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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...

Israel-Gaza crisis: NZ must condemn atrocities but keep pushing for a two-state solution

ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie It was perhaps inevitable that the shock Hamas attack on Israel would become a minor election sideshow in New Zealand. Less...

Genocidal language being used to justify a massive death toll on Palestinian refugees in Gaza

COMMENTARY: By John Minto The tragic events in Israel/Palestine these past few days have highlighted the absolute failure of Western governments like New Zealand to...

Foreign policy group Te Kuaka calls on NZ to urge immediate Gaza ceasefire

Asia Pacific Report A progressive foreign policy group is calling for the New Zealand government to condemn the siege of Gaza, and demand an immediate...

Operation Al Aqsa Storm: How, why and where to now in Gaza?

ANALYSIS: By Mouin Rabbani Almost 50 years to the day after the joint Egyptian-Syrian offensive that launched the 1973 October War, Israel has once again...

John Minto: A prime minister with Gaza ‘blood on his hands’

COMMENTARY: By John Minto Aotearoa New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins is correct to condemn Hamas killing Israeli civilians in its attacks on Israel this...

Media education group, union protest over police demand for ABC ‘inside story’ climate footage

Pacific Media Watch The Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) says it is “deeply concerned” at reports that Western Australian police are demanding...