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August 16, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Gordon Campbell The word “Gaza” is taking on similar connotations to what the word “Auschwitz” meant to a previous generation. It signifies a deliberate and systematic attempt to erase an entire people from history on the basis of their ethnic identity. As a result, Israel is isolating itself as a pariah state on ... <a title="Gordon Campbell: The lack of spine in New Zealand’s foreign policy on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/16/gordon-campbell-the-lack-of-spine-in-new-zealands-foreign-policy-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Gordon Campbell: The lack of spine in New Zealand’s foreign policy on Gaza">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Union members of Australia’s Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) have made a video honouring the 242 Palestinian journalists and media workers killed by the Israeli military since October 2023 — many of them targeted. The death toll has been reported by the Gaza Media Office since the latest killing of six ... <a title="‘Stop killing journalists’ in Gaza plea by media alliance advocates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/15/stop-killing-journalists-in-gaza-plea-by-media-alliance-advocates/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Stop killing journalists’ in Gaza plea by media alliance advocates">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2025
Netanyahu’s mass ethnic cleansing strategy pulls the rug out from under the West’s cherished pretext for supporting Israeli criminality: the fabled two-state solution. ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook If you thought Western capitals were finally losing patience with Israel’s engineering of a famine in Gaza nearly two years into the genocide, you may be disappointed. As ... <a title="The West is in panic as Israel’s plan for ‘full control’ of Gaza heralds a new Nakba" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/14/the-west-is-in-panic-as-israels-plan-for-full-control-of-gaza-heralds-a-new-nakba/" aria-label="Read more about The West is in panic as Israel’s plan for ‘full control’ of Gaza heralds a new Nakba">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2025
Aotearoa New Zealand once earned praise for its “principled” and “independent” foreign policy. Think nuclear-free Pacific, for example. Yet that reputation doesn’t hold true when it comes to Gaza and the Palestinian desire and right to self-determination. Under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, states must take positive steps to prevent genocide. ... <a title="John Hobbs: New Zealand’s shameful stance on Israel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/14/john-hobbs-new-zealands-shameful-stance-on-israel/" aria-label="Read more about John Hobbs: New Zealand’s shameful stance on Israel">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2025
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. Global condemnation is mounting over Israel’s assassination of one of the most prominent journalists in Gaza, the Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, along with four of his colleagues at the network and another freelance journalist. UN Secretary-General António Guterres is calling for ... <a title="Israel has ‘deliberate strategy’ of killing Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif, warns UN expert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/13/israel-has-deliberate-strategy-of-killing-palestinian-journalists-like-anas-al-sharif-warns-un-expert/" aria-label="Read more about Israel has ‘deliberate strategy’ of killing Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif, warns UN expert">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2025
Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark says she has witnessed Israel deliberately obstructing life-saving humanitarian aid into Gaza. Together with former Irish president Mary Robinson, Clark visited the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Palestinian territory this week. The two former world leaders are part of The Elders, an independent, non-government organisation of ... <a title="Israel deliberately obstructing aid, says former PM Helen Clark" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/13/israel-deliberately-obstructing-aid-says-former-pm-helen-clark/" aria-label="Read more about Israel deliberately obstructing aid, says former PM Helen Clark">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2025
By Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira, RNZ Māori news journalist in Parliament New Zealand’s Prime Minister says the war in Gaza is “utterly appalling” and Israeil Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost the plot”. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s comments came on a tense day in Parliament today, where the Green Party’s co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick was “named” for refusing ... <a title="Israeli PM has ‘lost the plot’, says NZ’s Christopher Luxon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/13/israeli-pm-has-lost-the-plot-says-nzs-christopher-luxon/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli PM has ‘lost the plot’, says NZ’s Christopher Luxon">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Australia’s Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance has condemned the continued targeted killing of media workers in Gaza and the baseless smearing of working journalists as “terrorists”, following the deaths of five Al Jazeera staff over the weekend. Al Jazeera journalists Anas Al Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed ... <a title="MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/13/meaa-condemns-targeted-attacks-on-gaza-journalists-as-a-war-crime/" aria-label="Read more about MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2025
Pacific Media Watch The Paris-based media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the Israeli military’s “disgraceful tactic” to cover up war crimes in the wake of the killing of six journalists in Gaza on Sunday. It has called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to stop the massacre of journalists, ... <a title="RSF calls for emergency UN Security Council meeting after targeted Israeli strike kills six media professionals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/12/rsf-calls-for-emergency-un-security-council-meeting-after-targeted-israeli-strike-kills-six-media-professionals/" aria-label="Read more about RSF calls for emergency UN Security Council meeting after targeted Israeli strike kills six media professionals">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2025
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News acting political editor New Zealand Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick has been ejected from Parliament’s debating chamber and told to leave for the rest of the week after a fiery speech about the war in Gaza. The incident occured during an urgent debate this afternoon which was called after the ... <a title="Greens co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick barred from NZ Parliament for rest of week after fiery Gaza speech" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/12/greens-co-leader-chloe-swarbrick-barred-from-nz-parliament-for-rest-of-week-after-fiery-gaza-speech/" aria-label="Read more about Greens co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick barred from NZ Parliament for rest of week after fiery Gaza speech">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2025
Asia Pacific Report A leading advocacy group supporting Palerstine has called on the government to follow Germany’s lead and suspend New Zealand military support for Israel to continue its mass killing and mass starvation of Palestinians in Gaza. Germany and New Zealand were two of the countries to sign a letter yesterday condemning Israel’s plans ... <a title="PSNA calls on Luxon to end ‘support’ for Israel as Australia plans backing for Palestine state" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/11/psna-calls-on-luxon-to-end-support-for-israel-as-australia-plans-backing-for-palestine-state/" aria-label="Read more about PSNA calls on Luxon to end ‘support’ for Israel as Australia plans backing for Palestine state">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2025
Pacific Media Watch The Committee to Protect Journalists has made a statement today that it is appalled to learn of the killing of an Al Jazeera media crew of five, including journalists Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa by Israeli forces in Gaza. The journalists were killed ... <a title="CPJ condemns Israeli killing of Gaza journalist Anas al-Sharif and video crew of four" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/11/cpj-condemns-israeli-killing-of-gaza-journalist-anas-al-sharif-and-video-crew-of-four/" aria-label="Read more about CPJ condemns Israeli killing of Gaza journalist Anas al-Sharif and video crew of four">Read more</a>