ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army detained 15 more Palestinians during raids across the occupied West Bank, according to prisoners’ affairs groups. This brought the total number of Palestinians detained by the Israeli forces since October 7 to 6,940, the Commission of Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society said in a joint s...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Adel al-Hajj fears Israeli forces could at any moment launch an invasion of southern Gaza’s Rafah city, where he and more than a million other Palestinians have fled for safety. Teeming with displaced Gazans huddled in makeshift camps, Rafah has swelled to about five times its pre-war size since...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday ordered the army to submit a military plan to evacuate civilians from Rafah. “It is impossible to achieve the goal of the war of eliminating Hamas by leaving four Hamas battalions in Rafah,” stated Netanyahu’s office on X. “On the contrary, it is clear that […]...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has brought more than 350 bodies from the Gaza Strip since the war began on Oct. 7, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation confirmed on Friday. “More than 350 bodies have been transferred from Gaza to Israel since the beginning of the war for examination by the Forensic Medicine Institute in Abu […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hamas armed wing Al-Qassam Brigades announced on Friday that it killed seven Israeli soldiers in eastern Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. “Our fighters managed to detonate an anti-personnel mine among a group of occupation soldiers, killing 7 soldiers at point-blank range in Abasan Al-Kabira area in eastern Khan Younis,”...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 107 Palestinians were killed and 142 others were injured in 24 hours as Israel continued its onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Health Ministry said on Friday. “The Israeli occupation committed 13 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 107 martyrs and 142 injured during the past [&hellip...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel launched new air strikes Friday on the city of Rafah in Gaza’s far south, after US President Joe Biden said its response to Hamas’s October 7 attack has been “over the top”. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he has ordered Israeli forces to “prepare to operate...
ANKARA (AA) – The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has warned that it will halt its operations within weeks if international funding remains suspended. “Our operations are likely to come to an end in the next few weeks if funding remains suspended,” UNRWA spokesperson Juliette Touma told Al-Jazeera television. Several countries have ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The lives of thousands of people are at risk at a hospital in southern Gaza amid a tight Israeli siege around the facility, the Health Ministry has warned. The Israeli army has slapped a siege around the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis city since January 22 as part of […]
LONDON (AA) – Mary Lou McDonald, the leader of Ireland’s Sinn Fein party, has emphasized the urgent need for a cease-fire and adherence to international law in the ongoing genocidal Israeli assault on Gaza. During a press briefing for foreign correspondents, McDonald expressed deep concern over the relentless violence engulfing the entir...
