Palestinian Territories – AFP President Joe Biden said Tuesday that a cease-fire deal in Gaza could deter Iran from attacking Israel in retaliation for the killing of a Hamas leader that sent regional tensions soaring. His remarks came after Iran rejected Western calls to “stand down” its threat of reprisals. The Islamic repu...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden again warned Iran on Saturday about a possible retaliatory attack against Israel amid rising tensions in the Middle East. “Don’t,” Biden responded to reporters before entering his vehicle, when he was asked: “What’s your message to Iran?” Biden issued the same warning in April...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army on Sunday ordered Khan Younis residents to evacuate the Al Jalaa neighborhood which it had previously designated as a “safe humanitarian zone”. The al-Jalaa neighborhood will no longer be part of the “humanitarian zone,” an army statement said. It claimed that Hamas “operates” from the neighborhood and that...
WASHINGTON (AA) — The White House on Friday blasted Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, calling his criticism of a Gaza cease-fire proposal “absurd” and accusing him of endangering the lives of Israelis held in Gaza. “We’ve seen some statements from some quarters in Israel over recent days attacking the deal. I j...
ANKARA (AA) – Iran has said that the Gaza cease-fire is currently part of the country’s priorities, along with the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. The Iranian state news agency IRNA cited a statement by the Iranian permanent mission to the UN responding to a question whether Iran “would reverse its plans to take [&hel...
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia- AFP The “heinous” killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh risks tipping the Middle East into “wider conflict”, the chair of a Saudi-based Islamic bloc told a summit on Wednesday. The comments from Gambian Foreign Minister Mamadou Tangara came as a senior Iranian official said during the sa...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Yahya Sinwar who has been chosen to replace Ismail Haniyeh by Hamas has served as the resistance group’s top official in Gaza for two consecutive terms, the first starting in 2017 and the second in 2021. Commenting on the significance of Sinwar’s selection as the head of the political bureau, [&hel...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Tuesday appointed Yahya Sinwar as its new political chief. Sinwar will replace Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran after he attended the swearing-in ceremony of Iran’s new president on July 31, the group said in a statement on its Telegram channel. Hamas a...
MILTON, Canada (AA) – The UN has announced the completion of an investigation by its Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) into allegations made by Israel against staff members of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) following events on October 7 last year. In relation to the findings, UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq told...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said that his country does not seek the spread of war in the region but will respond to Israel’s crimes, in particular the assassination of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh. Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran on July 31 after attending Pezeshkian’s swearing-in ceremony. H...
