JERUSALEM (AA) – The assassination of Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri will not shake the Palestinian group, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has said. “It is wrong to believe that the assassination will shock Hamas and that the group will not be able to replace him,” Barak told Israeli Channel 13 Wednesday evening. “Whoever [&hellip...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel is weighing the opening of the Erez (Beit Hanoun) crossing to allow humanitarian aid into the Palestinian enclave amid US pressure, according to the Israeli media. The move comes ahead of a planned visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Israel next week, Haaretz newspaper reported. Israel has shut [&hell...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – At least 51 Palestinian women from the Gaza Strip are held in a prison in northern Israel, according to prisoners’ affairs groups. “The women detainees are held at Damon Prison in northern Israel,” the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a joint statement. The statement, howe...
GENEVA (AA) – The UN human rights chief has said that he is “very disturbed” by the Israeli government’s suggestion of mass displacement of Palestinians from Gaza. “Very disturbed by high-level Israeli officials’ statements on plans to transfer civilians from #Gaza to third countries,” Volker Turk said in a ...
Washington, United States – AFP The United States has criticized South Africa for bringing a genocide case against Israel before the UN’s top court, rejecting accusations against its ally over the war in Gaza. The International Court of Justice in The Hague will next week hold hearings on a filing by South Africa that alleges [&hel...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli bombing killed dozens of people overnight in Gaza, the health ministry of the Palestinian territory said Thursday. The Gaza health ministry reported “dozens of martyrs and more than 100 wounded in the continued barbaric aerial and artillery bombardment of citizens’ homes in the Gaza Strip...
United Nations, United States – AFP Eighteen shipping companies are re-routing their vessels around Africa to avoid the Red Sea amid an upsurge in attacks on shipping, blamed by Western countries on Yemen’s Houthi rebels, the UN’s maritime agency said Wednesday. “A significant number of companies, around 18 shipping com...
Palestinian Territories – AFP The killing of Hamas leader Saleh Al Arouri will intensify the resistance of Palestinians, say people interviewed by AFP in Rafah. Mahdi Abou Muhamaad is a young resident of Rafah. He thinks the assassination will intensify the Hamas resistance “because al-Aruri is a man of stature. His assassination is not ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Fayza Abdul Aziz, 11, and Mira Ayash, 8, two Palestinian girls who were injured in separate Israeli attacks in the southern Gaza Strip, are currently hospitalized at the Gaza European Hospital in Khan Younis City. The scenes of the Israeli bombardment haunt the girls in the form of “terrifying nightmares...
BEIRUT (AA) – The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon has voiced deep concern over possible escalation of hostilities after the assassination of Hamas’ deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri in Lebanese capital Beirut Tuesday evening. The escalation could lead to “devastating consequences” for people on both sides of the Blue Line, ...
