GAZA CITY- (AA) – In the corridors of Al-Shifa Medical Complex, the largest hospital in Gaza, a grim scene unfolds. Children with amputated limbs sit silently, while displaced families line the hallways, some with IV drips hanging from doorways. Dr. Mohammad Ashraf, a Palestinian emergency doctor at Gaza’s largest hospital and project of...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden urged Sudan’s warring parties Tuesday to re-engage in negotiations and facilitate humanitarian access. “I call on the belligerents responsible for Sudanese suffering—the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)—to pull back their forces, facilitate unhindered humanit...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Egypt to attend a three day US-Egypt Strategic Dialogue. However, his more crucial engagement is to secure a cease-fire deal and negotiate prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas. This is Blinken’s 10th visit to the Middle East since last October, highlighting the US’s active inv...
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) is calling for “humanitarian pauses” to provide children in Gaza with a second dose of polio vaccines. Around 560,000 Palestinian children under 10 received the first dose as part of a polio vaccination campaign from September 1 to 12. According to World Health Organization Director-General Tedro...
The Palestinian Health Ministry has released the names of 34,344 Palestinians killed by the Israeli army in Gaza since October 7. The list includes the names of 11,983 minors under the age of 18. It also has the names of 710 infants under a year old and 2,734 people over the age of 60 who […]
Matt Nelson set himself on fire near the Israeli Consulate in Boston on Wednesday evening to protest Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza. In a heartfelt YouTube video, Nelson declared, “We are all culpable in the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” urging the US government to stop funding and supplying weapons to Israel. He urged the Biden […]
Istanbul, Turkey – AFP A senior Hamas official told AFP on Sunday that the movement had ample resources to continue fighting Israel despite losses sustained over more than 11 months of war in Gaza. “The resistance has a high ability to continue,” Osama Hamdan told AFP during an interview in Istanbul. “There were martyrs...
MADRID (AA) – A large group of people staged a demonstration Sunday in support of Palestine in the Spanish capital Madrid. Responding to a call from civil society organizations, the crowd gathered at Sol Square, waving Palestinian flags and wearing Palestinian scarves. They protested Israel’s killing of over 40,000 people in Gaza in the ...
GAZA, Palestine (AA) – Six Palestinians, including two children and a woman, were killed late Sunday in an airstrike by an Israeli fighter jet on a house in Gaza City. Gaza’s civil defense agency said on Telegram that the six Palestinians were killed in an Israeli aerial attack targeting a house in the Shamm’a area. […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Nine Palestinians were killed and several others injured on Sunday in Israeli airstrikes targeting different areas in the Gaza Strip, including a school housing displaced people in Beit Hanoun. An Israeli strike on a group of civilians in the Zeitoun neighborhood east of the city killed five Palestinians and injured...