Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel pressed its offensive against Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday after the United States blocked an extraordinary UN bid to call for a cease-fire in the two-month war. Hamas and the Palestinian Authority swiftly condemned the US veto as the health ministry in Gaza put the latest death toll at 17,487 [&h...
ISTANBUL (AA) — The armed wing of Palestinian group Hamas said Friday that it had repelled an attempt by Israel’s military to free a prisoner, who was killed during the operation. The announcement by the Al-Qassam Brigades came in a video showing the Israeli prisoner, who identified himself as Sa’ar Baruch and spoke about the [&hel...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has said two soldiers were killed and another seriously injured as its ground offensive continues in the battered, besieged Gaza Strip. Israel resumed its military offensive against the Gaza Strip on December 1 with characteristic brute force after the end of a weeklong suspension. At least 17,177 Palestinians...
Geneva, Switzerland — AFP Gaza’s health system is on its knees and cannot afford to lose another ambulance or a single hospital bed more, the World Health Organization has warned. “The situation is getting more and more horrible by the day… beyond belief, literally,” WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told a press ...
Palestinian Territories — AFP Israeli forces continued pounding Gaza’s ruined cities Friday even as UN Security Council was about to discuss a resolution calling for cease-fire. Weeks of Israeli air and ground attacks have left 17,177 people dead in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the latest toll from the Palestine He...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Palestinian resistance group Hamas has denounced the arrest of displaced civilians in a school in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli army, saying that “stripping them of their clothes” is the work of “terrorist militias.” In a statement, the group said: “The crime of arresting, searching displaced civilians, stripping them of [&...
United Nations, United States – AFP The United States told a UN Security Council meeting on Friday that it opposed an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. “While the United States strongly supports the durable peace, in which both Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and security, we do not support calls for an immediate ceasefire,&...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Electronic Intifada is an independent online publication which is playing a pivotal role in combatting disinformation and fake news, providing alternative perspectives, analysis, and firsthand accounts from those at the center of all the death, destruction and suffering in Gaza. “The mainstream US media and … the European m...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Two months after Israel started its war on Gaza, many sectors in the country have failed to rebound from its impacts despite its conservative hardline government’s efforts to prop up the economy. Most sectors in Israel’s economy experienced a downturn after October 7, when Tel Aviv responded to an attack by t...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Nearly half a million Israelis have left the country since the launch of Israel’s war on Gaza on October 7, according to a local newspaper. The Population and Immigration Authority estimates that 370,000 people left Israel in the past two months, including 230,309 in October and 139,839 in November, Zman magazine s...
