WASHINGTON (AA) – Another US senator has called for a cease-fire in Gaza, saying there is need for an “immediate cessation of military hostilities by both sides.” “After grimly witnessing accelerating body counts, many Americans, including thousands of Oregonians, have raised their voices to say more must be done to sto...
Palestinian Territories — AFP Gaza’s health ministry has said that 200 patients were evacuated from a hospital with the help of the Red Cross just hours after it was hit by a deadly Israeli strike. Health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra revealed that 200 people were evacuated from the Indonesian hospital in Jabaliya and taken by...
Palestinian Territories — AFP Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has said that a truce agreement with Israel is in sight, raising likelihood of dozens of people taken prisoners on October 7 being released. There was no immediate response from Israel on the status of negotiation efforts to secure the release. Some prisoners have been released by...
Berlin, Germany – AFP The African Union said Monday that Israel’s response to Hamas’s attack last month was “inexcusable”, warning that civilian casualties would fuel further “extremism”. “The acts (of Hamas) are reprehensible… but the response is inexcusable,” AU chairman Azali Assou...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Amid media reports about a possible exchange of prisoners between Israel and Hamas, US President Joe Biden said Monday he believes a deal to free hostages in Gaza is near. “I believe so,” Biden responded when asked if a deal to release hostages in Gaza is near during the annual Thanksgiving turkey […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – More than 10 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a UN-run school in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Monday, Palestinian group Hamas said. “This is a heinous crime and a disdain for the UN refugee agency UNRWA and the United Nations,” Hamas said […]
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye’s National Defense Ministry on Monday said that it has sent an aircraft to Egypt to evacuate more than 100 patients from Gaza. The move came on a request from the Turkish Health Ministry, a National Defense Ministry statement said. “An A400M aircraft from the Turkish Air Force has been assigned to [&hell...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 17 Palestinians were killed and scores injured in Israeli airstrikes near the Yousef El-Najar Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday, according to witnesses. Fighter jets struck two houses near the hospital in Rafah city, witnesses said. Dozens of people were reported to be under the rubble. [&hellip...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Twenty-nine premature babies were evacuated from war-torn Gaza to Egypt on Monday as the health ministry accused Israel of launching a deadly strike on the territory’s Indonesian Hospital. The Gaza health ministry charged that Israel’s army killed at least 12 people in a strike on the Indonesian ...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP The World Health Organization said it had led an assessment mission to Al-Shifa hospital — Gaza’s largest and the focal point of the war in past days — and determined it was a “death zone”, urging a full evacuation. The United Nations health agency said it was developing an evacuat...
