Third batch of around 250 Rohingya arrive in Indonesia

November 16, 2023

About 250 desperate Rohingya refugees reached western Indonesia on a decrepit, overcrowded wooden boat on Thursday, bringing the total number reported by local officials to have arrived this week to nearly 600, AFP reports. The boat holding the members of the persecuted Myanmar minority, many barefoot and some pleading for help, sat just off the […]Continue Reading

Israeli commandos combing through Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital: military official

November 16, 2023

Israeli commandos are searching through every building and every floor of Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital and new information is emerging all the time, an Israeli military official said on Thursday, Reuters reports. “The operation is shaped by our understanding that there is well-hidden terrorist infrastructure in the complex,” the official said, declining to be Continue Reading

Fear grows for patients inside Gaza hospital, cut off after Israelis arrive

November 16, 2023

Palestinian medics said on Thursday they are increasingly afraid for the lives of hundreds of patients and medical staff at Gaza’s biggest hospital, cut off from all links to the outside world for more than a day after Israeli forces entered, Reuters reports. Gaza’s health ministry said Israeli soldiers had removed dead bodies from the […]Continue Reading

Bombarded twice in Gaza, 4-year-old Ahmed loses parents, then legs

November 15, 2023

The boy keeps asking for his parents, and he wants to get up and walk, but his parents are dead and his legs have been amputated, Reuters reports. That is the plight of Ahmed Shabat, a four-year-old boy whose parents were killed when their home in the town of Beit Hanoun in the northeastern corner […]Continue Reading

Canadian PM Trudeau tells Israel killing of babies in Gaza must end

November 15, 2023

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday said the “killing of women, of children, of babies” in the besieged Gaza Strip must end, in his sharpest criticism of Israel since war against Hamas broke out over a month ago, Reuters reports Canada has maintained that Israel has the right to defend itself against Hamas after […]Continue Reading

Rohingya among 80 freed from Australian detention

November 13, 2023

Eighty people have been released from Australian migrant detention centers since the High Court ruled last week that their indefinite detention was unconstitutional, the immigration minister said Monday, AP reports. A member of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority won freedom Wednesday when the court outlawed his indefinite detention. Australia has been unable to Continue Reading

Israel offers Gaza hospital evacuation for babies but fighting rages on

November 12, 2023

Israel’s army said it was ready to evacuate babies from Gaza’s largest hospital on Sunday, but Palestinian officials said people inside were still trapped, with two newborns dead and dozens at risk from a power outage amid intense fighting nearby, Reuters reports. Al-Shifa and other hospitals in northern Gaza, the focus of Israel’s month-old war […]Continue Reading

Iran President Raisi says action, not words, needed on Gaza

November 11, 2023

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday that the time had come for action over the conflict in Gaza rather than talk as he headed to Saudi Arabia to attend a summit on the war between Israel and Hamas militants, Reuters reports. “Gaza is not an arena for words. It should be for action,” Raisi […]Continue Reading

Arab and Muslim leaders call for immediate end to Gaza war

November 11, 2023

Saudi Arabia and Muslim countries called on Saturday for an immediate end to military operations in Gaza, declaring at a joint Islamic-Arab summit in Riyadh that Israel bears responsibility for “crimes” against Palestinians, Reuters reports, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, gathered Arab and Muslim leaders for the summit as Continue Reading

Hamas claims to destroy 6 Israeli tanks in Gaza

November 9, 2023

Palestinian group Hamas claimed Wednesday to have destroyed six Israeli tanks and two military vehicles in the Gaza Strip, Anadolu Agency reports. In a statement, the group’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said three tanks and two vehicles were struck by anti-armor shells north of Gaza City. Two more tanks were destroyed southwest of Gaza […]Continue Reading