Interview with the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine. By Yunus Soner, Siena / Italy Francesca Albanese is the UN’s Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories. She provides regular reports to UN human rights bodies regarding the situation here, including Israel’s violation of human rights. Albanese has been very frank her reports and stated, in these official documents, that Israel ...
The world is watching the developments on the Russian-Ukrainian and Palestinian-Israeli fronts with bated breath. We are not talking about limited or ephemeral wars, but about the big explosions of the process that, in the words of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, will end the West’s “500 years of world domination”. We are approaching the critical developments on both fronts. ...
Hamas has accepted a ceasefire deal proposed by Egypt and Qatar. But Israel says, it will continue to operate in Gaza despite Hamas’ response to the deal. So, the drama will go on for some times. It is a very sad saga, because an official familiar with Israeli thinking says Israeli officials are examining the cease-fire proposal approved by Hamas. ...
Israel and its aggressions against Palestine as well as its interventionism and cross border violence against the region keep on dominating the global headlines. The government of Netanyahu has not only kept on bombarding the Gaza Strip for 7 months, it is conducting also military attacks from Lebanon to Syria and Iran. Iran has responded to the recent bombing of ...
The scene seemed bitter and even blood-soaked, and between the shameful international inability and the timid attempts to put an urgent end to the tragedy of the Palestinians in Gaza, there is nothing on the horizon to put a quick end to this tragedy. The war is still at its peak, although the parties to the tragedy want a quick ...
Oral presentations before the International Court of Justice regarding Israel’s policies and practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territories including East Jerusalem continued on their 5th day. The court has been asked by the UN General Assembly to provide a non-binding advisory opinion. 12 countries made their presentations. Among them was Namibia, itself a victim of apartheid, that emphasized that previous ...
The public hearings in the International Court of Justice about Israel’s practices and policies in the occupied Palestinian territories continued their third day. 52 states had requested to make additional oral statements in the case, that started with a UN General Assembly resolution on December 30, 2022. The Assembly asked the court for a non-binding advisory opinion. On Wednesday, the ...
By Rafet Ballı The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas made a smart military move bringing Palestine to the forefront of the world’s agenda. Israel couldn’t fully comprehend the political plan of the resistance front. At the cost of a massacre, Israel is trying to suppress the Palestinian people as a whole. Just as Israel has been doing since 1947 their aim ...
Like every event that occurs in today’s communicated and interconnected world, the escalation of the Israel-Palestine conflict has repercussions at various levels. This is how one must understand and study it. This is, firstly, of course a local conflict pitting one occupying country against another that has been forced to react to the usurpation of its territory by force. This ...
By Sarang Shidore A survey of official reactions from 11 Global South states outside the Middle East/North Africa region — Brazil, Mexico, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and Vietnam — reveals a consensus on condemnation of Hamas’ attacks. But their statements differ on who’s to blame, what’s the solution, and what to do next. Most of ...