Ajith Sunghay, head of the U.N. Human Rights Office for the Palestinian territories, told reporters in Geneva that it appeared Israeli army fire had caused most of the injuries.
On Tuesday, crowds of Palestinians broke through fences and an Associated Press journalist heard Israeli tank and gun fire, and saw a military helicopter firing flares.
Israël a subi un attentat atroce le 7 octobre. Nous avons toujours soutenu le droit d‘Israël à défendre les Israéliens contre le terrorisme. Mais cette escalade est totalement disproportionnée.
Nous ne resterons pas les bras croisés pendant que le gouvernement Netanyahou poursuit ces actions scandaleuses. Si Israël ne met pas fin à la nouvelle offensive militaire et ne lève pas ses restrictions sur l‘aide humanitaire, nous prendrons d‘autres mesures concrètes en réponse.
Nous nous opposons à toute tentative d‘expansion des colonies en Cisjordanie. Israël doit mettre fin aux implantations qui sont illégales et compromettent la viabilité d‘un État palestinien ainsi que la sécurité des Israéliens et des Palestiniens. Nous n‘hésiterons pas à prendre d‘autres mesures, y compris des sanctions ciblées.
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Nous continuerons à travailler avec l‘Autorité palestinienne, les partenaires régionaux, Israël et les États-Unis afin de parvenir à un consensus sur les dispositions à prendre pour l‘avenir de Gaza, en s‘appuyant sur le plan arabe. Nous affirmons le rôle important de la conférence de haut niveau sur la solution à deux États qui se tiendra aux Nations unies en juin pour dégager un consensus international autour de cet objectif. Nous sommes déterminés à reconnaître un État palestinien en tant que contribution à la réalisation d‘une solution à deux États et nous sommes prêts à travailler avec d‘autres à cette fin.
(May 19, 2025)
Israel suffered a heinous attack on October 7. We have always supported Israel’s right to defend Israelis against terrorism. But this escalation is wholly disproportionate.
We will not stand by while the Netanyahu Government pursues these egregious actions. If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions in response.
We oppose any attempt to expand settlements in the West Bank. Israel must halt settlements which are illegal and undermine the viability of a Palestinian state and the security of both Israelis and Palestinians. We will not hesitate to take further action, including targeted sanctions.
(…)
We will continue to work with the Palestinian Authority, regional partners, Israel and the United States to finalise consensus on arrangements for Gaza’s future, building on the Arab plan. We affirm the important role of the High-level Two-State Solution Conference at the UN in June in building international consensus around this aim. And we are committed to recognising a Palestinian state as a contribution to achieving a two-state solution and are prepared to work with others to this end.
(April 15, 2025)
She says it is paralysed and complicit in what is unfolding.
In an exclusive interview with The New Arab, Albanese delivers a stark message. She says the situation in Gaza is not just a war but a genocide taking place in real time. She blames not only the Israeli military campaign but also the global indifference and support from powerful governments and corporations.
„I do not think there has been anything in modern history since the end of World War Two that is so sadistic and militarised as this attack,“ she says.
(4 hours ago)
At least 38 Palestinians were killed in a series of Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip during a half-hour period overnight, according to Palestinian medics.
(May 12, 2025)
„Silence in the face of this manmade starvation is complicity. Oxfam urges governments to demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire; the release of hostages and unlawfully detained prisoners; an end to the siege; unimpeded humanitarian access; and accountability for Israel‘s use of starvation as a weapon of war.“
A thanksgiving service will be held at Westminster Abbey to mark 80 years since Victory in Europe (VE) Day from 12:00 BST
A teenage girl stares at her roof, hoping it won’t collapse over her head. A young student searches the Internet for photos of libraries around the world, hoping he’ll be able to visit them one day. Another walks around the city, taking notes of all the buildings she dreams of repairing.
These are the stories of young people from Gaza, born under Israeli occupation and blockade. They are people who have endured unspeakable struggles and losses, who keep fighting to be recognised not as numbers, but as human beings with hopes, dreams and lives worth living.
We Are Not Numbers was founded in 2014 to give voice to the youth of Gaza. In this collection, vital, urgent and full of heart, spanning over ten years to the present moment, we gain an unparalleled insight into the past, as well as the current and next generation of Palestinian leaders, artists, scientists and scholars and imagine where we might go from here.
