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Palestine Lights the Way Forward

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). When the first World Social Forum was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2001, it was meant as a counterpoint to...

Israel Will Attack Iran Directly if Regime Targets Jewish State From Iranian Soil, Chief...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Israel will attack Iran directly if the Islamist regime in Tehran targets the Jewish state from Iranian soil, Israel’s top diplomat...

The Break-Up?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Critics of Israel once occupied the fringes of the debate in the United States. Then, in 2007, J Street was founded...

Iran Says It Can Close Hormuz Strait, Views Israeli Presence in UAE as Threat

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy said on Tuesday that Israel‘s presence in the United Arab Emirates...

UN continues to face aid access denials in Gaza

Israeli authorities have not given a clear reason why, said OCHA Spokesperson Jens Laerke, speaking during the regular briefing by UN humanitarian agencies in...

Palestinian Islamic Jihad Spokesman: All Gaza Hospitals Taken Over by Terrorists

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). A Palestinian Islamic Jihad spokesman has confessed that terrorists have taken over all of the hospitals in Gaza, using the medical...

Media Quotes 9 April 2024

Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). Media Quotes 9 April 2024 Source of original article: RSS (www.crisisgroup.org). The content of this article does not necessarily...

Security Council urged to ‘end the bloodshed’ in Gaza

Dennis Francis convened the UN’s most representative body, comprising all 193 Member States, following the Security Council’s failure to adopt a resolution put forward...

IDF Rafah Operation Will Only Begin After Talks With US: Report

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). i24 News – Discussions between Israeli and American officials regarding a potential Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) offensive in Rafah, a city...

Stopping Famine in Gaza | Crisis Group

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Planning the post-war reconstruction and recovery of Gaza

It’s still unclear how much more destruction and death Gaza will endure before peace settles across the troubled enclave, nor what type of society...

Strike on Iran’s Consulate in Syria Is ‘Turning Point’, Hezbollah Head Says

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The head of Lebanon’s armed terrorist group Hezbollah said on Friday that Israel’s strike on Iran’s consulate in Damascus this week marked a...

Iran Issues Threat: ‘Soon We’ll See More Deadly Attacks Against Israel’

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). i24 News — The spokesman of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), a US-designated terrorist organization, said on Wednesday that “we...

Israeli Government Unveils Special Independence Day Logo Ahead of Celebrations Amid War

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The Israeli government has unveiled the new logo for this year’s Israeli Independence Day. The image to mark the 76th annual celebration...

Israel must allow ‘quantum leap’ in aid delivery UN chief urges, calling for change...

Marking six months of war since the “abhorrent” Hamas-led terror attacks of 7 October, António Guterres told journalists at UN Headquarters in New York...

‘We Will Cut Off the Hand’: Abbas’s Fatah Party Slams Iran for Interfering in...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The political party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday lambasted Iran for meddling in internal Palestinian affairs, accusing the...

Israeli Security Services Thwart ISIS Terrorist Attack in East Jerusalem

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Israeli security forces announced on Thursday that they foiled terrorist attacks planned by supporters of Islamic State (ISIS) in east Jerusalem. “Two...

$414 million appeal for Palestine refugees in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan

UNRWA on Wednesday launched a $414.4 million appeal for Palestine refugees in Syria and those who have fled the country for neighbouring Lebanon and...

Netanyahu Says Israel Acting Against Iran, Will Defend Itself as Country Braces for Attack

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Israel braced on Thursday for the possibility of a retaliatory attack after its suspected killing of Iranian generals in Damascus this week,...

Israeli Favorite Ryanair Set to Resume Flights to Israel

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). A favorite airline among Israelis has announced it will resume flights to and from the Jewish state this summer, just a...

Gaza: Resuming night-time aid deliveries, UN reports ‘dire’ conditions

“The situation in Gaza is disastrous,” World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. “Once again, WHO demands a ceasefire. Once again, we...

The Problem Isn’t Just Netanyahu, It’s Israeli Society

Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). When U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, one of the staunchest pro-Israel lawmakers...

Tunisian authorities arrest, charge journalist Mohamed Boughaleb

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). New York, April 3, 2024—Tunisian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release journalist Mohamed Boughaleb and drop all charges against him, the...

Hamas Denies Terrorist Presence at Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital in English — but Celebrates It...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Videos taken by Palestinian terrorists and released in Arabic show themselves in civilian clothing barricading in and around Al-Shifa Hospital in...