BERLIN (AA) – More than 9,000 people are estimated to have suffered sexual abuse in Germany’s protestant churches and charities, a new study has revealed. The 871-page report of independent researchers has found that the incidents of sexualized violence and other forms of abuse were significantly higher than previously thought. According...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Wednesday morning destroyed the house of a Palestinian detainee near Nablus city in the northern occupied West Bank. According to an Anadolu reporter, the Israeli army’s engineering units placed explosives inside the house in the village of Urif, south of Nablus, and detonated it. The Israel...
ANKARA (AA) – The Palestinian death toll from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7 has jumped to 25,700, the Health Ministry in the blockaded enclave said on Wednesday. The ministry in a statement said 63,740 others have also been injured. Israeli forces committed 24 massacres across the Gaza Strip in the past […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) — Israeli authorities have put a Palestinian teen back behind bars after he was released in a prisoner swap deal in late November, according to a Palestinian prisoners group. “The Israeli occupation authorities re-arrested teen Yousef Abdullah al-Khatib, 17, from Jericho city (eastern occupied West Bank), today,&...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu on Wednesday renewed his call for striking the Gaza Strip with a “nuclear bomb.” “Even in The Hague they know my position,” The Times of Israel newspaper quoted Eliyahu as saying during a tour in the West Bank city of Hebron, about his previous call for using […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The UN humanitarian office warned Tuesday that the Gaza Strip will “bleed to death” because of the denial of humanitarian access to the Palestinian enclave. ”The recurrent denial of access of humanitarian teams to northern Gaza is preventing the needed scale-up of life-saving operations,” Olga Cherevko, ...
LONDON (AA) – Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo on Tuesday called for a cease-fire in Gaza and urged nations to seize the current moment to work towards a two-state solution. During his speech at the London School of Economics, De Croo recalled a recent visit to the region with his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez, […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US rejected on Tuesday Israel’s plans to establish a “buffer zone” within the Gaza Strip, saying such a proposal is at odds with the Biden administration’s stated policy. “We do not want to see the territory of Gaza reduced in any way. We won’t support that,” National Securi...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army said Tuesday it completed a siege of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, hours after at least 24 soldiers were killed in the Palestinian enclave. “Over the past day, troops carried out an extensive operation during which they encircled Khan Younis and deepened the operation in the area,” […]...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces on Monday attacked two universities and three schools sheltering 30,000 displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis city in the southern Gaza Strip, with airstrikes and artillery shelling, killing and injuring several people. The army targeted five shelters in Khan Younis that housed 30,000 displaced people...
