JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday he is holding “contacts” to secure the release of people held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. “We are in contact until this moment. The situation cannot be detailed, and we are working to recover them all,” Netanyahu said during a meeting with families of […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Two more Israeli officers and one soldier were killed in fresh clashes with Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll since Oct. 7 to 501, said the Israeli army. A military statement late Wednesday said that three other soldiers were seriously injured in central and southern areas […...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Iman al-Masry recently gave birth to quadruplets in a hospital in southern Gaza after fleeing her family’s home in the devastated north. The arduous journey “affected my pregnancy”, the 28-year-old said, recounting that she gave birth by C-section on December 18 to two girls and two boys, o...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army needs to be ready to launch an attack against Hezbollah, Chief of General Staff Herzi Halevi said Wednesday. Halevi, along with the Commanding Officer of the Northern Command, Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin, conducted a situation assessment, according to a statement from the army. Saying the army’s primary mission...
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least seven Palestinians, mostly children and women, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip overnight, Palestine’s official media said on Thursday. Several others were injured when Israeli shelling pounded a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to the Wafa news agency, ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s operation to find and kill Hamas’ armed wing leader Muhammed al-Dayf will take a “long time,” said an Israeli army spokesperson. In a press conference, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari stressed the need to find and kill Al-Qassam Brigades leader Dayf, stating that no matter how long it takes, it ...
Ramallah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man during an overnight raid on Ramallah, seat of the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank, the territory’s health ministry said Thursday. The military said its forces had targeted money exchange shops in Ramallah and other parts of the West Bank...
JERUSALEM (AA) – An illegal Israeli settler hung a “donkey’s head” on a grave in a Muslim cemetery in the occupied East Jerusalem. “A settler stormed the Bab al-Rahma cemetery and hung a ‘donkey’s head’ on a grave there,” the Jerusalem governor’s office said in a statement. Palestinian activists shared images and footage showing the [&he...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Authorities in Gaza have accused Israel of stealing organs from the bodies of Palestinians and demanded an international probe. In a statement, the Gaza-based government media office said the examination of bodies revealed that their shapes had changed significantly due to the theft of vital organs from the corpses....
ISTANBUL (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas has denied Iranian claims that its October 7 attack against Israel was in revenge for the killing of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in 2020. Soleimani was assassinated in a US drone strike in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in January 2020. Ramadan Sharif, a spokesman for Iran’s elite ...