ISTANBUL (AA) – Journalists in Gaza are dying at a rate far higher than other professionals, suggesting they are being deliberately targeted. “The mortality rate among journalists is much, much higher than in other civilian professions. Indeed with more than 12% of Gazan journalists dead, it’s a mortality rate that would be u...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel is pushing the International Criminal Court (ICC) to delay the issuance of arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes in Gaza, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. Official sources said Tel Aviv is putting diplomatic pressure on The Hague-based court ...
ANKARA (AA) – Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton’s call to block fleeing Gazans from entering the country has triggered backlash from the government and civil society organizations. Calling for a stop to migration from the besieged Palestinian coast enclave, Dutton had said the arrival of people from a war zone to Australia ...
BEIRUT (AA) – At least 10 people were injured in an Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon, the Health Ministry said, as fears continued to grow of a full-blown war between Israel and Hezbollah. Three of the injured were in serious condition following the attack that targeted the town of Abbasiyyeh in Tyre city, the […]
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Visiting US envoy Amos Hochstein warned that the clock was ticking for a Gaza cease-fire that could also help end 10 months of cross-border exchanges between Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Israel. His Lebanon trip came a day before cease-fire negotiations between Hamas and Israel resumed, with top diplomats scramblin...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Two members from Gaza’s Civil Defense Agency were killed by Israeli army fire in the southern city of Rafah on Wednesday, the agency said. The agency identified the two victims as Sohaib Abu Taqiya and Diab Abu Jamous. At least 82 civil defense members have been killed in Israeli attacks […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – A Chinese university will suspend new student enrollments this autumn at its campus in Israel amid war on Gaza. The University of Business and Economics (UIBE) is facing “difficulties posed” by Israel’s war on Gaza, the South China Morning Post reported. “Our license requires us to have a substantial amount of facul...
Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar is slated to win her primary despite strong opposition from the Israeli lobby. The Minnesota lawmaker is one of the progressives whose 2018 election created the group known as “the Squad”. After recent primary losses by “Squad” members Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman, pro-Israel donors have mobilized substanti...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Newborn twins were killed by Israel in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday as their father went to collect their birth certificates. The two babies were born on Saturday in the city of Deir al-Balah, but an Israeli strike on their apartment shattered the family’s joy of their newborns. “I […]
Tehran, Iran – AFP Iran on Tuesday rejected Western calls to stand down its threat to retaliate against Israel for the killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran late last month. The Islamic republic and its allies have blamed Israel for Haniyeh’s killing on July 31 during a visit to the Iranian capital for [&hellip...
