GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The director of a Palestinian hospital was killed in an Israeli airstrike south of Gaza City late Friday, according to the official Palestinian WAFA news agency. The attack targeted the Al-Wafa Hospital for the Elderly Care in the Al-Zahraa neighborhood, killing director Midhad Mhaisen, said WAFA, citing local...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that if Türkiye and Germany jointly achieve a humanitarian cease-fire in the ongoing Israeli war in Gaza, the region can be rescued from the ring of fire. Speaking at the joint news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin, Erdogan said 13,000 Palestinians ...
GENEVA (AA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) chief has called Israel’s proposal for a so-called “safe zone” in Al-Mawasi in the southern Gaza Strip a “recipe for disaster.” “Attempting to cram so many people into such a small area with such little infrastructure or services will significantly increase r...
JERUSALEM (AA) – For the sixth consecutive week, Israeli authorities imposed tight restrictions on Palestinians, banning them from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem for Friday prayers, leaving the mosque all but empty. An official with the Waqf Department in Jerusalem said that only around 4,000 Palestinians, most of them elde...
GENEVA (AA) – Israel’s proposed so-called “safe zone” is “neither safe nor feasible,” as civilians must be protected throughout Gaza wherever they are, the UN human rights chief has said. “The current Israeli proposal for a so called ‘safe-zone’ is untenable. The zone is neither safe nor fe...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel has agreed to allow two fuel trucks a day into Gaza, Israeli officials said Friday, after the UN warned shortages had halted aid deliveries and put people at risk of starvation. In response to a US request, Israel’s war cabinet unanimously decided to allow “the entry of two diesel fuel [&h...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Israeli air strikes killed two pro-Iran fighters near the Syrian capital Damascus early on Friday during raids targeting an arms depot of Hezbollah, and other sites near the city, a war monitor said. Israel has hit targets in Syria several times in recent weeks as regional tensions rise over Israeli attacks [&h...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Al-Qassam Brigades announced Thursday that its fighters destroyed 21 Israeli military vehicles in areas of the Gaza Strip and levelled a building in Beit Hanoun where Israeli forces were holed up. In separate statements on Telegram, the armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas said it targeted five military [&h...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Jordan announced Thursday that it will not sign a deal with Israel to exchange solar energy for desalinated water in light of Israel’s war against Hamas. “The energy for water deal was supposed to have been done last month, but we’re not going to sign it,” Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi [&hell...
Kibbutz Beeri, Israel – – AFP EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has called for Gaza hostages to be immediately freed. He also asked Israel “not to be consumed by rage” in its so-called “battle with Hamas” in the Palestinian territory. “I ask for their immediate and unconditional release,” Bor...
