JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army claimed Tuesday that it had recovered the bodies of two of its prisoners held by Hamas from the Gaza Strip. A military statement said the bodies of Eden Zacharia, 28, and Sergeant Major Ziv Dado, 36, were brought back from Gaza. The two were taken prisoner by Hamas during […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army detained 51 more Palestinians in the West Bank on Tuesday, according to a local nongovernmental organization. Most of the detainees were taken into custody in Jenin city in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a statement. The number of Palestinians detained by Israe...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army on Tuesday stormed into the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, a Health Ministry official said. According to Ashraf al-Qudra, the spokesman for the Gaza-based ministry, the Israeli army is assembling the Palestinian men, including the health staff, in the hospital’s square. He expressed fear that th...
GENEVA – AFP Palestinian National Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki has said people in the Gaza Strip are “starving because of Israel’s deliberate use of starvation as a weapon of war”. Speaking at a meeting in Geneva to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli forces killed four Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry reported. The ministry did not provide further details on the fatalities, while the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said they were killed in a drone strike on the Old City. Arou...
GAZA, Palestine (AA) – Israel continues to forcibly displace Palestinians living in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, which is under intense air and ground attacks by Israeli forces. Following threats from the Israeli army to target civilian settlements, many Palestinians from the eastern areas of Khan Younis were forcibly displace...
ANKARA (AA) – Democrat lawmaker Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has slammed the US government for vetoing a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, calling the move “shameful.” “The Biden Admin can no longer reconcile their professed concern for Palestinians and human rights while also s...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) – Newly appointed British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has threatened to withdraw Foreign Office support for Scottish ministers after Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf met the Turkish president without the presence of UK officials. In a letter to the Scottish National Party (SNP) government, Cameron said ...
Palestinian Territories — AFP Israel bombed southern Gaza’s main city on Monday after Hamas warned no Israeli prisoners would leave the territory alive unless its demands for the release of Palestinian prisoners were met. Israel has killed nearly 18,000 people — mostly women and children — in a deadly military offensive...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has said that three more soldiers were killed during attacks on the besieged and battered Gaza Strip. “Three reserve forces were killed in the battles taking place in Gaza and their families have been informed,” Israeli public broadcaster KAN said. The fatalities pushed the Israeli army’s death toll since [&he...
