Author: ALJAZEERA

Dear President Biden, I am writing to you for the second time. I first wrote to you on November 4 after 47 members of my community, including 36 from my own family, were murdered in a single attack by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). The massacre occurred in Khan Younis refugee camp, located in the southern region of the Gaza Strip, where people were supposed to be safe, as claimed by your ally, Israel. I am uncertain if my first letter reached you or if your media team made you aware of its contents. Either way, you have not changed your position.…

NewsFeedA woman who spent 11 years trying to conceive is mourning her twins, born just four months ago, who were killed in Rafah along with her husband. A series of Israeli attacks on Gaza’s southernmost city, once declared a safe zone, have killed 25 Palestinians.Published On 3 Mar 20243 Mar 2024 Source link

NewsFeedThe US airdrop of food aid into Gaza on Saturday sparked criticism from Palestinians who called it inadequate and hypocritical when the US funds and supplies Israel’s military.Published On 3 Mar 20243 Mar 2024 Source link

At least six children killed in latest Israeli attack on Rafah, with many more trapped under rubble, witness and media reports say.Israeli forces have bombed a residential building in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, according to a witness and media reports, killing at least 14 Palestinians and burying many others under the rubble. The attack on Saturday evening came hours after an Israeli drone attack on tents housing displaced Palestinians in Rafah left at least 11 people dead. The latest attack in Rafah reduced a four-storey building in the Al Salam neighbourhood to rubble, according to witnesses. At…

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There is an agreement in place for a potential six-week truce in Gaza, a US official says, and Hamas must now decide.The United States says Israel has essentially endorsed a framework for a proposed Gaza ceasefire and captive release deal, and it is now up to the Palestinian group Hamas to agree to it. “There’s a framework deal. The Israelis have more or less accepted it,” a senior US official in the Biden administration told reporters on a conference call on Saturday. “Right now, the ball is in the camp of Hamas,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.…

United States military cargo planes have air-dropped food into Gaza, in the first of series of aid drops as humanitarian groups criticise Israel for blocking access to the besieged and bombarded strip. The US, together with Jordan’s air force, “conducted a combined humanitarian assistance airdrop into Gaza … to provide essential relief to civilians affected by the ongoing conflict”, US Central Command said in a statement on Saturday. The C-130 planes “dropped over 38,000 meals along the coastline of Gaza allowing for civilian access to the critical aid”, it added, as the enclave faces a humanitarian crisis after almost five…

Taipei, Taiwan – New Zealand lobbied France’s territories in the Pacific to respond to news of a controversial security pact between China and the Solomon Islands that set off alarms in Western capitals, newly released documents reveal. Within days of a draft version of the security pact leaking online in March 2022, representatives of New Zealand, Australia and France were meeting to discuss the implications for the region, the diplomatic cables obtained by Al Jazeera show. While the precise nature of the discussions is unclear due to redactions in the documents, the cables suggest Wellington hoped officials in French Polynesia…

In December 2023, The New York Times published an explosive article – now widely discredited – that detailed Hamas’s agenda to weaponise rape and sexual violence on October 7. We reveal the controversies surrounding the article along with the broader issue of Western media outlets’ pro-Israeli/anti-Palestinian bias. Lead contributors:Ali Abunimah – Director, Electronic IntifadaChris Hedges – Former Middle East Bureau Chief, The New York TimesYumna Patel – Palestine News Director, Mondoweiss On our radar: After they won an award at the Berlinale film festival, the reaction to a speech by filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra has become the latest…

Argentina’s libertarian leader says he will ‘keep pushing forward’ with radical economic agenda.Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei has promised to keep pushing his agenda of radical economic liberalisation with or without the support of parliament. In a state-of-the-union-style address to lawmakers on Friday, Milei said he would “keep pushing forward” with a package of sweeping economic reforms aimed at jolting the country out of decades of dysfunction and decline. “We are going to change the country for good … with or without the support of political leaders, with all the legal resources of the executive,” Milei said. “If you look…