JERUSALEM (AA) – Two Israeli ministers have rejected US criticism of their calls for expelling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said 70% of Israelis support a “humanitarian solution” for encouraging the emigration of Gazans. “Two million people [Palestinians in Gaza] wake up every mornin...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel is holding secret talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo, urging the Central African country to take in Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, the Israeli media has reported. According to the Times of Israel news website, Israeli officials held talks with officials in DR Congo and other African nations to accept [...
ANKARA (AA) – France’s President Emmanuel Macron has urged Israel to avoid escalation, “particularly in Lebanon,” following the Israeli drone strike in Beirut which killed a top Hamas figure. According to a statement by Elysee Palace, Macron held a phone call with Benny Gantz, former Israeli defense minister and war cabinet m...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli military confirmed on Wednesday the death of a person held by Hamas during a rescue attempt in the Gaza Strip. Sahar Baruch was killed during an operation by special forces to rescue him in the Gaza Strip on Dec. 8, the Israeli public broadcaster KAN reported. “Representatives of the Israeli […]
Lisbon, Portugal – AFP EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Wednesday said the international community had to “impose” a solution to the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians. “What we have learned over the last 30 years, and what we are learning now with the tragedy experienced in Gaza, is that the sol...
JERUSALEM (AA) – A post-war scenario contrived by Israel in Gaza has come to light, according to which the territory would be ruled by tribes or clans rather than a single political entity. According to public broadcaster KAN, the plan has been devised by the Israeli army. It stipulates that the Gaza Strip be divided […]
CHICAGO (AA) – Participants of the congress organized by the Muslim American Society (MAS) and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) told the media that they hesitated to express their views on Israel’s attacks on Palestine. They hold the Biden administration responsible for the increasing pressure in all areas, from social me...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 4,119 Palestinian school students have been killed and 7,536 others injured in the relentless ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza, according to the Palestinian Education Ministry. In addition to the students’ casualties in Gaza, the Israeli army also killed 37 school students and injured 282 others in the occupied West...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian officials have called an Israeli soldier taking an infant girl from Gaza “a heinous crime,” saying she should be handed back immediately. “The kidnapping of the infant girl from the Gaza Strip is evidence that the (Israeli) occupation army is committing the most heinous crimes agai...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The UN Palestinian refugee agency dispatched humanitarian aid to Gaza’s north for the first time since last month. “We began to dispatch humanitarian aid into northern governorates a week ago, for the first time since the end of a weeklong humanitarian pause on December 1,” Adnan Abu Hasna, a spokesman […]...