JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has announced the death of another one of its soldiers during a battle in the northern Gaza Strip. Sgt. First Class (res.) Maor Gershoni, 24, of the army’s 6th Brigade’s 8173rd Battalion, was killed in the besieged territory on Wednesday evening, the Israeli army said in a statement. According [&he...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian man succumbed to wounds sustained by Israeli army gunfire last month in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank. According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, Awad Tayeh Muhammad Anbar, 47, had been critically injured by Israeli forces during a raid on the Tulkarem camp on [&...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that there remains a gap between Israel’s intent to protect civilians and results on the ground in Gaza. “We stand here almost a week into this campaign in the south, after the end of the humanitarian pause, it remains imperative that Israel put a […]
ANKARA (AA) – The commander of an Israeli search and rescue team stoked controversy last month while discussing the army’s role in the October 7 attack by Hamas, saying that Israeli civilians were killed when Israeli army tanks fired at houses to reclaim the agricultural community of Kibbutz Kfar Aza near the Gaza Strip from […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The UN food agency says that only a lasting peace can avert the “looming humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza. “The resumption of hostilities in Gaza will only intensify the catastrophic hunger crisis that already threatens to overwhelm the civilian population,” the World Food Program (WFP) said in a statement. It said that ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Even discussing the claim that Israel would establish a buffer zone in Gaza is disrespectful to the Palestinians, the Turkish president has said. “Gaza belongs to the Palestinians. We do not recognize any decision-maker that ignores their decisions,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan told journalists on his return flight from a two-day visi...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestine has condemned a UK decision to carry out surveillance flights over the Gaza Strip, saying the move makes London complicit in the Israeli onslaught on the Palestinian enclave. “Britain’s decision to send surveillance planes over Gaza reflects complicity in the Israeli genocidal war [on Gaza],R...
BETHLEHEM, Palestine (AA) – A church in the occupied West Bank’s historic city of Bethlehem has prepared a decoration for this year’s Christmas using debris instead of a Christmas tree in response to Israel’s attacks on Gaza. “While genocide is being committed against our people in Gaza, we cannot celebrate the birth of...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China has said that “major countries” must practice “fairness and justice” on the situation in the besieged Palestinian enclave of Gaza. Beijing conveyed the message to Washington during a phone call between top diplomats of China and the US. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi discussed [&...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas would not govern the Gaza Strip during his term. “As long as I’m the prime minister of Israel, this will not happen,” Netanyahu said on social media platform X, in response to a report by Sky News Arabia that […]
