ANKARA / GENEVA (AA) – Israeli foreign minister’s call to forcibly displace people from the West Bank is “completely unacceptable,” the EU foreign policy chief said on Thursday. Before attending the informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, Josep Borrell told reporters that UN’s Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordina...
JERUSALEM (AA) — Israel’s foreign minister said Wednesday that the country’s army will order Palestinians to evacuate parts of the northern occupied West Bank amid an ongoing major military incursion in the area. The Israeli army had earlier launched raids in the northern West Bank, including in the cities of Jenin, Tulkarem and Tu...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli foreign minister has said that Israel will not permit the establishment of a Palestinian state, claiming that such a state, mandated by the UN, would pose a “security threat” to Israel. In a post on X, Israel Katz said: “Iran and Hamas have taken over the Palestinian issue.” “A Palestinian [&helli...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has threatened war with Hezbollah if the resistance group did not withdraw beyond the Litani River in southern Lebanon. “[Hezbollah chief Hassan] Nasrallah, if you don’t stop the threats and violence and withdraw to the Litani River, you will be considered the destroyer of Lebanon,” s...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Friday he had decided to “sever the connection” between Spain’s diplomatic mission and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank over Madrid’s recognition of a Palestinian state. “I have decided to sever the connection between Spain’s re...
Jerusalem – AFP Israel recalled its envoys from Ireland and Norway for “urgent consultations” Wednesday ahead of the two governments’ expected moves to formally recognise a Palestinian state. “Today, I am sending a sharp message to Ireland and Norway: Israel will not go over this in silence. I have just ordered th...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has said that Tel Aviv will continue its war on the Gaza Strip until the release of captives held by Hamas. Speaking ahead of a meeting with British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, Katz termed the Gaza offensive as a “war of necessity” against Hamas and the Iranian […]
Istanbul, Turkiye – – AFP A Turkish court released an Israeli footballer who had been detained over accusation of incitement to hate by displaying an offensive message referring to Israel’s assault on Gaza during a first division match. Sagiv Jehezkel, 28, held up a bandage on his wrist reading “100 days. 07/10” n...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – Spain’s prime minister has urged Western states to recognize the state of Palestine “once and for all.” “And until that day comes, we must state clearly and with passion that the Palestinian population cannot pay for the terrorist acts of Hamas,” Pedro Sanchez told diplomats at the Eighth Ambassadors Conference in [&hellip...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel is using starvation as a “weapon of war” in Gaza by intentionally cutting people’s access to water and food, which is a war crime, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. “Israeli forces are deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food, and fuel, while willfully impeding humanitarian assistance, apparently razing agric...