Signed by representatives of the following organisations and their branches, affiliates or in their individual capacity:
Abrahamic Foundation
Abrar Foundation
Abu Bakar Mosque (Bradford)
Abu Bakr Trust (ABT) – Walsall
Abu Hanifah Foundation (Blackburn)
Ad Duha Masjid
Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaat
Al Abbas Islamic Centre, KSIMC Birmingham
Al Amaan Education Trust
Al Aqsa Masjid Docklands
Al Balagh Academy
Al Khazra Mosque (Oldham)
Al Madani Masjid (Slough)
Al Madina Jame Masjid
Al Madina Mosque Barking
Al Manaar Academy (Loughborough)
Al Quran Academy
Al Zahra Foundation
Al Zunayrah Foundation
Al-Emaan Centre
Al-Falah Islamic Education Centre
Al-Farooq Trust
Al-Hijrah Trust
Al-Hira Educational Centre and Masjid
AL-HQ Law & More (Islamic Wills)
Al-Mahdi Centre, Wessex
Al-Muttaqin Research Centre (Manchester)
Al-Risalah Trust (London)
Alansar IEC
Alessi Marketing
Alkhair Primary School
AlKhaleel Institute
Alnoor Cultural & Educational Trust (Alnoor C&ET) – Essex
Aman Association
Amanah Masjid (Birmingham)
Anjuman Raza-E-Mustafa
Aqoon Education Services
Arab Lawyers Association (UK)
As-Salaam Trust – The Peace Centre
Asha Islamic Centre
Asian Muslim Cultural Association (London)
Asian Women Association
Association of Srilankan Muslims in UK
Aston Palestine Society
Azhar Academy Bolton
Balham Masjid & Tooting Islamic Centre
Bangladesh Islamic Centre (Birmingham)
Bangladeshi Islamic Society
Baytun Noor (Birmingham)
Beeston Muslim Centre
Belfast Islamic Centre
Belfast MultiCultural Association
Belgrave Mosque – Owais Qarni (Ilford)
Bexley Palestine Solidarity Campaign (Bexley PSC)
Bilal Mosque (Leeds)
Bilborough Islamic Centre
Birmingham Masjid and Dawah Centre
Bishopbriggs Islamic Community Centre
Blackburn Road Learning Centre
Bolton Central Islamic Society (BCIS)
Bolton Council of Mosques [~40]
Bradford Friends of Palestine (BFOP)
Bridgford Muslim Action Group
BrIsoc
Bristol Muslim Cultural Society (BMCS)
Bristol Turkish Community Association
British Arab Nursing and Midwifery Association
British Islamic Medical Association
British Muslim Heritage Centre
British Palestinian Families Network
British Turkish Association [~40]
Bushey Islamic Circle
Campaign Against Anti-Muslim Hate / Campaign Against Hate
Central Jamia Masjid (Southall)
Central Mosque (Wakefield)
Cheadle Masjid
Chelmsford Action for Palestine
Chelmsford Muslim Society
Cherwell Projects Ltd
Cis Windows
City Friends of Palestine (London)
City Retreat Leicester
City University Islamic Society (ISOC)
Cloud Devops Ltd
Committee for Alternative Development Trust
Compass Learning Centre (CLC)
Consortium [~11]
Cosy Cruise Travel Ltd
Council for Mosques Bradford [~140]
Council of Bristol Mosques (CBM) [~6]
Council of European Jamaats [~11]
Council of Mosque – Tower Hamlets [~45]
Council of Sri Lankan Muslim Organisations [~28]
Croydon Islamic Youth Club
Dar Ul Isra Education and Welfare (Cardiff)
Dar us Salaam
Darassalaam
Darul Arqam Muslim Community Association
Darul Atfaal
Darul Ilm – SLMC of East London
Darulisra Muslim Educational Welfare Centre
Darus Salam Mosque (Leicester)
Darussalam Education Centre
Derby Jamia Mosque
Diverse Legal Consulting (Chelmsford)
Diyanet Stoke Education Centre
Dovex
Dundee Central Mosque
East Birmingham Central Masjid
East Cardiff Muslim Centre
East End Islamic Centre (Newham)
East Kilbride Muslims Association
Easton Jamia Masjid
