GENEVA (AA) – “Everything possible” must be done to avoid intensified hostilities in the Rafah city in southern Gaza, which may lead to a “large scale” loss of civilian lives, the UN humanitarian office warned on Tuesday. “We can warn what might unfold with the ground invasion and we can make clear what the ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Tuesday destroyed two buildings of Al-Aqsa University, the oldest institution of higher learning in the Gaza Strip, according to witnesses. “Israeli army forces moved into the west of Gaza City and shelled and destroyed two buildings on the university campus,” an eyewitness told Anadolu. Accordin...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP The last time six-year-old Hind Rajab was heard from, she was surrounded by dead relatives and trapped in the family’s car after it came under Israeli fire in war-ravaged Gaza City. “She was scared, freaking out, and was wounded in her back, her hand and her foot,” said her grandfath...
JERUSALEM (AA) – At least 540 Israeli soldiers have been injured by “friendly fire” since Israel expanded its ground operations in the Gaza Strip on October 27, according to the Israeli media. Israeli Channel 12, citing military figures, said that 1,300 soldiers have been wounded since the start of the ground offensive in Gaza, including [&hel...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has said that Palestine rejects any Israeli attempt to transfer or replace the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. “Israel is trying to relocate the crossing to another location. We affirm this is a pure Egyptian-Palestinian matter,” S...
LONDON (AA) – Muslim members of the UK’s Labour Party see loss of support from Muslim voters if the party does not alter its stance on Israel’s war on Gaza, which has killed close to 27,500 Palestinians — mostly children and women. The Labour Muslim Network (LMN) comprising Muslim MPs, mayors, municipal councilors, and ...
BEIRUT (AA) – Around 100,000 people have been displaced by Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon, the country’s foreign minister said on Monday. “We have about 100,000 displaced people from the south as a result of recent events and Israeli attacks,” Abdullah Bou Habib said during a meeting with President of the International Committee of ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – A food convoy came under Israeli artillery fire in the Gaza Strip on Monday, the UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said. “This morning, a food convoy waiting to move into Northern Gaza was hit by Israeli naval gunfire,” UNRWA’s Gaza chief Thomas White said on X. No one was injured […]
ANKARA (AA) – France’s foreign minister on Monday called for a permanent cease-fire in the Middle East. “For four months now, Gazans have been under bombs and living under an almost total siege. They are deprived of minimal aid that would let them cure their wounds, protect themselves from epidemics, and feed themselves. They cannot [&he...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A top representative of Hamas in Lebanon said on Monday mediator countries are working on a deal to achieve cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. The mediators are working to achieve the agreement, which “must guarantee all what we are asking for,” Osama Hamdan, a member of the Palestinian group’s politburo, tol...
