CAIRO (AA) – A senior Yemeni military official was found dead in Cairo, the Yemeni Embassy confirmed on Sunday. A statement by the embassy said Maj. Gen. Hassan bin Jalal al-Obaidi was found murdered in his apartment. The embassy said it is following up investigations with Egyptian security authorities into the killing. According to Yeme...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Two Palestinians were killed and two others injured in an Israeli military raid in the West Bank city of Tulkarm on Sunday, according to the Health Ministry. A ministry statement identified the victims as Nabil Atta, 19, and Mohmmad Fayez, 36, who lost their lives to Israeli bullets in the Tulkarm […]
Munich, Germany – AFP EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Sunday said the situation in the Israel-occupied West Bank posed a major obstacle to finding a long-term solution for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. “The West Bank is the real obstacle for the two-state solution,” Borrell said at the Munich Security Co...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Prospects for a cease-fire dimmed Sunday after the United States signalled it would veto the latest push for a UN Security Council resolution and mediator Qatar acknowledged that separate truce talks have hit an impasse. Efforts to pause the over four-month-old war languish as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 83 Palestinians were killed and 125 others injured in the last 24 hours as Israel continued its onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip, raising the death toll since Oct. 7 to 28,858, the territory’s Health Ministry said on Saturday. Israeli attacks have also injured 68,677, according to Palestinian health autho...
Paris, France – AFP President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that recognising a Palestinian state was “not a taboo for France” in his first such comments since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza. “The recognition of a Palestinian state is not a taboo for France,” he said at a joint press conference in Paris [...
Cairo, Egypt – AFP Egypt is building a walled camp in the Sinai Peninsula to receive Palestinians displaced from the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip, says a US media report. The Wall Street Journal article, citing Egyptian officials and security analysts, comes after a rights group reported Egypt was preparing “a high-security ga...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah vowed Friday that Israel will pay “with blood” for civilians killed this week in Lebanon, warning his group has missiles that can reach Israel’s far south. “The enemy will pay with blood” for every woman and child killed in Lebanon by cross-border fire, ...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP Doctors Without Borders on Friday described chaos and terror seen at a key Gaza hospital before its staff were forced to flee amid a raid by the Israeli army. In recent days, intense fighting has raged around the Nasser Hospital — one of the Palestinian territory’s last remaining major medical facili...
Washington, United States – AFP President Joe Biden said Friday that there needs to be a temporary truce in Gaza to get Israeli prisoners out of the Palestinian territory under a potential deal swapping them for prisoners held in Israel. “I feel very strongly about it — that there has to be a temporary cease-fire […]
