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With Hasbara failing, Israel placed Hossam Shabat on a kill list

April 5, 2025

While public opinion of Israel plummets, each day the genocide continues without significant repercussions only reinforces that they can ignore this opinion, writes Alex Foley. SPECIAL REPORT: By Alex Foley Israel announced that Hossam Shabat was a “terrorist” alongside six other Palestinian journalists. Hossam predicted they would assassinate him. He survived several attempts on his ... <a title="With Hasbara failing, Israel placed Hossam Shabat on a kill list" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/05/with-hasbara-failing-israel-placed-hossam-shabat-on-a-kill-list/" aria-label="Read more about With Hasbara failing, Israel placed Hossam Shabat on a kill list">Read more</a>

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Open letters on Gaza that The Press shunned – the Handala protest

September 12, 2024

Pacific Media Watch Two open letters on the genocidal Israeli war against Palestinian sent to The Press for publication that have been ignored in the continued Aotearoa New Zealand media silence over 11 months of atrocities. Both letters have been sent to the Christchurch morning daily newspaper by the co-presenter of the Plains FM radio ... <a title="Open letters on Gaza that The Press shunned – the Handala protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/12/open-letters-on-gaza-that-the-press-shunned-the-handala-protest/" aria-label="Read more about Open letters on Gaza that The Press shunned – the Handala protest">Read more</a>

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Israel accused of being a ‘rogue state’ trying to destabilise Middle East

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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Promoting peace and stability in the Middle East by unconditionally backing its worst aggressor

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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Assassinated – Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian refugee who became the political leader of Hamas

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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Buchanan and Manning – The Trump Assassination Attempt, Security, The Politics, What Happens Next

July 15, 2024

The Trump Assassination Attempt, Security Failures, The Politics and What Happens Next? - Firstly, in this episode of A View from Afar, political scientist and former Pentagon analyst, Dr Paul Buchanan, provides us a preliminary assessment of the assassination attempt on former United States president Donald Trump. And then Paul and Selwyn assess what impact this crime will have on the US Presidential election campaign.

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Media fuss over stranded tourists, but Kanaks face existential struggle

May 24, 2024

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle “Only the struggle counts . . .  death is nothing.”  Éloi Machoro — “the Che Guevara of the Pacific” — said this shortly before he was gunned down by a French sniper on 12  January 1985. Machoro, one of the leaders of the newly-formed FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front) ... <a title="Media fuss over stranded tourists, but Kanaks face existential struggle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/24/media-fuss-over-stranded-tourists-but-kanaks-face-existential-struggle/" aria-label="Read more about Media fuss over stranded tourists, but Kanaks face existential struggle">Read more</a>

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Three killed, including former mayor, in Manila university campus shooting

July 25, 2022

By Jairo Bolledo in Manila A day before the first State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr in Quezon City, a shooting incident inside the Ateneo de Manila University claimed the lives of at least three individuals, including the former mayor of Lamitan, Basilan, Rose Furigay. Furigay was supposed to ... <a title="Three killed, including former mayor, in Manila university campus shooting" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/25/three-killed-including-former-mayor-in-manila-university-campus-shooting/" aria-label="Read more about Three killed, including former mayor, in Manila university campus shooting">Read more</a>

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Assassins gun down Philippine broadcaster outside home

July 24, 2022

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Radio broadcaster Federico “Ding” Gempesaw has been shot and killed in broad daylight in front of his home in Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, reports the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). The IFJ and its affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), condemn the murder and urge ... <a title="Assassins gun down Philippine broadcaster outside home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/24/assassins-gun-down-philippine-broadcaster-outside-home/" aria-label="Read more about Assassins gun down Philippine broadcaster outside home">Read more</a>

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Gavin Ellis: As if the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh wasn’t enough…

May 17, 2022

The global response to the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Video: Al Jazeera COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis of Knightly Views Nothing justifies the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and the wounding of her colleague Ali al-Samoudi during an Israeli raid on Jenin in the Occupied West Bank. Nothing. I ... <a title="Gavin Ellis: As if the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh wasn’t enough…" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/17/gavin-ellis-as-if-the-killing-of-shireen-abu-akleh-wasnt-enough/" aria-label="Read more about Gavin Ellis: As if the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh wasn’t enough…">Read more</a>

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Gallery: Nakba Day in Auckland – protesting against Israel’s ‘ethnic cleansing’

May 15, 2022

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Today is Nakba Day — this is the day marking the ethnic cleansing of over 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and off their land by Israeli militias in 1948. For 74 years Israel has refused to allow them to return to their homes and land in Palestine despite dozens of United ... <a title="Gallery: Nakba Day in Auckland – protesting against Israel’s ‘ethnic cleansing’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/15/gallery-nakba-day-in-auckland-protesting-against-israels-ethnic-cleansing/" aria-label="Read more about Gallery: Nakba Day in Auckland – protesting against Israel’s ‘ethnic cleansing’">Read more</a>

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RSF calls for independent probe into Al Jazeera reporter’s West Bank killing

May 14, 2022

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Israel’s fatal shooting of leading Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh as she covered clashes in the West Bank city of Jenin is a serious violation of the Geneva Conventions and UN Security Council Resolution 2222 on the protection of journalists, says the Paris-based media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF). ... <a title="RSF calls for independent probe into Al Jazeera reporter’s West Bank killing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/14/rsf-calls-for-independent-probe-into-al-jazeera-reporters-west-bank-killing/" aria-label="Read more about RSF calls for independent probe into Al Jazeera reporter’s West Bank killing">Read more</a>