Gaza City, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel killed five Palestinians in an attack on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City on Saturday. The Israeli military said it had targeted Hamas militants. Thousands of Palestinians displaced by the war, now in its 12th month, have sought shelter in the Shuhada al-Zeitun school, said Mahmud Bassa...
GENEVA (AA) – More than 560,000 children in Gaza were vaccinated against polio in the first round, the World Health Organization (WHO) chief says. “Over 560,000 children aged below ten years of age were vaccinated against polio during the first round of an emergency vaccination campaign in Gaza, which was completed yesterday,”...
Geneva, Switzerland — AFP Israel’s war on Gaza has decimated the occupied Strip and devastated Gaza’s economy, shrinking it to less than one-sixth of its 2022 level, amid an “alarming decline” in the West Bank, the UN has said. Since Israel launched its genocidal offensive on the Gaza Strip more than 11 months ago...
The Biden administration has approved a $164.6 million military equipment sale to Israel, including heavy-duty tank trailers. This move comes amid Israel’s ongoing Gaza war and violence in the West Bank. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced deliveries are expected by 2027. Despite criticism, the U.S. remains committed to bolsterin...
ISTANBUL (AA) – New Zealand’s spy chief said Thursday he was “considering” a request to probe the country’s possible role in Israeli war on Gaza which has killed more than 41,000 Palestinians since last October, public broadcaster Radio New Zealand reported. The confirmation by Brendan Horsley, who is inspector-general of intelligence and secu...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US should stop funding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war in the Gaza Strip, Senator Bernie Sanders said Wednesday. “This week: 19 people killed & scores injured in a strike in a ‘humanitarian zone’ in Gaza. An American shot in the head in the West Bank. Now, another school b...
ISTANBUL (AA) – World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday that 97 patients and critically wounded people from the Gaza Strip were evacuated for treatment to Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). “WHO, in collaboration with the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and p...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hamas and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) reaffirmed Wednesday that any agreement with Israel must include an end to aggression, a complete withdrawal from Gaza, lifting the blockade, reconstruction efforts and a serious prisoner exchange. The statement followed an important meeting in Gaza whe...
ANKARA (AA) – Six staffers of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) were among those killed in an Israeli attack on a UN-run school in the central Gaza Strip on Wednesday. At least 18 people were killed in two airstrikes on al-Jaouni School in the Nuseirat refugee camp on Wednesday, according to local health […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has condemned Israel’s killing of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi as an attempt to intimidate and suppress supporters of Palestinian causes. In a statement, the PLO’s department of expatriates said the killing of Eygi highlights the brutality and violence ...
