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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...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan and Iran have agreed to send back their ambassadors to their respective posts, reflecting a thaw in strained relations following an exchange of missile attacks on each other’s territories last week. “Following the telephone conversation between the Foreign Ministers of Pakistan and the Islamic Republic of Iran...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces killed at least 190 people and injured 340 others in the Gaza Strip in 24 hours, the Health Ministry in the territory said Monday. This pushed up the total Palestinian death toll from Israel’s deadly assault on the besieged enclave since Oct. 7 to 25,295. A ministry statement […]
NEW DELHI (AA) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated the Ram temple built at the site of the demolished 16th-century Babri Mosque in the northern Indian city of Ayodhya. Modi arrived in Ayodhya to participate in the consecration ceremony called “Pran Pratishtha,” also attended by 8,000 guests, including senior offic...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian resistance group Hamas published a 16-page report on Sunday highlighting the motives behind its Oct. 7 attack on Israel and its connection to the Palestinian cause while also countering Israeli allegations. The report, titled “Our Narrative…Operation Al-Aqsa Flood”, said Operation Al-Aqsa...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Saudi Arabia will not normalize relations with Israel unless the Palestinian issue is resolved, Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud told US news outlet CNN in an interview that was broadcast on Sunday. Responding to a question about whether there could be no normal ties without a path to a credible […]
Tehran, Iran – AFP Hundreds of mourners gathered Monday in Tehran for the funerals of Revolutionary Guards killed in Syria, in what Iran called an Israeli strike. It was the latest incident adding to regional tensions and fears of wider conflagration during Israel’s war on Gaza. The strike in Damascus on Saturday killed five member...
Brussels, Belgium – AFP The EU’s foreign policy chief on Monday insisted on a two-state solution as he told Israel it couldn’t build peace “only by military means” ahead of talks with Israeli and Palestinian top diplomats. The bloc’s 27 foreign ministers were set to hold separate meetings with their counterp...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli said Sunday that the return of the Palestinian Authority to the Gaza Strip will be a “suicidal step.” “Gaza must be ruled by Israel or by an international force for a year or two,” Chikli told Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper. He argued that the Ramallah-based Palestinian […...
