GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Dozens of Palestinian children in Gaza City in the northern part of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday rallied to protest the scarcity of food and water under the Israeli siege. The children marched in the streets of Gaza City holding banners reading “bread becomes my dream” and “we want food”. ...
ANKARA (AA) – Casualties of Israeli attacks in Palestine in the past four months are not “mere statistics” but “flesh and blood”, South Africa’s ambassador to the Netherlands told the International Court of Justice on Tuesday. “That defiance by Israel has already led to the killing of tens of thousands...
ANKARA (AA) – The Netherlands on Tuesday accused Israel of annexing occupied Palestinian territories. “No sovereignty can be established over occupied territory and occupied territory may not be annexed,” a representative of the Dutch delegation, Professor Rene JM Lefeber told the International Court of Justice during the public he...
ANKARA (AA) – Saudi Arabia on Tuesday called for ending the decades-long Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands, deeming it “illegal.” “Israel’s actions indicate that it has no intention of making peace,” Saudi Ambassador Ziad Al-Atiyah told a hearing at The Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ). He said Israel has made it im...
The Hague, Netherlands – AFP Palestinian foreign minister Riyad Al-Maliki told the UN’s top court Monday his people were suffering “colonialism and apartheid” under the Israelis, urging judges to order an immediate and unconditional end to the occupation. “The Palestinians have endured colonialism and apartheid...
ANKARA (AA) A former US secretary of state danced brazenly with soldiers of the Israeli army, a force which over the last four months has killed more than 28,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, mostly children and women, local media reported. Mike Pompeo, who served for over two and a half years as secretary of […]
BERLIN (AA) – Israel’s “right to self-defense” does not include the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, Germany’s foreign minister said on the eve of a visit to Tel Aviv. “I would like to emphasize again that the right to self-defense applies, and that every country, like Israel, has the right to defend itself against terror...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israeli soldiers inscribed hate graffiti on destroyed buildings before their pullout from Gaza City, according to witnesses. “Soldiers painted hate speech such as ‘Gaza cemetery’ and ‘memory of destruction’ on walls of destroyed homes,” an eyewitness reported. Last week, Israeli army forces pulled out from several n...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian official has warned of humanitarian and health catastrophes in Rafah in case of an Israeli offensive on the city. The Israeli army plans to launch a ground offensive in Rafah, which is currently accommodating more than 1.4 million people seeking refuge from war. Israel has pounded the rest […]
ATHENS (AA) – UNICEF has warned against a military operation in the city of Rafah, southern Gaza, where over 600,000 children and their families – around a million people – have been displaced under the pressure of over four months of Israeli war. “An escalation of the fighting in Rafah, which is already straining under […]
