WASHINGTON (AA) – The US defended its differing stances on the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Russian and Israeli officials, asserting that the two cases are fundamentally distinct. “I don’t think there is any equivalence between the case that the ICC has brought against Russia and the case tha...
JERUSALEM (AA) – A rocket fired from resistance forces in Lebanon has caused heavy damage in an Israeli settlement in northern Israel, local media reported. Israeli Channel 12 said five rockets were fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon into Upper Galilee in northern Israel. According to the broadcaster, a rocket hit a building in the Kiryat [...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has reiterated his controversial call for the occupation of the Gaza Strip and the reduction of its Palestinian population “by half within two years,” according to media reports. Speaking at a meeting of his far-right Religious Zionism Party, Smotrich’s extreme proposal was...
ATHENS (AA) – EU member states should fulfill their obligations under international law by complying with the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu, says the EU foreign policy chief. Stressing that all EU members are parties to the Rome Convention, which founded the International Crimi...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 12 Palestinians were killed and several others injured in Israel’s overnight attacks across the war-torn Gaza Strip, local media reported on Tuesday. The official Palestinian news agency Wafa said six Palestinians, including women and children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house belonging to the J...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US announced Monday that it is close to brokering a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Lebanese group Hezbollah but emphasized that a deal has not yet been finalized. “We don’t believe we have an agreement yet. We believe we’re close to an agreement,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told r...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Far-right extremist Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has called a US-backed cease-fire with Hezbollah a “grave mistake.” In a post on his X account, Ben-Gvir said accepting the US cease-fire proposal would mean missing out on an “historic” opportunity to ‘destroy Hezbollah.’ The hardline fan...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Ali Larijani, a senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, says that his country is preparing for a “proper response” to the recent Israeli attack, the Tasnim news agency reported. On October 26, Israeli fighter jets launched strikes on Iran, weeks after Tehran fired ballistic missiles at Israel in respon...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant plans to travel to Washington despite an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over war crimes in Gaza, according to Israeli media. Israel’s Army Radio said Gallant will hold talks with US security officials during his visit. No date was gi...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah is expected to be announced within two days, according to Israeli media. The public broadcaster KAN, citing an Israeli source, said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been consistently obstructing a cease-fire with Hamas, has in this...
