ANKARA (AA) – The Palestinian presidency has held the US government responsible for Israel’s attack on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in central Gaza. In a statement, Nabih Abu Rudeineh, the spokesperson for the Palestinian Presidency, condemned the attack and held the US administration “responsible for the massacre due to it...
ANKARA (AA) – The UN’s special rapporteur on Palestine accused Israel of carrying out a “genocide” in Gaza on Saturday. Describing Gaza as “the largest and most shameful concentration camp of the 21st century,” Francesca Albanese wrote on X: “Israel is genociding the Palestinians one neighborhood at the time, one hospit...
WASHINGTON (AA) — The White House on Friday blasted Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, calling his criticism of a Gaza cease-fire proposal “absurd” and accusing him of endangering the lives of Israelis held in Gaza. “We’ve seen some statements from some quarters in Israel over recent days attacking the deal. I j...
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 100 Palestinians were killed early Saturday when the Israeli military bombed the Al-Taba’een school in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in eastern Gaza City. The school was housing displaced residents. Dozens more were injured in the attack. Israeli military aircraft targeted the school while worshippers were perf...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP UN rights chief Volker Turk was “shocked and appalled” by comments by Israel’s finance minister suggesting it might be “justified” to starve the population of Gaza to free the Israelis held by Palestinian resistance fighters, his spokesman said Friday. The United Nations high commis...
ANKARA (AA) – Iran has said that the Gaza cease-fire is currently part of the country’s priorities, along with the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. The Iranian state news agency IRNA cited a statement by the Iranian permanent mission to the UN responding to a question whether Iran “would reverse its plans to take [&hel...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 15 Palestinians, including children, were killed and dozens injured in Israeli airstrikes on schools sheltering displaced people in Gaza City on Thursday, the Civil Defense Agency said. Israeli warplanes attacked al-Zahraa and Abdel Fattah Hamoud schools in al-Tuffah neighborhood, witnesses said. Medical so...
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia- AFP The “heinous” killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh risks tipping the Middle East into “wider conflict”, the chair of a Saudi-based Islamic bloc told a summit on Wednesday. The comments from Gambian Foreign Minister Mamadou Tangara came as a senior Iranian official said during the sa...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Israel vowed to “eliminate” new Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, the alleged mastermind of the October 7 attack as its war on Gaza entered its 11th month on Wednesday. The naming of Sinwar to lead Hamas came as Israel braced for potential Iranian retaliation over the killing of his predecessor Ismael Haniy...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Batoul and her family have been scrambling to secure housing outside Beirut’s southern suburbs where an Israeli strike killed a senior Hezbollah commander last week, but spiking demand has sent prices soaring. Many in the southern suburbs — a packed residential area known as Dahiyeh which is also a Hezbo...
