Istanbul, Turkey – AFP Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday he was cancelling plans to visit Israel because of its “inhumane” war against Hamas in Gaza. “We had a project to go to Israel, but it was cancelled, we will not go,” Erdogan told ruling party lawmakers in parliament, adding that he viewe...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories – AFP More than 100 Palestinians have been killed across the occupied West Bank since war erupted between Israel and Hamas on October 7, the health ministry said Wednesday. Violence had already spiralled in the West Bank before the Gaza war, with the highest death toll in the Palestinian territory since at ...
ISTANBUL, Türkiye (AA) – Hezbollah on Wednesday said four more of its members were killed in clashes with Israel on Lebanon’s southern border, bringing the death toll since Oct. 7 to 41. While Hezbollah’s statement did not provide details, the Lebanese official news agency reported that “Israeli aircraft launched an airstrike on th...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Eight soldiers were killed and seven others injured when an Israeli airstrike targeted a military position near Daraa city in Syria on Wednesday, official media reported. In a statement to the Syrian Arab News Agency, a military source revealed that Israel launched an aerial attack from the direction of the Golan Heights [&hell...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Overnight Israeli strikes killed at least 80 people in Gaza and a UN aid agency warned it would have to stop work by the end of Wednesday. Alarm has grown about the spiralling humanitarian crisis in heavily bombarded Gaza where one doctor said he was forced to perform emergency surgery on the […]
BEIRUT (AA) – The Hezbollah Movement in Lebanon Tuesday announced that three more members of the group lost their lives in clashes with the Israeli army. A statement by the group provided no more details. Meanwhile, an Israeli army’s statement mentioned that it launched an attack on a cell located in the Sheba Farms in […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP The health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip said Tuesday that 5,791 people have been killed in the territory in Israeli attacks. The death toll includes 2,360 children. A total of 16,297 people have also been wounded since the conflict erupted on October 7.
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 120 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza on Tuesday, local media reported. The Palestinian news agency WAFA quoted a medical source as saying that Israeli fighter jets attacked several Palestinian areas across the Gaza Strip, leaving at least 120 Palestinians killed including children and women. It ad...
Washington, United States – AFP US President Joe Biden said on Monday that any discussions about a Gaza ceasefire could only take place if Hamas frees all the people it took from Israel in its October 7 attack. “We should have those prisoners released and then we can talk,” Biden said at a White House […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP Hamas said Monday that it had freed two more women taken from Israel during the October 7 attacks. The Palestinian group’s military wing said the two elderly women, identified as Yocheved Lifshitz and Nurit Cooper, had been freed for “compelling humanitarian” reasons following mediation by ...
