ANKARA (AA) – Australia has added its voice to the growing opposition to the Israeli ground offensive into Rafah, warning that the impact of the operation will be “devastating.” Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, in a post on X, said her “country has been clear about our objections to a major Israeli ground offensive into […]...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat has condemned Israel’s incursion into Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, saying it has resulted in continuous loss of life and widespread devastation for civilians. Mahamat said in a statement that the African Union “firmly condemns the extension of this ...
Doha, Qatar – AFP A Hamas official on Thursday accused Israel of carrying out incursions in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah to block talks seeking a truce. Israel has defied international objections and sent tanks into Rafah, which is crowded with Palestinian civilians sheltering near the Egyptian border, seizing early Tuesday a ...
Rep. Rashida Tlaib said Tuesday the Israeli government’s decision to invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah was directly connected to American lawmakers’ recent approval of billions of dollars in additional military aid. Tlaib was among 37 House Democrats who voted against the foreign aid package that included military assistance f...
The United States withheld 3,500 bombs last week, officials said. President Joe Biden withheld 2,000-pound and 500-pound bombs that he feared could be dropped on Rafah by Israel. The news came as Biden again conflated campus protests against Israel’s war on Gaza with antisemitism. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told the Senate the administ...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Smoke rose from strikes on Gaza’s crowded southern city of Rafah Thursday after US President Joe Biden vowed to stop supplying artillery shells and other weapons to Israel if a full-scale offensive into the city goes ahead. It was the starkest warning yet from the United States, Israel’s m...
Washington, United States – AFP Police forcibly cleared a Free Palestine camp at George Washington University in the US capital on Wednesday, arresting dozens in the latest clash with students demonstrating against Israel’s war on Gaza. Republicans in Congress had pressured local authorities to act on the encampment, summoning Wash...
CAMBRIDGE, England (AA) – Outside King’s College at the University of Cambridge, dozens of students have set up camps to protest Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza, mirroring the protests sparked at American universities that have since swept across the world. The scene here is vastly different from the images coming out of the US, where [&hel...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian groups have strongly rejected any foreign party controlling the Rafah border crossing, a day after the Israeli army occupied it. In a statement, the Follow-up Committee for National and Islamic Forces, which includes the majority of Palestinian groups, said regardless of the accuracy of the reports...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israel killed at least 35 Palestinians and injured 129 others in airstrikes on Rafah in the past 24 hours, a medical source told Anadolu on Wednesday. The medical source also said the Palestinian victims were those who arrived at the Kuwait Hospital in Rafah city, adding that children and women […]
