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Palestinian Territories – AFP The health ministry in Gaza said Sunday that Israel has killed at least 35,034 people in the territory during more than seven months of its war on the enclave. The toll includes at least 63 deaths over the past 24 hours, a ministry statement said, adding that 78,755 people have been […]
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel on Saturday hit parts of Gaza including Rafah where it expanded an evacuation order and the UN warned of an “epic” disaster if an outright invasion of the crowded city goes ahead. AFP journalists, medics and witnesses reported strikes across the coastal territory, where the UN says ...
Nairobi, Kenya — AFP An Israeli ground attack in Gaza’s Rafah would lead to an “epic humanitarian disaster”, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned after negotiators left truce talks in Cairo without a deal. “A massive ground attack in Rafah would lead to (an) epic humanitarian disaster and pull the plug on ...
Doha, Qatar – AFP A Hamas official on Thursday accused Israel of carrying out incursions in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah to block talks seeking a truce. Israel has defied international objections and sent tanks into Rafah, which is crowded with Palestinian civilians sheltering near the Egyptian border, seizing early Tuesday a ...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Smoke rose from strikes on Gaza’s crowded southern city of Rafah Thursday after US President Joe Biden vowed to stop supplying artillery shells and other weapons to Israel if a full-scale offensive into the city goes ahead. It was the starkest warning yet from the United States, Israel’s m...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israel killed at least 35 Palestinians and injured 129 others in airstrikes on Rafah in the past 24 hours, a medical source told Anadolu on Wednesday. The medical source also said the Palestinian victims were those who arrived at the Kuwait Hospital in Rafah city, adding that children and women […]
Washington, United States – AFP The White House said Tuesday that Israel must reopen Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt. Israel sent tanks into the southern Gaza city of Rafah and seized control of the crossing, a key aid passage, while warning it will deepen its operation if truce talks fail to secure the release […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Israeli army on Tuesday said that it had seized control of the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. In a statement, the Israeli army said its 401st armored brigade took “operational control” of the Rafah crossing from the Palestinian side. The spokesman of the Palestinian border crossi...
Palestinian Territories — AFP Palestinian resistance group Hamas has said that Israel’s offensive in Rafah disregards the fate of prisoners held in Gaza and the “ongoing humanitarian catastrophe” in the besieged territory. As the Israeli military pushed residents out of eastern Rafah, Hamas said in a statement that Isra...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant spoke by phone Sunday about talks between Israel and Hamas on a prisoner deal that would lead to a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. Austin and Gallant exchanged views on humanitarian assistance efforts and the southern Gaza city of Rafah, Pentagon [...
