What is the International Criminal Court (ICC) and how can a...
Molly Quell
AP / April 4, 2025
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – After giving a red carpet welcome this week to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity in Gaza, Hungary announced it would quit the court.
Should Hungary follow through with...
‘Deprived of life before seeing the light’ – pregnant women in...
Rasha Abou Jalal
Drop Site News / April 4, 2025
Miscarriages are increasing in Gaza as continued Israeli attacks, forced displacement, and a lack of medication and food take a toll on pregnant women
GAZA CITY—Noor al-Abadleh closed her eyes as she held the pregnancy test, waiting for the results to emerge....
As Orbán quits the ICC, other nations have a choice to...
Steve Crawshaw
The Guardian / April 4, 2025
There is a principle that even the most powerful leaders must be accountable. Increasingly, that is under threat, but it must be defended.
It was unsurprising that Benjamin Netanyahu praised Viktor Orbán’s “bold and principled” stand, in response to Hungary’s announcement yesterday that it...
Israeli bombing of Gaza school housing displaced Palestinians kills at least...
Shweta Sharma
The Independent / April 4, 2025
Most of those killed were women and children, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
Israel continues attacks on Gaza despite ceasefire announcement.
At least 27 Palestinians were killed when the Israeli military struck a school in northern Gaza on Thursday, according to the Strip’s Hamas-run...
Orbán says Hungary is quitting the ICC to end its ‘half-hearted’...
Justin Spike
AP / April 4, 2025
BUDAPEST, Hungary – Hungary was never fully committed to the International Criminal Court (ICC), Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday, a day after his government announced a decision to quit the global tribunal for war crimes and genocide.
Speaking on state radio, Orbán offered...
‘Gaza is dying’: massive devastation as Israel intensifies attacks
Sally Ibrahim
The New Arab / April 4, 2025
"The bombs never stopped. We see bodies in the streets, and no one can reach them," Al-Shujaiya resident Obaida al-Rubai told TNA.
Gaza – Chaos, confusion, and fear permeate the air inside the Arab Ahli Hospital, also known as the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City....
Life for Palestinians getting worse under Israeli occupation, Oscar winner tells...
TNA Staff
The New Arab / April 4, 2025
Basel Adra told the UN Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People that conditions for Palestinians are 'changing from worse to worse'.
Palestinian director Basel Adra, who won an Oscar this year for co-directing a documentary on Israeli violence in the...
The graver Israel’s atrocities in Gaza, the quieter the BBC grows
Jonathan Cook
https://substack.com/@jonathancook / April 4, 2025
Once again the UK state broadcaster goes missing in action – this time at the discovery of a mass grave of emergency workers executed by Israel.
The BBC’s news verification service, Verify, digitally reconstructed a residential tower block in Mandalay earlier this week to show...
Israeli forces kill at least 30 Palestinians as ground offensive continues...
TNA Staff
The New Arab / April 4, 2025
At least 30 Palestinians were killed in fresh Israeli strikes in Gaza on Friday morning as Israeli forces continue to target civilian infrastructure across the shattered territory, Gaza's civil defence agency told AFP.
A strike in Khan Younis killed at least 25 people, a medical source...
Only 14 senators join Sanders bid to block arms to Israel...
Sharon Zhang
Truthout / April 3, 2025
The resolutions failed by a larger margin than in similar votes in November, with several Democrats flipping to “no.”
On Thursday, the Senate rejected Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vermont) resolutions to block the sale of $8.8 billion in weapons to Israel by an even wider margin...
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Kwestie Palestina
De ‘Kwestie Palestina’ verwijst naar de strijd van Palestijnen tegen het zionistische, koloniale project in Palestina, waarbij zionistisch-joodse kolonisten vanaf het eind van de 19e eeuw door middel van kolonisatie stelselmatig toewerken naar het omvormen van Palestina in een Joodse Staat. Deze omvorming betekent in de praktijk dat de...
de Palestijnen
Palestina – het gebied dat zich uitstrekt tussen de Middellandse Zee en de rivier de Jordaan – is door de inspanningen van joodse kolonisten/de Staat Israel opgedeeld in drie delen: Palestina’48 (Israel), de Westelijke Jordaanoever (inclusief Oost-Jeruzalem) en de Strook van Gaza.
In 2016 woonden in Palestina woonden 6,5 miljoen...