RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Nine Palestinians, including two teenagers, were shot dead by Israeli forces in the West Bank, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. A ministry statement said a 16-year-old Palestinian was shot in the head in Tulkarm, while a 32-year-old man was shot in the chest in the town of Budrus west of […]
In a significant development, Josh Paul, a senior State Department official, resigned from his position, criticizing U.S. government actions in the recent conflict between Israel and Gaza. Paul, an official in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, chose to resign because he strongly opposes continued U.S. military assistance to Israel. In ...
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories – AFP The first woman elected to Hamas’s political leadership has been killed in an Israeli strike on the Gaza Strip, the group said Thursday. Jamila Al-Shantee, 64, was killed Wednesday evening in Jabalia, in northern Gaza, Hamas said. She became the first woman to be elected to the movement̵...
Palestinian Territories-AFP US President Joe Biden on Wednesday unveiled a deal to allow desperately-needed humanitarian aid to enter war-torn Gaza, where one million people have fled their homes amid withering Israeli air strikes. After face-to-face talks in Israel and intense telephone diplomacy with Egypt, Biden said a limited number of tru...
Occupied Palestinian Territories — AFP/AA Health officials in Gaza have said that more than 500 people were killed in an air strike on a hospital compound which sheltered the wounded and displaced from Israeli bombing, prompting condemnation and fury in the Middle East and beyond. According to the Palestinian health ministry, Israel was ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden has agreed to postpone a meeting with Arab leaders that was to take place amid soaring casualties in the besieged Gaza Strip, the White House said Tuesday. “After consulting with King Abdullah II of Jordan and in light of the days of mourning announced by President (Mahmoud) Abbas […]
More than 500 people have been killed in a bombing at a hospital in Gaza City, according to Palestinian officials. Hamas blamed it on an Israeli airstrike, reported BBC. US President Joe Biden intends to ask Israel “some tough questions” when he arrives in the country Wednesday, John Kirby, the spokesman for the National Security [...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel on Tuesday denied reports suggesting that US President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel may delay the planned ground operation against Gaza. The Times of Israel news website cited an Israeli military spokesman as saying Biden’s visit will not delay or complicate the ground operation. Early on Tuesday, a former Israe...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden will visit Israel on Wednesday, said Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Blinken’s announcement came during a news conference early Tuesday in Tel Aviv after a seven-and-a-half-hour meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet. “He’s coming here at a critic...
Washington, United States – AFP Any move by Israel to occupy the Gaza Strip again would be a “big mistake,” US President Joe Biden said in an interview released on Sunday. Israel, seeking vengeance for an attack by Hamas on October 7, has declared war on Gaza, launching a relentless bombing campaign and warning more […...