Eden Foundation (Birmingham)
Eden Masjid and Dawah Centre
Edgware Youth
Eid Prayer And Festival (Leicester)
Elland Masjid Association – West Yorkshire
Enfield Community Action Group
Enfield Town Islamic Centre
Epsom and Ewell Islamic society
Essex Council of Mosques [~5]
EuroPal Forum
Exeter Mosque and Cultural Centre
Extant Marketing
Faith Inspire [~7]
Fatima Community Centre (Sheffield)
Fatima Elizabeth Archery Club
Fatima Elizabeth Phrontistery
Fazilat Masjid (Nottingham)
FC Leytonstone
Federation of Muslim Organisations (FMO) [~50]
Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS) [~120]
Finsbury Park Mosque
First Choice Plumbing
Fiqh Council Birmingham (FCB)
Fleetgate Hardware ltd
Friends of Al-Aqsa
Fussilat Academy (London)
Gastec
Global Somali Diaspora
Goodwood Islamic Centre
Grangetown Muslim Cultural Centre (GMCC)
Green Street Business Association
Haaya Foundation (Hounslow)
Hamilton Islamic Centre
Hamlets Way Mosque (Mile End Bengali Muslim Community Association)
Handsworth Wood Cultural Centre
Harpenden Muslim Network
Harrow Youth Club
Hastings Mosque
Havering4Peace
Hayes Muslim Centre
Here For Youth
Hillingdon Borough Muslims
Hounslow Muslim Centre
Hubb Leicestershire
Huddersfield Community First (HDCF)
Huddersfield Council of Mosques (HCoM)
Hull Turkish Education Society
Humanity for All (Scotland)
Hyderi Islamic Centre
I Waqf
I Will Solicitors
Ibadurrehman Trust
ICareCharity
ICMG Edmonton branch
ICMG MARGATE
Imam Zakariya Academy (IZA)
Imdadia Charitable Trust
Imperial Islamic Society
In Her Footsteps
Inspireamillion Limited
Inspired Supported Housing
Inspirited Minds
Interbuild Aid
International Communities Organisation (London)
International Community Milli Görüş
Iqra Women‘s Group (Leeds)
ISLAH (Cambridge)
Islamic Education Trust Leicester
Islamic Finance Guru
Islamic History Channel
Islamic Information Centre, Hastings
Islamic Research Institute of GB (IRIGB)
Islamic Society of Britain
Islamic Tarbiyyah Prep School (Bradford)
Jam-e-Masjid Qiblah Hadhrat Sahib Gulhar Shareef Birmingham
Jamia Masjid Sultania (JMS) (Nottingham)
Jamia Syeda Fatima Al Zahra Mosque
Jamia Usmania
JKR & HCY ISLAMIC CENTRE (Reading)
Jummah in Chorleywood
Karima al Marwaziyya Foundation (High Wycombe)
Kent Islamic Center
Khidmah Organisation (Leicester)
Khizra Mosque
Kilmarnock Central Mosque
Kurdish Society of Nottingham
Lancashire Council of Mosques
Lantor Ltd
Leeds Beckett University Islamic Society (LBU ISOC)
Legal Action for Peace
Leicester Community Assist
Leicestershire Zakah Foundation
Lewisham Islamic Centre
Leytonstone Islamic Association
London Islamic Culture and Recreation Society
Long Eaton Masjid
Loughborough Dawah Centre
Loughborough Mosque and Islamic Culture Association
Lumb Fox Limited
Luton Council of Mosques
Luton Muslim Malayali Association
Luton Sri Lankan Islamic Cultural Centre
Luton Turkish community
Madarasah Noorul Quran Leicester
Madrasa Talimu Quran
Madina Mosque & Community Centre (Cardiff)
Madni Masjid (Nottingham)
Madrasa Taleem ul Islam (Glasgow)
Madrasaatul Noor Leicester
Madrasah Madania Tahfeezul Quran (MMTQ) – Bradford
Mahmudsabir Masjid
Malayalee Muslim Cultural & Welfare Association UK
Maldon Masjid
MAN UK
Marifah Institute
Markazul-Uloom Al-Islamiyya (Rotherham)
Masjid Abu Bakr
Masjid Abu Bakr Tinsley
Masjid Abu Hurairah
Masjid Al Falaah (Birmingham)
Masjid Al Farouq
Masjid Al Furqan (Leicester)
