MOSCOW (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed concern over the current escalation of tensions in the Middle East, calling Israel’s war on Palestine “one of the bloodiest in a long series of clashes” and emphasizing the need to correct historical injustices against the Palestinian people. Speaking at a meeting i...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Vice President Kamala Harris sidestepped a question Wednesday on preventing further Palestinian deaths from US-funded bombs in Gaza, instead emphasizing the need for a two-state solution. “I will say and I think this is to your point: far too many innocent Palestinian civilians have been killed,” the Democra...
A UN report reveals Israel’s ongoing bombardment of the Gaza Strip has obliterated nearly seven decades of human development in just over a year. The UN Development Programme estimates poverty in Gaza will soar to 74.3%, affecting more than 2.6 million people. The region’s Human Development Index has plummeted to levels not seen since 1955. [...
LONDON (AA) – The Nordic countries have expressed “deep concern” over the recent introduction of draft legal bills in Israel’s parliament, fearing that if passed, Tel Aviv would prevent the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) from continuing its operations in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza. The Nordi...
BRUSSELS (AA) – Jewish historian Ilan Pappe has warned that Israel may extend its genocidal actions from Gaza to the West Bank unless Western powers reconsider their pro-Zionist policies. “What Israel commits in the Gaza Strip is genocide by all legal definitions,” said Pappe, director of the European Centre for Palestine Stu...
ROME (AA) – The University of Milan has suspended an agreement with Israel’s Reichman University on an exchange of students and researchers after its rector, Marina Brambilla, met with a delegation of Palestinian students who had been pressing for a boycott of relations with Israeli universities. The university’s administration cited the...
Gaza City, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian women displaced by the Israeli army’s attacks on northern Gaza since October 6 have shared their harrowing experiences with journalists. Malak Elyan and Aya Al-Tanani arrived in Gaza City from Beit Lahiya, visibly exhausted from the bombardments, hunger, and the toll of forced migration. They recounted a...
GENEVA (AA) – Israel permitted only four out of 66 planned humanitarian aid missions to northern Gaza during the first 20 days of October, with no food aid allowed for 14 days, the UN humanitarian office (OCHA) has said. OCHA spokesman Jens Laerke detailed a severe deterioration in humanitarian access, revealing that Israeli authorities ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – American news network CNN has drawn fierce criticism over a piece on the mental health struggles of Israeli soldiers who returned from Gaza. Critics argue it whitewashes the perpetrators of violence and trivializes Palestinians’ suffering. The article, which focused on Israeli soldiers’ experiences of trauma a...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – United Nations agencies have postponed a polio vaccination campaign for Palestinian children in the northern Gaza Strip because of a deadly Israeli onslaught. The World Health Organization (WHO) said Gaza’s Health Ministry and UN partners “were compelled to postpone the polio vaccination campaign in northern Gaza” d...
