Valletta’s evening air was thick with more than August humidity on Monday. As Parliament’s bells tolled six, a hush fell over the small crowd huddled outside the Israeli Embassy in Floriana. Candles flickered against posters that read “Għajnuna għal Gaza” – Help for Gaza – in Maltese, English and Arabic. By sunrise the vigil had…
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…
Valletta’s Parliament may sit 1,400 km from New York’s East River, but when the UN General Assembly votes this Thursday on a resolution that would recognise a Hamas-free Palestinian state, the ripple will be felt in every Maltese living-room, parish hall and band club that still remembers the 1948 refugee ships that steamed past our…
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…
# Maltese Activists on Gaza Flotilla Report Drone Strike as Tunisia Denies Detection **Valletta harbour, Tuesday 05:45** – The fishing vessel *Al Awda* was still rocking from the alleged impact when David Zammit’s phone buzzed with a WhatsApp voice note: “We’re okay, but something hit the stern. Tell Valletta we’re pushing on.” Zammit, a 34-year-old…
US Supreme Court Allows Roving Immigration Patrols, For Now – What It Means for Malta’s Own Border Battles By Hot Malta Correspondent Valletta – While American headlines scream about “roving patrols” and “stop-and-search squads” on Arizona highways, the ripple has already reached our limestone shores. On Monday the US Supreme Court lifted an injunction that…
Israel tells residents to leave Gaza City ahead of offensive: Malta watches, prays and mobilises By Luke Caruana, Valletta On a balmy Tuesday evening that normally belongs to after-work spritzes on Strait Street, televisions in every bar flickered with the same newsflash: Israel’s military has ordered the evacuation of all civilians from Gaza City ahead…
