PARIS (AFP): Israel is deliberately targeting civilians, said Hala Abou Hassira, representative of the Palestinian Authority in France on Wednesday. Addressing a press conference, she said: “It’s a systemic and systematic policy of Israel today in this aggression. Israel targets civilians wherever they are.” She said more tha...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has failed to endorse cross-party calls for a cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hamas. Answering questions raised by opposition members of the parliament at the House of Commons on Wednesday, Sunak said Israel has a “right to defend itself, to protect its peopl...
– LONDON (AA) – England’s top cleric, the archbishop of Canterbury, has decried the “devastating loss of innocent lives” from an airstrike on the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza, a facility run by the Anglican Church. “This is an appalling and devastating loss of innocent lives. The Ahli hospital is run by the Anglican...
LONDON (AA) – Scotland is willing to be the first country in the UK to offer safety and sanctuary to refugees from Gaza, First Minister Humza Yousaf said after a deadly airstrike on a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday. “There can be no justification for this. None whatsoever. If people cannot be safe in a […]
LONDON (AA) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has avoided responding to calls for him to urge the Israeli government to end “collective punishment” measures in Gaza, despite questions from lawmakers in the House of Commons. After a statement on the latest situation in the Middle East, Sunak said Monday evening that Hamas was the...
Cairo, Egypt – AFP Egypt and France’s foreign ministers urged the delivery of humanitarian aid and the exit of foreign nationals from the bombarded Gaza Strip, on the tenth day of war between Israel and Hamas. “Those who want to leave Gaza must be able to do so,” French foreign minister Catherine Colonna said, urging [&...
London, United Kingdom – AFP The UK will increase its humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people by a third, sending an extra £10 million ($12 million), Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced Monday. “An acute humanitarian crisis is unfolding to which we must respond. We must support the Palestinian people because they are victims of...
Beijing, China — AFP EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said that a plan by Israel to evacuate more than one million people out of northern Gaza was “utterly impossible to implement”. Israel warned residents in the area on Friday to evacuate before an expected ground offensive against the impoverished, besieged territo...
London, United Kingdom — AFP Thousands of people rallied Saturday in central London for a pro-Palestinian protest despite police warnings that anyone showing support for Hamas could face arrest. Attendees, who gathered near BBC News’ headquarters through the morning, began a march through the British capital ahead of an afternoon r...
Paris, France – AFP France on Thursday said it was banning all pro-Palestinian demonstrations after the attack on Israel by Hamas, on the grounds such protests threaten public order. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said in a note to regional prefects that the demonstrations “are likely to generate disturbances to public orderR...
