which Israel is conducting its war in Gaza carry extra weight because it was the president who made them, a Sky News military analyst has said. Mr Biden has warned that Benjamin Netanyahu is “hurting Israel more than helping”. The American president also said Israel “cannot have 30,000…
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The World Health Organisation has delivered fuel and medical supplies to two hospitals in northern Gaza. Its director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said al Ahli Arab and al Sahaba hospitals are “functioning” but with “limited capacity”. They “lack food, fuel, specialised staff, anaesthetic drugs, antibiotics and internal fixation devices”. The WHO’s top official said “sustained,…
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Benjamin Netanyahu is “hurting Israel more than helping”, Joe Biden has said. The American president also said Israel “cannot have 30,000 more Palestinians dead” as a “consequence” of pursuing Hamas fighters. Inflicting mass civilian casualties is also “contrary to what Israel stands for”, he added. Washington has urged the Israeli prime minister not to begin a major…
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Pro-Palestinian protesters gathered in Amsterdam as a new National Holocaust Museum was opened. Israeli President Isaac Herzog attended the event, as did Dutch King Willem-Alexander. Demonstrators chanted “never again is now” and “ceasefire now” in a square close to the museum. They also held Palestinian flags and signs that said “Jews against genocide” and “the grandchild of a holocaust survivor…
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A vessel travelling in the Gulf of Aden has reported two explosions in the sea ahead of it, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) has said. Both the vessel and crew were reported as safe. It was travelling 50 nautical miles southeast of Yemen’s city of Aden when it made the report. The UKMTO…
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British campaign group Palestinian Action have slashed a historic painting at the University of Cambridge. An activist was filmed spray painting and then slashing the portrait of Lord Balfour at the university’s Trinity College. The 1917 Balfour Declaration was a pledge by Britain declaring its aim to establish a “national home for the Jewish people”…
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Israeli officials are reportedly discussing arming some civilians in Gaza to provide security protection for aid convoys. Civil order has become increasingly strained in the Palestinian enclave, and last week dozens of people were killed in an incident during which crowds surrounded a convoy of aid trucks. Israel Hayom, which reported the discussions among Israeli…
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The Israel Defence Forces has claimed its review of a deadly incident involving humanitarian aid trucks last week has shown its troops did not fire at the convoy. At least 100 Palestinians were killed and hundreds more were injured as crowds tried to collect humanitarian aid, the Hamas-led health ministry said. At the time, Israeli…
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The US has conducted a number of a “self-defence strikes” against Houthi targets in Yemen. Four mobile Houthi anti-ship cruise missiles and one unmanned aerial vehicle were targeted, US Central Command said. Forces also shot down three drones launched towards the Gulf of Aden from areas controlled by the Iranian-backed militant group. “These actions are taken…
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