ISTANBUL (AA) – A top representative of Hamas in Lebanon said on Monday mediator countries are working on a deal to achieve cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. The mediators are working to achieve the agreement, which “must guarantee all what we are asking for,” Osama Hamdan, a member of the Palestinian group’s politburo, tol...
ANKARA (AA) – The EU’s foreign policy chief has warned against de-funding the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), saying it would be “dangerous” and threaten regional stability. Josep Borrell wrote a blog post on the EU’s official website late Sunday, saying that “allegations against UNRWA staff are seriou...
Palestinian Territories – AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed to the Middle East for another crisis tour on Monday in a bid to secure a new truce, as southern Gaza saw no let-up in attacks by Israel. On his fifth trip to the region since Hamas’s October 7 attack, Blinken is expected to […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 30 Palestinians were killed in the Deir al-Balah region of central Gaza in 24 hours as Israel continued its onslaught on the besieged enclave, local officials said Sunday. The Israeli army carried out air attacks on the homes of civilians in Deir al-Balah and bombed a mosque in the same […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that he does not need help to manage relations with the United States, in an implicit criticism of his far-right Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir. “I don’t need help to know how to navigate our relations with the US and the international community, whi...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Palestinians have very limited access to clean water amid a deadly Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has said. “Water is life and Gaza is out of water,” UNRWA said in a statement on X. “There is very limited access to clean water and sanitation […]
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah said Sunday that two of its fighters were killed in clashes with Israeli forces near the border with southern Lebanon. Hezbollah did not provide any details about the circumstances leading to their death, saying they were killed “on the road to Jerusalem”, a phrase used by the group...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Scores of Palestinians were reported killed in overnight strikes across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, after Hamas said it needed more time to consider a proposal that would halt Israel’s war on the besieged Palestinian territory. Gaza’s health ministry said early Sunday that at least 92 people had be...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Israel has attacked more than 50 Hezbollah targets in Syria and 3,400 in Lebanon since its war on Gaza began in October, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said Saturday. “Since the beginning of the war, we have attacked, from the ground and air, more than 50 such targets of Hezbollah spread […]
BERLIN (AA) — German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has warned Israel against a military attack in the southernmost city of the Gaza Strip. “To act now in Rafah, in the last and most crowded place, as announced by the Israeli defense minister, would simply not be justified,” Baerbock said in an interview with the RND […]
