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August 7, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The West Papuan resistance movement OPM has blamed the tragic death of a New Zealand helicopter pilot in a remote part of the troubled Melanesian region on Indonesia’s security forces and “every nation supporting barbarity”. In a statement today, the OPM (Free Papua Organisation) chairman-commander Jeffrey Bomanak claimed his movement had undertaken ... <a title="OPM blames Indonesia over tragic death of NZ helicopter pilot" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/07/opm-blames-indonesia-over-tragic-death-of-nz-helicopter-pilot/" aria-label="Read more about OPM blames Indonesia over tragic death of NZ helicopter pilot">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2024
RNZ News The coalition government is telling New Zealanders in Iran and Lebanon to leave immediately as tensions rise in the Middle East. “The New Zealand government urges New Zealanders in Lebanon and Iran to leave now while options remain available,” Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters said in a social media post today. “We also ... <a title="NZ tells citizens to leave Iran and Lebanon now ‘while options remain’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/05/nz-tells-citizens-to-leave-iran-and-lebanon-now-while-options-remain/" aria-label="Read more about NZ tells citizens to leave Iran and Lebanon now ‘while options remain’">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The Freedom Flotilla Coalition has told supporters that the “Break the Siege” aid project for besieged Gaza from Turkey has been put on hold — indefinitely — due to rising tensions in the wake of the assassinations of key resistance leaders in the capitals of Lebanon and Iran. “We will continue to ... <a title="Turkey-based Freedom Flotilla aid ships put ‘on hold’ but Handala still heads for Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/04/turkey-based-freedom-flotilla-aid-ships-put-on-hold-but-handala-still-heads-for-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Turkey-based Freedom Flotilla aid ships put ‘on hold’ but Handala still heads for Gaza">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Mohamad Elmasry On Wednesday, the Israeli army killed two more Palestinian journalists in Gaza. Ismail al-Ghoul and Rami al-Rifi were working when they were struck by Israeli forces in Gaza City. Al-Ghoul, whose Al Jazeera reports were popular among Arab audiences, was wearing a press vest at the time he was killed. The ... <a title="Gaza killings and the death of Western journalism – why the shocking silence?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/03/gaza-killings-and-the-death-of-western-journalism-why-the-shocking-silence/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza killings and the death of Western journalism – why the shocking silence?">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian political leader and a former member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee, says Israel’s “gangster style assassination and extrajudicial executions” are designed to “inflame the whole region”, reports Al Jazeera. The killings of the Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Hezbollah military commander Fuad ... <a title="Israel accused of being a ‘rogue state’ trying to destabilise Middle East" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/03/israel-accused-of-being-a-rogue-state-trying-to-destabilise-middle-east/" aria-label="Read more about Israel accused of being a ‘rogue state’ trying to destabilise Middle East">Read more</a>
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August 2, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone President Biden — if you feel like pretending Biden is still serving as President and still making the decisions in the White House — has pledged to support Israel against any retaliations for its recent assassination spree in Iran and Lebanon which killed high-profile officials from Hamas and Hezbollah. A White House statement asserts that ... <a title="Promoting peace and stability in the Middle East by unconditionally backing its worst aggressor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/02/promoting-peace-and-stability-in-the-middle-east-by-unconditionally-backing-its-worst-aggressor/" aria-label="Read more about Promoting peace and stability in the Middle East by unconditionally backing its worst aggressor">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2024
ANALYSIS: By Ramzy Baroud Israel’s assassination of the head of Hamas’ political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran, on yesterday is part of Tel Aviv’s overall desperate search for a wider conflict. It is a criminal act that reeks of desperation. Almost immediately after the start of the Gaza war on October 7, Israel hoped to ... <a title="Why Israel assassinated Haniyeh – desperation over Gaza failure" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/01/why-israel-assassinated-haniyeh-desperation-over-gaza-failure/" aria-label="Read more about Why Israel assassinated Haniyeh – desperation over Gaza failure">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2024
The Palestine Chronicle Ismail Haniyeh, a prominent Palestinian political leader and the head of Hamas’ political bureau, has been assassinated today in an Israeli airstrike on Tehran. Haniyeh was in the Iranian capital for the inauguration of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. Both Hamas and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard confirmed his death and announced ongoing investigations ... <a title="Assassinated – Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian refugee who became the political leader of Hamas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/31/assassinated-ismail-haniyeh-the-palestinian-refugee-who-became-the-political-leader-of-hamas/" aria-label="Read more about Assassinated – Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian refugee who became the political leader of Hamas">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2024
By David Robie Former New Zealand attorney-general David Parker spoke on day 295 of Israel’ genocidal war on Gaza in Auckland today, condemning the National-led government’s inaction over the ongoing crisis. Responding to the recent International Court of Justice’s landmark advisory ruling that Israel’s occupation of Gaza, West Bank and East Jerusalem — Occupied Palestine ... <a title="Labour’s Parker critical of weak NZ response to ICJ ruling against Israel over Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/28/labours-parker-critical-of-weak-nz-response-to-icj-ruling-against-israel-over-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Labour’s Parker critical of weak NZ response to ICJ ruling against Israel over Gaza">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The thing I hate about Western electoral politics in general and US presidential races in particular is that they take the focus off the depravity of the US-centralised Empire itself, and run cover for its criminality. In the coming months you’re going to be hearing a lot of talk about the ... <a title="Caitlin Johnstone: US presidential races hide the criminality of the Empire" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/27/caitlin-johnstone-us-presidential-races-hide-the-criminality-of-the-empire/" aria-label="Read more about Caitlin Johnstone: US presidential races hide the criminality of the Empire">Read more</a>
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July 26, 2024
Pacific Media Watch A Lebanese photojournalist who was severely wounded during an Israeli air strike in south Lebanon carried the Olympic torch in Paris this week in honour of her peers who have been wounded and killed in the field — especially in Gaza and Lebanon. Christina Assi of Agence France-Presse was among six journalists ... <a title="Photojournalist targeted by Israeli army carries Olympic torch in Paris" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/26/photojournalist-targeted-by-israeli-army-carries-olympic-torch-in-paris/" aria-label="Read more about Photojournalist targeted by Israeli army carries Olympic torch in Paris">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2024
By Stefan Armbruster, Harlyne Joku and Tria Dianti No progress has been made in sending a UN human rights mission to Indonesia’s Papuan provinces despite the appointment of Fiji and Papua New Guinea’s prime ministers to negotiate the visit. Pacific Island leaders have for more than a decade requested the UN’s involvement over reported abuses ... <a title="Fiji, PNG fail to secure UN human rights mission to Indonesia’s Papuan provinces" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/24/fiji-png-fail-to-secure-un-human-rights-mission-to-indonesias-papuan-provinces/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji, PNG fail to secure UN human rights mission to Indonesia’s Papuan provinces">Read more</a>
