Truce between Israel and Hamas takes effect
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WASHINGTON (AA) – More than 100 protesters held a sit-in demonstration Tuesday inside the Cannon Rotunda on Capitol Hill calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. The demonstrators, affiliated with rights group Mennonite Action, engaged in singing hymns and chanting slogans such as “Ceasefire” and “Let Gaza live!” Later, ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The mayor of Sderot has called for wiping out neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip in case rockets are fired towards Israel. “If they launch rockets from a certain area, the entire neighborhood must be wiped out,” Alon Davidi told Israeli Army Radio. “The entire area must be exterminated, and we must work […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least three people were killed and two others wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up near Mogadishu municipality headquarters on Tuesday, police said. The suicide bomber detonated his explosives vest in front of the al-Hindi restaurant a few steps away from the Mogadishu mayor’s office, killing three people,...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 24,285 Palestinians have been killed and 61,154 others injured in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, the Health Ministry in the besieged Palestinian enclave said Tuesday. “The Israeli occupation (forces) committed 15 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, resulting in 158 casualtie...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Tuesday detained 50 more Palestinians during incursions into several cities in the occupied West Bank, according to prisoners’ affairs groups. With the latest arrests by Israeli soldiers, the number of Palestinians detained by Israel in the West Bank since Oct. 7 has risen to 5,950, the Comm...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army said Tuesday that 26 soldiers had been injured in the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours. Figures released by the army showed that 1,135 soldiers had been injured since Israel expanded its ground offensive in the Gaza Strip on Oct. 27. According to the figures, 524 soldiers have […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – No US personnel or facilities were targeted in missile attacks by Iran, according to the White House. “We have seen the reports, and we tracked the missiles, which impacted in northern Iraq and northern Syria. No US personnel or facilities were targeted,” National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson told Anado...
Baghdad, Iraq – AFP Iraq summoned Iran’s envoy in Baghdad and recalled its ambassador from Tehran on Tuesday in a sharp rebuke to its ally over deadly missile strikes on its autonomous Kurdish region. Iraq challenged Iran’s claim that the strikes targeted Israel’s intelligence services in response to recent Israeli assa...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Gaza media office said Tuesday morning that Israeli strikes had killed another 78 people overnight. Meanwhile, Israel has said its war in southern Gaza will soon enter a less intensive phase. More than 100 days into the war, the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come under intense internati...
GAZA CITY- AFP “There are people starving . . . and everyone in Gaza is hungry,” says Samer Abdel Jaber, the WFP Palestine Country Director. “There are people starving in (Gaza) areas and we are not able to give basic food for,” says Samer, adding that the “needs are rising faster than we are able […]
