ISTANBUL (AA) — Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin reassured his Israeli counterpart of Washington’s readiness to defend Tel Aviv against Iran, the Pentagon said on Thursday. In talks with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Austin “reaffirmed that the United States remains fully prepared to defend U.S. personnel, Israel, and par...
WASHINGTON (AA) – UN Security Council members have issued a warning against efforts to dismantle the Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA), calling it the “backbone of the humanitarian response” in the Gaza Strip. “The Members of the Security Council strongly warned against any attempts to dismantle or diminish UNRWA’...
HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – An independent UN Commission has confirmed that Israel has a “concerted policy” to destroy the Gaza Strip’s healthcare system. “Our report to the General Assembly, which we presented this morning, examines attacks on medical facilities and personnel and the treatment of detainees and hostages fro...
JERUSALEM (AA) — At least 80 Israelis, most of them soldiers taking part in wars in southern Lebanon or Gaza, have been killed by the Hezbollah and Hamas resistance groups this month. Israeli Army Radio dubbed the month “black October,” as 64 soldiers and police, along with 16 civilians, were killed in either southern Lebanon [&hel...
The State Department has expressed concern about Israel’s move to ban the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees. Spokesman Matthew Miller says the move poses risks for millions of Palestinians who rely on UNRWA for essential services. These include health care and primary and secondary education. Miller’s ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Vice President and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, campaigning in Washington, D.C., faced protests from hundreds of people expressing disapproval of her administration’s Gaza policy. With just one week until the presidential election on Nov. 5, Harris held a rally at the Ellipse in the capital, the same site where form...
AMSTERDAM (AA) – Major technology companies, defense contractors, and retail chains are under increasing scrutiny and facing boycott campaigns for their direct and indirect support of Israel’s war on Gaza, amid escalating concerns regarding corporate complicity in genocide. As part of Anadolu Ajansi’s series ‘Silent Supporters of Israeli...
JERUSALEM (AA) – An Israeli has been killed in a rocket attack from Lebanon following an escalation of cross-border fire from Israel into Lebanon. Israel’s ambulance service Magen David Adom said an Israeli man died from rocket fire in Ma’alot Tarshiha Jewish settlement in the Galilee region in northern Israel. Israeli public broadcaster...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 93 Palestinians were killed and scores injured in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, according to local authorities. Israeli fighter jets hit a 5-story building in the city as more than 200 people were inside, Gaza’s government […]
More than 6,000 military flights originating from Western nations landed in Israel in one year, facilitating the transportation of arms, Al Jazeera reports. Using open-source flight data, Defence Editor Alex Gatopoulos, reveals the significant military assistance provided to Israel by Western nations. The investigation details the establishme...
