DUBAI, UAE (AA) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has pledged $10 million for the ailing health sector in the Gaza Strip amid the nightmarish conditions faced by the besieged Palestinian enclave. “The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives (MBRGI) pledged a contribution of around AED 37 million (US $10 million) in support of [&...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Yemeni government has expressed “satisfaction” with a recent decision by the US to re-designate the Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, as a “global terrorist” group. In an official statement published by the country’s official news agency SABA, it emphasized that the US decision is...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Palestinian death toll in Israel’s war on Gaza has soared to 24,620, the Health Ministry in the territory said Thursday. A ministry statement added that 61,830 other people had been injured in Israeli attacks. “At least 172 people were killed and 326 others injured in the last 24 hours,” the ministry […]
BEIRUT (AA) – The Israeli army launched airstrikes using white phosphorus shells in southern Lebanon on Thursday, according to Lebanese media. The state-run National News Agency said Israeli warplanes aimed white phosphorus shells at the eastern parts of Mays al-Jabal town. There was no comment from the Israeli military on the report. White ph...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli strikes killed dozens more people overnight, the health ministry in Gaza said Thursday, including in the territory’s south where Israel has intensified operations. The renewed strikes came as medicine for Israelis held by the Palestinian resistance groups and fresh aid for civilians entered the...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Israel’s army chief said Wednesday the likelihood of war breaking out on the country’s northern border with Lebanon has become “much higher”. “I don’t know when the war in the north is, I can tell you that the likelihood of it happening in the coming months is much higher tha...
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – AFP Iran-backed Houthis said Wednesday they attacked a US ship with a drone off Yemen, hours after the United States put the group back on a list of “terrorist” entities. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) security agency said a drone hit a vessel in the Gulf of Aden, […]
ROME (AA) – Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has said that Gaza needs a “civil government” and that all G-7 countries are working towards a two-state solution to the conflict. “I will reiterate to Israeli authorities that Italy aims at a ‘civil government’ in Palestine, to a two-state solution. The two people, two states is […]...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army said Wednesday that two more reservist soldiers had been killed and two seriously injured while fighting in the northern Gaza Strip. The slain soldiers both served in the 14th Armored Brigade’s 87th Battalion, said the army. So far 192 Israeli soldiers have been killed in Gaza since its Gaza […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Palestinian death toll from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7 has surged to 24,448, the Health Ministry in the blockaded enclave said on Wednesday. The ministry in a statement said 61,504 others were also injured. Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since the Oct. 7 attack by Palestinian […]
