United Nations, United States – AFP The United States on Friday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have called for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza. Washington dashed a growing clamor for an immediate cease-fire that had been led by UN chief Antonio Guterres and Arab nations. American envoy Robert Wood said the resolution ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has said two soldiers were killed and another seriously injured as its ground offensive continues in the battered, besieged Gaza Strip. Israel resumed its military offensive against the Gaza Strip on December 1 with characteristic brute force after the end of a weeklong suspension. At least 17,177 Palestinians...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Health Ministry in Gaza on Friday said the Israeli army is besieging the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern the Gaza Strip and opening fire towards the hospital. In a statement, the ministry said the Israeli army snipers are taking positions in the surrounding buildings of the hospital and […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Palestinian resistance group Hamas has denounced the arrest of displaced civilians in a school in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli army, saying that “stripping them of their clothes” is the work of “terrorist militias.” In a statement, the group said: “The crime of arresting, searching displaced civilians, stripping them of [&...
United Nations, United States – AFP The United States told a UN Security Council meeting on Friday that it opposed an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. “While the United States strongly supports the durable peace, in which both Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and security, we do not support calls for an immediate ceasefire,&...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Dozens of people, including children, were killed and injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house on Friday in the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said. “Al-Amal Hospital received numerous injuries and casualties as Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Two months after Israel started its war on Gaza, many sectors in the country have failed to rebound from its impacts despite its conservative hardline government’s efforts to prop up the economy. Most sectors in Israel’s economy experienced a downturn after October 7, when Tel Aviv responded to an attack by t...
GENEVA (AA) – Austria has announced that it is restoring aid funds for Palestine and releasing €17.5 million (approximately $18.8 million) for nine projects that had been frozen by Vienna after the events of October 7. The funds will be used for nine projects totaling €17.5 million (approximately $18.8 million), the Foreign Ministry said...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Nearly half a million Israelis have left the country since the launch of Israel’s war on Gaza on October 7, according to a local newspaper. The Population and Immigration Authority estimates that 370,000 people left Israel in the past two months, including 230,309 in October and 139,839 in November, Zman magazine s...
Paris, France -AFP An investigation by Agence France-Presse into the strike in southern Lebanon on October 13 that killed a Reuters journalist and injured six others, including two from AFP, points to a tank shell only used by the Israeli army in this high-tension border region. Jointly conducted with Airwars, an NGO that investigates attacks ...