HEBRON CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army killed two Palestinians on Friday, claiming that its forces had retaliated after the attackers targeted them near Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. The Israeli army claimed in a statement that two Palestinians approached an Israeli military checkpoint and started shootin...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army chief hinted on Friday that the ground operation could be expanded to the southern areas of the Gaza Strip. “We are close to dismantling the military system (of Palestinian group Hamas) in the northern Gaza Strip,” Chief of the General Staff Herzi Halevi said while addressing Israeli soldiers in [&...
GENEVA (AA) – The leaders of a number of UN agencies and humanitarian organizations said Thursday that they will not take part in any “safe zones” in Gaza declared by Israel, which is only one side in the conflict. “As humanitarian leaders, our position is clear: We will not participate in the establishment of any [&hel...
LONDON (AA) – Norway’s parliament has approved a resolution that calls on the government to be ready to recognize Palestine as an independent state, local media reported Thursday. The resolution, brought by the ruling coalition, was passed after eight out of the 10 parties in parliament voted in favor of it. It “asks the gove...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Jordan announced Thursday that it will not sign a deal with Israel to exchange solar energy for desalinated water in light of Israel’s war against Hamas. “The energy for water deal was supposed to have been done last month, but we’re not going to sign it,” Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi [&hell...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP The UN human rights chief on Thursday decried allegations of serious rights violations in Gaza and suggested an international investigation was needed. Volker Turk said “extremely serious allegations of multiple and profound breaches of international humanitarian law, whoever commits them, demand rigorous ...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP The Israeli army on Thursday announced the deaths of two more soldiers in Gaza, raising the number of troops killed in the Palestinian territory to 50 since it launched its war against Palestine. An army spokesman confirmed the new overall toll to AFP, after announcing two soldiers were killed in combat [&helli...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel renewed its raids into Gaza’s largest hospital on Thursday, trying to find what it said was a Hamas command centre hidden beneath thousands of patients, medics and displaced people. “Tonight we conducted a targeted operation into Shifa hospital,” said Major General Yaron Finkelman, t...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP The Israeli army said on Thursday its troops had taken “operational control” of Gaza City’s port. “In the past few days, in a joint operation, soldiers… took operational control of the Gaza harbour, which was controlled by the Hamas terrorist organisation,” the Israeli army s...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP The UN humanitarian chief said Wednesday he and Iran’s top diplomat had discussed fears of what an expansion of Israel’s war against Palestine might entail, and had agreed it “would not be good”. At a Geneva press briefing, United Nations humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths voiced deep co...
