ISTANBUL (AA) – Free Palestine demonstrations protested in Tokyo where US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was attending meetings with Japanese officials, according to various videos and photos shared on social media. “Blinken go home… Free, free, free, free Palestine” were the slogans the demonstrators chanted, opposing the US role in Israel...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinians in the ravaged Shejaiya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City face immense difficulties trying to survive amid a lack of basic services, food shortages, a water crisis and infrastructure destruction as the Israeli onslaught enters its 10th month. Abu Mohammad Hajila, 44, sits on the rubble of a destro...
Palestinian Territories – AFP The health ministry in Gaza said an Israeli strike on a school killed 30 people Saturday, while a rocket fired from Lebanon killed 12 youngsters in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights. The latest strike on a school in Gaza came after a days-long military operation further south that killed around 170, said [&h...
ANKARA (AA) – Australians supporting Palestine have urged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s government to impose sanctions against Israel for its actions in the Gaza Strip. Dozens of prosecutors gathered outside Sydney’s Town Hall during the ruling party Labor Party conference, where the prime minister also spoke to the parti...
ANKARA (AA) – At least nine Palestinians have been killed and several others injured in an Israeli attack in the southern Gaza Strip. Medical sources at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said that they received nine Palestinians who were killed in an Israeli army bombing of two houses in southern Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses reported [&hell...
Occupied Palestinian Territories — AFP The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders for residents of southern Gaza’s Khan Yunis city on Saturday, after warning of new operations. The United Nations said more than 180,000 Palestinians have already fled fierce fighting in Khan Yunis since the military began an operation in the a...
Volunteer Palestinian teachers are providing education to displaced children in Gaza to fill the educational void caused by the Israeli blockade. The initiative began in the Jabalia refugee camp when a group of volunteers agreed to teach children the basic skills. Despite challenging circumstances and limited resources, both students and teach...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli security minister has said that “there will be no halt to the war” amid the US vice president’s call for a cease-fire in Gaza. The daily Haaretz reported earlier on Thursday that after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, US Vice President and presidenti...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Australia, Canada and New Zealand have called for an “urgent” cease-fire in Gaza, which has been under attack by Israel for about ten months. In a joint statement, the three nations said the situation in Gaza is “catastrophic.” “The human suffering is unacceptable. It cannot continue,” the statement said. Crit...
ANKARA (AA) – The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Friday that nine out of 10 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced in the Gaza Strip. “Families seek shelter where they can: overcrowded schools, destroyed buildings, makeshift tents on the sand or amid piles of trash,” the agency said in a statement. It stressed [&he...
