Sun 12 October 2023: As Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah told the world in his latest speech on Saturday, there will be no big war. For the first four weeks of Israeli assault on Gaza, Syed Hassan Nasrallah was conspicuously silent. When he finally spoke, a week ago, the world listened anxiously: Would the leader of the […]
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Chinese Ambassador to the UN Zhang Jun, Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour and Russian Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia speak before a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question at the UN Headquarters on October 18, 2023 in New York. Photo: VCG Mon 06 […]
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Israel Defence Forces. Sun 05 October 2023: The bloodier, and likely more protracted stage of the war, will likely include Israeli forays into Hamas tunnels. Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza started last week as a slow, rolling, gradual advance of land forces along three main axes: from the north, armoured and mechanised units moved at […]
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Sat 04 October 2023: Palestinian rights advocates say ‘pauses’ are ‘insufficient’ and would not absolve US of complicity in Israeli attacks. Washington, DC – As United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken was meeting with Israeli leaders to urge “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza, Israel intensified its bombing of the Palestinian territory, hitting hospitals, ambulances and civilians fleeing […]
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Fri 03 October 2023: The controversial policy to avoid the capture of Israeli soldiers isn’t formally in place now. But echoes persist in the war in Gaza, say some analysts. Yehuda Shaul describes his three years of service with the Israeli military, from 2001 to 2004, as the “most violent period” of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict […]
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Anti-war protesters raise their ‘bloody’ hands behind US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (front and centre) [Kevin Lamarque/Reuters] Wed 01 October 2023: Washington, DC – A rights group in the United States has raised alarm over President Joe Biden’s request for $14bn in funding for Israel, noting that the push contains language that suggests efforts to remove […]
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Tue 31 October 2023: The number of South African internet users has nearly doubled in the past decade. One 2023 study of 45 developed countries suggests that South Africans even lead the world when it comes to the amount of time spent in front of screens, at 58.2% of the day. This digital transformation has significant implications for the […]
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Tue 31 October 2023: Signs of the rift within Israel’s establishment deepen even as Netanyahu declares the next phase of the war in Gaza. It took one tweet over the weekend for cracks to emerge within the Israeli political establishment. Just after midnight on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote that he had never been […]
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Mon 30 October 2023: Fears are escalating the conflict between Israel and Hamas could spill over into a broader war involving other countries in the region. Neighbouring countries such as Lebanon, Syria and Egypt, as well as regional players like Iran and Qatar, are currently navigating domestic and international pressures in their response. So, how […]
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Sun 29 October 2023: A strong combined-arms attack on Gaza that started on Friday night continued on Saturday, but it is still unclear whether this is the first step in the big push that Israel has been announcing or is it just another probe to test Palestinian resistance. The Israeli military launched two limited-scope ground […]
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