# Israel launches ground assault on Gaza City: Malta watches as Mediterranean neighbour burns Valletta’s lunchtime streets fell quiet yesterday as café televisions flashed the first images of Israeli armour pushing into Gaza City. By the time schoolchildren spilled out of St Albert the Great College at 2pm, parents were already murmuring about “another Sabra…
**“Gaza is burning,” minister says as Israel unleashes major bombardment – Maltese streets echo with calls for peace** Valletta’s usually sun-drenched Republic Street fell unusually quiet yesterday evening as 300 Maltese – Palestinians, Arabs, Jews and Maltese citizens – stood shoulder-to-shoulder outside Parliament, candles flickering in the warm March breeze. Their silence was broken only…
Rubio Asks Qatar to Stay as Mediator After Israeli Strike: What Malta’s Century-Old Neutrality Teaches the World Valletta’s Upper Barrakka gardens were unusually busy at sunrise on Tuesday. Joggers paused mid-stride, phones tilted toward the horizon where, beyond the bastions, a Malta-flagged frigate slipped silently out of Grand Harbour. On deck, sailors in white gloves…
Two Greek-flagged vessels slipped out of Piraeus on Tuesday morning, their decks stacked high with medical crates and their manifests heavy with political symbolism. Destination: Gaza, via a Mediterranean sea-lane that Maltese fishermen know as “the back door to the Levant.” By nightfall the captains had already pinged Malta’s Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre requesting onward…
Maltese MEPs back Gaza ceasefire, sanctions on Hamas, urgent humanitarian aid By [Author Name], Hot Malta Valletta – All six Maltese members of the European Parliament have thrown their weight behind a cross-party resolution demanding an “immediate and sustained” ceasefire in Gaza, targeted EU sanctions on Hamas leaders, and a humanitarian corridor that would allow…
Red Scarves in Strasbourg: How Malta’s Labour MEPs Turned Gaza Solidarity into a Mediterranean Moment By the time European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stepped up to the Strasbourg rostrum on Wednesday morning, the hemicycle was already a sea of crimson. But three seats in particular caught the eye of Maltese photographers: the ones…
EU Chief’s Sanction Threat on Israel: How Gaza Turmoil is Reaching Malta’s Shores By Hot Malta Newsroom Valletta’s Grand Harbour was calm at dawn on Tuesday, but the chatter inside city cafés was anything but. Over steaming cups of Kafè fit-Tazza, patrons swapped reactions to Brussels’ bombshell: EU High Representative Josep Borrell is formally asking…
Israel’s vow to hit Gaza City “with great force” has jolted even this sun-drenched island 1,800 kilometres away. On Tuesday morning, as café regulars in Valletta sipped their ħobż-bi-żejt and argued about last night’s football, Telegram pings carried images of flattened apartment blocks and frantic rescuers. By evening, the chatter on Facebook groups like “Maltese…
Valletta – The Mediterranean felt smaller and angrier this week when a humanitarian flotilla bound for Gaza reported a drone strike that instantly reminded Maltese seafarers of the 2010 “Mavi Marmara” incident, parts of which were planned inside Valletta’s Grand Harbour. Activists on board the converted trawler “Handala” told international media they were 120 nautical…
Valletta’s morning cafés were buzzing louder than usual on Thursday as Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s dramatic pledge to “stop the genocide in Gaza” collided head-on with Israel’s furious recall of its ambassador from Madrid. For Maltese ears, the row sounds less like distant thunder and more like a family argument echoing across the Mediterranean…
Valletta’s Grand Harbour was once the last friendly port for refugees seeking Europe’s safety; this weekend, its sister harbour in Sfax, Tunisia, echoed that role in reverse. More than 1,000 Tunisians lined the stone quays at dawn on Saturday, waving Palestinian flags and hoisting baskets of dates, to welcome two small wooden trawlers limping in…
Valletta, Malta – As dawn broke over the Grand Harbour on Wednesday, Maltese commuters scrolling through their phones were confronted with a chilling video: a 14-storey tower in Gaza City collapsing into grey dust after an Israeli airstrike. Within minutes, the same footage was looping on ONE Radio’s breakfast show and filling parish WhatsApp groups…
