ANKARA (AA) – The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said on Tuesday that another six of its staff members have been killed in Gaza. “Another six UNRWA staff have been confirmed killed, bringing total to 35 staff killed since 7th October,” the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees said in a statement on [&hellip...
Palestinian Territories – AFP The health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip said Tuesday that 5,791 people have been killed in the territory in Israeli attacks. The death toll includes 2,360 children. A total of 16,297 people have also been wounded since the conflict erupted on October 7.
United Nations, United States – AFP Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday warned Iran that the United States would respond “decisively” to any attack by its proxies, as tensions rise between Israel and Palestinians. “The United States does not seek conflict with Iran. We do not want this war to widen. But if Iran...
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 120 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza on Tuesday, local media reported. The Palestinian news agency WAFA quoted a medical source as saying that Israeli fighter jets attacked several Palestinian areas across the Gaza Strip, leaving at least 120 Palestinians killed including children and women. It ad...
GAZA, Palestine (AA): Sitting inside Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, amid wails and mourning, Ahmed Abu Al-Saba, 35, is inscribing his name on his arm. “We write our names on our hands and the names of our children on their hands to enable our bodies to be identified if the (Israeli) occupation planes bomb us,” […]
BERLIN (AA) – More than 100 German Jewish intellectuals have criticized the ban on pro-Palestine demonstrations in many German cities including Berlin, local media reports. “In recent weeks, state and city governments across Germany have banned public gatherings with suspected pro-Palestinian sympathies. These repressions also punish dem...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Three Israeli ministers are considering resigning to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take responsibility for the cross-border attack by Hamas into Israeli border towns, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper has reported. The newspaper did not name the three ministers. “We can’t believe this situation. Netanyahu ...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP More than 19,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon amid an uptick in tensions between Israel and Hezbollah at the country’s southern border, figures released Monday by a United Nations agency showed. “An increase in cross-border incidents” has resulted in the displacement of 19,646 people in Le...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Hamas said Monday that it had freed two more women taken from Israel during the October 7 attacks. The Palestinian group’s military wing said the two elderly women, identified as Yocheved Lifshitz and Nurit Cooper, had been freed for “compelling humanitarian” reasons following mediation by ...
ISTANBUL (AA): Israel is using a “dehumanization” strategy to justify its attacks on civilian areas in Gaza following the surprise attack by Hamas’s armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, according to an Israeli professor of international law and human rights. Neve Gordon, a member of the Faculty of Law at Queen Mary University ...
