GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – More than 820 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli military’s 22-day “campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing,” in northern Gaza, the Gaza Government Media Office said. “The Israeli army has killed over 820 Palestinians within the span of just over three weeks in northern Gaza,” Ismail ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Gaza Health Ministry has announced that the Israeli army detained medical staff, as well as injured patients, at the Kamal Adwan Hospital, which was stormed by Israeli forces on Friday amid an ongoing 22-day offensive. In a statement, the ministry said: “The Israeli occupation forces have detained all male...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has started to increase its military exports to Israel, official figures reveal. The German Foreign Ministry has confirmed that the government has approved exports of military equipment and weapons worth €94 million ($101.5 million) to Israel in the last three months. The figures were released in response to a parli...
LONDON (AA) – The Nordic countries have expressed “deep concern” over the recent introduction of draft legal bills in Israel’s parliament, fearing that if passed, Tel Aviv would prevent the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) from continuing its operations in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza. The Nordi...
GENEVA (AA) – Israel permitted only four out of 66 planned humanitarian aid missions to northern Gaza during the first 20 days of October, with no food aid allowed for 14 days, the UN humanitarian office (OCHA) has said. OCHA spokesman Jens Laerke detailed a severe deterioration in humanitarian access, revealing that Israeli authorities ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – United Nations agencies have postponed a polio vaccination campaign for Palestinian children in the northern Gaza Strip because of a deadly Israeli onslaught. The World Health Organization (WHO) said Gaza’s Health Ministry and UN partners “were compelled to postpone the polio vaccination campaign in northern Gaza” d...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Two Palestinians working for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) were killed on Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike on their vehicle in the central Gaza Strip. A medical source in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah city told Anadolu that two UNRWA staffers were killed after their vehicle [&...
ANKARA (AA) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday morning departed Israel after meeting with top Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to discuss the possibilities of ending the war on Gaza. According to media reports, Blinken is heading to Saudi Arabia to meet with top officials. He told reporters wh...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israeli President Isaac Herzog during a meeting Tuesday in Tel Aviv that it is “imperative” to restore sustained humanitarian aid to Gaza, according to the State Department. “The Secretary noted the imperative to restore sustained humanitarian aid to Gaza and reit...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinians in northern Gaza “are waiting to die” as Israel escalated its offensive in the area, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has said. “Our staff report that they cannot find food, water or medical care,” UNRWA Commissioner-General Phillippe Lazzarini said in a statement. “T...
