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...
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...
