Israel News: Here is a summary of significant articles published on ForeignAffairs.co.nz on May 16, 2025.
Palestine – A Roundup of Significant Articles on ForeignAffairs.co.nz for May 16, 2025
Palestine News: Here is a summary of significant articles published on ForeignAffairs.co.nz on May 16, 2025.
MIL-OSI USA: Warner, Kaine, Colleagues Introduce Legislation to Demand Trump Administration Use Diplomatic Tools to End Blockade of Food and Aid for Gaza
US Senate News: Source: United States Senator for Virginia Tim Kaine WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, (both D-VA) and 27 of their Senate colleagues introduced legislation calling on the Trump Administration to use all diplomatic tools at its disposal to […]
MIL-OSI USA: ICYMI: To Combat Race Discrimination, Energy Department Terminates Funding for Harvard University
Source: US Department of Energy In case you missed it, the Department of Energy issued a notice to Harvard University this week terminating approximately $89 million in grant funding from DOE’s Office of Science and Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy due to the University’s policy of racial discrimination. This cancellation from DOE resulted in an […]
MIL-OSI USA: Graham Statement On NATO Informal Foreign Ministers Meeting
US Senate News: Source: United States Senator for South Carolina Lindsey Graham WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made this statement after joining Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the sidelines of the NATO Informal Foreign Ministers Meeting in Antalya, Turkey. “I was pleased to join Secretary of State Rubio and his […]
MIL-OSI USA: Rosen, Young, Stevens, Hill Introduce Bipartisan, Bicameral Resolution Demanding Safe Release of Hostages Still Held by Hamas
US Senate News: Source: United States Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Todd Young (R-IN), and Representatives Haley Stevens (D-MI-11) and French Hill (R-AR-02) led a group of Senate and House colleagues in a bicameral, bipartisan resolution celebrating the release of Israeli-American Edan Alexander, demanding that Hamas release […]
MIL-OSI: CORRECTING AND REPLACING – Katapult Delivers 15.4% Gross Originations and 10.6% Revenue Growth in the First Quarter, Above Outlook
Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI) Expects Growth to Accelerate In Second QuarterReiterates 2025 Guidance PLANO, Texas, May 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — In the press release issued by Katapult Holdings, Inc. on May 15, 2025, in the gross originations by quarter table, Q4 in FY 2024 should be $75.2 million instead of $64.2 million. The updated release […]
MIL-OSI NGOs: “This is my home, and I will never leave”: Israel’s forced displacement of Palestinians
Source: Amnesty International – For decades Israel has been confiscating Palestinian land and demolishing Palestinian homes often to make way for the construction and expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Since October 2023 there has been a sharp rise in the forced displacement of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including […]
MIL-OSI Europe: Answer to a written question – Inclusion of Israel and human rights criteria in the FP10 – E-000488/2025(ASW)
Source: European Parliament 1. Since 1996, Israel’s association to the EU framework programmes for research and innovation (R&I) has been a success story with clear mutual benefits across various priority areas including information and communication technologies, health, advanced manufacturing, climate change and energy, as well as biotechnology. At this stage, it is premature to discuss which countries […]
MIL-OSI Europe: Answer to a written question – Humanitarian aid for Gaza – E-000799/2025(ASW)
Source: European Parliament In 2024, the Commission allocated EUR 237 million in humanitarian aid to address the needs of vulnerable Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank[1]. EU humanitarian aid is delivered according to the humanitarian principles of humanity, independence, impartiality and neutrality[2]. These funds were allocated by the Commission to certified non-governmental partners and international organisations, including […]
MIL-OSI Global: Cockney Yiddish: how two languages influenced each other in London’s East End
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Nadia Valman, Professor of Urban Literature, Queen Mary University of London Yiddish is a familiar presence in contemporary English speech. Many people use or at least know the meaning of words like chutzpah (audacity), schlep (drag) or nosh (snack). These words have been absorbed into English from their […]
MIL-OSI Global: Disarming Hezbollah is key to Lebanon’s recovery − but task is complicated by regional shifts, ceasefire violations
Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Mireille Rebeiz, Chair of Middle East Studies and Associate Professor of Francophone and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Dickinson College Slain Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah looms large in Lebanon. Anwar Amro/AFP via Getty Images Within a span of two weeks from late April to early May […]
MIL-OSI NGOs: Siege of Gaza: MSF denounces new aid mechanism proposed by US and Israel
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Source: Doctors Without Borders – As hunger deepens and Gaza’s health system collapses, the US and Israel are pushing a new aid mechanism, which raises widespread ethical, legal, security, and logistical concerns, said Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières on Wednesday. The plan—centered around the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation—seeks to bypass UN-led coordination and place aid […]
MIL-OSI NGOs: Report: Deadly Gaps
Source: Médecins Sans Frontières – In September 2025, the Global Fund, the main funder of a worldwide response to HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria, will host its eighth replenishment conference, where donor countries will make pledges to fund its vital, life-saving work. Ahead of the conference, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has released a report based on […]
MIL-OSI Russia: Israeli airstrikes kill at least 80 in Gaza, cripple cancer hospital
Translation. Region: Russian Federal Source: People’s Republic of China in Russian – People’s Republic of China in Russian – Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News GAZA, May 15 (Xinhua) — At least 80 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip on Thursday, Palestinian medical and […]
MIL-OSI USA: Supervised Exercise Improves Broken Hip Outcomes in Older Women
Source: US State of Connecticut Results from a recent multi-center, randomized, controlled trial demonstrate that testosterone gel does not improve long-distance mobility compared to exercise alone in older women recovering from a hip fracture. The STEP-HI (Starting a Testosterone and Exercise Program after Hip Injury) study results were published in JAMA Network Open on May […]
MIL-OSI USA: Welch Leads 28 Colleagues in Introducing Senate Resolution Decrying Two-Month Blockade on Food and Medicine in Gaza
US Senate News: Source: United States Senator Peter Welch (D-Vermont) Welch delivers remarks on the Senate Floor calling for an immediate end to the blockade of humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) led 28 of his Senate colleagues in introducing a resolution calling on the Trump Administration […]
MIL-OSI NGOs: UK government must immediately close Wethersfield mass containment site for asylum seekers
Source: Médecins Sans Frontières – A new report released by MSF shows how people staying in Wethersfield mass containment site in the UK are experiencing severe mental health distress. Wethersfield continues to be used as an accommodation site for asylum seekers despite the government promising to end its use. We call on the UK government […]
MIL-OSI: Odysight.ai Reports Financial Results for The First Quarter of 2025 and Provides Business Update
Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI) OMER, Israel, May 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Odysight.ai Inc. (NASDAQ: ODYS), a leading provider of visual based predictive maintenance (PdM) and condition-based monitoring (CBM) solutions, announces its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and provides a business update. Key highlights ● First quarter revenues totaled $2.1 million. […]
Israeli military strikes kill scores in Gaza, medics say
Source: Government of India Source: Government of India (4) Israeli military strikes killed at least 60 people in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, Palestinian medics said, as the United States and Arab mediators pushed for a ceasefire deal and U.S. President Donald Trump visited the Middle East. Most of the victims, including women and children, were killed in Khan Younis in southern Gaza in airstrikes that hit […]
MIL-OSI Russia: Iranian President Condemns Trump’s Anti-Tehran Statements
Translation. Region: Russian Federal Source: People’s Republic of China in Russian – People’s Republic of China in Russian – Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News TEHRAN, May 15 (Xinhua) — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has strongly condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent anti-Tehran remarks, calling them evidence of his inability to understand […]