JOHANNESBURG (AA) – South Africa’s Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor says that she has been receiving threatening messages since her country filed a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. Speaking to reporters in Cape Town, Pandor said she had spoken to Police Minister Bheki Cele about the matter. “I spoke to Mi...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Right-wing Israeli activists and relatives of prisoners in Gaza obstructed humanitarian aid trucks from entering the enclave on Friday. “Activists of the Order 9 movement blocked the Nitzana Border Crossing to prevent trucks with humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip,” Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported. It added th...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Adel al-Hajj fears Israeli forces could at any moment launch an invasion of southern Gaza’s Rafah city, where he and more than a million other Palestinians have fled for safety. Teeming with displaced Gazans huddled in makeshift camps, Rafah has swelled to about five times its pre-war size since...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday ordered the army to submit a military plan to evacuate civilians from Rafah. “It is impossible to achieve the goal of the war of eliminating Hamas by leaving four Hamas battalions in Rafah,” stated Netanyahu’s office on X. “On the contrary, it is clear that […]...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hezbollah on Friday said it targeted an Israeli military base in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights with dozens of Katyusha rockets. The group said its fighters targeted the Israeli army’s Kela base, in support of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance against the I...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has brought more than 350 bodies from the Gaza Strip since the war began on Oct. 7, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation confirmed on Friday. “More than 350 bodies have been transferred from Gaza to Israel since the beginning of the war for examination by the Forensic Medicine Institute in Abu […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric on Friday voiced concern over Israeli premier’s plan for civilian evacuation from Rafah in southern Gaza. “We are extremely worried about the fate of civilians in Rafah,” Dujarric told reporters in New York. His remarks came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hamas armed wing Al-Qassam Brigades announced on Friday that it killed seven Israeli soldiers in eastern Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. “Our fighters managed to detonate an anti-personnel mine among a group of occupation soldiers, killing 7 soldiers at point-blank range in Abasan Al-Kabira area in eastern Khan Younis,”...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel launched new air strikes Friday on the city of Rafah in Gaza’s far south, after US President Joe Biden said its response to Hamas’s October 7 attack has been “over the top”. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he has ordered Israeli forces to “prepare to operate...
ANKARA (AA) – The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has warned that it will halt its operations within weeks if international funding remains suspended. “Our operations are likely to come to an end in the next few weeks if funding remains suspended,” UNRWA spokesperson Juliette Touma told Al-Jazeera television. Several countries have ...
