Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel hit targets in south Gaza and across its border with Lebanon, the army said Monday ahead of a visit by the top US diplomat who is seeking to avert a wider war. Gaza’s health ministry said 73 dead and 99 wounded had arrived at Al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza’s Deir […]
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Israel killed a top commander of the Hezbollah group in a strike on south Lebanon, a security source told AFP Monday. Hezbollah later announced the killing of a “commander”, naming him as Wissam Hassan Tawil. It said he died “on the road to Jerusalem” — the phrase used for fighters kill...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has rounded up 40 more Palestinians in military raids carried out across the occupied West Bank since Sunday evening, according to prisoners’ affairs groups. According to a joint statement by the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners Society, the new arrests...
ANKARA/DOHA, Qatar (AA) – Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani called Sunday for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip and the delivery of humanitarian aid to the blockaded territory. His remarks came during a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who arrived in Doha as part of a regional tour. Talks […]
ANKARA (AA) – An Israeli soldier has been seen mocking Palestinians in front of the bombed Al-Azhar University in Gaza in a video shared on social media. The footage shared on social media shows the soldier mocking Palestinians among the ruins of the school in the northern Gaza Strip that was bombed by Israeli forces. […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel claimed it had “dismantled” Hamas’s military leadership in northern Gaza as its war on Gaza entered a fourth month Sunday, with fears mounting that the conflict could spread into neighbouring Lebanon. Israel’s army said late Saturday it had “completed the dismantling of t...
Chania, Greece – AFP Washington’s top diplomat Antony Blinken said Saturday that he wants to make sure the conflict in the Middle East “doesn’t spread”, as he held meetings in Turkey and Greece. Blinken, on a new tour of the Middle East, met Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Crete on Saturday, a few hour...
LONDON (AA) – More than 90,000 people, which is about 4% of the population in Gaza, are dead, wounded or missing, says a human rights monitor. The Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor says Israel’s continuous air, land and sea attacks have destroyed about 70% of the Gaza Strip’s civilian infrastructure since October 7. In a [&helli...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Several houses of Palestinians were damaged Saturday and at least three young people were detained in raids by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian news agency WAFA. WAFA said Israeli forces raided Nablus, Bethlehem, Salfit and Jerusalem in the early hours. Israeli forces beat and detained ...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel bombed southern Gaza Saturday as the UN warned the besieged Palestinian territory has been rendered “uninhabitable” by three months of war. Civilians in the Gaza Strip have borne the brunt of Israel’s attacks as the scale of the destruction has triggered mass displacement and a deepe...
