GENEVA (AA) – UN rapporteurs have said that starvation and lack of housing due to damages caused by Israel in Gaza aggravate charges of “genocide.” Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, said on X that 45% of people in Gaza experience severe hung...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – Spain’s prime minister has urged Western states to recognize the state of Palestine “once and for all.” “And until that day comes, we must state clearly and with passion that the Palestinian population cannot pay for the terrorist acts of Hamas,” Pedro Sanchez told diplomats at the Eighth Ambassadors Conference in [&hellip...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Indonesia has extended its support to South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The Southeast Asian nation’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi will also deliver an oral statement before the ICJ on February 19 as part of the proceedings instituted by South Africa against Israel’s alleged genocid...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least six people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on an ambulance in the central Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said. Four Red Crescent members were among the victims in the attack that targeted an ambulance in Deir al-Balah city, the humanitarian organization said in […]...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – The Moroccan government said Wednesday that it is ready to deliberate a petition calling for halting normalization with Israel. The government “is ready to deliberate the petition,” government spokesman Mustafa Baytas said following a cabinet meeting. Human rights activists announced plans to submit a petition demanding t...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Wednesday detained 26 more Palestinians in various areas of the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. According to a joint statement issued by the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society, the new arrests bring the total number of Palestinians de...
Ramallah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel kept bombing Gaza on Wednesday as US top diplomat Antony Blinken met the head of the Palestinian Authority, which Washington hopes could govern the coastal territory after the war ends. As the US secretary of state’s motorcade arrived under tight security in Ramallah in the occupied We...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – The leaders of Jordan, Egypt, and Palestine will hold summit talks in the Jordanian port city of Aqaba on Wednesday to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip. A statement by Jordan’s Royal Court said King Abdullah II will meet with Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas “to discuss [&he...
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanese group Hezbollah said Tuesday that three of its members had been killed in clashes with Israeli forces in southern Lebanon. The group, however, did not provide any details about the circumstances leading to their death, saying only they were killed on the road to Jerusalem, a phrase used by the movement […]
ANKARA (AA) – Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of Britain’s main opposition Labour Party, said Monday that the government should support the genocide case filed by South Africa against Israel. In his speech in parliament, Corbyn drew attention to the suffering of Palestinians, who have been subjected to Israeli attacks since Oct. 7 last ...
