ISTANBUL (AA) – Qatar has said that mediation efforts for a cease-fire and prisoner swap deal between Israel and Hamas are still ongoing. “We are engaged in serious negotiations and discussions between the two sides of the crisis in Gaza,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari told a press conference in Doha on Tuesday. “Mediation efforts...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has set six conditions for a prisoner swap and cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, an Israeli news channel has revealed. According to Channel 12, Israel is waiting for a response from the Palestinian resistance group Hamas through mediators. “The mediators’ answer is expected to come today or tomorrow after ...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – Spain’s foreign minister has said that 88 countries now support the country’s idea for a conference to achieve lasting peace in Palestine and Israel. “The plan was proposed by Spain’s prime minister, was adopted by the 27 EU states in October, and now it is endorsed by countries in the Arab […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The UN humanitarian office warned Tuesday that the Gaza Strip will “bleed to death” because of the denial of humanitarian access to the Palestinian enclave. ”The recurrent denial of access of humanitarian teams to northern Gaza is preventing the needed scale-up of life-saving operations,” Olga Cherevko, ...
LONDON (AA) – Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo on Tuesday called for a cease-fire in Gaza and urged nations to seize the current moment to work towards a two-state solution. During his speech at the London School of Economics, De Croo recalled a recent visit to the region with his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez, […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US rejected on Tuesday Israel’s plans to establish a “buffer zone” within the Gaza Strip, saying such a proposal is at odds with the Biden administration’s stated policy. “We do not want to see the territory of Gaza reduced in any way. We won’t support that,” National Securi...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army said Tuesday it completed a siege of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, hours after at least 24 soldiers were killed in the Palestinian enclave. “Over the past day, troops carried out an extensive operation during which they encircled Khan Younis and deepened the operation in the area,” […]...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Monday rounded up 25 more Palestinians in the occupied West Bank under its arbitrary arrest and detention policies, according to prisoners’ affairs groups. The detentions took place in several areas in the occupied territory, including Jenin, Tulkarm, Qalqilya, Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem, H...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to negotiate a date for new elections. “I have a proposal for Benjamin Netanyahu: let’s sit down, you and I, the prime minister and the leader of the opposition, and set a date,” Lapid said during a meeting of his […]
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah said on Monday that two more fighters were killed in border clashes with the Israeli army in southern Lebanon, bringing the group’s death toll to 166 since October 8. The two fighters were identified as Samah Asaad Asaad (Abu Tarab) from the town of Kfarkela and Ali Said […]
