ROME (AA) — The Group of Seven (G-7) nations support the creation of a Palestinian state, Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has said, underlining that the process for this must begin with the suspension of the fighting in Gaza. “The G-7 document talks about the will to reach the objective of two people, two states, […]...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories — AFP A climate of fear pervades a hospital in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, where patients and doctors are reeling from last month’s deadly raid by Israeli agents disguised as medics. At the rehabilitation ward at Jenin’s Ibn Sina hospital, two patients recalled hearing the screams of a...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 83 Palestinians were killed and 125 others injured in the last 24 hours as Israel continued its onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip, raising the death toll since Oct. 7 to 28,858, the territory’s Health Ministry said on Saturday. Israeli attacks have also injured 68,677, according to Palestinian health autho...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has lost 158 employees in Gaza due to Israeli airstrikes. “As of 15 February, the total number of UNRWA colleagues killed since the beginning of hostilities is now 158, an increase of two since UNRWA last update,” the agency said in a report on Friday. […]
Paris, France – AFP President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that recognising a Palestinian state was “not a taboo for France” in his first such comments since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza. “The recognition of a Palestinian state is not a taboo for France,” he said at a joint press conference in Paris [...
Cairo, Egypt – AFP Egypt is building a walled camp in the Sinai Peninsula to receive Palestinians displaced from the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip, says a US media report. The Wall Street Journal article, citing Egyptian officials and security analysts, comes after a rights group reported Egypt was preparing “a high-security ga...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah vowed Friday that Israel will pay “with blood” for civilians killed this week in Lebanon, warning his group has missiles that can reach Israel’s far south. “The enemy will pay with blood” for every woman and child killed in Lebanon by cross-border fire, ...
Kiryat Malakhi, Israel – AFP A gunman killed two people Friday at a bus stop in southern Israel, authorities said, prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to warn the entire country was a frontline in the war. Four others were wounded in the shooting near the southern town of Kiryat Malakhi, Israeli police said. Two people […]
ROME (AA) – The World Food Program must have “security guarantees” to bring food supplies into Gaza to prevent the famine that threatens more than 2 million people in the enclave, its executive director has said. “The WFP has food supplies at the border and will be able to scale up to feed 2.2 million […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Illegal Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian properties in the village of Kisan east of the city of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank. “The settlers burned a house, a vehicle, and a sheep pen,” Mousa Ubayyat, head of the village council reported. “The fire caused significant dam...
