ANKARA (AA) – The EU’s foreign policy chief has warned against de-funding the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), saying it would be “dangerous” and threaten regional stability. Josep Borrell wrote a blog post on the EU’s official website late Sunday, saying that “allegations against UNRWA staff are seriou...
Palestinian Territories – AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed to the Middle East for another crisis tour on Monday in a bid to secure a new truce, as southern Gaza saw no let-up in attacks by Israel. On his fifth trip to the region since Hamas’s October 7 attack, Blinken is expected to […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 30 Palestinians were killed in the Deir al-Balah region of central Gaza in 24 hours as Israel continued its onslaught on the besieged enclave, local officials said Sunday. The Israeli army carried out air attacks on the homes of civilians in Deir al-Balah and bombed a mosque in the same […]
CAIRO (AA) – Egypt has called for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip and reiterated its rejection of the forced displacement of Palestinians from the enclave. The Egyptian call came following talks in Cairo between Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and his French counterpart Stephane Sejourne. “Egypt reiterates its rejection of the forced displacemen...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that he does not need help to manage relations with the United States, in an implicit criticism of his far-right Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir. “I don’t need help to know how to navigate our relations with the US and the international community, whi...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Palestinians have very limited access to clean water amid a deadly Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has said. “Water is life and Gaza is out of water,” UNRWA said in a statement on X. “There is very limited access to clean water and sanitation […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called on the United Nations to double its efforts to halt Israel’s war on Gaza. Abbas met with Middle East peace envoy Tor Wennesland in the West Bank city of Ramallah for talks on the situation in the Palestinian territories. The Palestinian leader conveyed a message [&hellip...
ISTANBUL (AA) — Another Israeli soldier has died in the Gaza Strip, according to the country’s army on Sunday. Shimon Yehoshua Asulin, 24, from the 924th engineering battalion of the Southern Command’s Harel Brigade, died in the south of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army said in a statement. With the latest death, the number [&helli...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Scores of Palestinians were reported killed in overnight strikes across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, after Hamas said it needed more time to consider a proposal that would halt Israel’s war on the besieged Palestinian territory. Gaza’s health ministry said early Sunday that at least 92 people had be...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Israel has attacked more than 50 Hezbollah targets in Syria and 3,400 in Lebanon since its war on Gaza began in October, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said Saturday. “Since the beginning of the war, we have attacked, from the ground and air, more than 50 such targets of Hezbollah spread […]
