ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AA) – Groups in the Netherlands gathered Sunday outside Starbucks branches in various cities to protest Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. One group gathered in front of the company’s outlet in Rotterdam city center. Hanging posters with slogans like “Starbucks prepares drinks for genocide” an...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories, ISTANBUL (AFP/AA) At least 30 people were killed and dozens injured as Israel targeted a camp for displaced people in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Sunday, said medical sources and officials. The attack occurred near the logistics base of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in Tal al-Sultan, said...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Hamas fired a salvo of rockets at Israel’s commercial hub Tel Aviv for the first time in months, sending people scrambling for shelter. Hamas’s armed wing said it had targeted Tel Aviv “with a large rocket barrage in response to the Zionist (Israeli) massacres against civilians”...
CAIRO (AA) – Aid trucks have begun entering the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom crossing, which connects the Strip and Israel, for the first time since the Israeli military invaded Rafah on May 6, Egyptian media reported on Sunday. Al Qahera news channel aired footage showing the moment humanitarian aid trucks, including four fuel [&hellip...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli warplanes and artillery pounded Rafah on Saturday, as the government dismissed an order by the top UN court to halt its invasion of the southern Gaza city. At the same time, renewed international efforts were underway aimed at securing a cease-fire. An Israeli official said the government had ...
ANKARA (AA) – A senior Australian minister has urged Israel to “abide by” the International Court of Justice (ICJ) order to halt its military assault on the southern Gaza Strip. The top UN court has ordered Tel Aviv to immediately cease its military offensive in Rafah and open the crossing between Egypt and Gaza to […]
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Free Palestine movement protesters vowed Friday to ignore a University of Toronto notice to pack and leave by 8 a.m. Monday. If the protesters remain past the deadline, they will face “consequences under university policies and the law,” according to a statement posted online by the school. Those who remain could [...
ANKARA (AA) – Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz said on Friday his country rejected Saudi Arabia’s condition of “establishing a pathway to a future Palestinian state” for normalization of ties. He spoke with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken after a ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to immediate...
ISTANBUL/WASHINGTON (AA) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and his American counterpart, Joe Biden, agreed on Friday to temporarily deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza via Israel’s Kerem Shalom crossing. In a phone call, the two presidents addressed the severe humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave, including the lack ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian group Hamas, said Thursday that it had captured an Israeli military commander during its Oct. 7 attack on Israel last year. The announcement contradicted previous reports from the Israel army which said he was killed in the attacks that day. In [&hel...
