Tag: Israel-Palestine conflict

• Wednesday, March 19th 2025 - 19:09 UTC

  Milei halts scheduled trip to Israel

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei announced Wednesday that he suspended his planned trip to Israel this coming weekend. Although no specific reason was given, it is speculated that the resumption of hostilities against the terrorist group Hamas coupled with various domestic challenges tipped the scale in this direction.

• Saturday, February 22nd 2025 - 19:17 UTC

  Body of Shiri Bibas handed over at last

  

  The pro-Palestine terrorist organization Hamas finally handed over the body of dual Israeli-Argentine national Shiri Bibas (née Silberman) who was killed early into the conflict stemming from the Oct. 7, 2023, raids from Gaza in which hundreds of Israelis were slaughtered and many others taken hostage. The L. Greenberg Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir confirmed Saturday that the remains transferred to Israel on Friday night belong to Shiri Bibas, following extensive testing. The corpses of her two children had already been delivered alongside those of peace activist Oded Lifschitz and a woman originally believed to be Shiri but later determined to be someone else by forensics analysts.

• Thursday, February 20th 2025 - 17:31 UTC

  Hamas hands over bodies of Argentine national and her two children

  

  Israeli authorities confirmed Thursday that the four bodies handed over by the pro-Palestine terrorist organization Hamas to the Red Cross belonged to Argentine national Shiri Bibas (née Silberman) and her two children, Ariel and Kafir, who were 9 months and 4 years old at the time of their abduction on Oct. 7, 2023. Yarden Bibas, Shiri’s husband and the children’s father, was released on February 1, 2025, as part of the ceasefire. The fourth victim was Oded Lifshitz, an 84-year-old Israeli who had long fought for an understanding between the two peoples but was eventually “betrayed” by the Palestinians, according to his wife, who was released by Hamas 16 days after the incursion. All five had been kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz.

• Wednesday, February 12th 2025 - 18:22 UTC

  Last year was the deadliest for reporters, CPJ survey finds

  

  Over 70% of newspeople killed last year while on the job deaths were attributed to Israeli actions by a report released Wednesday by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Israel's Defense Forces (IDF) were said to have been behind the demise of 82 Palestinian journalists in Gaza and three in Lebanon.

• Sunday, January 19th 2025 - 19:45 UTC

  One Briton among three Israeli hostages released by Hamas

  

  Three Israeli women who had been held hostage by the pro-Palestine terrorist group Hamas were set free Sunday in exchange for dozens of convicted organization operatives as the ceasefire brokered together with Qatar, Egypt, and the United States became effective.

• Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 13:43 UTC

  ICC issues arrest warrants against Israel's PM and others

  

  The International Criminal Court (ICC) Thursday issued arrest warrants against
  Israel's Primer Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant as well as Hamas leader Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri, also known as Mohammed Deif, for crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip, it was announced at The Hague. The measure was in acquiescense to Chief Prosecutor Karin Khan's request filed back in May. Khan had also sought warrants for two other senior Hamas figures, Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh, who have since been killed by Israeli forces.

• Thursday, March 14th 2024 - 19:01 UTC

  Israel's actions in Gaza violate international humanitarian law, Brazil's FM says

  

  Brazil's Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira told his country's Senate Thursday that Israel's “blockade of humanitarian aid in the current context of famine and lack of medical supplies in Gaza is a violation of international law,” Agencia Brasil reported. The administration of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “continues to systematically hinder the entry of trucks with humanitarian aid at the borders with Gaza,” Vieira denounced.

• Friday, March 1st 2024 - 10:11 UTC

  Petro: Colombia no longer buying guns from “genocidal” Israel

  

  Colombian President Gustavo Petro insisted Thursday on dubbing Israel's military deployment in Gaza as “genocide” and ordered his administration to halt all purchases of weapons from that Middle East country, it was reported in Bogotá.

• Thursday, November 16th 2023 - 09:17 UTC

  Criminal complaint filed against Roger Waters in Buenos Aires

  

  An Argentine lawyer has filed a complaint before Buenos Aires Federal Judge María Romilda Servini de Cubría against British musician Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame for “incitement to racial hatred and apology of crime” when speaking about the ongoing crisis between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

• Wednesday, October 18th 2023 - 13:19 UTC

  UK announces £10 million humanitarian aid for civilians in Occupied Palestinian Territories

  

  On Monday 16 October, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced a further £10 million in humanitarian aid funding for civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs), in response to the escalating conflict.