ANKARA (AA) – Muslims in the US have launched a campaign against President Joe Biden’s bid for re-election in 2024 over his support for Israel in its war against the Palestinian group Hamas. A group of Muslim leaders from Michigan, Minnesota, Arizona, Wisconsin, Florida, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania gathered over the weekend in Dearb...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) — The death toll from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has surged to 15,523 since Oct. 7, the Health Ministry in the besieged Palestinian enclave announced Sunday. At least 509 Palestinians have been killed and 1,316 injured since Friday in Israeli airstrikes, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. “The toll [&...
Sanaa, Yemen – AFP/AA Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels on Sunday said they had attacked two ships off the Yemeni coast, adding the “Israeli” vessels were targeted over the war in Gaza. In a statement posted on social media, the Houthis said they carried out an “operation against two Israeli ships in the Bab al-Ma...
Palestinian Territories – AFP United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has voiced alarm that hundreds of thousands of Gazans “are being confined into ever smaller areas” in the southern of the territory. “There is no safe place in Gaza,” he said on Sunday. Israel has killed more than 15,500 pe...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The situation of the health sector in Gaza is “unimaginable,” the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. “The reports of ongoing hostilities and heavy bombardment in Gaza are petrifying,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X. “Yesterday (Saturday) our team visited Nassar Medical Hospital in the south. It...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Hamas’ armed wing on Sunday said that it hit a target where “60 Israeli soldiers were positioned” in central Gaza Strip. “Today (Sunday) at dawn, our members placed three anti-personnel explosives in a circular manner and detonated them at 0430 a.m, at the point where 60 Israeli soldiers were posit...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has warned of war expansion in the region if Israeli forces continue to commit war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian spoke by phone with European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell about the latest developments on Israel’s a...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel is deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure by using artificial intelligence (AI) to identify potential civilian targets and maximize Palestinian casualties in the ongoing attacks on the Gaza Strip, said two independent media organizations in their joint report published recently. The report also highlighted the role...
GAZA, Palestine (AA) — Thousands of bodies remain under the debris of buildings destroyed by ongoing Israeli attacks, civil defense teams in the Gaza Strip reported on Sunday, with equipment shortages preventing their retrieval. In a written statement published by Gaza’s Interior Ministry, civil defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal said Israe...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces arrested around 60 Palestinians in the West Bank, including five women university students, during a crackdown that lasted from Saturday night to Sunday morning, bringing the total to 3,480 detainees since Oct. 7. According to a joint statement issued by the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority...