BERLIN (AA) – Germany has condemned a meeting of Israeli ministers and far-right groups to promote Palestinian emigration and rebuild Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip. Foreign Ministry spokesman Sebastian Fischer said the participation of several Israeli government ministers at the conference, and speeches made there were unacceptabl...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 10 Palestinians were killed and 15 others injured Monday as Israeli forces shelled a UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) school sheltering hundreds of displaced people in the Al-Rimal neighborhood west of Gaza City. Palestinian medical sources at Al-Shifa Medical Complex reported that ...
TEHRAN (AA) – Iran has dismissed allegations of its involvement in the killing of three US soldiers in the border region between Syria and Jordan on Sunday, saying it “does not interfere” in the decisions of regional groups. In a statement Monday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said “resistance groups” in the West Asian region...
DAMASCUS (AA) – Several Iranian military advisers were killed in an Israeli attack south of the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday, according to Syria’s state-run news agency SANA. SANA, citing a military source, said the Israeli attack targeted a number of sites south of Damascus. Several Syrian civilians were also killed in the attack, ...
RAFAH – AFP Palestinians living in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip are worried about the possible cut of supplies by UNRWA. “Stopping supplies distribution from UNRWA (will lead to) a catastrophe in the Gaza Strip,” said Bassam Al-Masri, a Palestinian displaced from Beit Hanoun. “Those distributions are our main pillar...
RAMALLAH – AFP Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh says that Israel’s war on UNRWA is “not new” and that it aims to “disrupt the decision of the ICJ”. “Israel’s war on UNRWA is not new, and it is working to liquidate the agency’s role because of its connection to the refugee issue ...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 165 Palestinians were killed and 290 others injured in 24 hours as Israel continued its onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip, the territory’s Health Ministry said on Sunday. “The Israeli occupation committed 19 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 165 martyrs and 290 injured during the past 24 [&he...
ANKARA (AA) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged the US, the UK, and several other countries on Sunday not to suspend funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), saying the desperate needs of the people of Gaza it serves must be met. “While I understand their concerns – I was myself horrified by […]
GAZA CITY(AA) – Hamas has condemned Israel’s campaign against UN institutions, calling it an effort to prevent them from providing relief to people in Gaza. “The latest is the hollow accusation against the World Health Organization of what Israel called collusion with the Hamas movement, by repeating the false claim about the movem...
TEHRAN (AA) – At least nine foreign nationals were killed by unidentified assailants in southeastern Iran, according to an Iranian media report. The semi-official Mehr News Agency on Saturday reported that “unidentified” armed men killed nine non-Iranians in the city of Saravan in the Sistan-Baluchestan province. “Accor...