By Kouthar Sambo Tragic scenes played out on Tuesday at the Maghazi refugee camp when the Israeli occupation rained down missiles from its drones. A Palestinian resident in Gaza, Rafat Jawwad, told VOC News that the children were playing right outside their camp after Asr prayer when they were suddenly[…]
By Kouthar Sambo The University of Cape Town (UCT)4Palestine launched a teach-in academic boycott on Monday regarding UCT’s alleged complicity in the Israeli aggression in Gaza. Speaking on VOC’s News Beat show on Tuesday, a member of the UCT Palestinian Solidarity Forum (PSF) Malaika Khan said listening to the Palestinian[…]
At least 52 more Palestinians were killed and 95 others injured over the last 24 hours as Israel continues its onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip, the territory’s Health Ministry said on Saturday, Anadolu Agency reports. “The Israeli occupation (forces) committed five massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 52[…]
“It’s a ceasefire negotiation and not a prisoner deal negotiation. The prisoner’s deal is one of the items to be negotiated. Why do we fall into the trap set by Netanyahu?” This is according to the Member of the Palestinian resistance group of Hamas in Gaza, Dr Basem Naim. The[…]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland have called for an immediate ceasefire in the besieged Palestinian enclave of Gaza, Anadolu news agency reported. In a statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Lavrov and Wennesland met on Wednesday evening and discussed[…]
Gaza’s Health Ministry has said at least 63 Palestinians have been killed and 45 injured in Israeli attacks across the enclave in the past 24 hours. The World Health Organization (WHO) has said destruction in Khan Younis and damage to the medical sector was “disproportionate to anything one can imagine”[…]
By Lee-Yandra Paulsen A visiting scholar at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of Western Cape, Dr Muhannad Ayyash, shared insights on the Gaza atrocities during his conversation with VOC’s Shafiq Morton on Monday. Born and raised in Silwan, Al-Quds, Ayyash now serves as a Professor of Sociology at Mount[…]
It has been more than 10 days since the UN Security Council passed a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, but no visible steps have been taken for its implementation, Anadolu Agency reports. Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories,[…]
By Kouthar Sambo Israel has passed a law that puts a ban on Al Jazeera, therefore allowing the government to end all Al Jazeera broadcasting in Israel. This comes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the Knesset, the country’s legislative body, to pass a bill, known as the “Al[…]
Spanish military aircraft delivered 26 tonnes of humanitarian aid yesterday to Palestinians in the blockaded Gaza Strip, with Madrid urging Israel to open land border crossings to prevent famine, according to the Foreign Ministry. The operation, conducted in collaboration with Jordan and supported financially by the European Union, involved the[…]
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