ISTANBUL (AA) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has called for regional de-escalation during a meeting in Cairo with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. A statement by the Egyptian Presidency said that the meeting dwelt on current developments in the Middle East region. Sisi reiterated Egypt’s position to avoid expanding the confl...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Senator Tom Cotton on Wednesday demanded that President Joe Biden produce “evidence” that Israel is impeding the delivery of humanitarian assistance to Gaza. Cotton’s demand comes a day after the Biden administration confirmed that Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told the...
A heart-wrenching image has surfaced from Gaza City, showing a young Palestinian being burned alive while hooked to an IV, after Israel bombed a hospital this week. The person has been identified as 19-year-old Sha’ban al-Dalou, a software engineering student at al-Azhar University. Having been displaced multiple times due to Israel’s o...
GENEVA (AA) – The situation for children in Gaza is “worsening” with each passing day, with growing food, water, and medicine shortages compounded by ongoing Israeli attacks and severe restrictions on humanitarian aid, a UNICEF spokesperson has warned. James Elder told a UN press briefing in Geneva that many Gaza children have been...
A senior UN official has revealed that Gaza now has the highest number of child amputees in modern history. Lisa Doughten from the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says 10 children lose limbs daily due to Israel’s ongoing violence in the region. The situation has also worsened for women, who are three […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – US lawmakers on Monday voiced concern over the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, and called on the Biden administration to stop military aid to Israel. “(Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu is committing human rights abuses over and over again – bombing hospitals, burning Palestinians alive, blocking food aid,...
Israel has killed and wounded Palestinians, mostly children, who were playing football in the Al-Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza. So far, the bodies of seven children have been recovered from the site. Israel has also committed five massacres in Gaza over the past 24 hours, destroying dozens of homes in the Jabalia camp. On […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan has welcomed a group of Palestinian medical students to complete their studies in the country, underscoring its support for Palestinian access to education and healthcare amid ongoing violence in Gaza. Twenty-seven students arrived in Lahore from Cairo, marking the first wave of Palestinian students accepted u...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) — At least 22 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed Sunday in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a school housing displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. “The Israeli occupation army has committed a new massacre by bombing the Mufti School for displaced people in Nuseirat...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army has yet again ordered the residents in northern Gaza to leave their homes and head south. In a statement, Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee instructed northern Gaza residents to evacuate “immediately via Salah al-Din Street” to reach what he claimed to be a “safe humanitarian zone.” “The ...
