ANKARA (AA) – The Palestinian presidency has held the US government responsible for Israel’s attack on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in central Gaza. In a statement, Nabih Abu Rudeineh, the spokesperson for the Palestinian Presidency, condemned the attack and held the US administration “responsible for the massacre due to it...
ANKARA (AA) – The UN’s special rapporteur on Palestine accused Israel of carrying out a “genocide” in Gaza on Saturday. Describing Gaza as “the largest and most shameful concentration camp of the 21st century,” Francesca Albanese wrote on X: “Israel is genociding the Palestinians one neighborhood at the time, one hospit...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP UN rights chief Volker Turk was “shocked and appalled” by comments by Israel’s finance minister suggesting it might be “justified” to starve the population of Gaza to free the Israelis held by Palestinian resistance fighters, his spokesman said Friday. The United Nations high commis...
ANKARA (AA) – Iran has said that the Gaza cease-fire is currently part of the country’s priorities, along with the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. The Iranian state news agency IRNA cited a statement by the Iranian permanent mission to the UN responding to a question whether Iran “would reverse its plans to take [&hel...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 15 Palestinians, including children, were killed and dozens injured in Israeli airstrikes on schools sheltering displaced people in Gaza City on Thursday, the Civil Defense Agency said. Israeli warplanes attacked al-Zahraa and Abdel Fattah Hamoud schools in al-Tuffah neighborhood, witnesses said. Medical so...
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia- AFP The “heinous” killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh risks tipping the Middle East into “wider conflict”, the chair of a Saudi-based Islamic bloc told a summit on Wednesday. The comments from Gambian Foreign Minister Mamadou Tangara came as a senior Iranian official said during the sa...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Israel vowed to “eliminate” new Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, the alleged mastermind of the October 7 attack as its war on Gaza entered its 11th month on Wednesday. The naming of Sinwar to lead Hamas came as Israel braced for potential Iranian retaliation over the killing of his predecessor Ismael Haniy...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP The World Health Organization on Wednesday said it will send more than one million polio vaccines to war-torn Gaza after the virus was detected in wastewater there. “WHO is sending more than 1 million polio vaccines which will be administered in the coming weeks,” the UN agency’s chief Tedros A...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army has been using artificial intelligence (AI) tools from Microsoft and Google and Amazon’s cloud service for its war on Gaza, according to reports by +972 Magazine and the Hebrew language news site Local Call. An audio recording they obtained reveals that Col. Racheli Dembinsky, commander of the Israeli...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hamas will continue Gaza cease-fire negotiations after the selection of Yahya Sinwar as its new political chief, a group leader said on Wednesday. “The negotiations were managed by the leadership, and Sinwar was not far from the negotiation process. He was part of its details,” Osama Hamdan told Anadolu. Hamas named Sinwa...
