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Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed on a visit to Israel Thursday that the United States will “always” back it but said the Palestinians also have “legitimate aspirations” not represented by Hamas. Palestinian fighters killed 1,300 people in Israel, and took about 150 hostages in ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden’s remarks in which he claimed he had seen “confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children” were based on media reports and on claims from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesperson, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The newspaper cited a White House spokesperson who clarif...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Energy Minister Israel Katz on Thursday said electricity, water and fuel will not be provided to Gaza until the Israelis held prisoner in the Gaza Strip return to their homes. “Humanitarian aid to Gaza? No electrical switch will be turned on, no water hydrant will be opened and no fuel truck […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – At least 1,300 Israelis have been killed since a surprise attack by the Palestinian group Hamas early Saturday that involved dozens of fighters, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (KAN) said early Thursday. More than 3,300 Israelis have been injured in the unprecedented assault, with over 350 seriously injured. ...
ANKARA (AA) – Israeli Health Minister Moshe Arbel told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu late Wednesday that he had ordered a halt to the treatment of Hamas members in public hospitals, local media reported. In a letter to Netanyahu, Arbel said that the issue of treating the Hamas militants in the public hospitals has caused “tremendous ...
GAZA, Palestine (AA) – Gaza’s Health Ministry announced early Thursday that the number of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks has climbed to around 1,200, with nearly 5,000 wounded. Deputy Health Minister Yusuf Abu al-Reesh visited Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza to assess the state of health services. Speaking at a press conference after t...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Hamas said Wednesday that the military operation it launched against Israel is a “supremely defensive operation.” “The military operation (launched Saturday) targeted Israeli military locations and bases,” Husam Badran, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, told Anadolu. Badran describe...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Four Palestinian paramedics in the Gaza Strip were killed on Wednesday, at least three of them by a direct Israeli airstrikes on their ambulance, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said. The aid group said in a statement that Israeli forces “directly targeted an ambulance belonging to it in the Abraj al-Nada ...
Brussels, Belgium — AFP The president of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola has said she believes the Israeli killings on Saturday in the Hamas attack were motivated by anti-Semitism. “October 7 is a day that will go down in global infamy,” she said on Wednesday, referring to Hamas’s Operation Al Aqsa Flood that st...
ANKARA (AA) – Israeli airstrikes have displaced more than 260,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN humanitarian office has said. “Over 263,934 people in Gaza are believed to have fled their homes,” the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said. Fears are mounting that the number of displaced Palestinian...
