PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AA) – The University of Copenhagen announced Tuesday it would divest from three commercial entities operating in the occupied West Bank. “From tomorrow (May 29) KU will no longer have investments in funds that have Airbnb, Booking[.]com and the online travel company eDreams ODIGEO in their portfolio,” it said in a...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The Walloon government in Belgium decided to ban arms delivery to Israel via airports on Tuesday because of pressure from non-governmental organizations. Anais Mangon, spokesperson for Minister-President of Wallonia Elio Di Rupo, confirmed the move to Anadolu. “In view of the situation in Gaza and the decisions of the Int...
Ottawa, Canada – AFP Canada is “horrified” by the deaths of civilians from an Israeli air strike on a camp housing displaced Palestinians in Rafah, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said in a social media post, calling for a cease-fire. “The images coming out of Rafah are horrific and heartbreaking,” Joly said in a se...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Gaza’s death toll from relentless Israeli attacks since last October has reached 36,050, the Health Ministry in the besieged enclave has said. At least 81,026 people have also been injured in the onslaught, the ministry added in a statement. “Israeli forces killed 33 people, injured 383 others in seven ‘massac...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has said it assumed that the Israeli airstrike on Rafah in the Gaza Strip, which killed at least 40 Palestinians, was a “mistake.” Investigations are currently underway in Israel to determine whether it was a targeted attack, government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said at a press briefing in Berlin. “In...
ROME (AA) – Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto has said that attacks against Palestinian civilians in Gaza can “no longer be justified.” “There is an increasingly difficult situation, in which the Palestinian people are being squeezed without regard for the rights of innocent men, women and children who have nothing to do with Hamas...
Brussels, Belgium – AFP Recognising the State of Palestine “is justice for the Palestinian people (and) the best guarantee of security for Israel,” Spain’s foreign minister Jose Manuel Albares said Sunday alongside Palestinian prime minister Mohammed Mustafa. Welcoming Spain’s move, with Norway and Ireland, to rec...
Istanbul, Turkey – AFP Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that his country would do “everything possible” to hold “barbaric” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to account over deadly strikes in Rafah. “We will do everything possible to hold these barbarians and murderers accountable...
Brussels, Belgium – AFP EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday a UN court ruling telling Israel to stop its offensive in Gaza’s Rafah must be implemented, as European ministers met Arab counterparts in Brussels. Israel has continued to strike Rafah as its government has dismissed Friday’s ruling from the Interna...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Israel is imposing collective punishment on Gaza, said International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan, emphasizing that no one has immunity to commit war crimes or crimes against humanity. In an interview with the British newspaper The Sunday Times, Khan discussed the reactions following his move to seek a...
