NEW YORK (AA) – The US and Russian representatives to the UN exchanged heated words Tuesday during a Security Council session on Gaza. In his remarks at the session, titled “Protection of civilians in armed conflict,” Russian envoy Vassily Nebenzia accused his “Western colleagues” of allowing Israel to use hunger ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump easily won their parties’ primaries in the state of Michigan on Tuesday. Trump emerged as the winner in the Michigan Republican primary, defeating his main rival, Nikki Haley, according to US media projections. On the Democratic side, Biden has won despite facing ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli right-wing activists have obstructed humanitarian aid trucks from entering the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli media. “Nitzana crossing (in southern Israel) is closed to truck passing to Gaza,” the Israeli Channel 7 reported on Tuesday. Posts on social media included moments when an Israeli group, in...
Washington, United States – AFP A US airman has died after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington at the weekend in protest over the war in Gaza, the Air Force said Monday. The shocking act was an escalation of recent protests across the United States against Israel’s actions in Gaza, where […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden said Monday that he hopes a cease-fire will be reached in the Gaza Strip by March 4. “I hope by the end of the weekend…My national security advisor tells me that we’re close. We’re close. We’re not done yet. My hope is by next Monday we’ll have a […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Saudi Arabia on Monday denied reports that its Commerce Minister Majid bin Abdullah Al-Qasabi met with an Israeli official. The kingdom’s state news agency SPA quoted an unnamed Saudi official as saying that the Israeli minister introduced himself to Al-Qasabi while he was standing with his Nigerian counterpart at t...
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...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Jordan on Sunday denied reports about a land bridge to transport goods to Israel amid a deadly offensive on the Gaza Strip. “Jordan will not remain silent to these fabrications,” Jordanian Prime Minister Bisher Al-Khasawneh said in a speech during an event in Amman. He said attempts to tarnish Jordan’s position […]...
BERLIN (AA) – A film on Israeli settlers’ violence in the occupied Palestinian territories has won the best documentary award at the Berlin Film Festival. Basel Adra, the co-director of No Other Land, thanked the jury and the festival for the award and called on Germany to change its policy toward Israel and Gaza. “I’m [&hell...
ANKARA (AA) – Two Israeli soldiers were killed in clashes with Palestinian resistance fighters in the Gaza Strip, the army said on Sunday. A military statement said the two soldiers, from the Givati Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, were killed in the southern Gaza Strip. It, however, did not provide details about the circumstances of their death...
