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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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November 24, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Prime Minister La’aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt has defended his decision to ban the Samoa Observer in response to a joint letter from the Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) and the Pacific Freedom Forum (PFF). In a statement issued by the Press Secretary, Nanai Lave Tuiletufuga yesterday, the office of the Prime Minister acknowledged ... <a title="PM hits back at PINA and PFF over Samoa Observer ‘ethics’ ban" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/24/pm-hits-back-at-pina-and-pff-over-samoa-observer-ethics-ban/" aria-label="Read more about PM hits back at PINA and PFF over Samoa Observer ‘ethics’ ban">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2024
Pacific Media Watch The New York-based media watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists says the announcement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his intention to ban Al Jazeera follows a similar pattern of media interference, including the killing of media workers. “We’ve seen this kind of language before from Netanyahu and Israeli officials in which ... <a title="Israel’s Al Jazeera ban ‘alarms’ media watchdog on free press stranglehold" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/02/israels-al-jazeera-ban-alarms-media-watchdog-on-free-press-stranglehold/" aria-label="Read more about Israel’s Al Jazeera ban ‘alarms’ media watchdog on free press stranglehold">Read more</a>
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March 23, 2024
Asia Pacific Report A West Papuan pro-independence leader has condemned the “sadistic brutality” of Indonesian soldiers in a torture video and called for an urgent United Nations human rights visit to the colonised Melanesian territory. “There is an urgent need for states to take more serious action on human rights in West Papua,” said president ... <a title="Wenda condemns ‘sadistic brutality’ of Indonesian torture of Papuan – calls for UN action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/23/wenda-condemns-sadistic-brutality-of-indonesian-torture-of-papuan-calls-for-un-action/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda condemns ‘sadistic brutality’ of Indonesian torture of Papuan – calls for UN action">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2023
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby The three local female researchers who were kidnapped with Australia-based New Zealand professor Bryce Barker are being kept in a safe house and banned from speaking to news media. According to their families, the women were being kept in an undisclosed location for their safety with their mobile phones ... <a title="K100,000 ransom paid for release of PNG hostages clarified as ‘third party’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/02/k100000-ransom-paid-for-release-of-png-hostages-clarified-as-third-party/" aria-label="Read more about K100,000 ransom paid for release of PNG hostages clarified as ‘third party’">Read more</a>
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January 26, 2020
By Mata’afa Keni Lesa in Apia Prime Minister Tuilaepa Dr Sa’ilele Malielegaoi has attacked the Samoa Observer, accusing the nation’s only daily newspaper of being “nosy,” spreading “lies” and employing “kids” whose writing, he says, are misleading the public. Tuilaepa issued his attack in response to the Samoa Observer’s coverage of the Legislative Assembly’s decision ... <a title="Samoan PM Tuilaepa attacks Observer over criticism of media ban" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/26/samoan-pm-tuilaepa-attacks-observer-over-criticism-of-media-ban/" aria-label="Read more about Samoan PM Tuilaepa attacks Observer over criticism of media ban">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2020
By David Robie in Manila Rappler, the innovative online publisher that has been at the media freedom frontline in the Philippines for the past three years, has challenged President Rodrigo Duterte by taking the executive to the Supreme Court. The news website has called on the court to rule on whether President Duterte – or ... <a title="Rappler challenges president’s ‘media powers’ in democracy fight back" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/23/rappler-challenges-presidents-media-powers-in-democracy-fight-back/" aria-label="Read more about Rappler challenges president’s ‘media powers’ in democracy fight back">Read more</a>
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