Masjid Al Madina (Walsall)
Masjid Al Rawda (London)
Masjid Al-Jannah Slough
Masjid Alhikmah and Community Centre
Masjid At Taqwa (Bradford)
Masjid Ayesha
Masjid Ayesha (London)
Masjid e Imam Ali (Aberdeen)
Masjid e Noor (Gloucester)
Masjid e Salaam Trust (Bolton)
Masjid E Tauheed (Manor Park- London)
Masjid e Umar (Bradford)
Masjid Hazrat Bilal (Bristol)
Masjid Ibrahim Ferham (Rotherham)
Masjid Jamia Islamia Nottingham
Masjid Noor
Masjid Taha & Education Centre (Stratford, London)
Masjid Talha
Masjid Tawhid Leyton
Masjid Ul Hidayah (East Ham)
Masjid Umar
Masjid Usman (Bradford)
Masjid Zakaria (Birmingham)
Masjid-E-Quba, London
Masjid-e-Zainabia
Masjid-us-Sunnah (Leicester)
Masjid E Saliheen, Preston
MAUK
Meadows Muslim Centre (Nottingham)
Millwall Community Association
Misbaahul Uloom Urdu Centre
Mksi Leicester
Monmouthshire Muslim Community Association
Mum’s Kitchen
Mushkil Aasaan Charity
Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) [~15]
Muslim Association of Croydon (MAC)
Muslim Community Association
Muslim Community Centre Uxbridge
Muslim Council of Britain (MCB)
Muslim Council of Scotland [~100]
Muslim Council of Wales [~70]
Muslim Cultural & Welfare Association of Sutton (MCWAS)
Muslim Cultural Centre Wollaton, Nottingham
Muslim Doctors Association and Allied Health Professionals CIC
Muslim Doctors Cymru (MDC)
Muslim Engagement and Development
Muslim Event
Muslim Khatri Association
Muslim Public Affairs Forum Committee (MPACUK)
Muslim Welfare House Sheffield
Muslim Welfare Institute (MWI) (Blackburn)
Muslim Welfare Society Port Talbot
Muslim Women of Merton
Muslimaat UK (MMT UK)
My School Tutor
Narjis foundation (Glasgow)
Naseeha Youth Project (NYP) (Cardiff)
National Waqf
NCJM Stow Hill Mosque
New Beginnings
Newcastle Central Mosque
Newcastle under Lyme Islamic Centre
Newham Muslim Forum
Newport Diyanet Community Education Centre
Nextpoint Recruitment
Nexus Pharmacy
Nfsb Cardiff limited
NHS Muslim Women’s Network
Noka Solutions Ltd
Noor Youth
Noor-el-Islam Mosque (Cardiff)
Noorani Education Centre
Norbury Islamic Academy
Norbury Muslim Centre
North Ilford Islamic Centre
North West Islamic Association
Northwood Hills Mosque and Community Centre (NHMCC)
Nottingham Bangladesh Centre
Nottingham Council of Mosques (NCM) [~25]
Nottingham Islam Information Point
Nottingham Turkish Community
Nur Al Hadi Mosque (Sheffield)
Nuurul Huda Cultural centre ltd
Oadby and Wigston Muslim Association
Oadby Community Hub
P and D UK Services Ltd (West London)
Pakistan Centre
Palestinian Forum in Britain (PFB)
Palmed UK Charity
Peckham Mosque Trust
Pekunluler Turkish Cultural Association
Plumstead Islamic Centre
PMS Jamea Masjid
Port Talbot Mosque
Preston Muslim Forum
PureStreets
Purley Islamic Community Centre
Qadria Jilania Islamic Centre & Madrasa (Manchester)
Qasim al-Ulum Centre (Manchester)
Qmed Staffing
Queensgate Islamic Centre
Quran Club
Quran ft Soul
Quwwat-ul-Islam Society Newham
Reading Muslim
Recipe2Inspire CIC (R2I)
Redbridge & Ilford Independents
Redbridge Community Action Group (RCAG)
Reflection Path
River To The Sea (Non Profit)
S E London Friends of Palestine
Saeed Institute (Bolton)
Said Nursi Mosque
Salahaddin Community Centre (Peterborough)
Sayyidah Aminah Masjid (Bradford)
SBMCA (Birmingham)
Scottish Association of Mosques [~13]
Shah Jalal Jami Masjid (Walsall)
Shahjalal Mosque & Islamic Centre (Oldham)
Shahporan Jam e Mosque
