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September 4, 2025
By Antony Loewenstein in Sydney The grim facts should speak for themselves. Since 7 October 2023, Israel has deliberately killed an unprecedented number of Palestinian journalists in Gaza. Those brave individuals are smeared as Hamas operatives and terrorists by Israel and its supporters. But the real story behind this, beyond just Western racism and dehumanisation ... <a title="Antony Loewenstein: Israel’s murderous killing spree against Palestinian journalists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/04/antony-loewenstein-israels-murderous-killing-spree-against-palestinian-journalists/" aria-label="Read more about Antony Loewenstein: Israel’s murderous killing spree against Palestinian journalists">Read more</a>
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September 4, 2025
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific Waves presenter/producer A West Papuan activist says the transfer of four political prisoners by Indonesian authorities is a breach of human rights. In April, the men were arrested on charges of treason after requesting peace talks in the city of Sorong in southwest Papua. They were then transferred to Makassar ... <a title="Prisoner transfer sparks new human rights concerns in West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/04/prisoner-transfer-sparks-new-human-rights-concerns-in-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Prisoner transfer sparks new human rights concerns in West Papua">Read more</a>
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August 31, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Walden Bello I am alarmed by reports that Filipino journalists were flown in by the Israeli government to participate in what is essentially a whitewashing campaign for the ongoing genocide in Gaza. At least two articles, atrocious excuses for journalism, have come out of this trip.One is a piece by Wilson Lee Flores ... <a title="How two Filipino ‘journalists’ took part in Israeli whitewashing of genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/31/how-two-filipino-journalists-took-part-in-israeli-whitewashing-of-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about How two Filipino ‘journalists’ took part in Israeli whitewashing of genocide">Read more</a>
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August 29, 2025
A West Papuan independence advocate has accused Indonesia of “continuing to murder children” while escalating its military operations across the Melanesian region. United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) interim president Benny Wenda says West Papua faces two connected crimes — ecocide and genocide. Two schoolchildren were killed by the occupying military in the build ... <a title="Wenda accuses Indonesia of killing West Papuans for ‘independence’ day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/29/wenda-accuses-indonesia-of-killing-west-papuans-for-independence-day/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda accuses Indonesia of killing West Papuans for ‘independence’ day">Read more</a>
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August 27, 2025
By Antony Loewenstein in Sydney The grim facts should speak for themselves. Since 7 October 2023, Israel has deliberately killed an unprecedented number of Palestinian journalists in Gaza. Those brave individuals are smeared as Hamas operatives and terrorists by Israel and its supporters. But the real story behind this, beyond just Western racism and dehumanisation ... <a title="Antony Lowenstein: Israel’s murderous killing spree against Palestinian journalists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/27/antony-lowenstein-israels-murderous-killing-spree-against-palestinian-journalists/" aria-label="Read more about Antony Lowenstein: Israel’s murderous killing spree against Palestinian journalists">Read more</a>
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August 27, 2025
By Asiye Latife Yilmaz in Istanbul Canadian photojournalist Valerie Zink has resigned after eight years with Reuters, criticising the news agency’s stance on Gaza as a “betrayal of journalists” and accusing it of “justifying and enabling” the killing of 245 journalists in the Palestinian enclave. “At this point it’s become impossible for me to maintain ... <a title="Photojournalist resigns from Reuters over its ‘betrayal of journalists’ in Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/27/photojournalist-resigns-from-reuters-over-its-betrayal-of-journalists-in-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Photojournalist resigns from Reuters over its ‘betrayal of journalists’ in Gaza">Read more</a>
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August 26, 2025
Pacific Media Watch An Al Jazeera journalist who has documented Israel’s trail of atrocities for almost the past two years has condemned Western news agencies covering the war on Gaza as treating Palestinian reporters like “robots”. “You see how Palestinian journalists are treated. There’s no protection when they are alive,” Hind Khoudary told Al Jazeera ... <a title="Palestinian journalists treated like ‘robots’ by Western media, says Gaza reporter in wake of latest Israeli killings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/26/palestinian-journalists-treated-like-robots-by-western-media-says-gaza-reporter-in-wake-of-latest-israeli-killings/" aria-label="Read more about Palestinian journalists treated like ‘robots’ by Western media, says Gaza reporter in wake of latest Israeli killings">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2025
By Pip Hinman and Alex Bainbridge of Green Left More than 200,000 people took the streets across Australia on Saturday in a national day of action demanding that the Labor government sanctions Israel and stops the two-way arms trade. It comes after 300,000 people marched, in driving rain, across Sydney Harbour Bridge on August 3 ... <a title="200,000 plus march in Australia to demand Canberra sanctions Israel, ends arms trade" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/25/200000-plus-march-in-australia-to-demand-canberra-sanctions-israel-ends-arms-trade/" aria-label="Read more about 200,000 plus march in Australia to demand Canberra sanctions Israel, ends arms trade">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2025
RNZ News Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is condemning Israel’s E1 settlement plan for the occupied West Bank, despite New Zealand not signing a joint statement on the matter. Twenty-seven countries, including the UK and Australia, have condemned Israel’s plans to build an illegal settlement east of Jerusalem. The countries have said the plan would “make ... <a title="NZ’s Christopher Luxon condemns Israel’s West Bank settlement plan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/25/nzs-christopher-luxon-condemns-israels-west-bank-settlement-plan/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Christopher Luxon condemns Israel’s West Bank settlement plan">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Richard David Hames So here we are, 2025, and Israel has finally achieved what no terrorist group, no hostile neighbour, no antisemitic tyrant ever could: it has become the most dangerous country on earth — for its own people. Not because of rockets or boycotts, but because its government has decided that the ... <a title="Is Israel becoming the nightmare prophecy it was meant to escape?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/24/is-israel-becoming-the-nightmare-prophecy-it-was-meant-to-escape/" aria-label="Read more about Is Israel becoming the nightmare prophecy it was meant to escape?">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2025
Two New Zealand Palestinians, Rana Hamida and Youssef Sammour, left Auckland today to join the massive new Global Sumud Flotilla determined to break Israel’s starvation blockade of the besieged enclave. Here, two journalists report on the Asia-Pacific stake in the initiative. Ellie Aben in Manila and Sheany Yasuko Lai in Jakarta Asia-Pacific activists are preparing ... <a title="Asia-Pacific activists ready to set sail with largest-ever Gaza aid flotilla" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/24/asia-pacific-activists-ready-to-set-sail-with-largest-ever-gaza-aid-flotilla/" aria-label="Read more about Asia-Pacific activists ready to set sail with largest-ever Gaza aid flotilla">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2025
By Andrew Mathieson Exiled West Papuan media are calling for Fiji — in a reflection of Melanesian solidarity — to hold the greater Pacific region to account and stand against Indonesia’s ongoing media blackout in addition to its human rights abuses. The leaders in their field which include two Papuans from Indonesia’s occupied provinces have ... <a title="West Papuan media plea for Melanesian support against Indonesian media blackout" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/22/west-papuan-media-plea-for-melanesian-support-against-indonesian-media-blackout/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuan media plea for Melanesian support against Indonesian media blackout">Read more</a>
