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Security Council: rejection of a Russian draft resolution on the situation in Gaza

Meeting early in the evening, the Security Council rejected by 5 votes for, 4 votes against (United States, France, Japan, and the United Kingdom), and 6 abstentions a draft resolution presented by the Russian Federation by which the Council notably…

Gaza: interview with Martin Griffiths, Head of UN Emergency Relief

UN emergency aid chief Martin Griffiths on Monday expressed deep concern about the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the fate of the Israeli hostages while anticipating “good news” on aid access to southern Gaza from Egypt. “We are living…

Judith Butler: Nonviolence versus Condemnation

In times of confusion and unconscionable violence, we seek answers that can free us from the mental prisons into which such human atrocities lead us. How to deal with the unconscionable horror of Hamas’s attack on Israel? How and in…

Palestine between nihilism and destruction

When I saw the images of smoke billowing from buildings after Israel’s heavy shelling and the destruction of some Kibbutz along the line separating Israel from the Gaza Strip, I knew from the start that both sides seek to destroy…

Historian Rashid Khalidi: Palestinian people “live under unbelievable oppression” that at some point “had to explode”.

From New York, Palestinian-American professor Rashid Khalidi, author of the book “Palestine, One Hundred Years of Colonialism and Resistance”, analyses how this weekend’s extreme violence between Hamas and Israel will lead to “a paradigm shift”. Colonial powers will no longer…

Israel’s government has nothing to offer but revenge

In this time of dark grief, I cling to the one thing I have left to hold on to: the absolute belief that this hell is not predestined. Not for us, nor for them.   By Orly Noy (*) October…

Response to Mickey in Tel Aviv – conflict between Palestine and Israel and active nonviolence

Dear Mickey, like many people, I am stunned to see the level of violence exercised by Hamas militants on Israeli citizens. It is terrifying, all these acts of barbarism! But in retaliation, the response of the Israeli state to declare…

Israel-Gaza, Amnesty International: “Civilians pay the price of an unprecedented crisis”

Amnesty International urged the Israeli military and Palestinian armed groups to make every effort to protect civilian lives. “We are deeply concerned by the number of civilians killed in Gaza, Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories and call on all…

Occupied Palestine: Israeli bombing of Gaza and raids in the West Bank

Israeli fighter jets bombed Gaza yesterday [September 26, 2023] in an attempt to dissuade Palestinians from demonstrating on the demarcation line. The targets of the air attacks are the observation and monitoring positions. There are no reports of victims. Against…

30 years after the Oslo Accords: Is hope for peace revived between Palestinians and Israelis?

On 13 September 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organisation leader Yasser Arafat sealed in Washington the Oslo Peace Accords, which had been negotiated for months in the Norwegian capital. The accords maintained Israeli jurisdiction over foreign…

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