Israel accepts US proposal for temporary Gaza ceasefire
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UNITED NATIONS (AA) – Palestine has urged the international community to provide protection in the wake of recent Israeli attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip that left 46 Palestinians dead. The Palestinian envoy to the UN told the UN Security Council that it was an ”unprovoked and unjustified” aggression. ”Its real reaso...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Fuel trucks entered Gaza as an Egypt-brokered truce between Israel and Islamic Jihad militants held Monday, raising hopes that the intense conflict that left dozens of Palestinians dead has ended. An AFP journalist at the goods crossing to southern Gaza saw trucks loaded with fuel enter the enclave, ending...
Doha, Qatar (AFP): Chad’s military government has signed a deal with more than 40 opposition groups to launch national peace talks later this month, although the main rebel outfit refused to take part. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the African Union have urged the junta and opposition to seize the latest opportunity to stabil...
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Shell-shocked Gazans sifted through the rubble of three days of deadly fighting between Israel and Islamic Jihad fighters as a truce held and life slowly returned to normal. An Egypt-brokered ceasefire reached late Sunday ended the intense fighting that killed 46 people including 16 children and wounde...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnia and Herzegovina marked on Monday the 97th birth anniversary of Alija Izetbegovic, the country’s first president and a pivotal figure in the troubled history of the Balkans. Izetbegovic — a politician, writer, and lawyer — who came to international prominence during the country’s bitt...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The European Union welcomed on Monday the truce between Israel and the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad following three days of Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip. “The European Union welcomes the announced cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which should bring an end to the violence in and around Gaza,” t...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian officials on Monday called for rebuilding Gaza and ending Israel’s 15-year-long blockade. The call came one day after an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire came into force to end three days of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza and retaliatory rocket fire. At least 45 Palestinians were killed and over 360 others injur...
ANKARA (AA) – It was 1971 when Geraldine Lee Shingoose, a survivor from Canada’s controversial Muscowequan residential school, decided she was not going back after experiencing horrific abuses. Shingoose remembers the trauma suffered at the residential school like it was yesterday. Set up by the Canadian government beginning in the...
ANKARA (AA) – The Turkish president on Monday hinted at a possible new cross-border operation to clear the PKK organization from its border with Syria. “We will continue our fight against terrorism. Our decision to establish a 30-kilometre-deep secure line along our southern border is permanent,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan said dur...
LONDON, (AA) – Over 600 children — 58% of them Black — were subjected to “intrusive and traumatic” strip searches by the UK’s Metropolitan Police over a period of two years, a report from the Children’s Commissioner of England revealed on Monday. From 2018 to 2020, police stopped and conducted strip searches on 65...
