ISTANBUL (AA) – The military wing of Palestinian resistance group Hamas has announced that one of its field commanders was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon on Monday. The Al-Qassam Brigades confirmed in a statement that Hussein Mahmoud al-Nader, a field commander from Marjayoun town in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh Governorate, wa...
ISTANBUL (AA) – An Israeli airstrike targeted a house in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing four Palestinian children and their mother. According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, Israeli fighter jets struck the home of the “Abu Samek” family near Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah. The attack also left many ...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AA) – Colombian President Gustavo Petro denounced the silence over Israel’s war on Gaza, insisting that a genocide is taking place in Palestine. “Anyone who defends this genocide or remains silent in the face of it has destroyed their own human condition,” Petro said Sunday on X. “It would seem as if (Nazi […]...
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...