Shahporan Madrasah
SHERIFF Estate & Letting Agent
Sherwood Education and Culture Centre
Shia Ithna‘ashari Community of Middlesex (SICM)
Simply Ethical Financial Services Ltd
SLIA
Soul Therapy Scotland
Southend Mosque
Sri Lanka Islamic Forum UK
Sri Lanka Muslim Society UK (Leicester)
Sri Lankan Muslim Progressive Front-Milton Keynes
Srilankan Muslim Community of East London
STEM Muslims
Streatham Hill Masjid
Strive UK [~15]
Suffa Education Centre
Suffolk Muslim Society
Surrey Muslim Association
Swansea University Mosque
Taleem Ul-Quran Trust (Coventry)
Tawfiq Online Learning
Taybah Charitable Trust
Teviot British Bangladeshi Association (London)
The Ahmed Ali Petkar Foundation (TAAP Foundation)
The Alberinious Foundation
The Ilford Muslim Society
The Islamic Foundation (Leicester)
The Lantern Initiative
The Quran Hub (TQH)
The Shah Jahan Mosque (Woking, Surrey)
The Suffah Institute
The United Kingdom Indian Muslim Council (UKIMC)
The Wheel Plug UK (Dewsbury)
The World Federation of KSIMC
Thornton Heath Islamic centre
Turners and Locksley Centre
Turners and Locksley Masjid Cultural Centre (London)
Tuyoorul jannah (TJ) Birds of Paradise
UCL Students for Justice in Palestine
UK Islam Centre
UK Kahramanmaras Education and Culture Centre
UK Medical and Community Projects
UKIM [~50]
Ummah Community Centre (UCC)
Ummah Community Trust (UCT)
Ummah Gwent Community Centre / Masjid
Union of Muslim Organisations (Walsall)
University of Birmingham Friends of Palestine
University of Birmingham Islamic Society
Warwick Islamic Society
West London Mosques Forum (Southall)
Werneth Jamia Masjid
West Cardiff Islamic Centre
West London Mosque Forum
West London Turkish Volunteers
Women Together
Worcester Muslim Welfare Association – Worcester Central Masjid
World Forum for Srilankan Muslims
Worthing Islamic Society
Xynosoft Ltd
Y9 Mak communications Ltd
Yemeni Community Association in sandwell
Yeovil Islamic Centre & SSMCA
YMCO – Young Muslim and Community Organisation (Cardiff)
Zaza Technologies Ltd
Zeenergy Limited
(April 29, 2025)
Commenting on the letter, Secretary General Dr Wajid Akhter said:
“We are at a watershed moment as events in Gaza intensify, with more innocent lives lost each day. British Muslim communities, alongside countless others across the country, are simply calling for a foreign policy rooted in justice, humanity, and international law.
“We have rightly mobilised a coalition of the willing to oppose Russia’s illegal occupation of Ukraine, yet the illegal occupation of Palestine and the mass killing of Palestinian civilians is met with silence. We urge Prime Minister Keir Starmer to show moral leadership and act swiftly.“
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has deliver a letter signed by over 300 Muslim groups to 10 Downing Street urging Prime Minister Keir Starmer to show “moral leadership” and swiftly recognise the Palestinian State.
The signatories, comprising of organisations from every region of the UK, including mosques, student societies, charities and advocacy groups, are calling on the British government to urgently:
Earlier in her 30-minute opening submission to the court, the UN undersecretary general for legal affairs, Elinor Hammarskjöld, opted for a full-throated assertion of the immunities and privileges of the UN and its subsidiary bodies under the UN charter and 1946 convention on UN privileges.
