LONDON (AA) – Oscar-winning Spanish actor Javier Bardem has denounced the Israeli government for committing “crimes against humanity” in the Gaza Strip and urged the international community to hold those responsible to account. Bardem told reporters at the Donostia Award as part of the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain tha...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 21 Palestinians, including 13 children, were killed and several others injured on Saturday in an Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced people in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, according to the Gaza government media office. In a statement, it said that 30 people, including nine children, were al...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel on Friday announced its formal opposition to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the court’s prosecutor requested arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. The Israeli Foreign Ministry appeal challenges both the authority of the court and the...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, announced on Friday that its fighters had killed and injured several Israeli soldiers with a missile and an anti-personnel shell in a house in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. In a brief statement, Al-Qassam Brigades said its fighters successfully struck an Israeli unit...
Palestinians are warning of a famine in northern Gaza as an Israeli blockade has forced five bakeries to shut down in the region. Baker owner Kamel Ajjour told Anadolu news agency that his bakery is the only one still functioning in the area and is likely to close within a week if Israel continues to […]
GAZA CITY- (AA) – In the corridors of Al-Shifa Medical Complex, the largest hospital in Gaza, a grim scene unfolds. Children with amputated limbs sit silently, while displaced families line the hallways, some with IV drips hanging from doorways. Dr. Mohammad Ashraf, a Palestinian emergency doctor at Gaza’s largest hospital and project of...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Egypt to attend a three day US-Egypt Strategic Dialogue. However, his more crucial engagement is to secure a cease-fire deal and negotiate prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas. This is Blinken’s 10th visit to the Middle East since last October, highlighting the US’s active inv...
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) is calling for “humanitarian pauses” to provide children in Gaza with a second dose of polio vaccines. Around 560,000 Palestinian children under 10 received the first dose as part of a polio vaccination campaign from September 1 to 12. According to World Health Organization Director-General Tedro...
The Palestinian Health Ministry has released the names of 34,344 Palestinians killed by the Israeli army in Gaza since October 7. The list includes the names of 11,983 minors under the age of 18. It also has the names of 710 infants under a year old and 2,734 people over the age of 60 who […]
Istanbul, Turkey – AFP A senior Hamas official told AFP on Sunday that the movement had ample resources to continue fighting Israel despite losses sustained over more than 11 months of war in Gaza. “The resistance has a high ability to continue,” Osama Hamdan told AFP during an interview in Istanbul. “There were martyrs...
