Palestinian Territories – AFP An estimated 100,000 more displaced people have arrived in the already-teeming southern border city of Rafah in recent days following the intensification of Israel’s attacks around Deir al-Balah and Khan Yunis, according to the UN humanitarian office. At Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah, Palestinians ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza Strip faces overwhelming challenges in patient care, with wooden boards used to cope with patients’ influx. The situation inside the facility is catastrophic, and the number of patients exceeds the number of beds by five times, the hospital’s spokesp...
ANKARA (AA) – The UN human rights office has warned of a “rapidly deteriorating” human rights situation in the occupied West Bank. In its flash report, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Israel to “end unlawful killings and settler violence” against the Palestinian population. “...
JERUSALEM (AA) – An explosive-laden unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from Syria crashed in the Golan Heights, Israeli Army Radio reported on Thursday. According to the radio report, this marks the first incident of its kind since October 7. The UAV crash caused damage to a building in the Israeli-occupied area, but no injuries were reported...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Soldiers injured in Israel’s brutal ground offensive in the Gaza Strip refused a visit from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a hospital in Jerusalem, Israel’s Channel 13 reported. This is not the first time that soldiers injured in Gaza refused to meet with the controversial rightwing leader. A similar incident took ...
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Thursday warned of an all-out war in the region due to Israeli “provocations.” “The continuation of Israeli provocations in southern Lebanon could lead to a deterioration of the situation and the outbreak of an all-out war in the region,” Mikati said during a meeting with [&helli...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday he is holding “contacts” to secure the release of people held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. “We are in contact until this moment. The situation cannot be detailed, and we are working to recover them all,” Netanyahu said during a meeting with families of […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Two more Israeli officers and one soldier were killed in fresh clashes with Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll since Oct. 7 to 501, said the Israeli army. A military statement late Wednesday said that three other soldiers were seriously injured in central and southern areas […...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Iman al-Masry recently gave birth to quadruplets in a hospital in southern Gaza after fleeing her family’s home in the devastated north. The arduous journey “affected my pregnancy”, the 28-year-old said, recounting that she gave birth by C-section on December 18 to two girls and two boys, o...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has announced that three more of its soldiers were killed in combat during the war on the northern Gaza Strip. In a statement cited by the Times of Israel online newspaper, the Israeli army identified the three soldiers as Lt. Yaron Eliezer Chitiz, 23, deputy commander in […]
