ISTANBUL (AA) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday said that the volume of humanitarian aid provided to the Gaza Strip is “clearly insufficient.” “Today’s situation shows how catastrophic it can be to follow a path that ignores international law. We are already seeing catastrophic humanitarian consequences in the Gaza Stri...
Palestinian Territories — AFP Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has said that a truce agreement with Israel is in sight, raising likelihood of dozens of people taken prisoners on October 7 being released. There was no immediate response from Israel on the status of negotiation efforts to secure the release. Some prisoners have been released by...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army on Tuesday announced that two more soldiers were killed and five others wounded seriously in ground battles in northern Gaza. In a statement, the Israeli army identified the two soldiers as Arnon Moshe, 26, and Ilya Senkin, 20, from its elite Givati Brigade. It added that five soldiers seriously […]
BEIRUT (AA) – The Lebanese group Hezbollah on Tuesday said that it struck a gathering of Israeli soldiers taking position in a home in the settlement of Metula in northern Israel. In a statement cited by the Lebanese official news agency NNA, Hezbollah said it inflicted casualties on the Israeli soldiers. It added that the […]
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Israeli bombardment of south Lebanon on Tuesday killed four civilians, two of them journalists, official media said, as Lebanon’s Al-Mayadeen television said it employed the two reporters. The Israel-Lebanon border has seen daily exchanges of fire, mainly between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah group, sin...
ISTANBUL (AA) – After years of impunity for policies that rights groups have described as apartheid and building illegal settlements in violation of international laws, a veteran war crime prosecutor has expressed hope that there could now be some accountability for Israel’s actions against Palestinians. “If other countries raise the imp...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has detained 880 Palestinian children since the start of this year, a local nongovernmental organization says. “More than 200 children are still in custody, including 26 held under Israel’s policy of administrative detention” without charge or trial, the Palestinian Prisoners Society said in a ...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories — AFP Palestinian officials said a field hospital sent by Jordan has finally entered the Gaza Strip, the first since Israel’s war on Gaza erupted. “The hospital will be established in Khan Yunis, to receive the wounded and the sick, under catastrophic conditions which southern hospitals are expe...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Gaza’s Health Ministry has accused Israel of seeking to turn the Indonesian Hospital into a “mass grave.” At least 12 people were killed in Israeli shelling targeting the hospital in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday. The Interior Ministry in the blockaded enclave also said several people were killed and [&hel...
Beijing, China — AFP Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said that the world must “act urgently” to calm Israel’s war on Gaza as he hosted diplomats from Arab and Muslim-majority nations in Beijing. A delegation of foreign ministers of the Palestinian Authority, Indonesia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan are in Beijing ...
