BERLIN (AA) – Germany has stressed that it is up to Israel to decide when to have a cease-fire in Gaza following UN calls for a truce in the aftermath of the Al-Ahli hospital bombing, which left hundreds dead, including many children. “We are in a situation in which a terrorist organization has not only […]
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) – A number of councilors from the UK’s main opposition Labour Party have resigned in the past days in protest over party leader Keir Starmer’s support for what he called Israel’s “right” to cut power and water supplies to Palestinians living in Gaza. Some prominent leading members of the shadow cabine...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Palestine’s UN envoy Riyad Mansour said on Wednesday “Israel is perpetrating massacres in Gaza every single day,” stressing that there is no right to commit massacres in international law. “For over 10 days now, you have witnessed it; killing entire families, bomb shelters, schools, hospitals, resident...
PARIS (AFP): Israel is deliberately targeting civilians, said Hala Abou Hassira, representative of the Palestinian Authority in France on Wednesday. Addressing a press conference, she said: “It’s a systemic and systematic policy of Israel today in this aggression. Israel targets civilians wherever they are.” She said more tha...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has failed to endorse cross-party calls for a cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hamas. Answering questions raised by opposition members of the parliament at the House of Commons on Wednesday, Sunak said Israel has a “right to defend itself, to protect its peopl...
GAZA, Palestine (AA) – Twelve Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Medical sources told Anadolu: “At least 12 Palestinians were killed, and dozens were injured in the shelling that hit a house belonging to the Abu Is’haq family in the […]
AFP President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Wednesday Egypt did not close the Rafah border crossing with Gaza, which is the only one not under Israel’s control. In a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, he added, “the repeated bombings by Israel of the Palestinian side of the crossing have prevented operations.” Sisi al...
Amman, Jordan – AFP Around 5,000 Jordanians gathered outside the Israeli embassy in Amman Wednesday to protest the deaths of hundreds of people in an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital. Security forces blocked off roads leading to the embassy but the size of the demonstration looked set to swell amid a wave of anger […]
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories- AFP At least 3,478 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Israel began bombarding the coastal enclave, the Hamas-controlled health ministry said Wednesday. More than 12,000 others have been wounded in Israel’s response to a brutal assault launched by Hamas militants on Israel on October 7.
LONDON (AA) – The strike on Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza is “totally unacceptable”, the UN’s human rights chief said Tuesday. In a written statement, Volker Turk noted that the most vulnerable were killed once again, including patients, healthcare workers and families that had been seeking refuge in and around the hospita...
