Mississippi Congressman Mike Ezell has been accused by women’s activist group CODEPINK of assaulting Palestinian-American activist Sumer Mobarak in Washington, DC. The incident was captured on video and shared on social media. It allegedly shows Ezell slapping Mobarak while she was asking him questions about his support to Israel. Accordin...
Palestinian Territories – AFP The health ministry in Gaza said Friday that Israel has killed at least 34,943 people in the Palestinian territory since October last year. The tally includes at least 39 deaths in the past 24 hours, a ministry statement said, adding that 78,572 people have been wounded in Gaza.
President Joe Biden has acknowledged for the first time that American weapons supplied to Israel have been used to kill civilians in Gaza. In an exclusive interview with CNN on Wednesday, Biden revealed that US-made bombs were used by Israel in civilian areas, prompting him to halt the shipment of certain weapons. The US has […]
BEIRUT (AA) – Two more Hezbollah fighters were killed in clashes with Israeli forces near the border with Lebanon, the Lebanese group has said. The group identified the slain fighters as Ali Ahmed Hamza and Ahmed Hassan Maatouq, without providing any details about the circumstances leading to their death. The new fatalities brought to 292 [&he...
ANKARA (AA) – Australia has added its voice to the growing opposition to the Israeli ground offensive into Rafah, warning that the impact of the operation will be “devastating.” Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, in a post on X, said her “country has been clear about our objections to a major Israeli ground offensive into […]...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat has condemned Israel’s incursion into Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, saying it has resulted in continuous loss of life and widespread devastation for civilians. Mahamat said in a statement that the African Union “firmly condemns the extension of this ...
Doha, Qatar – AFP A Hamas official on Thursday accused Israel of carrying out incursions in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah to block talks seeking a truce. Israel has defied international objections and sent tanks into Rafah, which is crowded with Palestinian civilians sheltering near the Egyptian border, seizing early Tuesday a ...
Rep. Rashida Tlaib said Tuesday the Israeli government’s decision to invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah was directly connected to American lawmakers’ recent approval of billions of dollars in additional military aid. Tlaib was among 37 House Democrats who voted against the foreign aid package that included military assistance f...
The United States withheld 3,500 bombs last week, officials said. President Joe Biden withheld 2,000-pound and 500-pound bombs that he feared could be dropped on Rafah by Israel. The news came as Biden again conflated campus protests against Israel’s war on Gaza with antisemitism. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told the Senate the administ...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Smoke rose from strikes on Gaza’s crowded southern city of Rafah Thursday after US President Joe Biden vowed to stop supplying artillery shells and other weapons to Israel if a full-scale offensive into the city goes ahead. It was the starkest warning yet from the United States, Israel’s m...
