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 ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has announced the death of another one of its soldiers during a battle in the northern Gaza Strip. Sgt. First Class (res.) Maor Gershoni, 24, of the army’s 6th Brigade’s 8173rd Battalion, was killed in the besieged territory on Wednesday evening, the Israeli army said in a statement. According [&he...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Lebanon on Thursday of Gaza-like consequences if the Hezbollah group decided to engage in an all-out war against Israel. “If Hezbollah chooses to start an all-out war, then it will be responsible for turning Beirut and South Lebanon, not far from here, into Gaza and Khan [...
ANKARA (AA) – The commander of an Israeli search and rescue team stoked controversy last month while discussing the army’s role in the October 7 attack by Hamas, saying that Israeli civilians were killed when Israeli army tanks fired at houses to reclaim the agricultural community of Kibbutz Kfar Aza near the Gaza Strip from […]
ANKARA (AA) – France has decided to freeze Palestinian resistance group Hamas leader’s assets for six months under a ruling published in the Official Gazette on Tuesday. The decision came with a ministerial ruling adopted by economy and interior ministries on November 30 . Assets belonging to or controlled by Yahya Sinwar or on his [&hel...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas would not govern the Gaza Strip during his term. “As long as I’m the prime minister of Israel, this will not happen,” Netanyahu said on social media platform X, in response to a report by Sky News Arabia that […]