Washington, United States – AFP Joe Biden’s Middle East diplomatic drive faltered before it got off the ground Tuesday after his trip to Jordan was canceled following a strike on a Gaza hospital that killed hundreds of people. The 80-year-old US president will now only head to ally Israel to show support after the October […...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden has agreed to postpone a meeting with Arab leaders that was to take place amid soaring casualties in the besieged Gaza Strip, the White House said Tuesday. “After consulting with King Abdullah II of Jordan and in light of the days of mourning announced by President (Mahmoud) Abbas […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – “Gaza is on its knees,” UN Under-Secretary-General Martin Griffiths said on Tuesday after a deadly airstrike on a hospital in Gaza. “Just arrived to Cairo amid reports that a school and a hospital have come under attack in Gaza today,” Griffiths posted on X. “Hundreds of people have been ki...
LONDON (AA) – British main opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer on Tuesday said that the attack on a hospital in Gaza is “absolutely devastating.” “The scenes of hundreds killed at the Al-Ahli Arabi Baptist hospital in Gaza are absolutely devastating and cannot be justified,” he said on X. Underscoring that...
LONDON (AA) – Scotland is willing to be the first country in the UK to offer safety and sanctuary to refugees from Gaza, First Minister Humza Yousaf said after a deadly airstrike on a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday. “There can be no justification for this. None whatsoever. If people cannot be safe in a […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US Department of Defense said Tuesday that it is providing security systems to Israel to eliminate the Palestinian group Hamas and that does not mean killing innocent civilians in Palestine. “We are certainly giving Israel the security systems it needs to take out and effectively push back on Hamas in GazaR...
Tehran, Iran – – AFP Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said that “no one can stop resistance forces” if Israel keeps up its bombardment of Gaza in response to the shock October 7 attack by Hamas. “If the crimes of the Zionist (Israeli) regime continue, Muslims and resistance forces will become...
– RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Another Palestinian journalist has been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in northern Gaza. Journalist Mohammad Balousha, who worked with local news website “Palestine Today,” was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Al-Saftawi neighborhood in northern Gaza. The airstrike...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel on Tuesday said it killed four infiltrators who tried to cross into Israel from Lebanon. In a statement, the Israeli army said the incident took place near the northern settlement of Hanita, but no injuries were reported on the Israeli side. It added that the infiltrators were struck by a drone […]
ANKARA (AA) – Israel on Tuesday denied reports suggesting that US President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel may delay the planned ground operation against Gaza. The Times of Israel news website cited an Israeli military spokesman as saying Biden’s visit will not delay or complicate the ground operation. Early on Tuesday, a former Israe...
