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 […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP Another 81 people were killed in overnight strikes, including in the main southern city of Khan Younis, said the health ministry in Gaza on Wednesday. Just before midnight on Tuesday, witnesses reported strikes on the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, sparking panic among the hundreds of displaced people seeki...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that Arab countries do not want to get into the “business of rebuilding Gaza” if the enclave is “leveled again” in a year. “Arab countries are saying this – they’re saying: look, we’re not going to get into the business – for example – [&hel...
LONDON (AA) – British lawmaker Zarah Sultana accused the government on Tuesday of being “deeply complicit” in Israel’s “genocidal assault” in Gaza, calling on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to “stop arming war crimes.” In a letter to Sunak, Sultana mentioned the genocide case brought by South Africa at the...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US Senate rejected a resolution late Tuesday which demanded that the State Department report on Israeli human rights violations in Gaza. The resolution, introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders, “directs the State Department to provide any credible information it may have on potential violations of internationally...
WASHINGTON (AA) – More than 100 protesters held a sit-in demonstration Tuesday inside the Cannon Rotunda on Capitol Hill calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. The demonstrators, affiliated with rights group Mennonite Action, engaged in singing hymns and chanting slogans such as “Ceasefire” and “Let Gaza live!” Later, ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli police on Tuesday evening broke up a rally in Tel Aviv protesting the war on Gaza, according to Israeli media. Haaretz daily reported that the police aggressively dispersed the rally, claiming that it “harms the feelings of the public” and that it was “illegal”. Police officers were seen c...
BERLIN (AA) – A new poll has found that the majority of Germans are critical of the Israeli government’s policies and the ongoing military offensive in Gaza. Some 61% of Germans said they believe that Israel’s military actions in Gaza are unjustified as they have claimed too many civilian victims. Only 25% voiced support for […]...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 350,000 chronically ill patients have not been receiving their medications due to the Israeli war since October 7, the Gaza Health Ministry has disclosed. The spokesperson for the ministry, Ashraf Al-Qudra, warned of serious health complications that may worsen the patients’ conditions, calling ...
