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Geneva, Switzerland – – AFP The International Committee of the Red Cross is in contact with Hamas and Israel to try to facilitate the release of prisoners taken into Gaza, the organisation has said. The ICRC also believes that the humanitarian situation inside the Gaza Strip will very quickly become “unmanageable” witho...
Damascus, Syria — AFP Israeli strikes have knocked Syria’s two main airports out of service, Syrian state media said, in the first such attack since a weekend Hamas assault on Israel triggered fierce fighting. Israeli strikes have repeatedly caused the grounding of flights at the airports in the capital Damascus and northern city A...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said that the number of Palestinians displaced in Gaza has risen to more than 338,000 amid intensified attacks on the besieged population. An OCHA official in Gaza, Hamada Al-Bayari, called for a humanitarian truce to allow relief workers to...
JERUSALEM (AA) – At least 220 Israeli soldiers have been killed in Israel’s latest war against Palestinians. In a statement, the Israeli army stated that it had disclosed the identities of 31 more soldiers who were killed during the ongoing fighting. The families of the soldiers were informed, it added. Israeli forces have launched a [&h...
ANKARA (AA) – The US has raised the travel warning for Israel and the West Bank to Level 3, urging its citizens to reconsider traveling to those places. “Updated given the current security situation including increased travel restrictions for U.S. government employees,” a State Department statement said. “Violence can occur in Israel and...
RAMALLAH (AA) – The Israeli forces have detained 55 Palestinians in the West Bank, and East Jerusalem, according to official sources. “Israeli forces carried out detention operations in various regions of occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank,” Emani Serahine, an official with the Palestinian Prisoners Association said. Serahine reported t...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Jordan has sent a plane with humanitarian aid to Egypt for the Gaza Strip, which is under total lockdown and intense Israeli attacks. In a statement, the Hashemite Charity Foundation said: “A humanitarian aid plane carrying mostly medical supplies was sent to Gaza on the instructions of King Abdullah II of Jordan.” […]...
LONDON (AA) – The families of British diplomats are departing Israel as a “precautionary measure,” the UK Foreign Office has said. The embassy would remain open and continue to offer consular services to those in need, it added. In a dramatic escalation of Mideast tensions, Israeli forces have launched a sustained and forceful military campaig...
BERLIN (AA) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced that the Palestinian group Hamas would be outlawed in the wake of deadly attacks in Israel. “The Federal Ministry of the Interior will ban Hamas from operating in Germany,” said the chancellor in a statement to parliament explaining his government’s stance on the latest situation ...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP The Israeli army said Thursday it was preparing for a ground assault on Hamas in Gaza but the country’s political leaders had not yet taken a decision. It said the military’s campaign was aimed at “taking out” the group’s senior leadership including top government officials. “...
