GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas has said that one of its members guarding an Israeli captive was killed in an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip last year. Abu Ubaidah, a spokesman for Hamas’ armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said in a brief statement that three other guards were injured in […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces killed a Palestinian boy in a village near Ramallah, central occupied West Bank, on Friday. In a statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry said the 16-year-old succumbed to wounds he sustained from Israeli forces’ firing in the village of Al-Mughayir. Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that Israel...
DOHA, Qatar (AA) – Turkish and Qatari agencies signed a deal Thursday to build a residential village with a 1,000-house capacity in northern Syria. The agreement to build the village in the al-Bab region for displaced Syrians was reached by the Qatari Red Crescent and Türkiye’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) in...
RAMALLAH (AA) – Palestine’s Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh met Germany’s Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office Tobias Lindner in Ramallah on Thursday. Shtayyeh urged Germany to recognize the state of Palestine in line with Berlin’s “belief in the option of the two-state solution and the importance of preserving it,” according to a ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Raed Rayan, a Palestinian prisoner in Israeli prison, suspended his hunger strike on Thursday after 113 days. Hassan Abd Rabbo, a spokesman for the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority, said Rayan suspended his hunger strike after mediation by the prisoner movement’s leaders as well as legal efforts of the Pr...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Like any other sector, sports in Iran have directly or indirectly faced the heat of US sanctions, undermining the functioning of local sports federations, affecting the performances of players, and in some cases destroying the careers of young and promising athletes. Hatam Shiralizadeh, a prominent Iranian sports journalist...
HATAY, Türkiye (AA) – The UN on Thursday sent 14 truckloads of humanitarian aid through Türkiye to Idlib, an opposition-held province in northwestern Syria. The trucks crossed into Syria through the Cilvegozu border gate in Türkiye’s southern Hatay province. The aid will be distributed among people in central Idlib and rural areas. In Septembe...
HEBRON, Palestine (AA) – Israeli settlers on Thursday seized a Palestinian-owned home in Hebron in the occupied West Bank, according to a local Palestinian official. The home of Jraiwi family south of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron’s Old City was taken by settlers, Emad Hamdan, the head of Hebron Reconstruction Committee, said in a statement. [...
GAZA, Palestine (AA) – The international community marks July 28 as World Nature Conservation Day to acknowledge that a healthy environment is the foundation for a stable and healthy society. According to the American forester and politician Gifford Pinchot, “conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting ...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Two Yemeni children were killed by a landmine explosion in the central Bayda province, according to a local NGO on Wednesday. The device exploded as the children were grazing their sheep in al-Zaher district in the province, the Yemeni Landmine Records said in a statement. The NGO, which documents victims of […]
