WASHINGTON (AA) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has voiced support for the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees, or UNRWA, amid that agency’s funding crisis. The crisis was sparked by allegations that some of its employees in the Gaza Strip took part in the October 7 cross-border attack on Israel. “UNRWA is the backbone...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Hospitals in Khan Younis city are experiencing “catastrophic” situations amid a deadly Israeli offensive in the southern Gaza Strip, the Health Ministry in the enclave said Wednesday. “Conditions are worsening at the Nasser Medical Complex and Al-Amal Hospital in the city,” ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said in...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Three more Israeli soldiers were killed in fighting with Palestinian groups across the Gaza Strip, Israel’s army announced on Wednesday. In a statement cited by the Times of Israel news website, the Israeli army said two other soldiers were seriously wounded in southern Gaza. A total of 223 Israeli soldiers [&hellip...
ANKARA (AA) – The death toll from Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip has jumped to 26,900 since Oct. 7, the Health Ministry in the besieged Palestinian enclave said on Wednesday. The Health Ministry said that 65,949 other people have also been injured in the attacks. The statement noted that in the past 24 hours, […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army arrested a number of workers at the UN agency for Palestinian refugees or UNRWA while they were moving to Rafah in southern Gaza, a witness told Anadolu on Wednesday. Speaking to Anadolu reporter, a Palestinian woman, Fatema Abou Jou’eid, said the UNRWA workers were arrested on Monday [&...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel’s army has begun flooding Hamas’s network of tunnels, with the UN warning of the potential “collapse of the humanitarian system” in the territory after a funding row hit its Palestinian aid agency. The epicentre of the fighting in recent weeks has been Khan Yunis, southern Gaza...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip are grinding animal feed to make bread due to the prolonged scarcity of wheat flour amid Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid. Awatif al-Besyuni, who has been affected by Israel’s attacks, told the media that residents have been forced to grind broken wheat ...
United Nations, United States – AFP No organization can “replace or substitute” the United Nations’ Palestinian refugee agency, the UN’s coordinator for Gaza aid said on Tuesday. Several countries, including the United States, Britain, Germany and Japan, have suspended funding to the agency. “There is no way...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Israel on Tuesday accused the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, of letting Hamas use its infrastructure in the Gaza Strip for military activity. “UNRWA is a front for Hamas. It has been fundamentally compromised in three main ways: hiring terrorists on a massive scale, letting its infrastructure ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has threatened to bring down the government if a “reckless” deal is reached with Hamas. “A reckless deal = the dismantlement of the [Israeli] government,” Ben-Gvir wrote on his X account. The current coalition government headed by Prime Minister Benjam...
