Rafah, April 5 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization is warning many patients could soon die if they are not evacuated from Al-Shifa Hospital, which has been left in ruins after a two-week Israeli military siege. ... More
Beirut, April 5 (RHC)-- Hamas says Israel targets aid distribution sites to terrorize humanitarian organizations in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian resistance movement said in a statement on Wednesday, “We call on the international community and the UN Security Council to denounce this heinous act.”... More
Oklahoma City, April 5 (RHC)-- The last two survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre appeared at Oklahoma’s Supreme Court this week in a bid to revive their reparations lawsuit. An estimated 300 Black people were killed when a white mob burned down what was known as “Black Wall Street,” the thriving African American neighborhood of Greenwood. ... More
Washington, April 5 (RHC)-- The founder of World Central Kitchen, Chef José Andrés, has accused Israel of systematically targeting the seven aid workers who were killed Monday in a series of drone strikes in Gaza. ... More
Nantes, April 4 (RHC)-- Descendants of the Caribbean people enslaved by France have come forward to raise awareness about the country’s blotted history of slave trade.... More
Washington, April 4 (RHC)-- On the same day as Israeli forces carried out a hugely controversial and horrific killing of seven international aid workers for food charity World Central Kitchen in Gaza, the Biden administration approved yet another transfer of thousands of bombs to Israel, new reporting reveals, undermining U.S. officials’ public statements lamenting the workers’ killings.... More
East Jerusalem, April 4 (RHC)-- The Israeli military’s reported use of an untested and undisclosed artificial intelligence-powered database to identify targets for its bombing campaign in Gaza has alarmed human rights and technology experts who said it could amount to war crimes.... More
London, April 4 (RHC)-- UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing mounting pressure over the country’s arms sales to Israel following the death of seven aid workers of the World Central Kitchen (WCK) in an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip.... More
United Nations, April 4 (RHC)-- The United Nations secretary-general has sharply condemned a recent Israeli attack that killed seven aid workers in the central part of the Gaza Strip, which is enduring a genocidal Israeli war.... More
Brussels, April 4 (RHC)-- The European Union has condemned as “appalling” Israel’s latest killing of seven aid workers who were delivering food to the starving population in the Gaza Strip. ... More
Buenos Aires, April 4 (RHC)-- Thousands of employees and former workers of the Argentinian public sector mobilized this Wednesday in Buenos Aires and other cities in rejection of the massive layoffs ordered by the government of the far-right President Javier Milei, which has already laid off more than 11,000 people.... More
Buenos Aires, April 4 (RHC)-- U.S. Army General Laura Richardson, the head of the U.S. Southern Command (SouthCom), arrived in Buenos Aires, where she is scheduled to meet with officials from the administration of Argentine President Javier Milei to deepen cooperation in regional defense.... More
Washington, April 4 (RHC)-- President Joe Biden of the United States had to host a subdued dinner to celebrate the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at the White House after a group of Muslim leaders turned down his invitation over the administration’s support for Israel’s savagery in the besieged Gaza Strip.... More
San Francisco, April 4 (RHC)-- Pitzer College in Claremont, California, has closed its study abroad program with the University of Haifa in Israel in what’s being viewed as a major victory for the BDS — Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions — movement.... More
Washington, April 4 (RHC)-- A group of U.S. officials at USAID have privately warned the Biden administration that the spread of hunger and malnutrition in Gaza is “unprecedented in modern history” and that parts of Gaza are already experiencing famine. ... More
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