She said Israel had no right unilaterally to declare UN bodies were not impartial and so deny cooperation or aid, adding: “When the basic elements of this [the charter’s] legal framework are not observed, the very nature of the work of the organisation on behalf of its member states is in jeopardy.”
Fourteen emergency workers and a UN worker were killed on 23 March after a convoy of Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulances, a UN car and a fire truck came under fire by the Israeli military.
In a statement, the IDF said its troops opened fire believing they were facing a threat from enemy forces.
The IDF said its investigation found six of the casualties were Hamas members, and rejected that there had been summary executions.
(…)
It blamed „poor night visibility“, which the IDF said meant the commander did not identify the vehicles as ambulances.
(June 13, 2019)
For more than four years, a brutal Saudi air campaign has bombarded Yemen, killing tens of thousands, injuring hundreds of thousands and displacing millions – creating the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. And British weapons are doing much of the killing. Every day Yemen is hit by British bombs – dropped by British planes that are flown by British-trained pilots and maintained and prepared inside Saudi Arabia by thousands of British contractors.
(March 23, 2019)
The Mail on Sunday can also reveal how RAF engineers sent to Saudi Arabia to repair the kingdom’s fleet of military aircraft narrowly escaped death last week. Iranian-backed rebels launched a ‘suicide drone’ strike on the King Khalid air base, where they are maintaining Tornado jets used to bomb civilian areas in Yemen.
According to reports, the drone exploded on the runway, destroying two Tornados. The MoD said no UK personnel were wounded.
UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy criticised Ms Badenoch‘s comments, writing in a post on X: „It‘s disgraceful you are cheerleading another country for detaining and deporting two British MPs. Do you say the same about Tory MPs banned from China?“
Ms Badenoch retorted, saying: „Unlike China, Israel is our ally and a democracy. A good Foreign Sec would be able to make that distinction.“
Two Labour MPs say they are „astounded“ to have been denied entry to Israel while on a trip to visit the occupied West Bank.
Abtisam Mohamed and Yuan Yang said it was „vital“ parliamentarians were able to witness the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory first-hand.
The Israeli PM will have to call on his talent for self-preservation in the face of questions about how a foreign power viewed as an enemy was able to infiltrate the highest levels of his government
(29.April 1999)
European commission documents obtained this week reveal plans to require manufacturers and operators to build in „interception interfaces“ to the Internet and all future digital communications systems. The plans, drafted by a US-led international organisation of police and security agencies, will be proposed to EU Justice and Home Affairs ministers at the end of May.
(…)
The plans require the installation of a network of tapping centres throughout Europe, operating almost instantly across all national boundaries, providing access to every kind of communications including the net and satellites. A German tapping centre could intercept Internet messages in Britain, or a British detective could listen to Dutch phone calls. There could even be several tapping centres listening in at once.
Hayan was lucky – they chose merely to scare not kill him – but by the time the rampage finally ended, 25 residents of the Alawite town of Salhab, northwest Syria, were dead. They included a 90-year-old local religious figure whom militants killed after forcing him to watch them murder his son.
Such massacres had become a feature of Syria’s 14-year civil war, but Salhab’s violence last week took place during some of the country’s deadliest days since the beginning of the war itself. Besides the high death toll, what marked these killings as different — and a dark omen for the country’s future — is that many were carried out by militants nominally a part of the new Syrian army created by the country’s new president.
Around 160,000 active-duty personnel are stationed outside of the United States, a vast quantity of whom are in Germany.
“Trump is angry that they [Europe] appear to be pushing for war,” a source close to the White House said.
Brian Hughes, a US national security spokesman, said: “While no specific announcement is imminent, the US military is always considering the redeployment of troops around the world to best address current threats to our interests.”
It is understood Sky Shield has been drawn up by former RAF planners working in conjunction with Ukraine’s armed forces, and it has been canvassed before European defence ministries. However, there has been no real appetite from European leaders to sanction patrols of Ukrainian skies while the war is ongoing.
Those involved believe the pace of events in the last week means that ideas about protecting some of Ukraine’s airspace can now get a fresh hearing, though the plan also serves to highlight how important and efficient air protection would be as part of providing security guarantees to Kyiv in the event of a ceasefire.
