GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 21 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the third day of the Eid al-Adha, according to medical sources. Israeli warplanes struck three homes in the central city of Deir al-Balah, killing 13 people and injuring several others, the sources said. Two more […]
GAZA CITY / ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army on Monday burned down the departure hall on the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing, disconnecting Palestinians in the Gaza Strip from the outside world. The Israeli army also set fire to other facilities and buildings, according to an Anadolu correspondent. Several Palestinian social media a...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Another journalist was killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip on Monday, bringing the total number of media persons’ deaths to 151 since Oct. 7 last year, local authorities said. In a statement, the Gaza Government Media Office identified the victim as Mahmoud Qasem, who worked for a local […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel continued its strike in Gaza on Monday and witnesses reported blasts in the besieged territory’s south. Witnesses told AFP they could hear blasts in the centre and west of the southernmost city of Rafah on Monday morning. Elsewhere in the Palestinian territory an AFP correspondent said strikes a...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Three Palestinians were killed when the Israeli warplanes bombed the southern and northern Gaza Strip on Sunday. The Civil Defense in Gaza said in a statement that its crew recovered the bodies of two Palestinians in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood west of Rafah after an Israeli bombing of the area. […]
Occupied Palestinian Territories- AFP Eight Israeli soldiers were killed in a blast in southern Gaza Saturday, the military said, in one of its heaviest losses of the war, as witnesses reported street battles between occupying troops and the Palestinian resistance. The military said the IDF soldiers were killed when the Namer armoured vehicle ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israel’s ban on the entry of sacrificial animals has deprived tens of thousands of families in the Gaza Strip of the opportunity to observe Eid al-Adha and perform the sacrificial rituals as part of Islamic religious practices, the Gaza media office said Saturday. In a statement on the eve of […]
CAIRO (AA) – The leader of Hamas’ Political Bureau on Sunday said that his movement’s response to the cease-fire proposal aligns with the principles outlined in US President Joe Biden’s speech and the UN Security Council resolution regarding the Gaza Strip. Ismail Haniyeh’s remarks came during his Eid al-Adha speech fol...
Palestinian Territories – AFP In tents in the stifling heat and in bombed-out mosques, people of Gaza marked Sunday the start of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, devoid of the usual cheer. “There is no joy. We have been robbed of it,” said Malakiya Salman, a 57-year-old displaced woman, now living in a tent […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Fourteen Palestinians, including at least one baby, were killed and many others injured on Saturday in an Israeli army airstrike targeting homes in eastern Gaza City, Wafa news agency reported. Israeli warplanes targeted three homes in the Al-Tuffah and Al-Shujaiya neighborhoods in Gaza City, resulting in the ...
