Cairo, Egypt — AFP Egypt, after months of measured condemnation of Israel over the Gaza war, has hardened its tone and is formally supporting an international case of genocide against Israel. Cairo and its state-aligned media have stepped up scathing criticism of Israel over the genocidal assault on Gaza raging next door, reflecting publ...
Cairo, Egypt – AFP United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said Sunday in Cairo that delivering the necessary aid to famine-threatened Gaza “requires Israel removing the remaining obstacles and chokepoints to relief”. Guterres repeated his call for an “immediate humanitarian cease-fire” to alleviate “the pligh...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Gaza’s health ministry said on Friday that Israeli fire killed 20 people and wounded 155 waiting to receive desperately needed aid in the besieged territory, but Israel claimed the reports were “erroneous”. The health ministry in Gaza accused Israeli troops of opening fire from “tanks...
Washington, United States – AFP Protecting and aiding civilians must be “job number one” for Israel in the war-battered Gaza Strip, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday. “Where there is a will, there is a way,” Blinken told reporters after a virtual meeting with ministers on a new maritime corridor ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 20 Palestinians were killed and 150 others injured in Israeli shelling targeting hungry people waiting for humanitarian aid in Gaza City on Thursday, the Health Ministry said. The death toll is likely to rise as many injured people are in critical condition, ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said in [&hell...
LONDON (AA) – The British foreign secretary stressed the need Thursday for increasing the flow of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip which faces an “unimaginable” scale of suffering. David Cameron announced that the UK and Qatar are working to get more aid into the besieged enclave, with the first joint consignment containi...
GENEVA (AA) – The UN humanitarian office said on Friday that they cannot deliver aid trucks to the north of Gaza. “If there is a hell on earth, it is the north of Gaza,” Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told the weekly press briefing in Geneva. Laerke […]
Cairo, Egypt – AFP The World Health Organization on Monday warned there were only “24 hours of water, electricity and fuel left” in the Gaza Strip before “a real catastrophe” sets in. WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Ahmed Al-Mandhari said the bombarded, besieged territory must be allowed to rec...
