Atlanta, United States – AFP US President Joe Biden said Sunday he heard the voice of Gaza war protesters as some students turned their backs on his graduation ceremony speech at the former university of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. A small number of graduates carried out the silent protest, with some holding […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Sunday that Israel had killed at least 35,456 Palestinians in the territory during more than seven months of its war on the coastal enclave. The toll includes 70 deaths over the past 24 hours, a ministry statement said, adding that 79,476 people have been […]
Atlanta, United States – AFP President Joe Biden told students on Sunday at the former university of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr that he heard their voices over the protests against Israel’s war on Gaza that have roiled US campuses. As one student stood with his back to Biden during the graduation ceremony […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday discussed the situation in the Gaza Strip, emphasizing the need to halt the war and facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged Palestinian enclave. During Sullivan’s visit to Riyadh, which began on Saturda...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Heavy Israeli bombardment rocked the southern Gaza city of Rafah Saturday, as the United Nations said 800,000 people had been “forced to flee” Israel’s assault. Israel’s military said air strikes hit more than 70 targets across Gaza while ground troops conducted “targeted...
Palestinian Territories – AFP A Gaza hospital said Sunday that an Israeli air strike targeting a house at a refugee camp in the centre of the Palestinian territory killed at least 20 people. “We received 20 fatalities and several wounded after an Israeli air strike targeted a house belonging to the Hassan family in Al-Nuseirat [&he...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Knesset member and former Mossad deputy chief Ram Ben-Barak has said that the ongoing war in Gaza is “futile,” asserting that Israel is on the losing end and facing economic collapse. “This war lacks a clear objective, and it’s evident that we’re unequivocally losing it,” Ben-Barak told the Israeli pu...
ANKARA (AA) – Hamas’ armed wing Al-Qassam Brigades on Saturday said that it killed 15 Israeli soldiers in Rafah. In a statement, Al-Qassam Brigades said it targeted “a Zionist Merkava tank with an Al-Yassin 105 shell in the Al-Tanour neighborhood east of the city of Rafah in southern Gaza Strip.” It added that its fighters […]...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian Civil Defense Service in Gaza has said that the Israeli army has destroyed over 300 homes in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip since the start of its military offensive a week ago. Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal said that “the Israeli army has completely destroyed more than […]
ANKARA (AA) – The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital has reported that bodies of 28 Palestinians, including children and women, arrived at the hospital following an Israeli bombing near the facility in the northern Gaza Strip. In a press statement, Hossam Abu Safiya, the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, said: “28 Palestinian bodies, i...
