United Nations Human Rights Day

Pakistan asks UN to stop Israel’s ground offensive on Rafah

MANHATTAN: Pakistan has called for preventing Israel’s planned offensive on Rafah, saying it will further intensify the suffering of the Gaza Palestinians and risks widening the conflict.“Israel’s planned offensive in Rafah must be stopped,” Ambassador Usman Jadoon, deputy permanent representative of Pakistani to the UN, told the UN Security Council on Tuesday, while underscoring the […]

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GAZA: China condemns US veto in UNSC truce vote

BEIJING: China warned Wednesday (21st Feb, 2024) that a US decision to veto a UNSC resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza pushed the conflict into an “even more dangerous” situation. Washington on Tuesday (20th Feb, 2024) vetoed a UNSC resolution drafted by Algeria, which demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in war-torn Gaza and […]

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Was Hamas created by Israel to contain Fatah?

MADRID: Rejecting Benjamin Netanyahu’s contradiction, EU’s Josep Borrell asserted that it was Israel that created and financed Hamas for years to weaken Al-Fatah. Addressing the ladies and gentlemen, converged at Spain’s University of Valladolid, he said: “Yes, Hamas was financed by the government of Israel in an attempt to weaken the Palestinian Authority led by […]

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Palestine

Gaza deaths top 24K as war drags on

GAZA: During the 100 days of Hamas-Israel conflict 24,000 Palestinians lost their lives. Deadly violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and along Israel’s border with Lebanon as well as strikes by US forces and Yemen’s Houthis in the Red Sea have raised fears of an escalation beyond the Gaza Strip. The war, sparked by 7 […]

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