Hope amid ruins: Gaza sleeps without fear
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ANKARA (AA) – The US has asked Australia to join a maritime task force in the Red Sea to stop the Houthi group’s targeting of Israeli vessels, local media said on Thursday. Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles said Canberra is considering the request by Washington but that the focus is on naval efforts closer to […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 27 Palestinians were killed early Thursday in Israeli airstrikes in southern Gaza Strip, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. The Israeli army carried out airstrikes on wide areas in northern and southern Gaza Strip, particularly targeting the cities of Khan Younis and Rafah, the agency cited lo...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel came under pressure Wednesday from its allies over its war in Gaza, with key backer the United States criticising its bombing in response to the October 7 attacks as “indiscriminate”. The United Nations General Assembly also overwhelmingly backed a non-binding resolution demanding an immed...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Israel will not allow the establishment of a Palestinian state, an Israeli minister has said, after US President Joe Biden warned that Israel is losing global support over its “indiscriminate” bombing of Gaza. “We respect and cherish the President of the United States, Joe Biden, who went out of his wa...
ERBIL, Iraq (AA) – Israeli security forces have finally admitted that only 10%-15% of the Palestinians they recently detained were actually affiliated with Hamas. Photos of these detainees showing them in handcuffs and stripped to their underwear had recently made headlines, arousing grave concerns about human rights abuses. In addition,...
United Nations, United States – AFP The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a non-binding resolution Tuesday demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza — a call the paralyzed Security Council has so far failed to make, piling pressure on Israel and the United States. The body, which includes all 193 UN member natio...
NEW YORK (AA) – The UN has said that it is “very concerned” over a report suggesting that Israel used US-supplied white phosphorus munitions in an attack in southern Lebanon. Asked by the media about the report by The Washington Post, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said he does not have any information to confirm. “W...
ANKARA (AA) – An Israeli airstrike on a home in the city of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday killed at least 12 Palestinians besides injuring dozens of others, the Palestinian Wafa news agency said. Quoting medical sources, the agency said the victims in the airstrike on the Harb family home included six children. Israeli […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has said 20 soldiers have been killed in “friendly fire” in the Gaza Strip since the start of the ground operation in the narrow enclave at the end of October. Out of 105 Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza since the ground operation started on October 27, 20 were killed […]
TEL AVIV, Israel (AA) – Israeli human rights activists say they have received death threats for opposing attacks on the Gaza Strip. In the attacks that have been ongoing for over two months on the Gaza Strip by the Israeli army, thousands of Palestinian children and women have been killed. While the majority of Israeli […]
