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Evergreen Halts Shipping Services to Israel

Taiwan's major shipping company, Evergreen, announced the immediate suspension of its cargo shipments to Israel, citing the "escalation of the war situation." Taiwan shipping giant Evergreen said on Monday that it was suspending its Israeli cargo shipments with immediate effect. Due to "escalation of war situation in recent days, Evergreen will ...

Untying the Gordian Knots and Peace-Making

Political and military events are overlapping and questioning notions, dynamics and taxonomies. The Gaza war and its immediate bloody antecedents have elicited a set of political, strategic and ethical controversies that question notional equivocations, sequential linearity and clear-cut scenarios. The terror attack on South Israel is a blatant ...

Colonna Calls for 'Immediate and Durable' Gaza Truce

French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna called for an “immediate and durable” truce in the Gaza war during her visit to Israel on Sunday, December 17, with her counterpart Eli Cohen, who acknowledged that France could play a positive role in preventing a war with Lebanon. French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna pressed for an “immediate ...

Israeli Outcry Over Hostages, New Houthi Attacks

The war between Israel and Hamas entered its 70th day on Friday, since the bloody and unprecedented attack perpetrated by the Palestinian Islamist movement on Israeli soil from the Gaza Strip on October 7, which triggered it. According to Israel, 1,139 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the attack and around 250 kidnapped and taken to Gaza. ...

Shipping Companies to Avoid the Red Sea

The main shipping companies have announced that they are stopping transits via the Suez Canal, due to the increase of Houthi attacks in response to the Israel-Hamas conflict. The latest example is the French CMA-CGM and Swiss MSC, which announced such a measure on Saturday 16 December. Like Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd, the French company CMA CGM ...

Pressure on Israel Increases

War between Israel and Hamas entered on Friday, December 15 its 70th day since the bloody and unprecedented attack that the Palestinian Islamist movement launched against Israel on October 7 from the Gaza Strip. According to Israel, 1,139 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the attack and around 250 kidnapped and taken to Gaza. A total of ...

Houthis Attack a Danish Ship in the Red Sea

Yemeni Houthis have targeted another cargo ship in the Red Sea, according to statements by a US official on Thursday December 14. The attack, carried out with a missile against a ship belonging to a Danish company, is said to have missed its target. Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels fired a missile at a cargo ship en route to Saudi Arabia on ...

US Warship, Commercial Vessels Attacked in Red Sea

Yemen's Houthi rebels, backed by Iran, claimed responsibility for attacking two ships off the Yemeni coast on Sunday, November 3. They asserted that the vessels, labeled as "Israeli," were targeted in connection to the conflict in Gaza. This incident potentially signifies an escalation in a series of maritime attacks in the Middle East associated ...