JERUSALEM (AA) – The families of Israelis held by Palestinian resistance fighters in Gaza said on Saturday that the proposal announced by President Joe Biden for a cease-fire gives them hope of finally getting their relatives back. “Biden’s speech offers us real hope for the first time to get our sons back, but Netanyahu may [&hell...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden said Friday that Israel has presented Hamas with a three-phase deal that would end all attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip and release prisoners that continue to be held in the coastal enclave. The president asked Hamas to accept the deal, and urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to […]
Madrid, Spain — AFP Recognising Palestinian statehood is an “essential” step for achieving peace in the Middle East, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said. “Recognition of the state of Palestine is not only a matter of historic justice… also an essential requirement if we are all to achieve peace,” h...
The Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ armed wing, released a video Saturday addressed to the families of Israeli prisoners in the Gaza Strip. It included images of several Israeli prisoners who were killed in Israeli airstrikes. “Your own army, under orders from Netanyahu, insulted your captives’ dignity; alive and dead,” said the video. ...
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...
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...
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”...
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 ...
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...
Washington, United States — AFP Israel has taken US concerns into account as it wages an unprecedented military operation in the battered Gaza city of Rafah, which is packed with refugees, a senior United States official has said. “It’s fair to say, I think the Israelis have updated their plans. They’ve incorporated man...
