ANKARA (AA) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the US’ largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, has urged the Biden administration to address Israeli war crimes after soldiers destroyed a Gaza water reservoir and new reports of sexual abuse at an Israeli prison emerged. “Every day that the Biden administrat...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The municipality of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip has condemned the Israeli army’s bombing of a drinking water reservoir in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood as a grave violation of humanitarian norms. “The Israeli soldiers’ detonation of the main water reservoir in Tal al-Sultan is a crime against...
JERUSALEM (AA) – A Palestinian prisoner was sexually abused by Israeli soldiers at the Sde Teiman Prison in the Negev desert in southern Israel, according to Israeli media. Israeli public broadcaster KAN, citing a security source, said the victim was finally taken to a hospital with severe injuries to an intimate body part, which left [&hellip...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 10 Palestinians were killed, including children, in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, the Civil Defense Agency said. Video clips shared by Palestinians showed a man carrying a “decapitated child” and a mother screaming and crying bitterly near […]...
ANKARA (AA) – At least nine Palestinians have been killed and several others injured in an Israeli attack in the southern Gaza Strip. Medical sources at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said that they received nine Palestinians who were killed in an Israeli army bombing of two houses in southern Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses reported [&hell...
Occupied Palestinian Territories — AFP The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders for residents of southern Gaza’s Khan Yunis city on Saturday, after warning of new operations. The United Nations said more than 180,000 Palestinians have already fled fierce fighting in Khan Yunis since the military began an operation in the a...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli security minister has said that “there will be no halt to the war” amid the US vice president’s call for a cease-fire in Gaza. The daily Haaretz reported earlier on Thursday that after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, US Vice President and presidenti...
ANKARA (AA) – The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Friday that nine out of 10 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced in the Gaza Strip. “Families seek shelter where they can: overcrowded schools, destroyed buildings, makeshift tents on the sand or amid piles of trash,” the agency said in a statement. It stressed [&he...
LONDON (AA) – The UK has said that it would not proceed with efforts to question whether the International Criminal Court (ICC) has jurisdiction to issue arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister and defense minister, according to local media. The ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan announced in May that he had requested arrest warrants for [...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden emphasized the need to close remaining gaps and finalize a Gaza cease-fire deal during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the White House said Thursday. During the meeting at the presidential mansion, the two leaders discussed developments in Gaza and ongoing negotiations on...
