GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has announced that two more officers and one soldier were killed and 8 others seriously injured during attacks against Palestinian resistance groups in the Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll since October 7 to 469. A military statement said that First Lt. Yaakov Elyan, 20, First Lt. […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Hamas has demanded the release of three top Palestinian leaders in any prisoner swap deal, according to the Israeli media. Hamas insists Marwan Barghouti, Ahmed Saadat and Abdullah Barghouti be on the list of prisoners to be released in any new deal, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported. Barghouti, 64, a member of Fatah’s [&hel...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A group of US House Representatives sent a letter to President Joe Biden this week, urging him to use the US’ leverage to shift Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “military strategy and tactics in Gaza.” “We urge you to continue to use all our leverage to achieve an immediate and significant shift of [&hell...
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...