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 […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden said Tuesday that Israel is losing support around the world and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “has to strengthen and change” his government. Biden said Netanyahu had a “tough decision to make.” “This is the most conservative government in Israel’s history,” Biden said at a ca...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army detained 51 more Palestinians in the West Bank on Tuesday, according to a local nongovernmental organization. Most of the detainees were taken into custody in Jenin city in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a statement. The number of Palestinians detained by Israe...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli forces bombed more areas in the devastated Gaza Strip on Tuesday as the UN General Assembly was due to vote on a new demand for a cease-fire. More than two months into the war, the visiting chief of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, likened Gaza to “hell […]
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army on Tuesday stormed into the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, a Health Ministry official said. According to Ashraf al-Qudra, the spokesman for the Gaza-based ministry, the Israeli army is assembling the Palestinian men, including the health staff, in the hospital’s square. He expressed fear that th...
GENEVA – AFP Palestinian National Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki has said people in the Gaza Strip are “starving because of Israel’s deliberate use of starvation as a weapon of war”. Speaking at a meeting in Geneva to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,...
ISLAMABAD / KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least 28 security personnel and 27 suspected militants were killed on Tuesday in three separate incidents in northwestern Pakistan, including a shooting and bomb attack, officials said. The incidents took place in different parts of Dera Ismail Khan district of the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa p...
