GAZA, Palestine (AA) – The number of Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7 rose to 7,326, the Health Ministry in Gaza announced on Friday. Ashraf al-Qedra, a ministry spokesman, said during a news conference: “The death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has reached 7,326, includin...
JENIN, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces on Friday killed four Palestinians and wounded 12 others in raids in Jenin and Qalqilya in northern West Bank. Abdullah Abu al-Hayja, a young man, was killed by multiple gunshot wounds, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported, citing local medical sources. Two more were later confirmed killed by I...
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 12 Palestinians were killed by Israeli airstrikes on several homes in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip on Friday. In a statement, the Gaza-based Interior Ministry said that 12 Palestinians were killed and dozens of others injured in a series of fresh Israeli airstrikes on residential homes […...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Israel said Thursday that a column of tanks and infantry had launched an overnight raid into Gaza, striking “numerous” targets before retreating to home soil. The military announced the incursion into the north of the Palestinian territory hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared prepa...
Palestinian Territories – AFP The United Nations issued a stark warning Thursday that “nowhere is safe” in Gaza amid stepped up Israeli air raids in preparation for a widely expected ground offensive. With Israel retaliating after Hamas’s shock October 7 attacks with strikes on nearly every part of the Palestinian encla...
United Nations, United States – AFP The UN Security Council on Wednesday failed again to take action on the Israel-Hamas war, with Russia and China vetoing a US-led draft resolution and a text led by Moscow drawing insufficient support. The rival powers went ahead and put forward texts doomed to defeat despite what diplomats said [&helli...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden says Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed civilians, but not so many as the enclave’s health ministry reports. “I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed. I’m sure innocents have been killed,” Biden said in response to a quest...
Istanbul, Turkey – AFP Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday he was cancelling plans to visit Israel because of its “inhumane” war against Hamas in Gaza. “We had a project to go to Israel, but it was cancelled, we will not go,” Erdogan told ruling party lawmakers in parliament, adding that he viewe...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories – AFP More than 100 Palestinians have been killed across the occupied West Bank since war erupted between Israel and Hamas on October 7, the health ministry said Wednesday. Violence had already spiralled in the West Bank before the Gaza war, with the highest death toll in the Palestinian territory since at ...
ISTANBUL, Türkiye (AA) – Hezbollah on Wednesday said four more of its members were killed in clashes with Israel on Lebanon’s southern border, bringing the death toll since Oct. 7 to 41. While Hezbollah’s statement did not provide details, the Lebanese official news agency reported that “Israeli aircraft launched an airstrike on th...
