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February 23, 2026
While the world has focused on the atrocities in Gaza, Israel continues its support of illegal settlements, hostility and apartheid in the West Bank. Asia-Pacific specialist journalist Ben Bohane reports from Bethlehem for Michael West Media. SPECIAL REPORT: By Ben Bohane We are no more than 5 minutes out of Bethlehem on a crisp December ... <a title="Beyond Gaza, Israel pushes to occupy more of the West Bank" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/23/beyond-gaza-israel-pushes-to-occupy-more-of-the-west-bank/" aria-label="Read more about Beyond Gaza, Israel pushes to occupy more of the West Bank">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2026
While the world has focused on the atrocities in Gaza, Israel continues its support of illegal settlements, hostility and apartheid in the West Bank. Asia-Pacific specialist journalist Ben Bohane reports from Bethlehem for Michael West Media. SPECIAL REPORT: By Ben Bohane We are no more than 5 minutes out of Bethlehem on a crisp December ... <a title="The West Bank: Israel’s atrocities in clear sight, but out of mind" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/15/the-west-bank-israels-atrocities-in-clear-sight-but-out-of-mind/" aria-label="Read more about The West Bank: Israel’s atrocities in clear sight, but out of mind">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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January 11, 2024
The usually festive Christmas season in West Papua was marred by the death of beloved Papua Governor and Chief Lukas Enembe in an Indonesian military hospital on Boxing Day. The author personally witnessed the emotional village scenes of his burial and accuses the Indonesian authorities of driving him to his death through draconian treatment. Today ... <a title="Revered Papuan chief Lukas Enembe ‘tortured to death like a boiling frog’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/11/revered-papuan-chief-lukas-enembe-tortured-to-death-like-a-boiling-frog/" aria-label="Read more about Revered Papuan chief Lukas Enembe ‘tortured to death like a boiling frog’">Read more</a>
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December 25, 2022
CHRISTMAS MESSAGE: By Benny Wenda As 2022 draws to a close, I would like to thank everyone who has supported the West Papuan struggle this year. To our worldwide solidarity groups, including those within Indonesia, to Alex Sobel and the International Parliamentarians for West Papua (IPWP), the International Lawyers for West Papua, to our friends ... <a title="Benny Wenda: A West Papuan Christmas message" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/25/benny-wenda-a-west-papuan-christmas-message/" aria-label="Read more about Benny Wenda: A West Papuan Christmas message">Read more</a>
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December 24, 2022
RNZ News Thousands of people will be cancelling their Christmas Day plans thanks to the invisible grinch, covid-19. Leading epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker estimates 85,000 people will be in isolation by then. He says gathering outdoors or in well-ventilated spaces is key to limiting the Christmas spread of covid — and testing beforehand. “No-one will ... <a title="Thousands to miss Christmas thanks to covid-19 – how to avoid making it worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/24/thousands-to-miss-christmas-thanks-to-covid-19-how-to-avoid-making-it-worse/" aria-label="Read more about Thousands to miss Christmas thanks to covid-19 – how to avoid making it worse">Read more</a>
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December 19, 2022
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea lawbreakers who disrupt public order and ruin other people’s festive season will be arrested, charged and be placed in police cells across the country, says Internal Security Minister Peter Tsiamalili Jr. As the festive weekend commences this Friday, provincial police commands across the country are already ... <a title="PNG police warn of crackdown on lawbreakers during festive period" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/19/png-police-warn-of-crackdown-on-lawbreakers-during-festive-period/" aria-label="Read more about PNG police warn of crackdown on lawbreakers during festive period">Read more</a>
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December 28, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk New Zealand’s leading daily newspaper has praised the “gift of inspiration” over global cooperation in launching the James Webb space telescope at the Christmas weekend, but has decried the failure of the international community to seriously tackle the growing covid-19 public health crisis cooperatively. The New Zealand Herald declared today in ... <a title="Herald scolds world over contrast between space and earthly wins" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/28/herald-scolds-world-over-contrast-between-space-and-earthly-wins/" aria-label="Read more about Herald scolds world over contrast between space and earthly wins">Read more</a>
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December 27, 2021
By Rebecca Kuku and Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby As families prepare to celebrate Christmas with their loved ones, a safe house in Papua New Guinea’s capital Port Moresby has kicked out gender-based violence survivors, leaving them homeless for the festive season. One of the survivors, 37-year-old Gathy Peter from the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, ... <a title="Christmas on the street for PNG survivor of jailed wife basher" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/27/christmas-on-the-street-for-png-survivor-of-jailed-wife-basher/" aria-label="Read more about Christmas on the street for PNG survivor of jailed wife basher">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Matthew Hobbs, University of Canterbury and Lukas Marek, University of Canterbury As New Zealand gets ready for the festive season under the new traffic light system, the emergence of the omicron variant is a reminder this pandemic is far from over. The new variant of concern is already fuelling a new wave of ... <a title="The uninvited Christmas guest: Is New Zealand prepared for omicron’s inevitable arrival?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/10/the-uninvited-christmas-guest-is-new-zealand-prepared-for-omicrons-inevitable-arrival/" aria-label="Read more about The uninvited Christmas guest: Is New Zealand prepared for omicron’s inevitable arrival?">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk An appeal for a 40-day fast across the region by the Pacific Council of Churches in support of West Papua closes next week with no result in sight. The secretary-general of the PCC, Rev James Bhagwan, and West Papua Church Council (WPCC) are still waiting for the Indonesian government to respond ... <a title="40-day ‘fasting for West Papua’ protest ends soon – but still no action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/27/40-day-fasting-for-west-papua-protest-ends-soon-but-still-no-action/" aria-label="Read more about 40-day ‘fasting for West Papua’ protest ends soon – but still no action">Read more</a>
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November 13, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Bryce Edwards How determined are Labour to take the necessary steps to fix inequality and poverty? Will electoral calculations triumph over their principles and stated ambitions? These are some of the questions being asked on the political left, as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s government looks determined to stand by while social problems continue ... <a title="Bryce Edwards: Ardern’s Labour government stands by as NZ social problems worsen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/13/bryce-edwards-arderns-labour-government-stands-by-as-nz-social-problems-worsen/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards: Ardern’s Labour government stands by as NZ social problems worsen">Read more</a>
