ISTANBUL (AA) – Eight soldiers were killed and seven others injured when an Israeli airstrike targeted a military position near Daraa city in Syria on Wednesday, official media reported. In a statement to the Syrian Arab News Agency, a military source revealed that Israel launched an aerial attack from the direction of the Golan Heights [&hell...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Overnight Israeli strikes killed at least 80 people in Gaza and a UN aid agency warned it would have to stop work by the end of Wednesday. Alarm has grown about the spiralling humanitarian crisis in heavily bombarded Gaza where one doctor said he was forced to perform emergency surgery on the […]
United Nations, United States – AFP The Palestinian Authority’s foreign minister has deplored inaction by the UN Security Council to stop “massacres” in Gaza by Israel. “The ongoing massacres being deliberately and systematically and savagely perpetrated by Israel — the occupying power against the Palestinia...
ANKARA (AA) – An elderly Israeli woman released Monday from captivity with Hamas said she was treated well during her two weeks with the Palestinian group. Speaking to journalists on Tuesday, Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, said Hamas provided her a doctor to monitor her health and worked to secure her medicine. She added that her Hamas […]
IDLIB, Syria (AA) – At least five civilians were killed and seven others injured in Russian airstrikes targeting a tent camp in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, local sources said on Tuesday. A Russian warplane took off from the Khmeimim Air Base in Latakia city and carried out an air attack on a camp, where forcibly […]
ANKARA (AA) – France’s president on Tuesday warned Hezbollah and Iran to not open new fronts in the current Mideast conflict. “We must (fight a battle) while avoiding (setting) a blaze in the entire region,” Emmanuel Macron told a joint news conference in Jerusalem alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “I...
United Nations, United States – AFP UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has alleged violations of international law as Israel pounds Gaza, and urged an immediate humanitarian ceasefire to bring in relief. “I am deeply concerned about the clear violations of international humanitarian law that we are witnessing in Gaza. Let me be ...
Palestinian Territories – AFP The health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip said Tuesday that 5,791 people have been killed in the territory in Israeli attacks. The death toll includes 2,360 children. A total of 16,297 people have also been wounded since the conflict erupted on October 7.
United Nations, United States – AFP Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday warned Iran that the United States would respond “decisively” to any attack by its proxies, as tensions rise between Israel and Palestinians. “The United States does not seek conflict with Iran. We do not want this war to widen. But if Iran...
GAZA, Palestine (AA): Sitting inside Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, amid wails and mourning, Ahmed Abu Al-Saba, 35, is inscribing his name on his arm. “We write our names on our hands and the names of our children on their hands to enable our bodies to be identified if the (Israeli) occupation planes bomb us,” […]
