ISTANBUL (AA) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that if Türkiye and Germany jointly achieve a humanitarian cease-fire in the ongoing Israeli war in Gaza, the region can be rescued from the ring of fire. Speaking at the joint news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin, Erdogan said 13,000 Palestinians ...
GENEVA (AA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) chief has called Israel’s proposal for a so-called “safe zone” in Al-Mawasi in the southern Gaza Strip a “recipe for disaster.” “Attempting to cram so many people into such a small area with such little infrastructure or services will significantly increase r...
JERUSALEM (AA) – For the sixth consecutive week, Israeli authorities imposed tight restrictions on Palestinians, banning them from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem for Friday prayers, leaving the mosque all but empty. An official with the Waqf Department in Jerusalem said that only around 4,000 Palestinians, most of them elde...
ANKARA (AA) – The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) has reported that over 800,000 Palestinians remain in the besieged Gaza City and northern areas despite Israel’s destructive ground operations. The PCBS said in a statement that this figure indicates that “two-thirds of the population of the northern governorates sti...
GENEVA (AA) – Israel’s proposed so-called “safe zone” is “neither safe nor feasible,” as civilians must be protected throughout Gaza wherever they are, the UN human rights chief has said. “The current Israeli proposal for a so called ‘safe-zone’ is untenable. The zone is neither safe nor fe...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel has agreed to allow two fuel trucks a day into Gaza, Israeli officials said Friday, after the UN warned shortages had halted aid deliveries and put people at risk of starvation. In response to a US request, Israel’s war cabinet unanimously decided to allow “the entry of two diesel fuel [&h...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Communications with Gaza were severed once again, with network provider Paltel saying it was because “all energy sources sustaining the network have been depleted, and fuel was not allowed in”. The United Nations warned the outage would compound the misery of civilians, complicating efforts to di...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Israeli air strikes killed two pro-Iran fighters near the Syrian capital Damascus early on Friday during raids targeting an arms depot of Hezbollah, and other sites near the city, a war monitor said. Israel has hit targets in Syria several times in recent weeks as regional tensions rise over Israeli attacks [&h...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP The Israeli army said Friday it killed at least five Palestinians in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. Since the Hamas attacks on southern Israel, there has been a dramatic rise in Israeli army incursions in the West Bank. Israeli forces carried out an operation overnight Thursday-Friday in a refugee camp [&hel...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Israeli troops carried out building-by-building searches at Gaza’s main hospital on Friday, after a communications blackout in the Palestinian territory compounded fears for civilians trapped inside the facility. Al-Shifa hospital has become a focal point for Israeli operations in northern Gaza since sold...
