“When will our country stop funding this madness?” asked U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib. “When?” Dozens of Palestinians were killed and many more wounded Sunday and Monday by Israeli attacks on a Gaza hospital and multiple refugee camps, where victims included people queueing for food and a group of children at play. The United Nations Relief and Works […]
The Chile-led effort warned that Israel’s decision to ban U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres would “undermine the United Nations’ ability to carry out its mandate.” The U.S. was not among the more than 100 United Nations member states that signed a new letter of support for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres after Israel’s foreign minister declared him “persona non […]
Disarmament advocate Beatrice Fihn stressed that the exercise is practice for “wiping out hundreds of thousands of civilians” with weapons that would also “flatten cities and poison survivors.” The NATO military block announced Friday that its annual nuclear exercise is set to begin this week—news that arrived just as Japanese atomic bomb survivors who advocate […]
“Every day without a cease-fire, it gets harder to help children piece together the shattered shards of their lives,” said a Save the Children official. “For thousands of children, it’s already too late.” The global humanitarian group Save the Children said Thursday that roughly 30% of the kids killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since last October were under […]