BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanon has said that the death toll from Israeli assaults across the country has hit 1,540 since last October. The Disaster Risk Management Unit said in a report the number injured stands at 5,410 and “the number of displaced individuals registered in approved shelters had risen to 77,100 by Wednesday afternoon.” The [&hel...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has condemned Israel’s Friday airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs that left 31 people dead and has called on the international community to take a “decisive action” to stop Israeli attacks. In a statement, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said that such attacks represent a...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army admitted on Sunday that the three captives whose bodies were discovered last December were killed by Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip. The army has officially informed the families of the captives Ron Sherman (a soldier), Nik Beizer (a soldier), and Elia Toledano that they were killed in an […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 18 Palestinians, including four children, have been killed in airstrikes by Israeli warplanes in Gaza. Israel targeted the central Gaza Strip with one of the strikes hitting tents set up for displaced persons in what was a so-called “humanitarian safe zone.” Medical sources at the Al-Ahli Baptis...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has backed Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon, saying it had “the right to self-defense.” “At the weekend we had a threat of escalation, above all from Hezbollah, which had already made massive threats in advance and then proceeded with rockets and shelling of Israel. In fact, in the light of this threat, […]...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has denounced last month’s Israeli airstrikes on Al Hudaydah Port in western Yemen as a “possible war crime.” At least six civilians were killed and over 80 others injured on July 20 when Israeli warplanes struck more than two dozen oil storage tanks and two shipping cranes in […]
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...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israel killed at least nine Palestinians, including a child, in three airstrikes targeting southern and central Gaza Strip. An Israeli drone targeted a gathering of Palestinians east of the Zeitoun neighborhood southeast of Gaza City, killing two and wounding another, a source at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital i...
ANKARA (AA) – France is deeply concerned over the recent Israeli strikes on schools in Gaza, according to an official statement. The French Foreign Ministry recalled that the attack on Al-Awda school on Tuesday was the third one aiming at a school for displaced children since Saturday. A school affiliated with the UN agency for Palestini...
Beirut, Lebanon — AFP Hezbollah launched more than 200 rockets at Israeli military positions on Thursday as Israel continued its attacks in Gaza. The Iran-backed resistance group said its latest attack, which followed the launch of over 100 small rockets the previous day, came in response to Israel’s killing of a senior Hezbollah c...
