Israel
Israel eye history as final three Euro 2024 places up for grabs
Israel's footballers are aiming to make history by reaching the European Championship for the first time amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, with the final three places at Euro 2024 up for grabs over the next week.
20 March 2024
Can nothing stop Netanyahu’s genocidal mission?
Israel must agree to a ceasefire immediately
8 March 2024
Iran asks FIFA to ban Israel
The Iranian Football federation has called upon the world soccer’s governing body, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association FIFA, to suspend Israel’s soccer federation over the country’s war in Gaza.
11 February 2024
Saudi says no Israel ties without Palestinian state
Saudi Arabia has told Washington it will not establish ties with Israel until an independent Palestinian state "is recognised", the Gulf kingdom's foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday
7 February 2024
Attacks on Yemen could open Middle East’s pandora’s box
The US and UK strikes in Yemen have only aggravated the possibility of large-scale conflict in the already volatile Middle East.
14 January 2024
99 days of Gaza carnage
Israel continues to pound the ‘blacked out’ Palestinian territory
13 January 2024
What is the genocide case against Israel at top UN court?
The ICJ, also called the World Court, is the highest United Nations legal body, established in 1945 to deal with disputes between states.
8 January 2024
Israel faces Gaza ceasefire calls, US vows more arms
The UN Security Council was set to convene Tuesday to weigh a call for a ceasefire in the besieged Palestinian territory, after a previous bid was vetoed by the United States.
19 December 2023
Israel faces mounting outrage over Gaza war
The deadliest ever Gaza war began with unprecedented attacks by Hamas on October 7, when the group killed 1,139 people, mostly civilians, and abducted around 250, according to updated Israeli figures.
18 December 2023
How long before Gaza ceasefire is enforced?
It is ironic that the superpower that tries to act as the torchbearer of human rights has no qualms with bombing and displacing over two million people
15 December 2023
US announces visa bans after warning Israel over West Bank violence
President Joe Biden and other senior US officials have warned repeatedly that Israel must act to stop violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank.
6 December 2023
Disempowering voices of propaganda: The BDS movement in books
When millions of lives are at stake and indiscriminate violations of human rights are perpetuated, there is no longer space to entertain the debate on whether the art should be separated from the artist
28 November 2023
A sweet and sour Thanksgiving
The relentless Israeli airstrikes appear to have but one mission: to bring Palestinians down to their knees.
26 November 2023
For a diaspora soccer club in Chile, 'Palestine exists'
Thousands of miles from the Middle East, in a stadium in Santiago, Chile, the nation of Palestine exists, if only for the 90 minutes of a soccer match.
24 November 2023
Will boycotting Israeli products bring peace for Palestinians?
Regardless of the tenacious systems of injustice the BDS movement works against, boycott has historically been a useful tool for advocacy and solidarity.
20 November 2023
The lost children of Gaza
There is a generation of children growing up in Gaza without family, without love, without limbs, without food, without education, without basic human rights, in unspeakable depravity, scarred by the trauma of war.
20 November 2023
Tentative Gaza deal reached to pause fighting: report
However, both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. officials said no deal had been reached yet.
19 November 2023
India, Gaza, and the drift from non-alignment
For decades after independence, India’s approach to the world was shaped by its historical experience of colonialism.
18 November 2023
Biden’s backing of Israel will come home to roost
The infrastructure of Gaza lies in ruins, leaving civilians to scramble for safety among the debris of their previous lives.
13 November 2023
Israel-Hamas war: Latest developments
Gazans must not be 'forcibly displaced', Blinken tells Abbas
5 November 2023