GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 33 Palestinians, including three World Central Kitchen employees, were killed and several others injured on Saturday as Israeli forces intensified their strikes across the Gaza Strip. Medical sources told Anadolu that seven Palestinians, including three employees of the aid group World Central Kitchen...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Protesters gathered in West Jerusalem on Friday to demand an end to the Israeli military’s genocide in the Gaza Strip. Videos shared online showed demonstrators holding banners with messages such as “Stop the War,” “Stop the Genocide,” and “Stop the Massacre.” The protesters, known for their leftist stance against ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – A far-right Israeli Member of the Knesset (parliament) has called for part of the Gaza Strip to be seized and settled by Israeli citizens. “We must stay in Gaza, and what will keep the Israeli army there is settlement because the army follows settlement,” Avichai Boron told the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation. [&...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Tanya Haj-Hassan, a medical practitioner, broke down in tears as she recounted her experiences in bombarded Gaza during a briefing at the UN. Speaking in connection with the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People commemorated annually on November 29, Haj-Hassan shared accounts of the suffering she wit...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has called Israeli war on Gaza “heartbreaking,” according to local media. “It is heartbreaking that many times more bombs were dropped on Gaza than on Tokyo in massive US air raids during World War II,” NHK news quoted Ishiba as saying. Ishiba’s remarks came after receiving information [&h...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 19 Palestinians were killed in Israel’s attacks on Friday in the northern Gaza Strip. A medical source told Anadolu that 10 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a home in the Beit Lahia town. Eyewitnesses told Anadolu that another airstrike hit a [&h...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel has blocked all attempts to deliver humanitarian aid to the northern Gaza Strip, says the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). In a statement, UNRWA said it attempted 91 times to deliver life-saving humanitarian aid to Jabalia, Beit Lahia, and Beit Sahour in northern Gaza from October 6 to November 25. […]
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – Spain on Thursday announced a €1.6 million ($1.7 million) funding boost for the International Criminal Court (ICC). “We want international law, not impunity, to prevail,” Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares told the Spanish parliament, adding that Madrid is now among the court’s top 10 financial backers. Albares add...
BRUSSELS (AA) – All EU member states “are under an obligation to execute arrest warrants issued by the ICC,” EU spokesperson Peter Stano has said in a written statement, specifically noting the warrants issued for two top Israeli officials in the ongoing war on Gaza. The International Criminal Court (ICC), in a landmark move last [&helli...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Biden administration has provisionally approved a $680 million weapons sale to Israel, including precision munitions like JDAM kits and small-diameter bombs, according to a report. US officials recently briefed Congress on the proposal, a customary step before a public announcement, the Financial Times reported, cit...
