HEBRON CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army killed two Palestinians on Friday, claiming that its forces had retaliated after the attackers targeted them near Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. The Israeli army claimed in a statement that two Palestinians approached an Israeli military checkpoint and started shootin...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army chief hinted on Friday that the ground operation could be expanded to the southern areas of the Gaza Strip. “We are close to dismantling the military system (of Palestinian group Hamas) in the northern Gaza Strip,” Chief of the General Staff Herzi Halevi said while addressing Israeli soldiers in [&...
Ankara, Turkey – AFP More than two dozen Palestinian cancer patients, who had crossed from Gaza into Egypt, have arrived in Turkiye for treatment. Turkiye has sent a ship loaded with material for field hospitals, ambulances and generators to Egypt to treat civilians who have been able to flee Israel’s military assault on the besieg...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Al-Qassam Brigades announced Thursday that its fighters destroyed 21 Israeli military vehicles in areas of the Gaza Strip and levelled a building in Beit Hanoun where Israeli forces were holed up. In separate statements on Telegram, the armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas said it targeted five military [&h...
GENEVA (AA) – The leaders of a number of UN agencies and humanitarian organizations said Thursday that they will not take part in any “safe zones” in Gaza declared by Israel, which is only one side in the conflict. “As humanitarian leaders, our position is clear: We will not participate in the establishment of any [&hel...
LONDON (AA) – Norway’s parliament has approved a resolution that calls on the government to be ready to recognize Palestine as an independent state, local media reported Thursday. The resolution, brought by the ruling coalition, was passed after eight out of the 10 parties in parliament voted in favor of it. It “asks the gove...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Jordan announced Thursday that it will not sign a deal with Israel to exchange solar energy for desalinated water in light of Israel’s war against Hamas. “The energy for water deal was supposed to have been done last month, but we’re not going to sign it,” Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi [&hell...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Afghanistan has said that the current “duplicitous” position of the Western governments and international organizations on Israeli actions in Gaza will further cement the belief that “human rights is a war tactic utilized to further political ends.” “In contravention of all human norms, it has been over 40 days since (...
Kibbutz Beeri, Israel – – AFP EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has called for Gaza hostages to be immediately freed. He also asked Israel “not to be consumed by rage” in its so-called “battle with Hamas” in the Palestinian territory. “I ask for their immediate and unconditional release,” Bor...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP The UN human rights chief on Thursday decried allegations of serious rights violations in Gaza and suggested an international investigation was needed. Volker Turk said “extremely serious allegations of multiple and profound breaches of international humanitarian law, whoever commits them, demand rigorous ...
