SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The US and the UK conducted four airstrikes against the Al Hudaydah International Airport in western Yemen, the Houthi group said on Wednesday. “The US-UK aggression resumes targeting Al Hudaydah International Airport with a fourth airstrike,” the Al-Masirah channel, affiliated with the Houthis, said on Telegram. It d...
BEIRUT (AA) – Two people were killed and two others injured in an Israeli drone strike in the city of Tyre, southern Lebanon on Wednesday, state media said. The strike targeted a car and a motorbike south of Tyre, leaving them in flames, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported. Ambulances were seen rushing to the scene […]
VIRGINIA – AFP Four US Army vessels departed a base in Virginia carrying about 100 soldiers and equipment they will need to build a temporary port on Gaza’s coast for urgently needed aid deliveries. The new facility — which will consist of an offshore platform for transshipment of aid from larger to smaller vessels and [&hell...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong has warned that Israel will lose support “unless it changes its course” in the besieged Palestinian enclave of Gaza. “October 7th was a ‘terrorist’ attack and the world was rightly very sympathetic to and in solidarity with Israel at that time,” Wong told the Australian F...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Several Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid in the northern Gaza Strip were killed and dozens injured on Tuesday in Israeli gunfire. Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinians waiting to receive aid near Kuwait roundabout, Salameh Maarouf, head of the Gaza-based government media office, said in a stateme...
Palestinian Territories – AFP A Spanish charity ship taking food aid to Gaza left the Mediterranean island of Cyprus on Tuesday in an attempt to open a maritime corridor to the besieged Palestinian territory. The vessel Open Arms set sail towing a barge loaded with 200 tonnes of relief goods and was expected to arrive […]
Baalbek, Lebanon – AFP Israeli air strikes near Lebanon’s eastern city of Baalbek killed one person on Monday, a security source said, in the second raid in the region since cross-border hostilities in October last year. Since October 8, the day Israel launched its ongoing war on Gaza, Hamas ally Hezbollah and Israel have exchanged...
Doha, Qatar – AFP Israel and Hamas are not close to a deal on a cessation of hostilities in Gaza and release of prisoners, mediator Qatar said on Tuesday, warning the situation remained “very complicated”. Despite weeks of talks involving US, Qatari and Egyptian mediators, the Muslim holy month of Ramadan began on Monday with...
BERLIN (AA) – The German government has criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement in which he vowed to stop the creation of a Palestinian state. According to an official statement, Berlin is committed to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state “alongside the Jewish state.” Netanyahu’...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Two more babies died of malnutrition in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday because of an Israeli blockade, according to medics. The two infants lost their lives at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia city, Samer Labad, a pediatrician, told Anadolu. “They died as the Israeli occupation refused to allow […]
