BEIRUT (AA) – Five more fighters from Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad were killed Tuesday from Israeli shelling in southern Lebanon, the groups confirmed. In a statement, Hezbollah mourned the loss of three of its fighters, saying they were killed “on the road to Jerusalem,” referring to the Palestinian struggle for freedom. With...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanese group Hezbollah and Palestinian resistance movement Islamic Jihad discussed the developments in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank. A meeting between Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah and Islamic Jihad Secretary-General Ziyad Al-Nakhalah reviewed the situation in the Palestinian territories, ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, has seized an Israeli reconnaissance drone in the Gaza Strip. The drone was on a surveillance mission in Beit Hanoun in the northern Palestinian enclave, Al-Qassam said in a statement. Meanwhile, Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, said i...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Qatari mediators have told Israel that Hamas is prepared to resume talks on new releases of Israeli prisoners in exchange for a ceasefire, according to US news outlet Axios and Israeli website Ynet, which cited unnamed Israeli officials. A Hamas delegation was in Cairo on Friday to discuss an Egyptian plan [...
Ramallah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man during an overnight raid on Ramallah, seat of the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank, the territory’s health ministry said Thursday. The military said its forces had targeted money exchange shops in Ramallah and other parts of the West Bank...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – A delegation from the Palestinian resistance group Islamic Jihad will visit Egypt for talks on a possible prisoner swap deal with Israel, according to a group official. “The delegation will discuss ways to stop the [Israeli] war on Gaza and a prisoner exchange deal,” Ziad al-Nakhala, Secretary-General of Islamic Jih...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israeli detainees held in the Gaza Strip fear for their lives due to Israeli airstrikes on the enclave, and have asked the Netanyahu government: “Do you want us dead?” The military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, Al-Quds Brigades, aired a video of two Israeli detainees held in the Gaza […]
LONDON (AA) – A new Iranian sanction regime that gives the UK “extensive new powers” to hold Iran and its decision-makers to account took effect Thursday. The British Foreign Office said the regime gives Britain new powers to disrupt Iran’s “hostile activities in the UK and around the world.” “Sanctions will...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, has announced that several members of an Israeli special force were killed and injured when a house in which they were positioned in eastern Gaza City was blown up. In a statement, the brigades said: “We demolished a house […]
JERUSALEM – AFP Hamas said Sunday that Israel had launched a series of “very violent raids” targeting the southern city of Khan Yunis and the road from there to Rafah, near the border with Egypt. A source close to Hamas and Islamic Jihad, another Palestinian resistance group, told AFP that both were engaged in “fierce [...
