At least 12 protesters were arrested for blocking the entrance to Barclays Bank in Chicago. They are accusing it of funding the genocide in Palestine. Activists gathered to oppose the bank’s significant investments supporting nine companies involved in military operations against Palestinians. These are over $2.5 billion and loans amounting...
GENEVA (AA) – Israel has been deliberately attacking medical personnel and facilities to destroy Gaza’s healthcare system, a UN Commission has said. The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel also investigated the treatment of Palestinian detainees in...
HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – Around 590,000 children in Gaza will receive polio vaccinations in the second phase which begins October 14, the UNICEF has announced. “The second round of polio vaccination in the Gaza Strip is confirmed. It will start on 14th October to vaccinate around 590K children under 10,” UNICEF Executive Direc...
ANKARA (AA) – France will host an international conference on October 24 in Paris to address Lebanon’s ongoing political and humanitarian crises, the French Foreign Ministry has said. The event, led by President Emmanuel Macron, will gather Lebanon’s partner states, the UN, the EU, and multiple other “international, regional ...
The White House has firmly opposed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s warning that Lebanon could face devastation similar to Gaza if Hezbollah is not ousted. Spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre emphasized, “We cannot and will not see Lebanon turned into another Gaza.” She also attributed Lebanon’s distress to Hezbollah’s rocket atta...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Three Israeli army majors were killed in clashes with fighters from Palestinian resistance forces in northern Gaza, the army admitted on Thursday. The Israeli army said in a statement that three reservist officers were killed during clashes with Palestinian fighters in northern Gaza. The three casualties were reserve officers ...
GENEVA (AA) – Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said that Germany will continue to supply arms to Israel, which continues air and ground attacks in Gaza and Lebanon. During the German Bundestag debate on the events of October 7, 2023, Scholz said: “We have supplied weapons and we will supply weapons. … We have made decisions […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – One more journalist was killed when Israeli warplanes targeted a Palestinian television crew, and two others were injured in Israeli forces’ attacks in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Al-Aqsa TV reported on its Telegram channel that photojournalist Mohammad Al-Tanani was killed and reporter Tamer Lubbad ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israel killed seven Palestinians, including three children, in airstrikes in the southern Gaza Strip early Thursday, a medical source said. An airstrike hit a home in al-Fukhari neighborhood east of Khan Younis, killing five people, including three children, the source said. Two more people died of their wounds sust...
HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – Adel Abu Lebdeh’s world has been shattered. He has lost at least 117 relatives in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. “I lost about one-third of my family,” he told Anadolu while tearfully recounting the devastating impact the war has had on his loved ones and many others in the Palestinian community in [&hell...
