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...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has categorically denied its involvement in the killing of an Israeli rabbi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Israel said on Sunday that Rabbi Zvi Kogan, an Israeli-Moldovan dual national, was found dead, days after he went missing in the Gulf country with Israeli media claiming that Tehran was behind […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced Sunday that it clashed with Israeli soldiers, many of whom were killed or injured, in the city of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Fighters “engaged” with an infantry Zionist force of 10 soldiers from point-blank range in the Al-Janina neighborhood, th...
ANKARA (AA) – At least three Jordanian officers were injured early on Sunday, when a gunman opened fire near the Israeli Embassy in the capital Amman. Jordan’s news agency Petra reported that the suspect targeted a police patrol in the Rabiah neighborhood before attempting to flee. Security forces returned fire, killing the suspect...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 35 more Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, bringing the overall death toll since October last year to 44,211, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Sunday. A ministry statement added that some 104,567 others were injured in the ongoing assault. “Israeli forces killed 35 […]
LONDON (AA) – Downing Street has signaled the UK would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he entered the country after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant against him. Asked if Netanyahu would be detained upon arriving in Britain, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Keir Starmer avoided specifics but re...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Eleven nongovernmental organizations have urged France to enforce an International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense chief Yoav Gallant. The NGOs, including the Ligue de Droit de l’homme (LDH) and the French Palestinian Solidarity Associatio...
JERUSALEM (AA) – At least six Israeli soldiers have taken their own lives in recent months, the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth has revealed, citing severe psychological distress because of wars in the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon as the primary cause. The investigation suggests the actual number of suicides may be higher, as the Israeli [&h...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) – The death toll in tribal clashes in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has climbed to 35, a local official confirmed. Tribal and sectarian clashes in the Kurram district near the Afghan border erupted late Friday following an attack on passenger vans by unidentified assailants on Thursday. R...