GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Tuesday appointed Yahya Sinwar as its new political chief. Sinwar will replace Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran after he attended the swearing-in ceremony of Iran’s new president on July 31, the group said in a statement on its Telegram channel. Hamas a...
MILTON, Canada (AA) – The UN has announced the completion of an investigation by its Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) into allegations made by Israel against staff members of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) following events on October 7 last year. In relation to the findings, UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq told...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said that his country does not seek the spread of war in the region but will respond to Israel’s crimes, in particular the assassination of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh. Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran on July 31 after attending Pezeshkian’s swearing-in ceremony. H...
Washington, United States – AFP Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that the United States was working around the clock to prevent escalation in the Middle East and urged Israel and Hamas to “break this cycle” of violence through a cease-fire. With Iran believed to be planning a retaliatory strike against Israel fol...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has added new conditions to a proposed deal with Hamas, including exiling around 150 Palestinian prisoners from the country, Channel 13 reported Sunday, citing unnamed sources. According to the sources, the prisoners are accused of killing Israelis. For months, the US, Qatar and ...
ANKARA (AA) – At least three Palestinians were killed and over 18 others injured on Sunday in an Israeli attack targeting displaced persons’ tents in a hospital in the central Gaza Strip, the government media office said. “The Israeli occupation forces committed a massacre within the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital by bombing several tents hous...
Rabat, Morocco – AFP Thousands of Moroccans protested in Rabat on Saturday in support of Palestinians and to condemn normalisation with Israel, holding portraits of killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. Waving Palestinian flags, and brandishing pictures of Haniyeh and a cardboard coffin adorned with his image, thousands of people marched t...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israel killed at least nine Palestinians, including a child, in three airstrikes targeting southern and central Gaza Strip. An Israeli drone targeted a gathering of Palestinians east of the Zeitoun neighborhood southeast of Gaza City, killing two and wounding another, a source at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital i...
The US, Israel and the UAE are spearheading efforts to establish a new Palestinian governing body for post-war Gaza. Sources say this national committee would feature Palestinian leaders and business figures but would predominantly align with Mohammed Dahlan, an exiled Fatah leader and potential successor to President Mahmoud Abbas. Internatio...
ANKARA (AA) – A group of eminent citizens in India has written a letter to the country’s defense minister, calling on him to halt the license process that enables exporters to send arms and ammunition to Israel. “India should immediately suspend its collaboration in the delivery of military material to Israel. Further, India must immediately [...
