**“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…
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…
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…
Maltese MEPs Meet Former Palestine Prime Minister Amidst Gaza ‘Genocide’: A Mediterranean Island’s Cry for Justice In a dimly lit conference room at the European Parliament’s Brussels headquarters last Tuesday, Maltese MEPs Alex Agius Saliba and Josianne Cutajar sat opposite Dr. Rami Hamdallah, former Prime Minister of the State of Palestine. Over strong Arabic coffee…
