ISTANBUL (AA) – Israeli forces raided and closed the office of Qatar-based Al Jazeera television in the West Bank city of Ramallah early Sunday. The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that Israeli authorities ordered the staff to leave the premises before shutting down the office. This came amid escalating tensions in the region, with incre...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi has extended the closure of the Qatari Al Jazeera television. “We will not allow the Al Jazeera terrorist channel to broadcast in Israel and endanger our soldiers,” Kahri said in a statement. The Israeli minister claimed that the ban was “unanimously adopted by the government, based...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel on Tuesday shut down US news agency the Associated Press’s live feed from Gaza, two weeks after it ordered the closure of Al Jazeera. The AP said Israeli authorities accused the news agency of violating its ban on Al Jazeera, which was targeted based on a new Israeli law […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has called on Israel to investigate “credible allegations of law of war violations” after a video showed an Israeli drone targeted four unarmed Palestinians in Khan Younis. Asked about the video, a State Department spokesperson said that the “contents of the video are disturbing.” “We have not verified the foota...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Monday arrested several journalists at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, according to witnesses. “They were brutally beaten by Israeli forces, blindfolded and taken into custody,” an eyewitness to the latest attack on the hospital reported. The Qatar-based Al Jazeera television confirmed that its c...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Al Jazeera correspondent Ismail Abu Omar was injured on Tuesday in an Israeli drone strike in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, according to witnesses. “Abu Omar sustained serious injuries in his leg and was rushed to hospital for medical attention,” an eyewitness told Anadolu. The Israeli army has […]...
Geneva, Switzerland – – AFP The UN has voiced alarm at the killing of journalists in Gaza, a day after two Al Jazeera reporters died in an alleged Israeli strike. Al Jazeera reported that two of its Palestinian journalists were killed in the southern city of Rafah, in what it claimed was an Israeli “targeted […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP An Israeli attack killed an Al Jazeera journalist and wounded his colleague in the Gaza Strip on Friday, the Qatari network reported. Al Jazeera had initially reported that cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa and Gaza bureau chief Wael Al-Dahdouh were wounded in a school in Khan Yunis, where they were hit by […...
Paris, France -AFP An investigation by Agence France-Presse into the strike in southern Lebanon on October 13 that killed a Reuters journalist and injured six others, including two from AFP, points to a tank shell only used by the Israeli army in this high-tension border region. Jointly conducted with Airwars, an NGO that investigates attacks ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian Islamic Jihad group has said it is willing to release all the people from Israel it is holding in exchange for all the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. “We can accept the all-for-all equation regarding the detainees. If Israel is ready to release all our prisoners, then we […]
