Ramallah, Occupied Palestinian Territories – – AFP Palestinian factions called for a general strike and marches on Wednesday to protest the killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in an airstrike in Tehran. “The national and Islamic factions in Palestine announce a comprehensive strike and anger marches to (protest) ...
TEHRAN (AA) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has strongly condemned the assassination of Hamas political bureau leader Ismail Haniyeh, saying Iran considers it a duty to “avenge the dear guest’s blood.” The statement came hours after Haniyeh, who was in Tehran to attend Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian&...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Palestinian resistance group Hamas announced early Wednesday that its political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting his residence in the Iranian capital Tehran. “Hamas mourns to our great Palestinian people, to the Arab and Islamic nations, and to all the free people of the world, ...
ANKARA (AA) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the US’ largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, has urged the Biden administration to address Israeli war crimes after soldiers destroyed a Gaza water reservoir and new reports of sexual abuse at an Israeli prison emerged. “Every day that the Biden administrat...
ANKARA (AA) – Authorities in France have launched an investigation after people attending the 2024 Paris Olympics displayed a banner protesting the Israeli army’s attacks on Gaza during a football match between Israel and Paraguay. The fans, who carried Palestinian flags and a banner reading “Genocide Olympics,” are being probed fo...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The municipality of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip has condemned the Israeli army’s bombing of a drinking water reservoir in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood as a grave violation of humanitarian norms. “The Israeli soldiers’ detonation of the main water reservoir in Tal al-Sultan is a crime against...
JERUSALEM (AA) – A Palestinian prisoner was sexually abused by Israeli soldiers at the Sde Teiman Prison in the Negev desert in southern Israel, according to Israeli media. Israeli public broadcaster KAN, citing a security source, said the victim was finally taken to a hospital with severe injuries to an intimate body part, which left [&hellip...
Tokyo, Japan – AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that there was “every indication” that Lebanese group Hezbollah was behind a rocket strike in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights that killed 12 people. “Every indication is that indeed the rocket was from Hezbollah. We stand by Israel’s right to def...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 10 Palestinians were killed, including children, in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, the Civil Defense Agency said. Video clips shared by Palestinians showed a man carrying a “decapitated child” and a mother screaming and crying bitterly near […]...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinians in the ravaged Shejaiya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City face immense difficulties trying to survive amid a lack of basic services, food shortages, a water crisis and infrastructure destruction as the Israeli onslaught enters its 10th month. Abu Mohammad Hajila, 44, sits on the rubble of a destro...
