LONDON (AA) – A UN commission has said international law obligates the UN’s member states to end Israel’s unlawful presence in Palestinian territories. In a legal position paper, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, said that it found the advisory op...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Hours after being released by Israel, Palestinian detainees were killed and several others injured on Saturday in eastern Rafah. A Palestinian who was among those released said that Israel army released around 15 Palestinians. “We were workers securing aid trucks and were arrested four days ago in the Gaza air...
TULKAREM CITY, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian doctor on Wednesday said an Israeli soldier stabbed an injured Palestinian in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem. Speaking to the media, Radwan Blaibla, head of Tulkarem Medical Syndicate, said the Israeli army stopped ambulances that were transferring injured Palestinians from the Nour Shams ...
GENEVA (AA) – European Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarcic has demanded that hospitals in Gaza be protected, calling for an immediate de-escalation of hostilities. “The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is beyond words,” Lenarcic said on social media platform X, adding, “I urge the warring parties to de-escalate ...
BERLIN (AA) – An Irish minister has called on Israel not to carry out military operations that risk the lives of civilians in the Gaza Strip. “While recognizing Israel’s right to self-defense, it has to be done proportionately, and in accordance with the international humanitarian law,” Minister of State Thomas Byrne said. He said recent [&hel...
STOCKHOLM) – Sweden has urged Israel to abide by its obligations under international law and refrain from targeting areas in the Gaza Strip where there is risk of civilian casualties. Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said Friday Israel has a right to defend itself against Hamas attacks, but criticized Israeli military strikes that hav...
Strasbourg, France – – AFP The European Union “cannot accept” Israel stopping water supplies to Gaza’s population, which “clearly” violates international law, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said. “Suspending the water supply to a community under siege is contrary to inter...
Beijing, China — AFP EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said that a plan by Israel to evacuate more than one million people out of northern Gaza was “utterly impossible to implement”. Israel warned residents in the area on Friday to evacuate before an expected ground offensive against the impoverished, besieged territo...
GENEVA (AA) – Amnesty International has said its Crisis Evidence Lab has verified that Israeli military units striking Gaza are equipped with white phosphorus artillery rounds. “We are investigating what appears to be the use of white phosphorus in Gaza, including in a strike near a hotel on the beach in Gaza City,” the right...
