BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Hamas rejected Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s comments Tuesday about the displacement of the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. “We tell Smotrich and his likes that we are the ones who will stay on this land,” senior Hamas member Osama Hemdan said at a press conference in Beirut. He acc...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Eight Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the occupied West Bank overnight, Palestine’s official media reported on Tuesday. Seven Palestinians were killed in the Tulkarem city in an Israeli airstrike, which also left 12 others injured – including four in critical condition, according to the Wafa news agenc...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said Tuesday that the Israeli army detained a Palestinian from inside an ambulance while on the way to a hospital. The Red Crescent said the incident took place in Tulkarem in the northern the occupied West Bank, and Israeli forces are hindering the work of medical […...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP The Israeli army said Tuesday it had captured parliament and other government institutions in Gaza City, as its forces deepened their offensive in the Palestinian territory. Military units “took over the Hamas parliament, the government building, the Hamas police headquarters . . . .,” the army clai...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Gaza’s main hospital has been forced to bury scores of dead patients in a mass grave, its director said Tuesday. At least 179 people, including babies and patients who died in the intensive care unit, were buried in the “mass grave” at Gaza’s biggest hospital, said director Mohammad Abu ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The death toll from a power outage at the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City has risen to 15, including six premature babies, the hospital director said Monday. “Six premature babies and nine injured people at the hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) died today as a result of the power outage,” Mohamed Abu […]
Palestinian Territories — AFP Israeli attacks raged around Gaza’s biggest hospital Sunday where doctors said thousands of Palestinians were trapped in dire conditions. Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital is caught in Israel’s ground offensive aimed at “destroying Hamas”, and the compound has been repeatedly hit by...
JERUSALEM (AA) – There has been significant progress in talks to release Israelis captured by Hamas, Israeli media reported Friday. An informed source told the official Israeli Broadcasting Corporation Friday that there has been significant progress in talks to release the Israelis. “There is significant progress in the deal to rel...
ANKARA (AA) – French president Emmanuel Macron urged Israel on Friday to stop “killing babies and women” in Gaza. It is important for Israel’s security to “recognize that all lives matter,” Macron told the BBC at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris. He hoped that other leaders would join his demand for a...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The electricity was cut off at the Indonesian Hospital in the Jabalia region in northern Gaza, where thousands of displaced Palestinians, as well as the wounded and sick, are taking shelter, according to the Health Ministry. The generators stopped running due to fuel depletion and the hospital was plunged into darkness, i...
