GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Hamas rejected a claim Friday about the ratio of civilian deaths to its fighters in the Gaza Strip made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling it a “lie and a contempt for global public opinion.” The Palestinian resistance group said Netanyahu seeks to “cover up the enormity of...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP A daily “pause” the Israeli military declared in Gaza to facilitate aid flows has had no impact on deliveries of badly needed supplies, says the UN health agency. More than eight months of attacks by Israel have led to dire humanitarian conditions in the Palestinian territory and repeated UN warnings...
ANKARA (AA) – Cuba on Friday decided to join South Africa’s case against Israel before the International Court of Justice. According to Radio Havana Cuba, under its obligations to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Cuba will exercise its right as a third state to present its interpretation of [&hell...
United Nations, United States – AFP UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Friday that fighting between Israel and Hezbollah must not turn Lebanon into “another Gaza.” Guterres cited increased “bellicose rhetoric” from both sides as they engage in nearly daily exchanges of fire across the Israel-Lebanon bord...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli military analyst Amos Harel says the army wants to withdraw from Gaza, but that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “has other ideas.” In an article in the Israeli daily Haaretz, Harel said Netanyahu “continues to declare that the all-out war against Hamas will continue for as long as it takes.” “HeR...
GENEVA (AA) – After nearly nine months of the war that started on October 7, 2023, the Gaza population has been almost entirely dispossessed of the means to ensure food security, shelter, health, and livelihood, a UN official told journalists. Maryse Guimond, from the Palestine office of the UN Women, spoke at a UN news […]
MOSCOW (AA) – Israel has pushed the settlement with Palestine far back by its actions, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. Speaking at a news conference in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Lavrov said Moscow cannot accept the methods the Israeli troops are employing in their military assault in the Gaza Strip. “In reality, the dest...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has summoned the Armenian ambassador for a “harsh reprimand conversation” after the former Soviet republic said it recognized the state of Palestine. “Following Armenia’s recognition of a Palestinian state, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Ambassador of Armenia to Israel for a h...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army has announced the killing of two more occupation soldiers during battles in the central Gaza Strip. In a statement, the army identified the soldiers as Maj. Omer Smadga, 25, and Maj. Gen. Saadia Yaakov Dery, 27. The military said at least five soldiers were also injured, three of them […]
Havana, Cuba — AFP Thousands of miles from Gaza, medical student Samar Alghoul is supposed to be living her dream in Cuba, where she and hundreds of other Palestinians have been given the opportunity to study for free. But, like the Palestinian diaspora all around the world, she is ridden with anxiety watching the decimation […]
