DOHA, Qatar (AA) – Qatar has pledged $50 million as an initial humanitarian aid package for those affected by Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip. Doha also pledged during its participation in the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva to provide 100 scholarships to Palestinian youths, through the Al Fakhoora program of the Education Above All [&h...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – A total of 200 trucks loaded with humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip on Tuesday via Egypt’s Rafah border crossing. The aid includes four fuel trucks and others carrying water, food, and medicines, Wael Abu Mohsen, media director of the Rafah crossing, told Anadolu. Qatar announced an agreement late Monday...
GENEVA (AA) – Israel’s proposed so-called “safe zone” is “neither safe nor feasible,” as civilians must be protected throughout Gaza wherever they are, the UN human rights chief has said. “The current Israeli proposal for a so called ‘safe-zone’ is untenable. The zone is neither safe nor fe...
Moscow, Russia — AFP Russia has sent 25 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Egypt to be delivered to the Gaza Strip, which has been under near-total siege and relentless bombardment by Israel. Since October 9, when Israel placed the Palestinian territory under a “total siege”, only very limited quantities of basic human necessities...
ROME (AA) – Italian navy ship Vulcano, equipped with hospital instruments and operating rooms, has been deployed to the Middle East to receive and treat wounded people from Gaza, the defense minister has said. Guido Crosetto said the hospital ship will first head to Cyprus island and then as close as possible to the besieged […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The head of the UN has said that killing of thousands of children in the Gaza Strip shows that there is “something clearly wrong in the way that military operations are being done.” “Every year, the highest number of killing of children by any of the actors in all the conflicts that […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has said that the Rafah border crossing remains closed because of a “security circumstance.” “Our understanding is that given a security circumstance that brought the border closing, Rafah border crossing remains closed today,” State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters on Wednesday. “But this ...
LONDON (AA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Saturday the UN health agency had not been able to establish communication with its staff in Gaza, where Israel’s intense attacks had led to the breakdown of communication networks. “Reports of intense bombardment in Gaza are extremely ...
– ANKARA (AA) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in New York has condemned Israel’s recent criticism of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Israeli top officials criticized recent remarks of Guterres on the recent escalations in Gaza, including Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan, who demanded that Guterr...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) — Displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are showing signs of disease caused by overcrowding and poor sanitation amid Israeli airstrikes and blockade on the seaside enclave. “We sleep on the ground in hospitals. There is no aid or medicine,” Nadine Abdul Latif, 12, shared. “Patients are sleeping on the ground [&hell...
