OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says Israel’s “arrogance” allowed for the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. “I am certain that Israel had all the intelligence it needed to know what was happening. There were even concrete warnings from friendly intelligence services,” Olmert told Spanish daily El Pais. “This was a psychologic...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Death toll from Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip has reached 22,185, the Health Ministry in the besieged enclave said on Tuesday. The ministry in a statement said the number of injured people had risen to 57,035, nearly 70% of them women and children. The Israeli forces have “committed in […]
ANKARA (AA) – The Palestinian death toll from Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7 has risen to 21,507, with 55,915 injured, the Health Ministry in the blockaded enclave said on Friday. The ministry said in a statement that 187 more people were killed and 312 others injured in the past 24 hours. […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli army forces in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the Health Ministry said. A ministry statement said Mohammad al-Jundi, 38, was killed at the Nafaq military checkpoint, west of Bethlehem city. No details were provided about the circumstances of his death. Tensions have [&h...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army needs to be ready to launch an attack against Hezbollah, Chief of General Staff Herzi Halevi said Wednesday. Halevi, along with the Commanding Officer of the Northern Command, Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin, conducted a situation assessment, according to a statement from the army. Saying the army’s primary mission...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 20 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting displaced people in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, local health authorities said. Fighter jets struck a house inhabited by displaced people in Al-Amal neighborhood in Khan Younis city, Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said in a st...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Israeli army gathered dozens of Palestinian civilians in a playground in northern Gaza City after forcing them to take off their clothes. In a video shared on social media late Monday, Palestinian civilians, including children and the elderly, are seen being held by the Israeli army in a playground after being […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has said two more of its soldiers have been killed in the Gaza Strip. Israeli public broadcaster KAN identified the slain soldiers as Staff Sgt. Elisha Yehonatan Lober, 24, and Sgt. First Class (res.) Joseph Yosef Gitarts, 25, of the 179th Reserve Armored Brigade. The death toll […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestine on Monday condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to encourage Palestinians to voluntarily leave Gaza, calling for an international stand against it. “Netanyahu’s confessions regarding the displacement of our people is a new blow to the countries supporting him in the ge...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Recent revelations by a French lawmaker and the South African government, as well as media reports of a Spanish mercenary in the Israeli army, have sparked a debate about the Israeli army’s employing mercenaries for attacks on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7. Israel has a history of using mercenaries from various […]
