ROME (AA) – The new European military mission in the Red Sea that Italy is promoting with France and Germany will be a “considerable step towards a true European defense,” Italy’s foreign minister said after the three countries presented their plan at the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels. Antonio Tajani told reporters at the [&hell...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken of an Israeli initiative to secure the release of those held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. “There is an initiative of ours. I will not elaborate,” Netanyahu said during a meeting with relatives of Israelis held by Hamas. Hamas is believed to be holding […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has vowed to retaliate for the killing of its military advisers in an Israeli airstrike in the Syrian capital Damascus. Addressing a weekly press conference in Tehran, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said the “crimes” of Israel against Iran have “never gone without answer.” Five Islamic Revolutionary Guards C...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Families of Israelis held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip stormed a parliamentary committee session in Jerusalem on Monday to demand a deal to secure their release. “You won’t sit here while they are dying there!” reads a sign held by relatives as they stormed a meeting of the Knesset’s Finance [&hel...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Three more Israeli soldiers have been killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army has announced. A military statement said the soldiers from the Paratroopers Brigade’s 202nd Battalion were killed in combat while fighting in the southern Gaza Strip. Another soldier from the same battalion was seriously injured, the a...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces killed at least 190 people and injured 340 others in the Gaza Strip in 24 hours, the Health Ministry in the territory said Monday. This pushed up the total Palestinian death toll from Israel’s deadly assault on the besieged enclave since Oct. 7 to 25,295. A ministry statement […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian resistance group Hamas published a 16-page report on Sunday highlighting the motives behind its Oct. 7 attack on Israel and its connection to the Palestinian cause while also countering Israeli allegations. The report, titled “Our Narrative…Operation Al-Aqsa Flood”, said Operation Al-Aqsa...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Saudi Arabia will not normalize relations with Israel unless the Palestinian issue is resolved, Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud told US news outlet CNN in an interview that was broadcast on Sunday. Responding to a question about whether there could be no normal ties without a path to a credible […]
Brussels, Belgium – AFP The EU’s foreign policy chief on Monday insisted on a two-state solution as he told Israel it couldn’t build peace “only by military means” ahead of talks with Israeli and Palestinian top diplomats. The bloc’s 27 foreign ministers were set to hold separate meetings with their counterp...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli said Sunday that the return of the Palestinian Authority to the Gaza Strip will be a “suicidal step.” “Gaza must be ruled by Israel or by an international force for a year or two,” Chikli told Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper. He argued that the Ramallah-based Palestinian […...
