MOSCOW (AA) – Russia on Thursday urged Israel to cease its strikes on Syria, saying the attacks are “categorically unacceptable and inadmissible.” Speaking at a press briefing in Moscow, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova strongly condemned the Israeli actions, stressing that they violate international law. “We dema...
LONDON (AA) – The Guardian published an investigative report on Thursday with footage showing a massacre taking place in Tadamon, near Syria’s capital Damascus, in April 2013. The piece was called “Massacre in Tadamon: how two academics hunted down a Syrian war criminal,” and written by Middle East correspondent Martin Chulov. Tadamon is a sub...
GENEVA (AA) – Israel’s housing policies in East Jerusalem amount to “racial segregation and discrimination” against the Palestinian people and a violation of their human rights, a group of UN experts said Thursday. The experts made their assessment based on reports that Palestinians have been subject to “discriminatory zoning and plannin...
RAMALLAH, PALESTINE (AA): Thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank flocked to an Israeli crossing leading to the city of Jerusalem, to observe Laylat al-Qadr at Al-Aqsa Mosque on Wednesday despite the tension in the city and the Israeli restrictions on their entry. Since early morning, traffic at the Qalandia security checkpoint — lo...
JOHANNESBURG – Israel’s growing influence in Africa — including that of obtaining observer status at the African Union, the largest political organization in the continent — has enraged many pro-Palestinian campaigners. Last month, activists from across Africa met in Senegal’s capital Dakar to mobilize support for the Palesti...
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran has descibed its fifth round of tension-easing talks with Saudi Arabia as “positive” and “progressive”. The latest round of peace parleys, hosted by the Iraqi government, saw the participation of senior officials from Iran’s top security body and Saudi Arabia’s intelligence service, according to offi...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian youth was killed by Israeli army fire during a raid in the occupied West Bank early Wednesday, according to the state news agency Wafa. Ahmed Mohamed Masad, 21, was shot in the head and died of his wounds in the town of Burqin, northwest of Jenin, Jani Abu Jokha, […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett received a threatening letter Tuesday containing a bullet, local media reported. The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (KAN) reported that police have launched an investigation into the letter, which was sent to Bennett’s home in the city of Ra’anana in central Israel. Israel’...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Four Syrian soldiers were killed and three others were injured in an Israeli missile attack on the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday, according to the state news agency SANA. Citing a military source, SANA said the Israeli military targeted several positions of the Bashar al-Assad regime’s forces in Damascus’ vic...
GAZA CITY, Palestine – Palestinian rights groups have condemned an Israeli court decision rejecting a request to reinvestigate the killing of four children by Israeli forces in Gaza in 2014. The four boys were killed in an Israeli airstrike while playing on a beach in the Gaza Strip on July 16, 2014. On Sunday April […]
