ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army at dawn on Thursday killed six more Palestinians in airstrikes on central Gaza City as well as Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. The official Palestinian news agency Wafa said three Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike on a home of the Khzeiq family […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Journalists in Gaza are dying at a rate far higher than other professionals, suggesting they are being deliberately targeted. “The mortality rate among journalists is much, much higher than in other civilian professions. Indeed with more than 12% of Gazan journalists dead, it’s a mortality rate that would be u...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel is pushing the International Criminal Court (ICC) to delay the issuance of arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes in Gaza, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. Official sources said Tel Aviv is putting diplomatic pressure on The Hague-based court ...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Visiting US envoy Amos Hochstein warned that the clock was ticking for a Gaza cease-fire that could also help end 10 months of cross-border exchanges between Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Israel. His Lebanon trip came a day before cease-fire negotiations between Hamas and Israel resumed, with top diplomats scramblin...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Two members from Gaza’s Civil Defense Agency were killed by Israeli army fire in the southern city of Rafah on Wednesday, the agency said. The agency identified the two victims as Sohaib Abu Taqiya and Diab Abu Jamous. At least 82 civil defense members have been killed in Israeli attacks […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Newborn twins were killed by Israel in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday as their father went to collect their birth certificates. The two babies were born on Saturday in the city of Deir al-Balah, but an Israeli strike on their apartment shattered the family’s joy of their newborns. “I […]
Tehran, Iran – AFP Iran on Tuesday rejected Western calls to stand down its threat to retaliate against Israel for the killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran late last month. The Islamic republic and its allies have blamed Israel for Haniyeh’s killing on July 31 during a visit to the Iranian capital for [&hellip...
Khan Yunis, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel killed 10 members of a Gaza family in Khan Yunis Tuesday. The attack left only one survivor — a three-month-old girl, a medic told AFP. “Ten members of the Abu Haya family were killed in an Israeli strike on Abassan in east Khan Yunis,” the medic from Nasser […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least four Palestinians were killed and several others injured in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, the Civil Defense Agency said. The fatalities were reported in Israeli attacks targeting two homes in Gaza City and the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the agency said. Several people were [&he...
WASHINGTON (AA) — President Joe Biden said a cease-fire deal in the Gaza Strip would be “possible” before the end of his presidency. “Yes. It’s still possible,” Biden said in comments broadcast Sunday, when asked if he believed a cease-fire could be secured with five months of his term left. Biden sat on Wednesday...
