Twelve killed in Israeli strike on Gaza school

The UN condemned earlier this month what it called the “increasing frequency” of Israeli strikes on schools. PHOTO/Reuters

At least 12 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a school housing displaced people in Gaza City, the Hamas-run Civil Defence authority says. A spokesman said rescuers were struggling to recover a number of missing people believed to be trapped under the rubble at Mustafa Hafez school in the western Rimal […]

World reacts to Israeli settler attack in West Bank

A Palestinian woman inspects a vehicle destroyed during an Israeli settler attack in the village of Jit, in the West Bank, August 16. PHOTO/Raneen Sawafta/Reuters

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are reeling after Israeli settlers ravaged a village overnight, which killed a 23-year-old man and left several others injured in the latest incident of attack against Palestinians in the area. The Palestinian Health Ministry said on Friday that Mahmoud Abdel Qader Sadda was fatally shot in the attack on […]

China seeks to unite Palestinian factions with unity deal

Fatah representative Mahmoud al-Aloul, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and Hamas representative Mussa Abu Marzuk attended the signing of the declaration. PHOTO/Getty Images

Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah have signed a declaration agreeing to form an interim “national reconciliation government” for the occupied West Bank and Gaza after the war with Israel, in a meeting brokered by China, China’s foreign minister and Hamas officials have said. Representatives from the groups, along with 12 other Palestinian factions, pledged […]

40 Palestinians dead after Israel hits camp for displaced

Gaza officials say the death toll from Israeli air strikes on a camp housing displaced Palestinians near Rafah in the southern part of the strip has risen to 40. “The massacre committed by the Israeli occupation army in the refugee tents northwest of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip has left 40 martyrs and […]

‘He is too real to wake sleeping dogs’ – Huddah Monroe on why Malema can’t be president

Kenyan socialite and beauty entrepreneur, Huddah Monroe, has expressed scepticism about the potential of South African opposition leader Julius Malema ever being president. In a series of Insta stories while sharing the opposition leader’s latest speech, opinionated Huddah, shared her views on Malema’s political aspirations, asserting that his unfiltered realism might hinder his chances in […]