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October 21, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Israel and the West pretend they want a real peace in Israel-Palestine yet the Israelis have beaten unconscious the man most likely to help realise a sustainable end to the conflict: Marwan Barghouti. The ethnocentrism of Western culture is such that 20 Israeli hostages received vastly more coverage than thousands of ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: Palestinian ‘Mandela’ beaten unconscious – Western leaders yawned and looked away" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/21/eugene-doyle-palestinian-mandela-beaten-unconscious-western-leaders-yawned-and-looked-away/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: Palestinian ‘Mandela’ beaten unconscious – Western leaders yawned and looked away">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2025
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor The Solomon Islands government is looking into establishing a defence force which would make it the fourth Pacific nation to have a military. Some parliamentarians support the idea, while others are pointing to the country’s history of violent unrest. National Security Minister Jimson Tanagada said the government was in ... <a title="‘Not an attempt to militarise our nation’ – Solomon Islands considers own military" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/21/not-an-attempt-to-militarise-our-nation-solomon-islands-considers-own-military/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Not an attempt to militarise our nation’ – Solomon Islands considers own military">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2025
Asia Pacific Report New Zealand’s major Palestine advocacy and protest group Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has condemned Defence Minister Judith Collins for “dog-whistling to her small choir” over Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged Gaza enclave. Claiming that Collins’ open letter attack on teachers at the weekend was an attempt to “drown out Palestine” in ... <a title="PSNA slams NZ defence minister Collins over genocide ‘dog-whistling’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/21/psna-slams-nz-defence-minister-collins-over-genocide-dog-whistling/" aria-label="Read more about PSNA slams NZ defence minister Collins over genocide ‘dog-whistling’">Read more</a>
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October 19, 2025
By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist, and Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific Waves host The future of the Manawanui wreckage and potential compensation payments remain a major talking point in Samoa. The Royal New Zealand Navy vessel ran aground on a reef off the south coast of Upolu in October last year and sank. New ... <a title="‘We’re eating tinned fish’ – Samoa villagers plead for Manawanui wreckage compensation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/19/were-eating-tinned-fish-samoa-villagers-plead-for-manawanui-wreckage-compensation/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We’re eating tinned fish’ – Samoa villagers plead for Manawanui wreckage compensation">Read more</a>
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October 18, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Romana Rubeo Hundreds of Palestinians released from Israeli prisons in recent days have described scenes of systematic torture, starvation, and humiliation. Their accounts, gathered by The Guardian, TRT, Al-Mayadeen, Quds News Network, and Palestine Online, among others, offer a rare glimpse into what human rights organisations call a “policy of abuse” targeting ... <a title="‘We died a thousand times’: Freed Palestinian detainees describe horrific torture" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/18/we-died-a-thousand-times-freed-palestinian-detainees-describe-horrific-torture/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We died a thousand times’: Freed Palestinian detainees describe horrific torture">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Elijah J Magnier Benjamin Netanyahu insisted, until just hours before Donald Trump’s arrival, that the war in Gaza would not stop. Then, standing in the Knesset before Israel’s hardline ministers, Trump announced that it had — and whisked a delegation of world leaders to Egypt to formalise the ceasefire before a global audience. ... <a title="From the Knesset to Sharm el-Sheikh: How the US president offered Netanyahu a way out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/16/from-the-knesset-to-sharm-el-sheikh-how-the-us-president-offered-netanyahu-a-way-out/" aria-label="Read more about From the Knesset to Sharm el-Sheikh: How the US president offered Netanyahu a way out">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Indonesian military forces have again bombed Kiwirok, the site of a massacre in 2021 that killed more than 300 West Papuan civilians, amid worsening violence, alleges a Papuan advocacy group. “While President Prabowo talks about promoting peace in the Middle East, his military is trying to wipe out West Papua,” said United ... <a title="Wenda accuses Indonesian troops of bombarding village in Star mountains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/16/wenda-accuses-indonesian-troops-of-bombarding-village-in-star-mountains/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda accuses Indonesian troops of bombarding village in Star mountains">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Pacific Media Watch supports the call by the Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) for justice for the victims of crimes against journalists in Gaza, and its demand for immediate access to the Palestinian enclave for exiled journalists and foreign press. The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, confirmed ... <a title="Pacific Media Watch backs RSF call for urgent end to Gaza media blockade" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/15/pacific-media-watch-backs-rsf-call-for-urgent-end-to-gaza-media-blockade/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Media Watch backs RSF call for urgent end to Gaza media blockade">Read more</a>
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October 12, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Dr Mazin Qumsiyeh A temporary ceasefire and release of some Palestinians in a prisoner exchange is not a “peace agreement” and it is far from what is needed — ending colonisation; freedom for the >10,000 political prisoners still in Israeli gulags (also tortured, nearly 100 have died under torture in the last two ... <a title="The fake Gaza ‘peace agreement’ versus real peace with justice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/12/the-fake-gaza-peace-agreement-versus-real-peace-with-justice/" aria-label="Read more about The fake Gaza ‘peace agreement’ versus real peace with justice">Read more</a>
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October 12, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Sara Awad On October 10, a ceasefire in Gaza was officially announced. International news media were quick to focus on what they now call “the peace plan”. US President Donald Trump, they announced, would go to Cairo to oversee the agreement signing and then to Israel to speak at the Knesset. The air ... <a title="Sara Awad: Why Gaza still looks to the freedom flotillas for true peace" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/12/sara-awad-why-gaza-still-looks-to-the-freedom-flotillas-for-true-peace/" aria-label="Read more about Sara Awad: Why Gaza still looks to the freedom flotillas for true peace">Read more</a>
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October 11, 2025
This brutal war on Palestinians has not just unleashed Israel’s demons. It has unmasked our own regimes, as they crack down on humanitarian activism. Jonathan Cook reflects on Israel’s war on Gaza as the fragile ceasefire takes hold. ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook Anniversaries are often a cause for celebration. But who could have imagined back ... <a title="Genocide two years on: It is the West, not Gaza, that must be deradicalised" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/11/genocide-two-years-on-it-is-the-west-not-gaza-that-must-be-deradicalised/" aria-label="Read more about Genocide two years on: It is the West, not Gaza, that must be deradicalised">Read more</a>
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October 11, 2025
RNZ News Three New Zealanders, who were detained in Israel, after taking part in an international flotilla heading to Gaza, claim they were treated like animals. Rana Hamida, Youssef Sammour and Samuel Leason arrived at Auckland International Airport this afternoon, and were greeted by a crowd of supporters and loved ones. Among the supporters were ... <a title="‘Treated like animals’ – NZer activists detained by Israeli forces arrive home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/11/treated-like-animals-nzer-activists-detained-by-israeli-forces-arrive-home/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Treated like animals’ – NZer activists detained by Israeli forces arrive home">Read more</a>