COP28 president denies UAE using UN climate talks to seek oil deals | Climate News

COP28 president denies UAE using UN climate talks to seek oil deals | Climate News

An investigation finds the Emirati president of the talks, who is also an oil executive, is using his role to push fossil fuel deals. The Emirati president of the United Nations climate conference in Dubai has denied reports that he has used his role at the negotiations to pursue fossil…

Freed Israeli hostages tell families of ordeal in Gaza captivity | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Freed Israeli hostages tell families of ordeal in Gaza captivity | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli women and children on their return from captivity in Gaza have spoken of being beaten and threatened, moved from place to place and forced to whisper during weeks spent with little to do, their families say. Most captives released during a six-day-old truce have been rushed to hospitals in…

Israeli forces kill two Palestinian children in occupied West Bank raid | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli forces kill two Palestinian children in occupied West Bank raid | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Residents of Jenin camp, which has seen nightly raids since October 7, say they were ‘shocked’ at scale of attack. Two Palestinian boys were shot and killed by Israeli forces in Jenin, in the north of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has said. As talks to…

‘Save what remains of Gaza’, hospital director says, amid bombing | Israel-Palestine conflict News

‘Save what remains of Gaza’, hospital director says, amid bombing | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – Ahmed Isleem wishes he were dead. The 35-year-old’s wife and daughter were killed along with 10 other family members and neighbours in an Israeli attack on their home. He lies on a bed in the European Gaza Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis,…

Is Biden’s two-state plan for Israel and Palestine a fantasy? | Israel-Palestine conflict

Is Biden’s two-state plan for Israel and Palestine a fantasy? | Israel-Palestine conflict

The US was happy to neglect the Palestinian issue for years. Why is it talking of a ‘reinvigorated’ peace process now? After the war on Gaza, US President Joe Biden says he wants to “reinvigorate” the attempts to create a Palestinian state alongside Israel. But the devil is in the…

Pro-Palestine Facebook post sparks CIA warning | Social Media News

Pro-Palestine Facebook post sparks CIA warning | Social Media News

The incident illustrates the deep divisions that the war in Gaza has opened up within US government institutions. The CIA has stressed to its officers that they should refrain from political statements on social media after one of its top officers shared a pro-Palestinian photo on Facebook. The intelligence agency’s…

Tunisian film producer Dora Bouchoucha: ‘Free speech is threatened’ | Cinema

Tunisian film producer Dora Bouchoucha: ‘Free speech is threatened’ | Cinema

When she speaks in English, Dora Bouchoucha’s lilting voice still holds traces of her time in the United Kingdom. Leaning towards her camera, she says: “I need to be touched. I like films that reveal the hidden part of a character.” The Tunisian film producer is one of the most…

Hamas invites Elon Musk to Gaza to witness ‘massacres and destruction’ | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Hamas invites Elon Musk to Gaza to witness ‘massacres and destruction’ | Israel-Palestine conflict News

As Palestinians take stock of the devastation wreaked by Israel’s military, Hamas says the world should do the same. Hamas has invited Elon Musk to witness in person the scope of the violence and devastation heaped upon the Gaza Strip by Israel. The invitation from senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan…

Group stages ‘die-ins’ across Washington, DC, to raise awareness for Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Group stages ‘die-ins’ across Washington, DC, to raise awareness for Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Washington, DC – Julia Fawzi Saeed Al-Kurd was one year old. She was killed along with several members of her family in an Israeli air raid on Deir al-Balah in central Gaza on October 11. Her name appeared in local reports on the day of the bombing and later on…