Rafah, May 10 (RHC)-- Heavy combat is under way on the ground in Gaza’s southern Rafah as Hamas fighters fire rockets and mortars and detonate explosive devices with Israeli troops and tanks pushing deeper into the over-crowded city.... More
Rafah, May 10 (RHC)-- Israel continues to seal off Gaza’s Rafah border crossing, as the United Nations warns it is “choking off the entry of life-saving aid.” The UN adds that many of the 600,000 children taking shelter in Rafah are “highly vulnerable and at the edge of survival.” ... More
New York, May 10 (RHC)-- In New York City, faculty at The New School have launched the first faculty encampment to protest the violent police crackdown on their students. ... More
United Nations, May 10 (RHC)-- Student protest rallies continue on campuses across Europe and around the world in solidarity with the people of the Gaza Strip as the United Nations is set to vote on Palestinian statehood on Friday.... More
Havana, May 9 (Prensa Latina) -- The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs denounced on Thursday that the United States continues to protect terrorists in its territory, after learning of the acquittal of the person responsible for the attack on its embassy in Washington.... More
New Orleans, May 9 (RHC)-- Student protests against the Israeli war on Gaza have rocked the United States over the past few weeks, prompting a police crackdown on many campuses and more than 2,000 arrests. Students who have set up protest encampments at universities across the country are calling for their institutions to withdraw all investments from firms complicit in Israeli abuses against Palestinians.... More
Rafah, May 9 (RHC)-- Israeli warplanes have carried out a series of airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, resulting in the loss of civilian lives and leaving several others wounded as the brutal war enters its 216th day.... More
London, May 9 (RHC)-- British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has said the United Kingdom will not halt arms sales to Israel even if the regime stages a large-scale assault on the southern Palestinian city of Rafah.... More
London, May 9 (RHC)-- At 3 a.m. last Wednesday, as the rain poured down, students at Bristol University set up an encampment opposite a study centre on campus. Eugenia and five other student activists who had met at previous protests put four tents together. But despite the cold, more sprung up over the next few nights.... More
Gaza City, May 9 (RHC)-- Health workers in Gaza uncovered another 49 bodies at the decimated Al-Shifa Hospital on Wednesday. Most of the bodies were decomposed, and some were found headless. ... More
Geneva, May 9 (RHC)-- Rights advocates say the recent decision by US President Joe Biden to halt a shipment of thousand-pound bombs to Israel is too little too late to undo the damage to Palestinian life spurred by Israel's savage military campaign in Gaza.... More
Tegucigalpa, May 9 (RHC)-- The Government of Honduras has issued an emergency red alert on Tuesday in Tegucigalpa for an indefinite period due to pollution caused by the dense layer of smoke in the city, while a green prevention alert was issued in the rest of the country.... More
Nashville, May 9 (RHC)-- A cleaning company based in the U.S. state of Tennessee has been fined over $649,000 after a U.S. Labor Department investigation found it was employing at least two dozen children, some as young as 13 years old, to clean slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants. ... More
Tel Aviv, May 9 (RHC)-- Israeli officials have struck a defiant tone after U.S. President Joe Biden warned that the United States would not provide weapons for a full-scale ground assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians are hemmed in with no safe way to leave.... More
Malmo, May 9 (RHC)-- Thousands of anti -war demonstrators, including climate activist Greta Thunberg, have taken to the streets in the Swedish city of Malmo to protest against Israel’s inclusion in Eurovision.... More
