Jerusalem – AFP Ignoring warnings by top US officials, Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said Thursday that more troops would “enter Rafah” as military operations intensify in Gaza’s far-southern city. The operation in Rafah “will continue as additional forces will enter” the area, Gallant said, a...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Palestinians, under attack by Israel for more than seven months, on Wednesday marked 76 years since their mass displacement which they call the Nakba or “catastrophe”. The sight of desperate families carrying their scant belongings through the ruins of war-scarred cities has evoked for man...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hamas denounced the US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Tuesday for denying genocide in the Gaza Strip amid a deadly Israeli offensive in the enclave. Sullivan had said on Monday that Washington “does not believe what is happening in Gaza is a genocide.” Such remarks “are expected from those who have […]...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli troops continued attacks across the Gaza Strip Tuesday that forced new waves of Palestinian mass displacement. Nearly 450,000 Palestinians have been displaced from Rafah since May 6, and around 100,000 from northern Gaza, UN agencies said. That means around a quarter of Gaza’s population...
Geneva, Switzerland — AFP The United Nations says it had informed the Israeli authorities of the movements of a vehicle carrying UN staff which was hit in southern Gaza, killing an Indian. One UN security services member was killed and another wounded in the attack, the United Nations said, marking the first death of a […]
Jewish settlers stopped aid trucks headed to Gaza and scattered the supplies on the road. The food crisis and hunger in Gaza due to Israel’s war on the region are worsening each day. The number of aid trucks entering has significantly decreased due to Israeli occupation and closure of the Rafah Border Crossing. As well, […]
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza have killed 82 Palestinians and injured 234 in the past 24 hours, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The strikes targeted residential areas including a house and a school in the Nuseirat refugee camp, killing 20 people. A house accommodating nearly 100 Palestinians collapsed due to bombing. Gaza Civil Defe...
Doha, Qatar – AFP Israel’s military operation in Rafah has set truce negotiations with Hamas “backward”, mediator Qatar said on Tuesday, adding that talks have reached “almost a stalemate”. “Especially in the past few weeks, we have seen some momentum building but unfortunately things didn’t move...
Palestinian Territories — AFP Amid unprecedented Israeli attacks, the health ministry in Gaza has announced that the besieged Palestinian territory’s health system is “hours away” from complete collapse, after the ongoing Israeli attacks have completely blocked fuel shipments through key crossings. “We are just ho...
More than 520 bodies have been unearthed from seven mass graves within hospital grounds in Gaza, according to local health ministry. Three of these graves at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex alone held 80 bodies, with many others found inside hospital departments, the ministry said. Observers say many victims, primarily patients, were deprived of...
