Written By: Noor Fatima Seyal “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision,” Helen Keller once said. This powerful...
By Qurat ul ain Ali “Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.” -Pearl Cleage In a tragic incident that has shaken...
Josep Borrell, the head of EU foreign policy, claimed on Monday that Gaza had become the largest “open-air graveyard” in the world as a result of Israel’s military operation. “The best outdoor jail before the war was Gaza. It’s the best outdoor cemetery nowadays,” Borrell declared during a Brussels meeting of EU ministers. “It’s a graveyard for tens of thousands of people and also a graveyard for many of the most important principles of humanitarian law.” Borrell again restated his charge that by preventing relief trucks from entering Gaza, Israel was using starvation as a “weapon of war”. “Israel is creating hunger,” he declared at a meeting for humanitarian aid. The 27-nation EU has had difficulty responding to the Gaza War as a whole.
On this Friday, International Women’s Day, the suffering and mistreatment of Kashmiri women by Indian forces, law enforcement, and agencies persist unabatedly in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). On the occasion of World Women’s Day, Kashmir Media Service reported that 96,290 individuals from IIOJK have been slain by Indian military soldiers since January 1989, including thousands of women. Since January 2001, at least 685 women have been killed by the armed forces. The report highlighted that 22,973 women become bereaved as a result of Indian state terrorism. 11,263 women were sexually assaulted or humiliated by members of the occupation forces. It claimed that 17-year-old Aasiya Jan and her sister-in-law Neelofar Jan had been murdered in a Kunanposhpora mass rape and a Shopian double rape.
The UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), Jamie McGoldrick, stated after a two-day visit to the war-torn Gaza that “Hunger has reached catastrophic levels.” “Children are dying from hunger,” he said via videolink to reporters in New York, amid reports from the media that at least 20 children—including a 14-day-old baby—have perished in the besieged and battered enclave due to starvation. He demanded a strategy to deal with the situation and stated that one of the first things that needed to be done was to allow at least 300 relief trucks per day to use a military route to enter northern Gaza. Ever since the Israeli invasion started on October 7, the enclave’s hunger has increased dramatically.
According to the Palestinian Wafa news agency, numerous residents, including a large number of women and children, have lost their lives as a result of the most recent Israeli onslaught in Khan Younis, northern Gaza, east of Gaza City, and the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City. Since October 7, Israeli bombardment on Gaza have resulted in at least 29,692 Palestinian deaths and 69,879 injuries, according to a statement released on Sunday by the health ministry in Gaza. According to sources, US and British forces launched strikes on over a dozen Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday. This was the most recent round of military action against the organisation, which is tied to Iran and continues to assault shipping in the area. As the Houthis hold the majority of Yemen’s territory, the US has been attacking them almost every day.
By Abdul Hameed Lone Antonio Gutters Dear Sir Jammu and Kashmir is a UN-recongized disputed territory. The people of Jammu and...
