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After Gaza ceasefire, ‘massive political pressure’ needed to prevent Israel from restarting war

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: Israel’s government has approved the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal, that includes a pause in Israeli attacks and the release of the remaining hostages...

Genocide two years on: It is the West, not Gaza, that must be deradicalised

This brutal war on Palestinians has not just unleashed Israel’s demons. It has unmasked our own regimes, as...

Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza. Can anyone protect them?

ANALYSIS: By Simon Levett  Journalist Mariam Dagga was just 33 when she was brutally killed by an Israeli airstrike...

250+ media ‘black out’ front pages and broadcasts to protest Israeli killing of journalists in Gaza

Reporters Without Borders In an unprecedented international operation organised by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the global campaigning movement...

Massacre of Gaza journalists triggers RSF’s Black Monday protest today

Pacific Media Watch Today, 1 September 2025, is being marked as a Black Monday following the latest deadly strikes...

Israel orders patients, staff to ‘evacuate’ last two hospitals in northern Gaza siege – NZ protest

Asia Pacific Report Israel is forcing two hospitals in northern Gaza to evacuate under threat of attack as its ethnic cleansing campaign continues. Israeli forces have...

‘Suspend Israel ties’ plea to global medical professionals – Auckland hospital protest vigil over Gaza

Asia Pacific Report The UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, has called on “medical professionals worldwide” to suspend...

Katrina Mitchell-Kouttab: The Palestine tragedy – why it should matter to you and our world

COMMENTARY: By Katrina Mitchell-Kouttab As 2024 came to a close and we have stepped into a new year overshadowed by ongoing atrocities, have you stopped...

CPJ condemns ban on Al Jazeera – network decries bid to ‘hide the truth’

Pacific Media Watch The New York-based global media watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned a decision by the Palestinian Authority to suspend Al Jazeera’s...

A ‘genocidal project’ – Dr Abu-Sittah on Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s health system

Democracy Now! Gaza’s Health Ministry has confirmed that close to 46,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s ongoing assault, but Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah estimates the...

Killing of five Gaza journalists by Israel strike highlights weak NZ media genocide response

By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch My message today is really simple but brutal. Israel kills the journalists deliberately. This is unprecedented. The Western...