(October 15, 2024)
One rogue nation cannot declare war on the UN itself and continue to get away with it
A No 10 spokesperson said: „The prime minister has tonight spoken to both President Trump and President Zelensky.
„He retains unwavering support for Ukraine, and is doing all he can to find a path forward to a lasting peace based on sovereignty and security for Ukraine.
„The prime minister looks forward to hosting international leaders on Sunday including President Zelensky.“
The delay imposes further strain on the precarious truce, which is at a particularly vulnerable moment, between first and second phases. The first phase is due to end next Saturday, but negotiations on the second phase have yet to begin.
While a majority of Israelis want the release of the remaining hostages to be the government’s priority, there is resistance from the right wing of Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition, which wants the war to resume with the aim of obliterating Hamas.
WHAT is your view on Trump’s pronouncements on Gaza? How do these reflect on the US’s relationship with Israel and its role in the Middle East?
These declarations by Trump show a barbaric mentality; bringing to the Gaza issue a “cowboy” attitude from the American experience: removing the native people because the white man has decided it.
We need to be clear that this has not really been a war against Hamas for reasons of security but a strategic war, planned in advance, with the goal of displacing and erasing the Palestinian population.
Hamas said on Thursday it will continue implementing the Gaza ceasefire deal, including a hostage exchange within the agreed timeframe, reports Reuters.
(February 6, 2025)
Four UN Special Rapporteurs have written jointly to the UK government demanding explanation of its inappropriate persecution of journalists and political activists under the Terrorism Act. They state that those persecuted:
appear to have no credible connection to “terrorist” or “hostile” activity
The cases taken up by the United Nations are those of Johanna Ross (Ganyukova), John Laughland, Kit Klarenberg, Craig Murray (yes, me), Richard Barnard and Richard Medhurst.
Campaigners are set to march to the US Embassy in London to demand freedom for Palestine amid Donald Trump‘s comments on a Gaza ethnic cleansing plan.
The demonstration, organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), is set to be held on Saturday, February 15.
(October 15, 2024)
One rogue nation cannot declare war on the UN itself and continue to get away with it
(January 20, 2025)
On Monday, some prominent far-right social media users celebrated Musk’s gestures onstage in Washington, however he had meant them.
As first reported by Rolling Stone, Christopher Pohlhaus, the leader of Blood Tribe, a neo-Nazi group, wrote on Telegram: “I don’t care if this was a mistake. I’m going to enjoy the tears over it.” Andrew Torba, the founder of Gab, a far-right social media platform, also wrote: “Incredible things are happening already.”
The fate of captives held by Hamas is in the balance until they are finally swapped for Palestinian prisoners
(October 15, 2024)
One rogue nation cannot declare war on the UN itself and continue to get away with it
(April 9, 2024)
Western governments could once be confident of protecting their friends. Nicaragua’s case shows those days are gone
(December 18, 2024)
RCA fighters who captured the Russian-controlled Syrian air base on the outskirts of the town last week said they had been told to prepare for Assad’s possible fall in early November, nearly three weeks before the offensive began.
Until one month earlier, Capt Mashadani had been second-in-command of the Abu Khatab brigade. This small unit of 150 men was created by US Special Forces and trained by their British counterparts in Jordan until 2016, to hunt down Isis fighters near Deir ez-Zor, a city in eastern Syria.
(December 6, 2024)
Bashar al-Assad’s family fled to Russia in the days after rebel forces launched a shock offensive that captured swathes of territory across northern Syria, it has been revealed.
It comes after a source close to the Kremlin told Bloomberg News that Moscow had no plans to rescue the Syrian president, with Vladimir Putin said to be disgusted by reports of regime troops fleeing their positions. (…)
Egyptian and Jordanian officials are understood to have urged the Syrian president to leave the country and form a government-in-exile.
Sir Keir Starmer has backed the International Criminal Court (ICC) after it issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister.
When asked about the issue, Sir Keir’s official spokesman said the Government respected the independence of the court.
He declined to say whether Mr Netanyahu would be arrested if he arrived in the UK.
(October 15, 2024)
One rogue nation cannot declare war on the UN itself and continue to get away with it