State Department adviser Richard Visek spoke on the third day of hearings at the court into a request by the General Assembly for a non-binding advisory opinion on the legality of Israel’s policies in the occupied territories
It was the third U.S. veto of a Security Council resolution demanding a cease-fire in Gaza. The vote in the 15-member Council was 13-1 with the United Kingdom abstaining
The weakening of the aid operation threatens to deepen misery across the territory, where Israel’s air and ground offensive has killed over 29,000 Palestinians, obliterated entire neighborhoods and displaced more than 80% of the population of 2.3 million
While the competition was accused of taking a lukewarm stance on the Middle East crisis, Berlin has refuted the criticism with several films and debates
Many minors have become lost during forced displacements and, amid the chaos in the Palestinian enclave, no one has been able to locate their parents. Others are orphans, whether they know it or not
Conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, tensions with China and North Korea, and a possible Donald Trump presidency suggest the current arms race will deepen
Others in the crowd then drowned out the jeers with applause and cheers
Six days of hearings are scheduled at the International Court of Justice, during which an unprecedented number of countries will participate, as Israel continues its devastating assault on Gaza
The Munich Security Conference has shone a spotlight on the international community’s failure to act as the suffering of Gaza civilians worsens
An airstrike in Rafah overnight killed six people, including a woman and three children, and another strike killed five men in Khan Younis, the main target of the offensive over the past two months
Chains such as Starbucks, McDonald’s, Burger King, Coca-Cola, KFC and Pizza Hut admit that boycott campaigns — promoted on social media — have had an impact on bottom lines. Some of these locals initiatives occur due to misunderstandings, while others are organized to oppose the West’s support for Israel
Recent targeted killings of Gaza police commanders safeguarding truck convoys have made it ‘virtually impossible’ to distribute the goods safely
The International Court of Justice said that because of the ‘perilous situation’ in Rafah, Israel must respect earlier measures imposed last month at a preliminary stage in a landmark genocide case
U.S. Vice President Harris offered a broad defense of the Biden administration’s approach to global challenges at the Munich Security Conference
The results will worsen fears among Conservatives that, after 14 years in power, the party is heading for a drubbing when a national election is held in less than a year
Israel and Hezbollah are on the verge of an open conflict, with an intensifying exchange of bombings and rockets, the selective assassination of a senior Shia militia commander and a lethal projectile against a Jewish city that had not been evacuated
U.S. also faces renewed pressure to close loopholes that allow illicit funds to flow from the U.S. into Russia, Iran and the hands of militant Hamas figureheads
The residents of this West Bank city, who live in the shadow of 800 Jewish settlers and under watch by 2,500 soldiers, say that they are suffering more degrading treatment since Israel’s offensive on Gaza
The West does not consider that 27,000 deaths are sufficient proof of genocide, yet the mere suspicion of an alleged collaboration by UNRWA officials with Hamas was enough for them to halt funding to this U.N. agency
The raid came a day after the army sought to evacuate thousands of displaced people who had taken shelter at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis
Hundreds of forcibly displaced people have left the besieged Nasser medical center in Khan Younis. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes returning to the negotiating table conditional on Hamas delivering a new proposal for a ceasefire
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin conducted the virtual session from his home. ‘I’m in good condition, and my cancer prognosis remains excellent,’ he said
Several experts believe that Israel has linked the agency to the Hamas attacks in a bid to put an end to this principle, which was recognized by the U.N. in 1948
Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, noted ‘an accumulation of complexities’ in the wider Middle East amid Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip
The goal of the negotiations with Qatar and Egypt, which have been in talks with Hamas envoys for days, is the six-week cessation of hostilities sought by U.S. President Joe Biden
In its new filing, South Africa said it asked the court to weigh whether Israel’s strikes on Rafah, and its intention to launch a ground offensive, breaches both the U.N. Genocide Convention and preliminary orders handed down by the court last month
Cairo, fearful of a mass expulsion of Palestinians to its territory, has deployed the military near the Strip and reinforced the barriers on the frontier
