ANKARA (AA) — An Australian opposition lawmaker has claimed that the Labor government blocked her attempt to introduce the names of slain Palestinians in parliament. Mehreen Faruqi, deputy leader of the Australian Greens, said she attempted to introduce the names of people killed by the state of Israel in Gaza in the Senate. “I have [&he...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Hamas rejected Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s comments Tuesday about the displacement of the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. “We tell Smotrich and his likes that we are the ones who will stay on this land,” senior Hamas member Osama Hemdan said at a press conference in Beirut. He acc...
Israel’s war on Palestine: Day 40 Death & Injury Toll: Total Palestinian deaths from Israeli aggression: 11,240 (75% children, women, elderly) Children: 4,630 Women: 3,130 Elderly: 678 Palestinians under rubble: >3,500 (including 1,740 children) Injured people: >29,000 (mostly children and women) Family massacres: 1,153 Al-Ahli Bapt...
ANKARA (AA) – Health authorities in Gaza denied on Tuesday Israel’s claims that it was coordinating the transfer of incubators into the Gaza Strip, which could possibly enable the evacuation of newborn babies from Al-Shifa Hospital. Hundreds of patients and dozens of newborn babies, some of them premature, remain trapped as Israeli...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Eight Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the occupied West Bank overnight, Palestine’s official media reported on Tuesday. Seven Palestinians were killed in the Tulkarem city in an Israeli airstrike, which also left 12 others injured – including four in critical condition, according to the Wafa news agenc...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said Tuesday that the Israeli army detained a Palestinian from inside an ambulance while on the way to a hospital. The Red Crescent said the incident took place in Tulkarem in the northern the occupied West Bank, and Israeli forces are hindering the work of medical […...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Two Israelis were injured in rockets launched from the Gaza Strip that hit the southern city of Ashkelon, emergency medical teams said Tuesday. Paramedics are providing “medical treatment and transferring, from Ashkelon to Barzilai Hospital, two men in their thirties in mild condition, with injuries to the head,...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP The Israeli army said Tuesday it had captured parliament and other government institutions in Gaza City, as its forces deepened their offensive in the Palestinian territory. Military units “took over the Hamas parliament, the government building, the Hamas police headquarters . . . .,” the army clai...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Gaza’s main hospital has been forced to bury scores of dead patients in a mass grave, its director said Tuesday. At least 179 people, including babies and patients who died in the intensive care unit, were buried in the “mass grave” at Gaza’s biggest hospital, said director Mohammad Abu ...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has rejected growing calls for a cease-fire in Gaza and reaffirmed its support for Israel’s strikes which have claimed more than 11,100 lives, many of them children. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock expressed doubts about a cease-fire, arguing that it was not clear how this could be negotiated, how it could [&hel...
