Gaza Aid Flotilla With 1,000 Passengers, Tons Of Supplies Poised To Sail - As IDF Awaits A flotilla of ships packed with a thousand activists, human rights observers and more than 5,500 tons of food and medical supplies is ready to sail from Istanbul to for Gaza. To do so, they'll need the Turkish government to let them leave the port, and then run the risk of being subjected to a deadly Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) attack -- as their predecessors were in an infamous 2010 incident. ...
A NASA mission testing a new way of navigating our solar system is ready to hoist its sail into space—not to catch the wind, but the propulsive power of sunlight. The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is targeting launch on Tuesday, April 23 (Wednesday, April 24 in New Zealand) aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from the company's Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand.
Fatah, the "moderate" ruling party of the Palestinian Authority, has admitted on live television that Hamas steals humanitarian aid and kills aid workers in the Gaza Strip.
We are calling on countries around the world to pressure Israel to allow us “free and safe passage” to deliver much-needed humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
From the U.S., there are about 35 participants. Leading the group, and key to the international coalition, is 77-year-old retired U.S. Army colonel and State Department diplomat Ann Wright. After quitting the State Department in protest over the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Wright has put her diplomatic skills to good use in helping to pull together a motley group of internationals. Her co-organizer from the U.S. is Huwaida Arraf, a Palestinian American attorney who is a co-founder of the...
The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that its forces airdropped humanitarian aid into the northern part of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. The aid was deliver
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant discussed efforts to increase the amount of humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip. Blin
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) shared in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that 15 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip on Sunday. The trucks were allowed in through the Kerem Shalo
Berlin restores ties with UN agency after review says Israel has provided no evidence of terrorist linksMiddle East crisis – live updatesGermany has said it will restore cooperation and funding to Unrwa operations in the Gaza Strip after an independent review said Israel had not provided evidence to back up claims that hundreds of employees of the UN agency for Palestinians were members of terrorist organisations.Berlin’s foreign and development ministries said in a joint statement on Wednesday...
Academics call on the government to extend visas for people from Myanmar who fled fighting there.
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The Gazan beach staging area for the future American "surge" of humanitarian aid to the Palestinians there has already been attacked, according to official reports.According to U.S. and Israeli sources, United Nations reps who were on the beach prepping the area for the new pier came under limited mortar fire early Thursday. No one was hurt, and there was minimal damage to some engineering equipment. Early reporting from i24 News speculated that Palestinians were targeting Israeli Defense Forces...