**’We pulled the children out in pieces’: Israel pummels Gaza City** The Mediterranean has always been Malta’s window to the world, but this week that window frames a horror show. While Valletta’s baroque balconies still drip with bougainvillea and Gozo’s churches echo with Sunday bells, our sea-view cafés flicker with footage that turns cappuccinos cold:…
**Swastikas Scrubbed Clean: TCNs Remove Hate Symbols from Bombi Underpass in Act of Defiant Solidarity** The Bombi underpass, that grimy artery linking Ħamrun to Marsa, woke up Wednesday to its usual symphony of screeching brakes and exhaust fumes—plus a fresh coat of neo-Nazi bile. Overnight, someone had scaled the concrete walls and spray-painted a parade…
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…
Maltese Hearts Go Out to East Jerusalem as Gunmen Kill Five in Dawn Market Rampage By Maria Pace, Hot Malta Correspondent The bells of the Carmelite Church in Mdina had barely finished their 7 a.m. chime on Friday when news flashed across Maltese smartphones: five Israelis—four women and one man—lay dead in an east Jerusalem…
# Horror in Nigeria: 55 Resettled Families Massacred by Jihadists – Why Malta Should Care The Mediterranean sun was still rising over Valletta’s honey-stoned bastions on Monday when news broke that 55 internally displaced Nigerians—people who had already fled Boko Haram once—were slaughtered in their sleep by jihadists who stormed a government-backed resettlement camp in…
Flags at half-mast in Valletta, black ribbons pinned to café awnings in Sliema, and a minute’s silence before last night’s football derby: Malta joined Portugal yesterday in a gesture of trans-Mediterranean solidarity after the horrific Alfa Pendular derailment near Lisbon that killed seven and injured more than fifty. For many Maltese, the tragedy feels closer…
