Geneva, Switzerland – AFP Fuel shortages, a lack of water and worsening sanitation in Gaza, along with attacks on health care and mass displacement, are creating “a perfect storm for tragedy”, the UN warned Tuesday. Here are some key numbers highlighted by the United Nations: – Impact on children – Israel’s ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China’s President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for an “immediate” cease-fire in Gaza, also pushing efforts to convene an international peace conference on Palestine. “The parties to the conflict must end hostilities and achieve a cease-fire immediately, stop all violence and attacks against civilians, release civilians held cap...
Palestinian Territories — AFP Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has said that a truce agreement with Israel is in sight, raising likelihood of dozens of people taken prisoners on October 7 being released. There was no immediate response from Israel on the status of negotiation efforts to secure the release. Some prisoners have been released by...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Israeli bombardment of south Lebanon on Tuesday killed four civilians, two of them journalists, official media said, as Lebanon’s Al-Mayadeen television said it employed the two reporters. The Israel-Lebanon border has seen daily exchanges of fire, mainly between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah group, sin...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Amid media reports about a possible exchange of prisoners between Israel and Hamas, US President Joe Biden said Monday he believes a deal to free hostages in Gaza is near. “I believe so,” Biden responded when asked if a deal to release hostages in Gaza is near during the annual Thanksgiving turkey […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 17 Palestinians were killed and scores injured in Israeli airstrikes near the Yousef El-Najar Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday, according to witnesses. Fighter jets struck two houses near the hospital in Rafah city, witnesses said. Dozens of people were reported to be under the rubble. [&hellip...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Twenty-nine premature babies were evacuated from war-torn Gaza to Egypt on Monday as the health ministry accused Israel of launching a deadly strike on the territory’s Indonesian Hospital. The Gaza health ministry charged that Israel’s army killed at least 12 people in a strike on the Indonesian ...
JERUSALEM (AA) — A new report revealed Saturday that an Israeli military helicopter opened fire on Palestinian fighters but hit Israelis participating in a festival during the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas. The Haaretz newspaper said an Israeli security assessment was based on an investigation by police with Hamas fighters who were arrested Oct. 7. [...
ISTANBUL (AA) — At least 15 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip and in the Nuseirat refugee camp on Sunday, according to Palestinian media. Fifteen Palestinians were “killed at dawn on Sunday, after Israeli warplanes bombed two homes in the Nuseirat camp and Khan Yunis in the […]
JERUSALEM (AA) — The Israeli army said Sunday that another two of its soldiers were killed in the Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll from its ongoing ground offensive in the blockaded enclave to 59 since Oct. 31. A statement from the military said another soldier was seriously injured in the fighting in the Palestinian […]
