Geneva, Switzerland – AFP UN rights chief Volker Turk was “shocked and appalled” by comments by Israel’s finance minister suggesting it might be “justified” to starve the population of Gaza to free the Israelis held by Palestinian resistance fighters, his spokesman said Friday. The United Nations high commis...
ANKARA (AA) – Iran has said that the Gaza cease-fire is currently part of the country’s priorities, along with the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. The Iranian state news agency IRNA cited a statement by the Iranian permanent mission to the UN responding to a question whether Iran “would reverse its plans to take [&hel...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 15 Palestinians, including children, were killed and dozens injured in Israeli airstrikes on schools sheltering displaced people in Gaza City on Thursday, the Civil Defense Agency said. Israeli warplanes attacked al-Zahraa and Abdel Fattah Hamoud schools in al-Tuffah neighborhood, witnesses said. Medical so...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Israel vowed to “eliminate” new Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, the alleged mastermind of the October 7 attack as its war on Gaza entered its 11th month on Wednesday. The naming of Sinwar to lead Hamas came as Israel braced for potential Iranian retaliation over the killing of his predecessor Ismael Haniy...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP The World Health Organization on Wednesday said it will send more than one million polio vaccines to war-torn Gaza after the virus was detected in wastewater there. “WHO is sending more than 1 million polio vaccines which will be administered in the coming weeks,” the UN agency’s chief Tedros A...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army has been using artificial intelligence (AI) tools from Microsoft and Google and Amazon’s cloud service for its war on Gaza, according to reports by +972 Magazine and the Hebrew language news site Local Call. An audio recording they obtained reveals that Col. Racheli Dembinsky, commander of the Israeli...
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has sparked outrage by suggesting it might be “justified and moral” to let two million Palestinians in Gaza starve. He said it will bring pressure on Hamas to return Israeli prisoners. Smotrich’s comments at a conference hosted by right-wing news outlet Israel Hayom have been condemned as genocidal by ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Tuesday appointed Yahya Sinwar as its new political chief. Sinwar will replace Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran after he attended the swearing-in ceremony of Iran’s new president on July 31, the group said in a statement on its Telegram channel. Hamas a...
MILTON, Canada (AA) – The UN has announced the completion of an investigation by its Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) into allegations made by Israel against staff members of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) following events on October 7 last year. In relation to the findings, UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq told...
BEIRUT (AA) – Two members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group have been killed in clashes with the Israeli army along the Lebanese-Israeli border. In separate statements, Hezbollah identified the fighters as Ali Jamal al-Din Jawad and Ali Ghaleb Shuqair, which they said were killed “on the road to Jerusalem,” in reference to Hezboll...
