BEIRUT (AA) – Six women and children from the same family have been killed and eight others injured in an Israeli drone attack on the Nabi Anam neighborhood in Baalbek, eastern Lebanon, according to Lebanese media reports. The state-run National News Agency reported that Israeli warplanes carried out the strike at 5.50 am local time, [&h...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has presented its conditions for ending its war in Lebanon to the US, with a document outlining terms for a ‘diplomatic solution’, according to the American news site Axios. “Israel gave the US a document last week with its conditions for a diplomatic solution to end the war in Lebanon and […]
BEIRUT (AA) – The Israeli army launched a series of airstrikes late Sunday on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut after threatening to bomb buildings housing branches of Al-Qard Al-Hasan, a financial institution affiliated with the Hezbollah group. Israeli warplanes carried out at least 11 strikes targeting branches in Hayy ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) — Two Palestinians were killed and 19 others were injured Sunday in two Israeli airstrikes targeting a home and a tent housing displaced people in the central and southern Gaza Strip. The two Palestinians were killed in an airstrike on the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis, which also injured eight […]
BEIRUT (AA) — The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) announced Sunday that an Israeli army bulldozer deliberately demolished one of its observation towers and a perimeter fence in the Tyre district of southern Lebanon. In a statement, the UNIFIL said: “Earlier today, an IDF (Israeli army) bulldozer deliberately demolished an observatio...
JERUSALEM (AA) — Israel announced Sunday evening the killing of a brigade commander in the northern Gaza Strip, the first confirmed death of an officer at the rank of colonel in its war on the Palestinians. “The commander of the IDF (Israeli army) 401st Armored Brigade, Col. Ehsan Daqsa, was killed during fighting in the […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Nearly 32,000 people took to the streets of Brussels Sunday to call for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and Lebanon, according to the police. The demonstrators also called on the Belgian government to push for a complete international military embargo against Israel. The event was organized by a coalition of civil society...
ANKARA (AA) – The Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia came under direct attack by Israeli forces on Sunday, as heavy bombardment continued across northern Gaza, an official said. Hossam Abu Safiya, the hospital’s director, confirmed in a statement that Israeli strikes have damaged the hospital’s water tanks and electricity grid, sev...
ANKARA (AA) – Australia is carrying out a review of all the 66 military export permits for Israel that were approved before the invasion of Gaza last year, the Guardian reported, citing Defense Ministry sources. The licenses are being weighed up by the Department of Defense on a case-by-case basis. “As circumstances in the Middle [...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A US doctor who returned from humanitarian missions in the Gaza Strip has urged the Biden administration to put an end to Israel’s war on the besieged Palestinian enclave. Zaher Sahloul, president of NGO MedGlobal and a critical care associate professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, was one of the health […]...