JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army carried out airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. A military statement said fighter jets struck Hezbollah infrastructure in the border towns of Kafr Kila and Khaim and a military building in Maroun al-Ras. Artillery shelling was also reported near Jebbayn town. The army said it responded to...
ANKARA (AA) – The United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) has voiced deep concern over a report by UN experts that brought to light the possibility that the Israeli army committed serious violations against Palestinian women and girls, including crimes of sexual assault. “UN experts appalled by reported human rights v...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has said it closed four roads to traffic near the Lebanese border, according to Israeli media. The decision was made after an assessment by the army of the situation in the region, leading to the closure of four roads until further notice, Israel’s public broadcaster KAN reported. The closed [&hell...
JERUSALEM (AA) – At least 540 Israeli soldiers have been injured by “friendly fire” since Israel expanded its ground operations in the Gaza Strip on October 27, according to the Israeli media. Israeli Channel 12, citing military figures, said that 1,300 soldiers have been wounded since the start of the ground offensive in Gaza, including [&hel...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has pulled out its 5th reservist brigade from the Gaza Strip, according to the Israeli media. The Israeli public broadcaster KAN said the 5th reservist brigade had fought in the northern Gaza Strip and had seized the territory’s coastal area from Hamas fighters. According to the broadcaster, one reservist [&he...
JERISALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has shot dead a Palestinian youth near the city of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank in an alleged knife attack against the soldiers, according to Israel’s public broadcaster KAN. Witnesses said that the Israeli army opened fire on the Palestinian, believed to be a student, at the [&hell...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Wala Barbakh was shocked when the Israeli army took the body of her daughter, Jana, 14, from a grave after she was killed in an airstrike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Barbakh, who was displaced from the city with her family to Rafah in the southernmost part […]
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah said on Monday that two more fighters were killed in border clashes with the Israeli army in southern Lebanon, bringing the group’s death toll to 166 since October 8. The two fighters were identified as Samah Asaad Asaad (Abu Tarab) from the town of Kfarkela and Ali Said […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Three more Israeli soldiers have been killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army has announced. A military statement said the soldiers from the Paratroopers Brigade’s 202nd Battalion were killed in combat while fighting in the southern Gaza Strip. Another soldier from the same battalion was seriously injured, the a...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army said Wednesday that two more reservist soldiers had been killed and two seriously injured while fighting in the northern Gaza Strip. The slain soldiers both served in the 14th Armored Brigade’s 87th Battalion, said the army. So far 192 Israeli soldiers have been killed in Gaza since its Gaza […]
