JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Lebanon on Thursday of Gaza-like consequences if the Hezbollah group decided to engage in an all-out war against Israel. “If Hezbollah chooses to start an all-out war, then it will be responsible for turning Beirut and South Lebanon, not far from here, into Gaza and Khan [...
ANKARA (AA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday said that Israel’s deadly strikes on journalists in Lebanon were an “apparently deliberate attack on civilians and thus a war crime.” “Two Israeli strikes on a group of Lebanese, American, and Iraqi journalists in south Lebanon on October 13, 2023, were apparently deliberate attacks on c...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian death toll from the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has mounted to 17,177 since Oct. 7, the Health Ministry in the enclave said Thursday. “Around 70% of the victims are children and women,” ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told a press conference. He said 46,000 other people were […]...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – All hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip are currently “out of service”, Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said on Thursday. He said medical teams are facing difficulties in work at the Al-Shifa Hospital. “Despite the difficulties, we will keep up attempts to run any hospital in the G...
Beersheba, Israel – AFP Around two civilians have been killed for every dead Hamas fighter in the Gaza Strip, senior Israeli military officials said Monday. The health ministry in Gaza says Israel’s military campaign, in the wake of Hamas attacks on October 7, has killed around 15,900 people so far, most of them women and [&hellip...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 50 Palestinians were reported killed on Tuesday in Israeli overnight airstrikes across the Gaza Strip. According to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, 40 Palestinians were killed and dozens of others injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes on Khan Younis city. It added that another Israeli airstrike hit a...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian death toll from Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip has soared to 15,899, the Health Ministry in the blockaded enclave said Monday. “More than 42,000 other people were injured,” ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told a press conference. He said that “70% of the victims of the Israeli aggre...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Dozens of Israeli tanks entered the southern part of the Gaza Strip near Khan Yunis on Monday, witnesses told AFP. Dozens of Israeli tanks as well as armoured personnel carriers and bulldozers entered the south of the territory near the city of Khan Yunis, which is crowded with internally displaced Palestini...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) — The death toll from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has surged to 15,523 since Oct. 7, the Health Ministry in the besieged Palestinian enclave announced Sunday. At least 509 Palestinians have been killed and 1,316 injured since Friday in Israeli airstrikes, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. “The toll [&...
Sanaa, Yemen – AFP/AA Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels on Sunday said they had attacked two ships off the Yemeni coast, adding the “Israeli” vessels were targeted over the war in Gaza. In a statement posted on social media, the Houthis said they carried out an “operation against two Israeli ships in the Bab al-Ma...