ROME (AA) – Italy is ready to send peacekeepers to the Gaza Strip if needed, the nation’s foreign minister has said. Over a thousand Italian military staff are already taking part in the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani told Radio24. “Should a peace mission be needed in...
JERUSALEM (AA) – At least 19 Israeli soldiers were wounded in 24 hours, including 13 in ground battles in the Gaza Strip, the army said on Friday. Figures released by the army showed that 194 soldiers have been killed and 1,191 others have been injured since Israel expanded its ground offensive in the Gaza Strip […]
TEL AVIV – AFP Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rebuffed American calls for the creation of an independent Palestinian state, putting the US-Israeli divide on the matter on sharp display. Netanyahu’s insistence that Israel must retain “security control over all the territory west of the Jordan River”...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Another Palestinian journalist was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, taking their number to 119 since October 7, the government media office said. A statement by the media office said Wael Abu Fannouna was killed in Gaza City, but did not provide any further details. […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – An Israeli mother has accused the army of intentionally killing her son during an operation in the Gaza Strip in November. Sergeant Ron Sherman,19, was captured by Hamas on October 7. In mid-December, the Israeli army said that it had recovered the body of Sherman from a Hamas tunnel in Jabalia in […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s radical far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has renewed his call for displacing Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. “After the war, we must remain in the Gaza Strip, control it, and encourage the voluntary migration of hundreds of thousands of Gazans,” Ben-Gvir told Israeli public broadcaster KAN. The f...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli strikes killed dozens more people overnight, the health ministry in Gaza said Thursday, including in the territory’s south where Israel has intensified operations. The renewed strikes came as medicine for Israelis held by the Palestinian resistance groups and fresh aid for civilians entered the...
ROME (AA) – Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has said that Gaza needs a “civil government” and that all G-7 countries are working towards a two-state solution to the conflict. “I will reiterate to Israeli authorities that Italy aims at a ‘civil government’ in Palestine, to a two-state solution. The two people, two states is […]...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and his Cabinet ministers have signed special postcards addressed to the UN chief, urging the world body to recognize Palestinian nationhood. “This special postcard is to express the wishes of the people of Malaysia by urging the UN to accept Palestine as a member state and demanding [&hel...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Palestinian death toll from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7 has surged to 24,448, the Health Ministry in the blockaded enclave said on Wednesday. The ministry in a statement said 61,504 others were also injured. Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since the Oct. 7 attack by Palestinian […]
