Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel ratcheted up its attacks in the south of the Gaza Strip on Saturday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden discussed differences over a post-war future for Palestinians that have suggested a rift between the two allies. Witnesses said the Israeli bombardment was again focus...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 165 Palestinians were killed and 280 injured in Gaza in 24 hours, the territory’s Health Ministry said on Saturday. “The Israeli occupation committed 14 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 165 martyrs and 280 injured during the past 24 hours,” the ministry said in a statement. “Many people [&helli...
Cairo, Egypt – AFP A Doctors Without Borders (MSF) medic on Friday described unparallelled conditions in the Gaza Strip following a visit to the besieged territory in which he witnessed oversaturated hospitals and ever-closer bombardment. Enrico Vallaperta left Gaza after spending several weeks in the war-torn Palestinian territory for c...
Washington, United States – AFP US President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a call Friday that he still backs future statehood for the Palestinians, the White House said, amid tensions between the two leaders over the issue. “The president still believes in the promise and the possibility of a two-state...
Damascus, Syria – AFP An Israeli strike on Damascus killed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ spy chief for Syria and three other Guards members on Saturday, Iranian media said, in an attack that flattened a multi-storey residential building. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said six people were killed in the Isra...
GENEVA (AA) – Nearly 20,000 babies have been born during the current war in Gaza, while 135,000 children under age 2 are at “severe risk” of malnutrition, UNICEF has said. Noting that the number equals one baby born about every 10 minutes since October 7, Tess Ingram, a UNICEF spokesperson, told a press briefing in […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Muhammad Al-Ghazali stood at the highest point on Al-Rashid Street in the central Gaza Strip, to receive an internet signal and communicate with his friends and relatives abroad. Residents of the besieged enclave are facing a devastating war aggravated by their inability to contact ambulance and emergency team...
GENEVA (AA) – The head of UN human rights office in the occupied Palestinian territories has urged Israel to prevent the recurrence of “ill-treatment and humiliation” of Palestinians detained in Gaza, saying he met several released detainees who had been beaten and blindfolded and been held for weeks. “During my time he...
LONDON / ANKARA (AA) – Houthi attacks on Israel-linked ships in the Red Sea have caused a significant decline in vessel tonnages and grain flows. Wheat flow through the Red Sea has especially been affected as shipping companies are forced to avoid the Suez Canal and reroute around the Cape of Good Hope, at the […]
BERLIN (AA) – A group of German, Canadian and American lawmakers have signed an open letter calling on their countries’ leaders to step up diplomatic efforts for an “urgent humanitarian cease-fire” in Gaza. The letter, published by the TAZ newspaper, was signed by German parliament’s Vice President Aydan Ozoguz, Social Democrat Par...
