ANKARA (AA) – US House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner underscored the cautious approach being taken by Washington in sharing intelligence amid efforts to assist Israel in locating the leadership of the Palestinian group Hamas. The US is “being selective as to the information that’s being provided” to Israel...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian telecommunication company Jawwal reported a complete blackout in Gaza City and north of the territory on Monday amid Israeli airstrikes on the enclave. The company said phone and internet services were interrupted “as a result of damage caused to key elements of the network because of the ongoing aggress...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hamas on Monday dismissed Israeli rape accusations against its fighters as a “desperate attempt” to distort the group’s humane treatment of Israeli prisoners. “We reject the Israeli lies about raping, which aim to distort the resistance and tarnish our humane and moral treatment of captives,” Hamas said in a statement. The stat...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army said on Sunday that the number of soldiers killed in Gaza has risen to 75 since October 27. Three more soldiers have been killed and another soldier sustained serious injuries in clashes in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army said. Israel launched relentless air and ground attacks on the […]
LONDON (AA) – The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has expressed deep concern over the situation in the southern region of Gaza, with its spokesperson saying that the Israeli attacks are every bit as vicious as those endured in the north. “Despite what has been assured, attacks in the south of Gaza ar...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Dozens of Israeli tanks entered the southern part of the Gaza Strip near Khan Yunis on Monday, witnesses told AFP. Dozens of Israeli tanks as well as armoured personnel carriers and bulldozers entered the south of the territory near the city of Khan Yunis, which is crowded with internally displaced Palestini...
ISTANBUL/AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – The Israeli army opened fire on two ambulances in the blockaded Gaza Strip late Sunday, wounding three people. The incident occurred in the Faluja area in northern Gaza, the Palestine Red Crescent said in a statement. Two paramedics from the Palestine Red Crescent and a third person were wounded. The Israeli...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) — The death toll from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has surged to 15,523 since Oct. 7, the Health Ministry in the besieged Palestinian enclave announced Sunday. At least 509 Palestinians have been killed and 1,316 injured since Friday in Israeli airstrikes, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. “The toll [&...
Palestinian Territories – AFP United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has voiced alarm that hundreds of thousands of Gazans “are being confined into ever smaller areas” in the southern of the territory. “There is no safe place in Gaza,” he said on Sunday. Israel has killed more than 15,500 pe...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Hamas’ armed wing on Sunday said that it hit a target where “60 Israeli soldiers were positioned” in central Gaza Strip. “Today (Sunday) at dawn, our members placed three anti-personnel explosives in a circular manner and detonated them at 0430 a.m, at the point where 60 Israeli soldiers were posit...
