JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas would not govern the Gaza Strip during his term. “As long as I’m the prime minister of Israel, this will not happen,” Netanyahu said on social media platform X, in response to a report by Sky News Arabia that […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Some 73 Palestinians were killed and 123 others injured in Israeli attacks on central Gaza Strip over the past day, the Palestinian Health Ministry said on Wednesday. “73 martyrs and 123 others injured are the total casualties that arrived in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital (near Deir al-Balah city) over the past [&h...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are living in “utter, deepening horror”, the UN human rights chief said Wednesday. Volker Turk said there was a high risk of atrocity crimes being committed in such “catastrophic” humanitarian circumstances. “Civilians in Gaza continue to be relentless...
GENEVA (AA) – UNICEF has warned that the so-called “safe zones” declared by Israel in Gaza pose risks to be “zones of disease.” “Without water, without sanitation, without shelter, the so-called ‘safe zones’ risk becoming zones of disease,” UNICEF spokesperson James Elder said in a UN press brief...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP The United Nations said on Tuesday that it was impossible to create safe zones for civilians in Gaza. “The so-called safe zones… are not scientific, they are not rational, they are not possible,” said James Elder, spokesman for the UN children’s agency, UNICEF. On Monday, a UN official w...
Beersheba, Israel – AFP Around two civilians have been killed for every dead Hamas fighter in the Gaza Strip, senior Israeli military officials said Monday. The health ministry in Gaza says Israel’s military campaign, in the wake of Hamas attacks on October 7, has killed around 15,900 people so far, most of them women and [&hellip...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 50 Palestinians were reported killed on Tuesday in Israeli overnight airstrikes across the Gaza Strip. According to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, 40 Palestinians were killed and dozens of others injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes on Khan Younis city. It added that another Israeli airstrike hit a...
BIERUT, Lebanon (AA) – The Lebanese group Hezbollah said it targeted 10 Israeli military sites along the southern Lebanese border on Monday. In separate statements, the group announced that its fighters had targeted an Israeli infantry unit at five new locations, including the Karam al-Tuffah site east of the Brannit barracks, a gatherin...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian death toll from Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip has soared to 15,899, the Health Ministry in the blockaded enclave said Monday. “More than 42,000 other people were injured,” ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told a press conference. He said that “70% of the victims of the Israeli aggre...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian telecommunication company Jawwal reported a complete blackout in Gaza City and north of the territory on Monday amid Israeli airstrikes on the enclave. The company said phone and internet services were interrupted “as a result of damage caused to key elements of the network because of the ongoing aggress...
