ANKARA (AA) – EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has reiterated his call on Israel not to launch a military attack on Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah. “The EU asks Israel not to take military action in Rafah that would worsen an already catastrophic humanitarian situation,” he wrote on X, sharing [&he...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 83 Palestinians were killed and 125 others injured in the last 24 hours as Israel continued its onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip, raising the death toll since Oct. 7 to 28,858, the territory’s Health Ministry said on Saturday. Israeli attacks have also injured 68,677, according to Palestinian health autho...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has lost 158 employees in Gaza due to Israeli airstrikes. “As of 15 February, the total number of UNRWA colleagues killed since the beginning of hostilities is now 158, an increase of two since UNRWA last update,” the agency said in a report on Friday. […]
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...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP Doctors Without Borders on Friday described chaos and terror seen at a key Gaza hospital before its staff were forced to flee amid a raid by the Israeli army. In recent days, intense fighting has raged around the Nasser Hospital — one of the Palestinian territory’s last remaining major medical facili...
Washington, United States – AFP President Joe Biden said Friday that there needs to be a temporary truce in Gaza to get Israeli prisoners out of the Palestinian territory under a potential deal swapping them for prisoners held in Israel. “I feel very strongly about it — that there has to be a temporary cease-fire […]
Kiryat Malakhi, Israel – AFP A gunman killed two people Friday at a bus stop in southern Israel, authorities said, prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to warn the entire country was a frontline in the war. Four others were wounded in the shooting near the southern town of Kiryat Malakhi, Israeli police said. Two people […]
ROME (AA) – The World Food Program must have “security guarantees” to bring food supplies into Gaza to prevent the famine that threatens more than 2 million people in the enclave, its executive director has said. “The WFP has food supplies at the border and will be able to scale up to feed 2.2 million […]
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia will host an inter-Palestinian meeting in Moscow from February 29 to March 2, presidential envoy for the Middle East and Africa Mikhail Bogdanov has announced. Moscow has invited representatives of all Palestinian political forces, including those in Syria, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries, Bogdanov, who is...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected on Friday the international demands for a permanent settlement with Palestinians, opposing unilateral recognition of the Palestinian state. “Israel outright rejects international dictates regarding a permanent settlement with the Palestinians,” Netanyahu wrot...
