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June 2, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle I want to share a writer’s journey — of living and writing through the Genocide. Where I live and how I live could not be further from the horror playing out in Gaza and, increasingly, on the West Bank. Yet, because my country provides military, intelligence and diplomatic support to Israel ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: Writing in the time of the Gaza genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/02/eugene-doyle-writing-in-the-time-of-the-gaza-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: Writing in the time of the Gaza genocide">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2025
By Muhammad Shehada Since the onset of its genocide, Israel has persistently pushed a narrative that the famine devastating Gaza is not of its own making, but the result of “Hamas looting aid”. This claim, repeated across mainstream media and parroted by officials, has been used to deflect responsibility for what many human rights experts ... <a title="How Israel manufactured a looting crisis to cover up its Gaza famine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/02/how-israel-manufactured-a-looting-crisis-to-cover-up-its-gaza-famine/" aria-label="Read more about How Israel manufactured a looting crisis to cover up its Gaza famine">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Phil Goff “What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians. It’s the result of government policy — knowingly, evilly, maliciously, irresponsibly dictated.” This statement was made not by a foreign or liberal critic of Israel but by the former Prime Minister ... <a title="Phil Goff: Israel doesn’t care how many innocent people, children it’s killing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/01/phil-goff-israel-doesnt-care-how-many-innocent-people-children-its-killing/" aria-label="Read more about Phil Goff: Israel doesn’t care how many innocent people, children it’s killing">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Journalists have been targeted, detained and tortured by the Israeli military in Gaza — and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has now taken a new approach towards bringing justice these crimes. The Paris-based global media freedom NGO has submitted multiple formal requests to the International Criminal Court (ICC) asking that Palestinian journalists who ... <a title="Radical legal step towards ending impunity for Israel over killing Gaza journalists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/29/radical-legal-step-towards-ending-impunity-for-israel-over-killing-gaza-journalists/" aria-label="Read more about Radical legal step towards ending impunity for Israel over killing Gaza journalists">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Ian Powell When I despairingly contemplate the horrors and cruelty that Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to, I sometimes try to put this in the context of where I live. I live on the Kāpiti Coast in the lower North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. Geographically it is around the same size ... <a title="Why NZ must act against Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/29/why-nz-must-act-against-israels-ethnic-cleansing-and-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Why NZ must act against Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2025
By Anish Chand in Suva Fiji lawyer Nazhat Shameem Khan has been elevated to the top prosecutorial position at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The Office of the Prosecutor at ICC has announced that deputy prosecutors Nazhat Shameem Khan and Mame Mandiaye Niang have taken over leadership following chief prosecutor Karim AA ... <a title="Fiji lawyer Nazhat Khan takes up acting top prosecution role at ICC" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/26/fiji-lawyer-nazhat-khan-takes-up-acting-top-prosecution-role-at-icc/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji lawyer Nazhat Khan takes up acting top prosecution role at ICC">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Protesting New Zealanders donned symbolic masks modelled on a Palestinian artist’s handiwork in Auckland’s Takutai Square today to condemn Israel’s starvation as war weapon against Gaza and the NZ prime minister’s weak response. Coming a day after the tabling of Budget 2025 in Parliament, peaceful demonstrators wore hand-painted masks inspired by Gaza-based ... <a title="‘Starving’ masked Palestine protesters condemn Luxon’s Gaza ‘appeasement’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/starving-masked-palestine-protesters-condemn-luxons-gaza-appeasement/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Starving’ masked Palestine protesters condemn Luxon’s Gaza ‘appeasement’">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong has released a statement saying “the Israeli government cannot allow the suffering to continue” after the UN’s aid chief said thousands of babies were at risk of dying if they did not receive food immediately. “Australia joins international partners in calling on Israel to allow a full ... <a title="Australia’s Wong condemns ‘abhorrent, outrageous’ Israeli comments over blocked aid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/australias-wong-condemns-abhorrent-outrageous-israeli-comments-over-blocked-aid/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s Wong condemns ‘abhorrent, outrageous’ Israeli comments over blocked aid">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Gordon Campbell Since last Thursday, intensified Israeli air strikes on Gaza have killed more than 500 Palestinians, and a prolonged Israeli aid blockade has led to widespread starvation among the territory’s two million residents. Belatedly, Israel is letting in a token amount of food aid that UN Under-Secretary Tom Fletcher has called a ... <a title="Gordon Campbell: NZ’s silence over Gaza genocide, ethnic cleansing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/gordon-campbell-nzs-silence-over-gaza-genocide-ethnic-cleansing/" aria-label="Read more about Gordon Campbell: NZ’s silence over Gaza genocide, ethnic cleansing">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
RNZ News New Zealand has joined 23 other countries calling out Israel and demanding a full supply of foreign aid be allowed into the territory. Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters told RNZ Morning Report today it was “intolerable” that Israel had blocked any aid reaching residents for many weeks. The UN is warning that 14,000 ... <a title="NZ ‘running out of patience’ – Peters lashes Israel over Gaza aid blockade" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/nz-running-out-of-patience-peters-lashes-israel-over-gaza-aid-blockade/" aria-label="Read more about NZ ‘running out of patience’ – Peters lashes Israel over Gaza aid blockade">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Jeremy Rose Reading an NBC News report a couple of days ago about a Trump administration plan to relocate 1 million Gazans to Libya reminded me of a conversation between the legendary Warsaw Ghetto leader Marek Edelman and fellow fighter and survivor Simcha Rotem that took place more than quarter of a ... <a title="Starvation of Gaza – a distressing continuation of a decades-old plan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/starvation-of-gaza-a-distressing-continuation-of-a-decades-old-plan/" aria-label="Read more about Starvation of Gaza – a distressing continuation of a decades-old plan">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Israel has been accused of “manipulation” and “cynical” circumvention of global decisions calling for unrestricted humanitarian aid access to the besieged Gaza enclave. “In a clear act of defiance against international humanitarian obligations, the occupying state has permitted only nine aid trucks to enter the Gaza Strip — covering both the devastated ... <a title="Israel slammed over ‘cynical’ sidestep of global rulings on Gazan humanitarian aid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/israel-slammed-over-cynical-sidestep-of-global-rulings-on-gazan-humanitarian-aid/" aria-label="Read more about Israel slammed over ‘cynical’ sidestep of global rulings on Gazan humanitarian aid">Read more</a>
