Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday pressed Israel to let more humanitarian aid into Gaza as he stepped up a campaign by Western leaders to reinforce support for Israel after attacks by Hamas. Sunak, following visits this week by US President Joe Biden and Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scho...
Strasbourg, France – – AFP EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has said that there is “no excuse for hitting a hospital full of civilians” in Gaza, but did not apportion blame for the blast. The European Commission president told EU lawmakers the “facts need to be established” on the the Gaza hospital strike. Isra...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has stressed that it is up to Israel to decide when to have a cease-fire in Gaza following UN calls for a truce in the aftermath of the Al-Ahli hospital bombing, which left hundreds dead, including many children. “We are in a situation in which a terrorist organization has not only […]
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has failed to endorse cross-party calls for a cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hamas. Answering questions raised by opposition members of the parliament at the House of Commons on Wednesday, Sunak said Israel has a “right to defend itself, to protect its peopl...
Amman, Jordan – AFP Around 5,000 Jordanians gathered outside the Israeli embassy in Amman Wednesday to protest the deaths of hundreds of people in an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital. Security forces blocked off roads leading to the embassy but the size of the demonstration looked set to swell amid a wave of anger […]
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories- AFP At least 3,478 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Israel began bombarding the coastal enclave, the Hamas-controlled health ministry said Wednesday. More than 12,000 others have been wounded in Israel’s response to a brutal assault launched by Hamas militants on Israel on October 7.
– LONDON (AA) – A Human Rights Watch (HRW) official has said that the bombing of the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza is “yet another war crime committed by the Israeli army, in a list that keeps getting longer, and longer, and longer.” “When will Western powers open their eyes and pressure their ally to […]
Occupied Palestinian Territories — AFP/AA Health officials in Gaza have said that more than 500 people were killed in an air strike on a hospital compound which sheltered the wounded and displaced from Israeli bombing, prompting condemnation and fury in the Middle East and beyond. According to the Palestinian health ministry, Israel was ...
LONDON (AA) – British main opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer on Tuesday said that the attack on a hospital in Gaza is “absolutely devastating.” “The scenes of hundreds killed at the Al-Ahli Arabi Baptist hospital in Gaza are absolutely devastating and cannot be justified,” he said on X. Underscoring that...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US Department of Defense said Tuesday that it is providing security systems to Israel to eliminate the Palestinian group Hamas and that does not mean killing innocent civilians in Palestine. “We are certainly giving Israel the security systems it needs to take out and effectively push back on Hamas in GazaR...
