JERUSALEM (AA) – The US has frozen the delivery of 130 bulldozers to Israel amid home demolitions in the Gaza Strip, Israeli reported said on Sunday. According to Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, the Israeli Defense Ministry signed a major contract to purchase around 130 D9 bulldozers from US machinery maker Caterpillar. The newspaper, citing I...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Kuwait’s Red Crescent Society has sent its third relief plane carrying 40 tons of humanitarian aid to Lebanon. In a statement to the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), the chairman of the Kuwait Red Crescent Society, Khaled Al-Maghames, said: “The situation in Lebanon faces significant challenges that require increased support an...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The WHO chief has warned about the escalating crisis in northern Gaza, noting that a famine is imminent there. “Deeply alarming,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X, referring to new findings from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). The data, he noted, indicates that “ther...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 17 more Palestinians were killed and several others injured when Israeli airstrikes targeted a school and a tent sheltering displaced people in Gaza City and Khan Younis. Medical sources at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis reported that they received the bodies of nine people killed in an Israeli attack […...
CAIRO (AA) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Emirati counterpart Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan discussed increasing efforts to establish a cease-fire in Gaza and Lebanon in a phone call on Saturday. Al Nahyan and Blinken exchanged views on the recent developments in the Middle East, particularly the humanitarian situation in Gaz...
WASHINGTON (AA) – American Muslim leaders who refrained from backing Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris say their decision was based on the current administration’s support for the “genocide” taking place in Gaza. Following Republican nominee Donald Trump’s victory in the Nov. 5 election, representatives from sev...
The Israeli military has dropped more than 85,000 tons of bombs inside Gaza since October 2023, according to the Palestinian Environment Quality Authority. The bombings include the indiscriminate use of white phosphorus munitions, prohibited under the U.N. Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. Palestinian officials told Wafa news agency ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed Knesset member Gideon Saar as the foreign minister, replacing Israel Katz who became a defense minister. A hardliner, Saar takes the helm of Israeli diplomacy at a time when Tel Aviv presses ahead with its deadly genocidal wars on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. Born [&hellip...
LONDON (AA) – Doctors Without Borders Denmark urged the Danish government to accept sick and injured patients from Gaza, local media has reported. Although Denmark is evacuating and treating patients from Ukraine, the authorities have rejected to treat Palestinian patients from Gaza. For patients who cannot get necessary treatment inside...
HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – The UN has warned about inhuman and deadly living conditions in northern Gaza and said Palestinians are “starving while the world watches on.” “For the past month, North Gaza has been under a near-total brutal siege,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said during a news conference, conveying a...
