ISTANBUL (AA) — At least 15 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip and in the Nuseirat refugee camp on Sunday, according to Palestinian media. Fifteen Palestinians were “killed at dawn on Sunday, after Israeli warplanes bombed two homes in the Nuseirat camp and Khan Yunis in the […]
JERUSALEM (AA) — The Israeli army said Sunday that another two of its soldiers were killed in the Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll from its ongoing ground offensive in the blockaded enclave to 59 since Oct. 31. A statement from the military said another soldier was seriously injured in the fighting in the Palestinian […]
GAZA, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas said Saturday that Israel “will be held accountable” for the massacre at a UN-affiliated school in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. “We will not leave this land, and you (Israel) will be held accountable sooner or later for your massacre at Al-Fakhoura Sc...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is looking for an “illusion” at the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Hamas has said. “Netanyahu and his war cabinet are looking for a mirage that indicates their inability and hollow arrogance,” Abu Obaida, a spokesman for the Palestinian group’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigad...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Hundreds of people had to leave Gaza’s main hospital on Saturday after its director said Israel’s army had ordered evacuation of the facility where more than 2,000 patients, medics and displaced people were trapped by Israeli attacks. Columns of sick and injured — some of them amputees R...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The director of a Palestinian hospital was killed in an Israeli airstrike south of Gaza City late Friday, according to the official Palestinian WAFA news agency. The attack targeted the Al-Wafa Hospital for the Elderly Care in the Al-Zahraa neighborhood, killing director Midhad Mhaisen, said WAFA, citing local...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP The Israeli army said Friday it killed at least five Palestinians in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. Since the Hamas attacks on southern Israel, there has been a dramatic rise in Israeli army incursions in the West Bank. Israeli forces carried out an operation overnight Thursday-Friday in a refugee camp [&hel...
Kibbutz Beeri, Israel – – AFP EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has called for Gaza hostages to be immediately freed. He also asked Israel “not to be consumed by rage” in its so-called “battle with Hamas” in the Palestinian territory. “I ask for their immediate and unconditional release,” Bor...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP The UN human rights chief on Thursday decried allegations of serious rights violations in Gaza and suggested an international investigation was needed. Volker Turk said “extremely serious allegations of multiple and profound breaches of international humanitarian law, whoever commits them, demand rigorous ...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel renewed its raids into Gaza’s largest hospital on Thursday, trying to find what it said was a Hamas command centre hidden beneath thousands of patients, medics and displaced people. “Tonight we conducted a targeted operation into Shifa hospital,” said Major General Yaron Finkelman, t...
