Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP A senior UN official said Saturday that teachers and other UN staff working in Gaza fear they are now targets after an Israeli air strike hit a school-turned-shelter in the territory this week. Wednesday’s strike on the UN-run Al-Jawni School in central Gaza, which is housing displaced Palestinians, kille...
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel killed five Palestinians in an attack on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City on Saturday. The Israeli military said it had targeted Hamas militants. Thousands of Palestinians displaced by the war, now in its 12th month, have sought shelter in the Shuhada al-Zeitun school, said Mahmud Bassa...
Washington, United States – AFP British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Joe Biden on Friday delayed a decision to let Ukraine fire long-range Western-supplied missiles into Russia, a plan that sparked dire threats from Moscow of a war with NATO. Starmer told reporters at the White House that he had a “wide-ranging disc...
Geneva, Switzerland — AFP Israel’s war on Gaza has decimated the occupied Strip and devastated Gaza’s economy, shrinking it to less than one-sixth of its 2022 level, amid an “alarming decline” in the West Bank, the UN has said. Since Israel launched its genocidal offensive on the Gaza Strip more than 11 months ago...
Israeli military attacks on Gaza have destroyed 610 mosques, with another 214 partially damaged, according to the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs in Gaza. The assaults have reduced places of worship and surrounding structures in various parts of the enclave to rubble and ashes. In January, a BBC investigation found that Israel ha...
The Biden administration has approved a $164.6 million military equipment sale to Israel, including heavy-duty tank trailers. This move comes amid Israel’s ongoing Gaza war and violence in the West Bank. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced deliveries are expected by 2027. Despite criticism, the U.S. remains committed to bolsterin...
ANKARA (AA) – Chile has officially filed a declaration of intervention in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) case concerning the application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip. Chile’s intervention, submitted under Article 63 of the ICJ Statute, asserts its interest in the ...
LONDON (AA) – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled in an advisory opinion in July that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory is unlawful and must end as soon as possible and that third countries must do nothing to aid or assist that occupation. Norway’s $1.7 trillion wealth fund may have to divest shares […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – New Zealand’s spy chief said Thursday he was “considering” a request to probe the country’s possible role in Israeli war on Gaza which has killed more than 41,000 Palestinians since last October, public broadcaster Radio New Zealand reported. The confirmation by Brendan Horsley, who is inspector-general of intelligence and secu...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US should stop funding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war in the Gaza Strip, Senator Bernie Sanders said Wednesday. “This week: 19 people killed & scores injured in a strike in a ‘humanitarian zone’ in Gaza. An American shot in the head in the West Bank. Now, another school b...
