UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will visit the Egypt-Gaza border city of Rafah on Saturday to reiterate his call for a humanitarian ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, his spokesman said Friday. Guterres, who is currently in Brussels, will arrive in Egypt on Friday evening for “his annual Ramadan solidarity trip which comes this year in turbulent […]
By Alan Yuhas, Michael Crowley and Thomas Fuller The American draft resolution before the Security Council did not go far enough to end the Israel-Hamas war, Russia and China said, after the United States had vetoed three earlier resolutions. Source: U.S. Call for Gaza Cease-Fire Runs Into Russia-China Veto Category: Israel-Gaza War (2023- ), Palestinians, […]
By Sophie GUIGNON The Jordanian city of Zarqa has a strong Palestinian identity, with good reason. In 1948, with the creation of the State of Israel – what the Palestinians call the “Nakba” (“catastrophe”) – some 750,000 people, or more than 80 percent of the Palestinian population, were forced to take exile in neighbouring countries […]