CALIFORNIA (AA) – A group of students at California’s Stanford University has staged a 19-day sit-in protest, calling on the university to condemn Israel’s siege of Gaza and vowing to continue until their demands are met. “For our Palestinian brothers and sisters, we want to keep the conversation going in regards to the...
LONDON (AA) – Pro-Palestinian demonstrators on Thursday blockaded the London offices of a defense firm said to be linked to Israel’s military supply chain. “Palestine Action blockade weapons firm Thales’ London offices, disrupting a lethal link in Israel’s military supply chain,” Palestine Action said on X. “We SH...
BERLIN (AA) – The NATO has joined calls for a “humanitarian pause” in the Israeli war on Palestine to allow critical aid to get into Gaza. Jens Stoltenberg, the alliance’s secretary-general, told reporters on Thursday that they are supporting diplomatic efforts for a humanitarian cease-fire. “International law must be respected, civilians must...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia has called the killings of journalists covering the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip “shocking,” and described the reaction by some international organizations as “particularly depressing.” “This is a mass death, this is not ‘killing,’ these are not ‘tragic cases,R...
Tashkent, Uzbekistan – AFP Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan hardened his tone against both Israel and the West at a summit of the Economic Cooperation Organisation on Thursday. The leaders of Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Azerbaijan and other Central Asian states met in Uzbekistan for the ECO summit. While not on the official agenda, Isr...
ROME (AA) – Italian navy ship Vulcano, equipped with hospital instruments and operating rooms, has been deployed to the Middle East to receive and treat wounded people from Gaza, the defense minister has said. Guido Crosetto said the hospital ship will first head to Cyprus island and then as close as possible to the besieged […]
GAZA, Palestine (AA) – Israeli airstrikes have damaged two more mosques in Khan Yunis, bringing the total number of damaged mosques to 136 and completely destroyed mosques to 59, according to Gaza’s Interior Ministry. Ikrami al-Mudallal, spokesman for the Ministry of Endowments in the Gaza Strip, said: “The number of mosques completely demolis...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The head of the UN has said that killing of thousands of children in the Gaza Strip shows that there is “something clearly wrong in the way that military operations are being done.” “Every year, the highest number of killing of children by any of the actors in all the conflicts that […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN has demanded respect for the Gaza Strip’s territorial integrity as Israel continues to carry out strikes against the Palestinian enclave. “The integrity of Gaza needs to be respected. It is clear right now that no place in Gaza is safe,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said at a news conference on [&he...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has said that the Rafah border crossing remains closed because of a “security circumstance.” “Our understanding is that given a security circumstance that brought the border closing, Rafah border crossing remains closed today,” State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters on Wednesday. “But this ...
