Istanbul, Turkiye – – AFP A Turkish court released an Israeli footballer who had been detained over accusation of incitement to hate by displaying an offensive message referring to Israel’s assault on Gaza during a first division match. Sagiv Jehezkel, 28, held up a bandage on his wrist reading “100 days. 07/10” n...
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanese group Hezbollah exchanged cross-border fire with Israeli forces on Monday in the latest escalation along the border between Lebanon and Israel. Hezbollah said in a statement that it had targeted with missiles a gathering of Israeli soldiers in Metula barracks, resulting in direct hits. Israeli fighter jets carried out ai...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Yemen’s Houthi group has termed US attacks against its targets as “ineffective,” vowing an “open battle” against Washington. “We tell the Americans that your aggression against Yemen will fail,” Ali al-Qahoum, a member of the Houthi Political Bureau, told the media. “We will confront the US aggression with all might, and [&...
Tehran, Iran – AFP Iran urged Monday the United States and Britain to “stop the war against Yemen” following their recent strikes on targets of the Tehran-backed Houthis. US and British forces have hit scores of targets in Yemen after weeks of Houthi attacks on vessels in the Red Sea, who say they are acting […]
BOGOTA, Colombia (AA) – The Gaza Strip is now in a much worse condition than Berlin was in 1945, Chilean President Gabriel Boric said on Monday. Boric, who was in Guatemala to attend the oath-taking ceremony of Bernardo Arevalo, told reporters that a cease-fire was an urgent need of time. “Gaza is in a much […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 24,100 Palestinians have been killed and 60,834 others injured in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, the Health Ministry in the besieged Palestinian enclave said Monday. “The Israeli occupation (forces) committed 12 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, resulting in 132 casualties...
WASHINGTON (AA) — US President Joe Biden is losing patience with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the war on Gaza, Axios news website reported on Sunday. Citing US officials with knowledge of the matter, Axios stated that Biden and other American officials are getting frustrated with Netanyahu and his refusal to comply with the [...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh on Sunday expressed its support to South Africa in its case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for violating the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. Bangladesh said it supports South Africa’s call, as a State Party to the Genocide Convention, for provisional ...
BEIRUT (AA) – Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said Sunday that his group is ready for “unrestricted warfare” with Israel. “Israel and its army and settlers are the ones who fear war, not Lebanon,” Nasrallah said in a speech, one week after senior Hezbollah commander Wissam al-Tawil was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon. “W...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli strikes pounded southern Gaza on Sunday, the 100th day of its war on the Palestinian enclave. The war has created a dire humanitarian crisis for the 2.4 million people in Gaza, the United Nations and aid groups warn, and reduced much of the coastal strip to rubble. The government media […]
