WASHINGTON (AA) – Hundreds of protestors staged a sit-in Tuesday outside Citibank’s headquarters in New York City for Palestinians in Gaza, who have been under constant Israeli attacks for more than eight months. “Citibank, Citibank, you can’t hide, you are committing genocide,” they chanted, holding banners in solidari...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 21 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the third day of the Eid al-Adha, according to medical sources. Israeli warplanes struck three homes in the central city of Deir al-Balah, killing 13 people and injuring several others, the sources said. Two more […]
Washington, United States – AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that Washington is still reviewing one shipment of bombs for Israel over concerns about their use in crowded areas of Gaza, but that other weapons are moving as usual. Blinken’s remarks came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in Tel ...
BERLIN (AA) – German authorities have dismissed an undersecretary who started an investigation into whether financial support for academics who defended students protesting Israel’s attacks on Gaza should be cut. Education and Research Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger announced the dismissal of Sabina Doring, the undersecretary responsib...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel continued its strike in Gaza on Monday and witnesses reported blasts in the besieged territory’s south. Witnesses told AFP they could hear blasts in the centre and west of the southernmost city of Rafah on Monday morning. Elsewhere in the Palestinian territory an AFP correspondent said strikes a...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Three Palestinians were killed when the Israeli warplanes bombed the southern and northern Gaza Strip on Sunday. The Civil Defense in Gaza said in a statement that its crew recovered the bodies of two Palestinians in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood west of Rafah after an Israeli bombing of the area. […]
RAMALLAH (AA) – Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank are unable to celebrate Eid al-Adha as they once did because of economic hardships, severe attacks in the Gaza Strip and unlawful actions in the West Bank. Israel’s attacks on Gaza have killed at least 37,232 Palestinians, including 15,517 children and 10,279 women, and...
Occupied Palestinian Territories- AFP Eight Israeli soldiers were killed in a blast in southern Gaza Saturday, the military said, in one of its heaviest losses of the war, as witnesses reported street battles between occupying troops and the Palestinian resistance. The military said the IDF soldiers were killed when the Namer armoured vehicle ...
Mina, Saudi Arabia – AFP Pilgrims performed Sunday the last major ritual of the hajj, the “stoning of the devil”, in western Saudi Arabia, as Muslims the world over celebrated the Eid al-Adha holiday. Beginning at dawn, the 1.8 million Muslims undertaking the pilgrimage this year threw seven stones at each of three concrete w...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israel’s ban on the entry of sacrificial animals has deprived tens of thousands of families in the Gaza Strip of the opportunity to observe Eid al-Adha and perform the sacrificial rituals as part of Islamic religious practices, the Gaza media office said Saturday. In a statement on the eve of […]
