NY. PEN America announced yesterday the cancellation of its annual literary awards ceremony that was scheduled for April 29 at New York City Hall. The decision came after months of growing protests over the literary organization’s position on Israel’s war on Gaza and the recent withdrawal of more than a third of this year’s nominees. … Read more
Coinciding with the alerts from the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about a possible Iranian attack after his forces bombed the Iranian consulate in Damascus, here the Court of Cassation, after a long silence, confirmed the sentences against the main investigators of the bloody attack. against the Jewish Mutual Association (Amia), in July … Read more
Ginebra. The World Health Organization (WHO) stated this Saturday that the last Israeli military operation in the main hospital in the Gaza Strip reduced it to ashes and that the siege left “an empty shell” with many bodies. A WHO delegation visited the facilities on Friday and described a heartbreaking panorama. The UN agency reported … Read more
Tel Aviv. Israel has withdrawn most of its ground troops from southern Gaza, exactly six months after the beginning of its offensive following the Hamas attack on October 7. Only one brigade remained in Khan Younis, in charge of security of the “Netzarim corridor,” which divides the strip, according to local reports. It was unclear … Read more
Damascus. An Israeli bombing yesterday destroyed an annex of the Iranian embassy in Syria and killed at least 11 people, including seven members of the Revolutionary Guards, including two senior commanders. Tehran promised to respond decisive to this unprecedented attack and requested that the United Nations (UN) Security Council condemn the offensive. The army of … Read more
Deir Ballah. The NGO World Central Kitchen (WCK) yesterday suspended its aid work in the Gaza Strip, after seven of its foreign workers were killed in a drone attack by the Israeli army, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a Unintentionalbut it’s part of what happens in a war. Several ships that recently arrived … Read more