Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel kept bombing Gaza on Wednesday after the army said it is ready for “any scenario” following a drone strike in Lebanon which killed the deputy leader of Hamas, stoking fears of a regional escalation. Although Israel did not claim the Beirut assassination on Tuesday evening, it was widely as...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says Israel’s “arrogance” allowed for the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. “I am certain that Israel had all the intelligence it needed to know what was happening. There were even concrete warnings from friendly intelligence services,” Olmert told Spanish daily El Pais. “This was a psychologic...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh said Tuesday he is open to a single Palestinian administration to govern Gaza and the West Bank. “We have received numerous initiatives concerning the internal (Palestinian) situation and we are open to the idea of a national government for the West Bank and Gaza,” Hani...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Israel’s war against Palestinians reached into the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, where an Israeli strike killed Hamas’s deputy leader, the group and security officials in Lebanon said. A high-level security official told AFP that Saleh al-Aruri was killed along with his bodyguards in the strike by ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Death toll from Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip has reached 22,185, the Health Ministry in the besieged enclave said on Tuesday. The ministry in a statement said the number of injured people had risen to 57,035, nearly 70% of them women and children. The Israeli forces have “committed in […]
ANKARA (AA) – At least 31 Palestinians were killed in overnight Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, as the devastating war entered its 88th day on Tuesday. The official Palestinian news agency Wafa said that a series of Israeli airstrikes on residential areas in the city of Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, killed 22 Palestinian [...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP An Israeli minister on Monday called for the return of illegal Jewish settlers to Gaza and said Palestinians should be encouraged to emigrate, a day after similar remarks by another far-right politician. “We must promote a solution to encourage the emigration of Gaza’s residents,” Israel’...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, has seized an Israeli reconnaissance drone in the Gaza Strip. The drone was on a surveillance mission in Beit Hanoun in the northern Palestinian enclave, Al-Qassam said in a statement. Meanwhile, Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, said i...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel has warned the Gaza war will continue throughout 2024 as unrelenting strikes killed dozens in the Palestinian territory and Hamas fired a rocket barrage at the stroke of midnight. Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari said that some of the 300,000 army reservists would get a break from the war, in ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army on Sunday withdrew five brigades from the Gaza Strip, according to The Times of Israel newspaper. The 460th Armored Brigade, the 261st Brigade, the 828th Brigade, the 14th Reserve Armored Brigade, and 551st Reserve Paratroopers Brigade have all been released. The brigades tasked with training soldiers wi...
