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Family pleas for kidnapped 3 Kiwis as Gaza flotilla demands global activists’ freedom from Israel

Asia Pacific Report Three New Zealanders are being illegally held hostage by the Israeli military after security forces boarded more than 50 boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla carrying humanitarian...

Türkiye condemns new Israeli ‘piracy’ against Gaza aid flotilla in international waters

Asia Pacific Report Türkiye has condemned Israel’s intervention against the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters, describing it...

Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza ‘death trap’

ANALYSIS: By David Robie, Pacific Media Watch When the Paris-based global watchdog Reporters Without Borders released their annual World...

Did NZ’s Prime Minister just commit treason? PM ignores terrorist attack on his own citizens

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle “Whoever uses a citizen ill, indirectly offends the state, which is bound to protect this...

‘They threatened to kill us at gunpoint,’ says NZ Gaza flotilla activist

By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report A New Zealander who took part in the global flotilla trying...

War on Gaza: Bombed hospital a turning point? Hegemonic security v true justice

ANALYSIS: By Marwan Bishara The Israeli bombing of the Baptist hospital in Gaza killing hundreds of innocent Palestinians may have been a turning point in...

Donna Miles: We can condemn the Hamas attacks and Israel’s occupation

An Israeli air strike has hit Al Ahli hospital in Gaza City where thousands of civilians are seeking medical treatment and shelter from relentless...

‘No’ to Australia’s indigenous voice – a devastating wake-up call for resistance to colonialism

SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya The referendum on the indigenous Voice in Australia last Saturday was an historic event. Australians were asked to vote on...

Asian states shocked by Hamas raids but no ‘blind support’ for Israel

ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne in Singapore In the aftermath of Palestinian group Hamas’ terror attack inside Israel on October 7 and the Israeli state’s even...

NZ elections 2023: It’s National on the night as New Zealand turns right

By Debrin Foxcroft, Finlay Macdonald, Matt Garrow and Veronika Meduna From winning a single-party majority in 2020, Labour’s vote has virtually halved in 2023...

Big Auckland rally shows solidarity with Palestine over ‘genocidal’ war

Asia Pacific Report About 2000 people from Aotearoa New Zealand communities, including many families, staged a vibrant rally in Auckland’s Aotea Square and marched down...