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January 5, 2025
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor The fate of Palestinian Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, who was “arrested” by Israeli forces last month after defiantly staying with his patients when his hospital was being attacked, featured strongly at yesterday’s medical professionals solidarity rally in Auckland. The Israeli government bears full ... <a title="Abducted Gaza doctor’s life in danger due to torture – call for immediate international intervention" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/05/abducted-gaza-doctors-life-in-danger-due-to-torture-call-for-immediate-international-intervention/" aria-label="Read more about Abducted Gaza doctor’s life in danger due to torture – call for immediate international intervention">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Israel is forcing two hospitals in northern Gaza to evacuate under threat of attack as its ethnic cleansing campaign continues. Israeli forces have surrounded the Indonesian Hospital, where many staff and patients sought shelter after nearby Kamal Adwan Hospital was destroyed in an Israeli raid last week, reports Al Jazeera. Late on ... <a title="Israel orders patients, staff to ‘evacuate’ last two hospitals in northern Gaza siege" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/04/israel-orders-patients-staff-to-evacuate-last-two-hospitals-in-northern-gaza-siege/" aria-label="Read more about Israel orders patients, staff to ‘evacuate’ last two hospitals in northern Gaza siege">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2025
Asia Pacific Report The UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, has called on “medical professionals worldwide” to suspend ties with Israel in an act of solidarity with the more than “1000 colleagues of yours” killed in Gaza over the past 14 months. Countless more Palestinian medical workers “were ... <a title="‘Suspend Israel ties’ plea to global medical professionals – Auckland hospital protest vigil over Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/04/suspend-israel-ties-plea-to-global-medical-professionals-auckland-hospital-protest-vigil-over-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Suspend Israel ties’ plea to global medical professionals – Auckland hospital protest vigil over Gaza">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2025
Pacific Media Watch The New York-based global media watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned a decision by the Palestinian Authority to suspend Al Jazeera’s operations in the West Bank and called for it to be reversed “immediately”. “Governments resort to censoring news outlets when they have something to hide,” said CPJ chief executive Jodie ... <a title="CPJ condemns ban on Al Jazeera – network decries bid to ‘hide the truth’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/02/cpj-condemns-ban-on-al-jazeera-network-decries-bid-to-hide-the-truth/" aria-label="Read more about CPJ condemns ban on Al Jazeera – network decries bid to ‘hide the truth’">Read more</a>
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December 31, 2024
Democracy Now! Gaza’s Health Ministry has confirmed that close to 46,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s ongoing assault, but Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah estimates the true number is closer to 300,000. “This is literally and mathematically a genocidal project,” says Dr Abu-Sittah, a British Palestinian reconstructive surgeon who worked in Gaza for more than a ... <a title="A ‘genocidal project’ – Dr Abu-Sittah on Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s health system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/31/a-genocidal-project-dr-abu-sittah-on-israels-destruction-of-gazas-health-system/" aria-label="Read more about A ‘genocidal project’ – Dr Abu-Sittah on Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s health system">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2024
Asia Pacific Report A Palestine solidarity group has protested over the participation of Israeli tennis player Lina Glushko in New Zealand’s ASB Tennis Classic in Auckland this week, saying such competition raises serious concerns about the normalisation of systemic oppression and apartheid. The Palestine Forum of New Zealand said in a statement that by taking ... <a title="Palestine protest group condemns NZ’s ‘normalisation of apartheid’ over Israeli tennis player" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/30/palestine-protest-group-condemns-nzs-normalisation-of-apartheid-over-israeli-tennis-player/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine protest group condemns NZ’s ‘normalisation of apartheid’ over Israeli tennis player">Read more</a>
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December 26, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Five Palestinian journalists have been killed in a new Israeli strike near a hospital in central Gaza after four reporters were killed last week, reports Al Jazeera citing authorities and media in the besieged enclave. The journalists from the Al-Quds Today channel were covering events near al-Awda Hospital, located in the Nuseirat ... <a title="Five journalists killed by Israeli air strike near hospital – media watchdogs condemn killings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/26/five-journalists-killed-by-israeli-air-strike-near-hospital-media-watchdogs-condemn-killings/" aria-label="Read more about Five journalists killed by Israeli air strike near hospital – media watchdogs condemn killings">Read more</a>
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December 26, 2024
By Victor Barreiro Jr in Manila Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David, bishop of Kalookan, has condemned the state of Israel on Christmas Eve for its relentless attacks on Gaza that have killed tens of thousands of Palestinians. “I can’t think of any other people in the world who live in darkness and are always in the ... <a title="Cardinal David slams Israel, says Jesus would have been born in Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/26/cardinal-david-slams-israel-says-jesus-would-have-been-born-in-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Cardinal David slams Israel, says Jesus would have been born in Gaza">Read more</a>
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December 25, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Silent Night is a well-known Christmas carol that tells of a peaceful and silent night in Bethlehem, referring to the first Christmas more than 2000 years ago. It is now 2024, and it was again a silent night in Bethlehem last night, reports Al Jazeera’s Nisa Ibrahim. Not because of peace. But ... <a title="Gaza Christians pray for end of Israeli war’s ‘death and destruction’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/25/gaza-christians-pray-for-end-of-israeli-wars-death-and-destruction/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza Christians pray for end of Israeli war’s ‘death and destruction’">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2024
Asia Pacific Report “It looks like Hiroshima. It looks like Germany at the end of World War Two,” says an Israeli-American historian and professor of holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University about the horrifying reality of Gaza. Professor Omer Bartov, has described Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza as an “act of annihilation” of the ... <a title="Israeli-American historian describes attacks on Gaza as ‘war of annihilation’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/22/israeli-american-historian-describes-attacks-on-gaza-as-war-of-annihilation/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli-American historian describes attacks on Gaza as ‘war of annihilation’">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Fiji activists have recreated the nativity scene at a solidarity for Palestine gathering in Fiji’s capital Suva just days before Christmas. The Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre and Fijians for Palestine Solidarity Network recreated the scene at the FWCC compound — a baby Jesus figurine lies amidst the rubble wrapped in a piece ... <a title="Fiji pro-Palestine nativity scene exposes Gaza as ‘hell on earth’ at Christmas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/21/fiji-pro-palestine-nativity-scene-exposes-gaza-as-hell-on-earth-at-christmas/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji pro-Palestine nativity scene exposes Gaza as ‘hell on earth’ at Christmas">Read more</a>
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December 19, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Palestinian history is “deliberately ignored” and is being effectively “erased” as part of Western news media narratives, while establishment forces work to shut down anyone speaking out against Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, academics have told a university conference of legal and Middle East experts. Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz
