JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has admitted that it targeted a mosque in southern Lebanon, alleging that Hezbollah members were using it as an “operations base.” The Israeli army claimed in a statement that its air force carried out a “precise strike late on Hezbollah fighters operating from a command center located within the mosqu...
LONDON (AA) – Former Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf has strongly condemned the UK government’s response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, accusing it of “double standards and hypocrisy”. Speaking to the media, Yousaf stressed the decades of suffering endured by Palestinians, calling it a significant failure of t...
BEIRUT (AA) – At least 13 people have been killed during a series of Israeli bombardments of Beirut’s southern suburbs and the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon, and southern Lebanese towns. According to Lebanon’s official news agency, the Israeli army carried out 12 airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, targeting key areas....
WASHINGTON (AA) – American Muslims, who fiercely denounced the US’ unwavering support for Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip, feel “betrayed” by the Biden-Harris administration as the first anniversary of the ongoing tragedy approaches. As many dynamics have shifted in the Middle East during the last year, the administration...
BEIRUT (AA) – The Israeli army has conducted another airstrike targeting the Masnaa area in eastern Lebanon cutting off the international road linking Lebanon and Syria, according to the Lebanese National News Agency. The attack follows Tel Aviv’s allegations that Hezbollah attempted to “smuggle weapons across the border.” Le...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Another Israeli officer has been killed during a battle in southern Lebanon, the Israeli army has announced. “Captain Ben Zion Falach, 21, of the Paratroopers Brigade’s 202nd Battalion, was killed in a battle in southern Lebanon,” it said in a statement. It marks the ninth military death reported by the Israeli arm...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A group of 99 American physicians and medical professionals who volunteered to work in Gaza say they saw no signs of militant activity in the enclave’s hospitals, calling on the Biden administration to immediately cease military, economic and diplomatic support for Israel. In a letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President...
The Israeli army has wiped out 902 Palestinian families in Gaza since Oct. 7, Gaza’s government media office said on Wednesday. It said Israel has erased them from the civil registry by killing all their members during a year of genocide in Gaza. The office said that the Israeli army “exterminated 1,364 Palestinian families by […]
ATHENS (AA) – The EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has condemned the Israeli strike in Beirut that killed seven people as a violation of international humanitarian law. The “IDF targeted once again healthcare workers overnight, in central Beirut: 7 people including paramedics were killed,” he said on X. “Not only are civilians the v...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan and Malaysia have slammed Israel over its relentless genocidal onslaught on Gaza and invasion of Lebanon, calling upon the international community to shun “hypocrisy” and “selective justice.” Addressing press in the capital Islamabad along with his Malaysian counterpart Anwar Ibrahim, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz ...