JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army chief hinted on Friday that the ground operation could be expanded to the southern areas of the Gaza Strip. “We are close to dismantling the military system (of Palestinian group Hamas) in the northern Gaza Strip,” Chief of the General Staff Herzi Halevi said while addressing Israeli soldiers in [&...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Jordan announced Thursday that it will not sign a deal with Israel to exchange solar energy for desalinated water in light of Israel’s war against Hamas. “The energy for water deal was supposed to have been done last month, but we’re not going to sign it,” Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi [&hell...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP The UN human rights chief on Thursday decried allegations of serious rights violations in Gaza and suggested an international investigation was needed. Volker Turk said “extremely serious allegations of multiple and profound breaches of international humanitarian law, whoever commits them, demand rigorous ...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel renewed its raids into Gaza’s largest hospital on Thursday, trying to find what it said was a Hamas command centre hidden beneath thousands of patients, medics and displaced people. “Tonight we conducted a targeted operation into Shifa hospital,” said Major General Yaron Finkelman, t...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP The Israeli army said on Thursday its troops had taken “operational control” of Gaza City’s port. “In the past few days, in a joint operation, soldiers… took operational control of the Gaza harbour, which was controlled by the Hamas terrorist organisation,” the Israeli army s...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli forces found no sign of prisoners being held at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City after they entered the facility on Wednesday, Israeli media reported. Following extensive attacks around the hospital, the Israeli army stormed the medical complex early Wednesday. “There is no indication of prisoners currently being hel...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army carried out “explosions” in the basements of several buildings in the Al-Shifa Hospital complex after it was raided by Israeli forces on Wednesday, according to a medical source. “The Israeli army is the sole party firing inside the Al-Shifa Hospital and its surroundings,” th...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Hamas rejected Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s comments Tuesday about the displacement of the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. “We tell Smotrich and his likes that we are the ones who will stay on this land,” senior Hamas member Osama Hemdan said at a press conference in Beirut. He acc...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Eight Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the occupied West Bank overnight, Palestine’s official media reported on Tuesday. Seven Palestinians were killed in the Tulkarem city in an Israeli airstrike, which also left 12 others injured – including four in critical condition, according to the Wafa news agenc...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP The Israeli army said Tuesday it had captured parliament and other government institutions in Gaza City, as its forces deepened their offensive in the Palestinian territory. Military units “took over the Hamas parliament, the government building, the Hamas police headquarters . . . .,” the army clai...
