WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has rejected the idea of mass displacements of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank after hawkish Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz called for the “temporary evacuation” of Palestinian civilians to carry out an operation. “We reject the idea of mass displacements of Palestinians in the West...
ANKARA / GENEVA (AA) – Israeli foreign minister’s call to forcibly displace people from the West Bank is “completely unacceptable,” the EU foreign policy chief said on Thursday. Before attending the informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, Josep Borrell told reporters that UN’s Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordina...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Approximately 100,000 displaced Palestinians in the eastern part of Deir al-Balah city in Gaza have no place to seek refuge from Israeli forces’ bombardment, as Israel destroyed 20 shelter centers over the last two days after issuing evacuation orders, the city municipality has said. In a brief statement, the ...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army has issued new evacuation orders for residents in several areas of central and southern Gaza Strip, which were previously designated as “humanitarian safe zones.” Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee announced that residents of Blocks 89-2356 in the neighborhoods of east Deir al-Balah and those in the neig...
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...
Occupied Palestinian Territories — AFP The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders for residents of southern Gaza’s Khan Yunis city on Saturday, after warning of new operations. The United Nations said more than 180,000 Palestinians have already fled fierce fighting in Khan Yunis since the military began an operation in the a...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has yet again ordered Palestinians living in the eastern neighborhoods of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, to evacuate immediately, despite earlier claims that the area was a humanitarian safe zone. Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee claimed in a statement that “the presence of multiple...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli troops continued attacks across the Gaza Strip Tuesday that forced new waves of Palestinian mass displacement. Nearly 450,000 Palestinians have been displaced from Rafah since May 6, and around 100,000 from northern Gaza, UN agencies said. That means around a quarter of Gaza’s population...
RAFAH, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES (AFP)- Forced to flee her home by Israeli bombardment, Asmaa Ahmed gave birth in the middle of the night in a Gaza City school that had no electricity. “I was very, very afraid to lose the baby,” 31-year-old Ahmed tearfully recounted how her son Faraj came into the world four months ago […]
BERLIN (AA) – Israel’s “right to self-defense” does not include the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, Germany’s foreign minister said on the eve of a visit to Tel Aviv. “I would like to emphasize again that the right to self-defense applies, and that every country, like Israel, has the right to defend itself against terror...