Jerusalem – AFP US troops early Thursday anchored a long-awaited temporary pier, meant to boost aid deliveries into war-ravaged Gaza, to a beach in the besieged Palestinian territory, the US military said. “Today at approximately 7:40 am (0440 GMT) United States Central Command personnel supporting the humanitarian mission to deliv...
Istanbul, Turkey — AFP Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed that Israel would “set its sights” on Turkey if it succeeded in defeating Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Erdogan, a vocal critic of Israel’s unprecedented war on Gaza, has often expressed support for the Palestinian group as defenders of their homeland....
The State Department has called for the safety of more than 20 doctors stranded in Gaza following the closure of the Rafah border crossing. The doctors, who were scheduled to leave after a two-week mission, now face perilous conditions due to the closure initiated by Israel following recent military actions. Spokesman Vedant Patel emphasized ...
A social media movement called “Blockout 2024” is gaining momentum, urging users to block celebrities who have stayed silent about Israel’s war on Gaza. Frustration has mounted globally as many stars fail to use their influence to address the dire situation. TikTokker Haley Kalil’s video at the Met Gala on May 7 ignited the movement, [&hellip...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Palestinians, under attack by Israel for more than seven months, on Wednesday marked 76 years since their mass displacement which they call the Nakba or “catastrophe”. The sight of desperate families carrying their scant belongings through the ruins of war-scarred cities has evoked for man...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli troops continued attacks across the Gaza Strip Tuesday that forced new waves of Palestinian mass displacement. Nearly 450,000 Palestinians have been displaced from Rafah since May 6, and around 100,000 from northern Gaza, UN agencies said. That means around a quarter of Gaza’s population...
ANKARA/LONDON (AA) – Police stormed the Free Palestine Movement camp at the University of Geneva and violently dispersed the protesting students. The protests had started on the campus last week, according to the daily Le Temps. Cleaning work started in the building after police broke up the protest camp. The students started protesting ...
Geneva, Switzerland — AFP The United Nations says it had informed the Israeli authorities of the movements of a vehicle carrying UN staff which was hit in southern Gaza, killing an Indian. One UN security services member was killed and another wounded in the attack, the United Nations said, marking the first death of a […]
Sen. Lindsey Graham is arguing that Israel should do whatever it has to do, even use nuclear bombs to strike Gaza. In an interview on NBC News’ Meet the Press, Graham compared Israel’s position to that of the US, when it was facing destruction as a nation after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. That eventually […]
A US Army officer publicly resigned from the Defense Intelligence Agency saying he refused to be complicit in what he termed Israel’s “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians in Gaza. In a letter published on LinkedIn, Major Harrison Mann expressed increasing discomfort with the US-backed Israeli bombardment, particularly as his wo...
