GENEVA: The situation in war-ravaged Gaza is so desperate that teenagers are now saying they hope to be swiftly killed to escape the “nightmare”, a spokesman for the UN children’s agency said Tuesday.“The unspeakable is regularly said in Gaza,” said James Elder, spokesman for the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF.Speaking to journalists in Geneva via … Read more
NEW YORK: Dozens of American rabbis disrupted a meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday to demand that Washington stops preventing the UN Security Council from taking urgent action in support of an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.During their protest — led by the organization Rabbis 4 Ceasefire and co-organized … Read more
NEW YORK: Pro-Palestinian protesters blocked several New York City bridges and a tunnel on Monday to demand an immediate cease-fire in the three-month-old Israel-Hamas conflict.Dozens of demonstrators sat in the roadway and chanted slogans while holding up traffic on the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges across the East River, as well as at the Holland … Read more
JAKARTA: Indonesia urged the international community on Saturday to prevent Israeli ministers’ plans for the displacement of Palestinians from Gaza and the building of Israeli settlements in the besieged territory. Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich have repeatedly called for the emigration of 2.3 million Palestinians from Gaza, where … Read more