Palestinian Territories – AFP Palestinian resistance group Hamas released Wednesday a video of an Israeli-American man held hostage in Gaza who is seen alive and saying that the captives are living “in hell”. He identifies himself as Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, one of the hostages abducted from the Nova music festival in southe...
Israel’s war on Gaza has reached 200 days, leaving a dire human and economic toll. According to the latest figures from the Gaza Health Ministry, 34,183 Palestinians have been killed. Over 14,500 children and 9,500 women are among those killed. Gaza’s Government Media Office has confirmed that Israeli forces have committed a total of 3,025 [&...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 37 more Palestinians were killed and 68 others injured over the last 24 hours, as Israel continued its onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip, the territory’s Health Ministry said on Saturday. “The Israeli occupation (forces) committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 37 martyrs and 68...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Malak Haniyeh, the granddaughter of Hamas’s political bureau chairman Ismail Haniyeh, has succumbed to injuries sustained in an Israeli strike that killed other family members on the first day of the Muslim festival of Eid-al-Fitr, according to medical sources. Three sons of Haniyeh, along with several of his grandc...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Humanitarian aid flowing into the Gaza Strip has seen a significant surge in recent days, said White House National Security spokesman John Kirby on Monday. In an interview with MSNBC on Monday, Kirby emphasized the aid’s crucial role in alleviating the dire humanitarian situation in the area. “The aid has inc...
Peace and human rights advocates on Sunday renewed calls for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza. The day marked six months since the start of Israel’s retaliatory war on the enclave for the October 7 attacks. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated his call for an “immediate humanitarian cease-fire, the unconditional relea...
ANKARA (AA) – Australia hinted Tuesday at recognition of Palestinian statehood, according to media reports. Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Australia would consider supporting a Palestinian state as part of the Mideast peace process. “The simple truth is that a secure and prosperous future for both Israelis and Palestinians will o...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has pledged to “keep the flame of resistance burning” in the face of the Israeli occupation, stressing that the “Al-Aqsa Flood operation is an extension of our people’s journey to defend their land.” “On the 48th anniversary of Land Day, the Al-...
A report published Monday by The New York Times is countering its own story published nearly three months earlier about members of Hamas allegedly sexually assaulting Israeli women during its October 7 attack. The report acknowledges a video taken by an Israeli soldier showing “the bodies of three female victims fully clothed and with no [&he...
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza and southern Lebanon continue despite a UN Security Council resolution passed this week urging an immediate cease-fire during Ramadan. In the last 24 hours, Israeli forces killed 76 Palestinians and wounded 102 in Gaza. Palestinian civilians seeking aid have been targeted, with two severely wounded by Israeli snipe...
