Hope amid ruins: Gaza sleeps without fear
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GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Gaza media office on Thursday said the Israeli army destroyed its building in Gaza City. “We strongly condemn the shelling and destroying of the headquarters,” it said in a statement, adding that Israel has killed at least 97 Palestinian journalists since the start of its attacks on the Gaza [&...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli army is holding hundreds of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, said to be “Hamas’ armed wing elite forces members”, in extremely inhuman conditions. Israeli Channel 12 estimated that 300 members of the Al-Qassam Brigades elite forces, known as Nakba Forces, are currently being held in Israel. It ...
ANKARA (AA) – A UN agency has urged Israel to launch an investigation into incidents in which its army killed at least 11 unarmed Palestinian men in front of their family members in Gaza City. “The Israeli authorities must immediately institute an independent, thorough and effective investigation into these allegations, and if found to b...
The Hague, Netherlands – AFP A group of Dutch civil servants staged an unusual protest in front of the country’s Foreign Affairs Ministry on Thursday to call for a cease-fire in war-torn Gaza. Around 150 ministerial workers held up placards and unfurled a banner reading “Civil Servants Demand Cease-fire” over lunchtime,...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel has ordered more evacuations in southern Gaza’s main city as diplomats pressed on with efforts to secure a pause in the war that Hamas says has claimed 20,000 lives. The United Nations said Israel had issued evacuation orders on Wednesday for large areas of Khan Yunis, where more than 140,000 [&...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) — The armed wing of Palestinian group Hamas said Wednesday that its fighters had killed 25 Israeli soldiers and injured dozens over the past three days in the Gaza Strip. In a statement, the Al-Qassam Brigades’ spokesman Abu Obeida said the group’s fighters had also destroyed or damaged 41 Israeli military...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – A delegation from the Palestinian resistance group Islamic Jihad will visit Egypt for talks on a possible prisoner swap deal with Israel, according to a group official. “The delegation will discuss ways to stop the [Israeli] war on Gaza and a prisoner exchange deal,” Ziad al-Nakhala, Secretary-General of Islamic Jih...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A journalist sacked by Australian broadcaster ABC allegedly for criticizing Israel’s war on Gaza says she is weighing her legal options. “This is not a win for journalism or critical, fair thinking,” said journalist and author Antoinette Lattouf, who was terminated by ABC over reported comments about Isr...
GENEVA (AA) – At least 66% of employment in the Gaza Strip has been wiped out by Israel’s military attacks since October 7, the UN labor agency has said. This is equivalent to a loss of 192,000 jobs, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said, citing a joint bulletin published with the Palestinian Central Bureau of […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israeli detainees held in the Gaza Strip fear for their lives due to Israeli airstrikes on the enclave, and have asked the Netanyahu government: “Do you want us dead?” The military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, Al-Quds Brigades, aired a video of two Israeli detainees held in the Gaza […]
