LONDON (AA) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been accused of “being complicit” in a wave of Islamophobic racism in the wake of a blatant attack on the London mayor from former Conservative Party’s deputy chairman Lee Anderson. Labour leader Keir Starmer accused Sunak of harboring “extremists in his party” and condemned other seni...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The accumulation of garbage and waste is threatening the health of Palestinians struggling to survive in difficult conditions in Gaza, which has been under intense attacks by Israel for months. Due to the lack of municipal services, pollution crisis caused by garbage and other waste has deepened in Gaza, which...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The imam of the Great Omari Mosque insists on reciting the adhan — the Muslim call to prayer — and performing congregational prayers amid the rubble of the mosque that was destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in the old town of Gaza City. In one corner of the mosque, Sheikh Fadi […]
ANKARA (AA) – The death toll of women and children in Gaza in Israel’s attacks since October 7 exceeds six times that of the Russia-Ukraine War. According to the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission (HRMMU) in Ukraine, 10,378 civilians, including 579 children and 2,992 women, have been killed, and 19,632 others injured since the begi...
BERLIN (AA) – A group of lawyers has filed a criminal complaint against top German government officials for supporting Israel’s war crimes and “genocide” against Palestinians. Nadija Samour, one of the lawyers, said that German politicians, including Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, are responsib...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Former Israeli Maj. Gen. Itzhak Brik has revealed the “total chaos” suffered by soldiers in the Gaza Strip in terms of the availability of equipment and logistical services needed for war. Brik, a former military general, told the Israeli daily Maariv about the “total chaos in Israeli army ranks that is...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 92 Palestinians were killed and 123 others were injured over 24 hours as Israel continued its onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip, the territory’s Health Ministry said on Saturday. “The Israeli occupation committed eight massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 92 martyrs and 123 injured over th...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AA) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday once again said that the Israeli military is committing “genocide” in the Gaza Strip. “It is a genocide. Thousands of children are dead and thousands are missing. Soldiers are not dying. Women and children are dying at the hospital,” he said at [&...
GENEVA (AA) – A UN report Friday urged accountability and justice for severe violations of armed conflict laws and other gross human rights violations committed by all parties in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, including East Jerusalem and Israel. The UN Human Rights Office report covers the year leading up to Oct. 31, 2023. “The [&hell...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli War Cabinet member Benny Gantz threatened on Friday that the army “will eventually launch its much-anticipated offensive” in the southern Gazan city of Rafah. “The fighting will continue also in the future, deep within the enemy’s territory and not along the border,” Gantz said in a video message shared on social...
