JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has finally acknowledged the killing of five Palestinian children in an aerial raid during the recent three-day offensive on the Gaza Strip. Defense Ministry officials confirmed Israel’s responsibility in the tragic incident, which occurred on August 7 in a cemetery in the Jabaliya area, northern Gaza, leadi...
NABLUS, Palestine (AA) – Around 20 years ago, Mohammad Nassar, 62, lost his son, Shadi, who was participating in resistance activities against the Israeli occupation during the second Palestinian intifada. Nassar has since been in a constant struggle to retrieve Shadi’s body from Israeli authorities. “I want to bury him with full dignity...
TAIZ, YEMEN (AA): A mortar shell fired by the Iran-backed Houthis on Saturday injured 11 children in the city of Taiz in southern Yemen. Taiz Police stated that the Houthis carried out the mortar attack on Taiz’s Zeid al-Mushki District. The statement added that the children, mostly under the age of 10, were seriously and […]
PARIS (AA) – France’s attorney general at the Court of Cassation has underlined the principle of “state obligation” to bring back all French nationals living in camps in Syria. “We have to bring all of them back,” Francois Molins told RTL radio. This came days after the government, in a major policy shift, set aside […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) has said that at least 200 children in Somalia have died of malnutrition since January, with the country witnessing “catastrophic food insecurity” for the first time since 2017. Drought conditions have deteriorated follow...
GENEVA – Unless the world immediately shifts its total focus away from the war in Ukraine, there will be an explosion of child deaths in the Horn of Africa, a UN official has warned, urging the international community to act immediately. Rania Dagash, UNICEF’s deputy regional director for Eastern and Southern Africa, spoke at a […...
GAZA CITY, Palestine – Palestinian resistance group Hamas has called for providing international protection to Palestinian children against Israeli violations. “Israel is practicing all types of crimes against Palestinian children, including killing, abduction, assassination, siege and house arrest,” Hamas said in a statement marking the Inter...
PARIS (AA) – In the first initiative of its kind, the Catholic Church in France will begin the process of paying reparations to victims of sexual abuse in the church, offering financial compensation of up to €60,000 (about $64,000), an independent commission set up to investigate the criminal cases announced on Wednesday. Marie Derain de...
KYIV, Ukraine – Four more children were killed in Russian attacks in Ukraine over the past day, raising the war count to 238, Ukrainian authorities have said. An 11-year-old girl was fatally injured in Kharkiv, while three children aged 14, 15 and 17 were killed in Mariupol, according to the office of Ukraine’s prosecutor general. […]...
ANKARA – The Norwegian Child Welfare Services (Barnevernet) has long been criticized for controversial decisions against migrant families, most of which were Muslim, hailing from crisis-ridden Middle Eastern and North African countries. Since 2015, the Barnevernet’s practices, mostly taking away children from their families by citi...
