Rafah, Egypt – AFP UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, on a visit to the doorstep of war-ravaged Gaza, on Saturday said the world has seen enough of its horrors and appealed for a cease-fire to allow in more aid. He spoke at the crossing on the Egyptian side of Rafah, where most of Gaza’s population has […]
Vienna, Austria – AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that Washington was working “intensively” with its partners “to bridge the remaining gaps” for a deal to free prisoners held by Hamas and secure a cease-fire in Gaza. “Yes, there has been a counter-proposal put forward by Hamas. I obvious...
Doha, Qatar – AFP Israel and Hamas are not close to a deal on a cessation of hostilities in Gaza and release of prisoners, mediator Qatar said on Tuesday, warning the situation remained “very complicated”. Despite weeks of talks involving US, Qatari and Egyptian mediators, the Muslim holy month of Ramadan began on Monday with...
Gaza City- Occupied Palestinian Territories- “Look how we live! There are no bathrooms, no water and no food. Trash is everywhere. We sleep near piles of garbage!” says a displaced Palestinian woman living in a destroyed UNRWA school that has been turned into a shelter in Jabalia, in the north of the Gaza Strip. As famine […...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Egypt on Sunday hosted envoys for talks on a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, the latest diplomatic effort as Gaza officials reported more deadly bombardment in the nearly five-month-old war. A senior Hamas official told AFP that a delegation from the Palestinian group would discuss with mediators a prop...
ANTALYA, Türkiye (AA) – Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has stressed that a cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinian resistance factions should be reached before the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. “It is imperative to reach a cease-fire before Ramadan for the safety of the Palestinian people,” the minister said d...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli forces have continued striking targets across the Gaza Strip, with the health ministry saying early Monday that 92 people were killed overnight. Israel’s attacks have killed at least 29,692 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the health ministry. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Be...
ROME (AA) – The trial of four Egyptian agents accused of kidnapping and murdering Italian researcher Giulio Regeni has resumed in Rome, a high-profile, controversial case which caused years of friction between Italy and Egypt. Regeni, who was murdered in Egypt in 2016, was a postgraduate student at Britain’s Cambridge University and was carryi...
CAIRO (AA) – A senior Yemeni military official was found dead in Cairo, the Yemeni Embassy confirmed on Sunday. A statement by the embassy said Maj. Gen. Hassan bin Jalal al-Obaidi was found murdered in his apartment. The embassy said it is following up investigations with Egyptian security authorities into the killing. According to Yeme...
Cairo, Egypt – AFP Egypt is building a walled camp in the Sinai Peninsula to receive Palestinians displaced from the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip, says a US media report. The Wall Street Journal article, citing Egyptian officials and security analysts, comes after a rights group reported Egypt was preparing “a high-security ga...
