Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli strikes pounded southern Gaza on Sunday, the 100th day of its war on the Palestinian enclave. The war has created a dire humanitarian crisis for the 2.4 million people in Gaza, the United Nations and aid groups warn, and reduced much of the coastal strip to rubble. The government media […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Hebrew news site, Walla, has said that 4,000 Israeli soldiers have become disabled since the beginning of the war against the Gaza Strip in October, with estimations suggesting that the number could rise to 30,000. “The country is preparing to receive a large number of disabled Israeli soldiers, and after 100 days ...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel bombarded the southern Gaza Strip overnight, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken prepared to travel to Egypt on Thursday for more talks aimed at containing Israel’s war on Gaza. Hamas’s press office said early Thursday that 62 people had been killed in strikes overnight, including arou...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least six people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on an ambulance in the central Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said. Four Red Crescent members were among the victims in the attack that targeted an ambulance in Deir al-Balah city, the humanitarian organization said in […]...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Wednesday detained 26 more Palestinians in various areas of the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. According to a joint statement issued by the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society, the new arrests bring the total number of Palestinians de...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Tuesday raided the city of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its medical teams treated eight Palestinians injured from Israeli live bullets in the Askar refugee camp in Nablus City. Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli forces raided the Askar camp a...
LONDON (AA) – Six-year-old Palestinian-American Wadea al-Fayoume was stabbed 26 times at his home in Illinois, US, by his landlord, who was screaming anti-Muslim slurs as he brutally attacked the little boy. Just moments before, the assailant, 71-year-old Joseph M. Czuba, told the boy’s mother, Hanaan Shahin, who was also stabbed and criticall...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – More than 12,000 attacks were carried out by Israeli authorities and illegal Jewish settlers in 2023, a Palestinian official reported. “The occupation authorities and their settlers carried out 12,161 attacks, including 5,308 after October 7,” head of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, Moayad Shaa...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel hit targets in south Gaza and across its border with Lebanon, the army said Monday ahead of a visit by the top US diplomat who is seeking to avert a wider war. Gaza’s health ministry said 73 dead and 99 wounded had arrived at Al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza’s Deir […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 16 Palestinians, mostly children, were killed and 50 injured in two attacks by the Israeli army on a UN-owned school in the central Gaza Strip and the southern city of Khan Yunis, media reports said Saturday. The army targeted a school belonging to the UN Relief and Public […]