¶¶Òõ¾«Æ·

Skip to main content

Tags : israel


img

De facto occupation: Israel’s security zone strategy

IN RECENT months, the Israeli Defence Forces have been much taken by a term that augurs poorly for peaceful accord in the Middle East. ‘Security zones’ are being seized in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria. Land is, for claimed reasons of self-defence, being appropriated with brazen assuredness. It is hard, however, to see this latest turn as anything other than a de...

img

Israeli air strikes kill 25 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency reported that Israeli air strikes since dawn on Sunday have killed at least 25 people across the Gaza Strip, including women and children...

img

End to Israeli mass killings in Palestine demanded

A cross section of people including academics, politicians, and rickshaw pullers on Saturday at a protest rally in Dhaka demanded an immediate end to Israeli offensive and mass killings in Palestine...

img

One killed in Israeli strike in Lebanon

Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli strike on Friday hit a vehicle near the southern coastal city of Sidon, killing one person.

img

Israeli air strikes kill 40 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Thursday that a rash of Israeli air strikes killed at least 40 people, most of them in encampments for displaced civilians, as Israel pressed its offensive in the Palestinian territory.

img

Israeli air strikes kill 11 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency reported that Israeli air strikes in the early hours of Wednesday killed at least 11 people, including women and children...

img

Palestinian resistance in Orwellian world

IN THE Orwellian world in which we now dwell, countries and groups that uphold international law are labeled terrorists or supporters of terrorism, while those that commit unspeakable crimes, flagrantly violating international and humanitarian laws, remain unlabeled and unpunished...

img

The boycott Bangladesh has yet to learn

IN RECENT months, as Israel’s assault on Gaza has continued to draw global condemnation, public solidarity in Bangladesh has grown louder. Rallies in Dhaka and other cities have drawn thousands, with demonstrators demanding justice for Palestinians. Social media platforms have been flooded with expressions of outrage. Among the loudest chants at these protests is a...

img

Israel is about to empty Gaza

ISRAEL is poised to carry out the largest campaign of ethnic cleansing since the end of World War II. Since March 2, it has blocked all food and humanitarian aid into Gaza and cut off electricity, so that the last water desalination plant no longer functions. The Israeli military has seized half of the territory — Gaza is 25 miles long and four to five miles wide — and placed...

img

Gaza hospital hit as Israel intensifies assault

An Israeli air strike early Sunday heavily damaged one of the few functioning hospitals in Gaza, with the Israeli military saying it had targeted a Hamas ‘command and control centre’ operating within the facility.

img

March for Gaza rally to be held in Dhaka today

In protest against the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, a rally of March for Gaza will be held at Suhrawardy Uddyan on Saturday, aiming to intensify global solidarity with the oppressed people of Palestine...

img

Israeli strike kills family of 10 in Gaza

Dozens of Israeli air strikes on Gaza have killed ‘only women and children’ after a ceasefire collapsed, the UN said, as an Israeli attack in the territory’s south on Friday killed a family of 10.

img

Protests against Israeli massacre in Palestine continue

A cross section of people, including leaders of political parties and students, on Friday demonstrated in the capital Dhaka and elsewhere in the country demanding an immediate end to the Israeli massacre in Palestine.

img

Israel threatens Gaza’s survival says UN

The United Nations warned on Friday that the cumulative impact of Israel’s actions in Gaza threatened ‘the future viability of Palestinians as a group’ in the war-torn territory.

img

Protests continue for 4th day

Protests against Israel’s military offensive in Palestine continued for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday in Dhaka and elsewhere across the country, demanding an immediate end to the bombardment and mass killings...

img

Pro-Gaza protests continue for 3rd day

Protests against Israel’s military offensive in Gaza continued for the third consecutive day on Wednesday in Dhaka and other parts of the country, demanding an immediate end to the bombardment and mass killings in the besieged enclave...

img

BMU holds gayebana janaza

Bangladesh Medical University held a ghayebana janaza, funeral prayer in the absence of a body, protesting against Israel’s mass killing in Gaza, on the premises of the central mosque of the university in Dhaka on Tuesday...

img

Israeli strikes kill 19 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said on Tuesday that Israeli strikes overnight killed at least 19 people across the Palestinian territory, where Israel has resumed its offensive against Hamas...

img

Police response to Gaza strike vandalism appears delayed

TENS of thousands of students, professionals and ordinary people marched down the roads across Bangladesh on April 7 in response to a global call for a strike demanding an end to Israeli genocide in Gaza and, also, condemning US complicity amidst an expanding offensive in the Palestinian city. Educational institutions, chiefly universities, have heeded the global call by...

m