RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army continued incursions into several cities in the occupied West Bank, detaining 22 more Palestinians and destroying several homes, as well as taking people’s money and vehicles, according to prisoners’ affairs groups. Israeli soldiers conducted incursions in several areas of the occupied te...
BEIRUT (AA) – At least two people were killed on Saturday as an Israeli drone targeted a car in southern Lebanon, Lebanese media reported. An Israeli drone targeted a vehicle near Tyre City on a road between Bazouriye and Borj el-Shamali towns, resulting in two deaths, the Lebanese National News Agency reported. Another attack targeted [&helli...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel ratcheted up its attacks in the south of the Gaza Strip on Saturday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden discussed differences over a post-war future for Palestinians that have suggested a rift between the two allies. Witnesses said the Israeli bombardment was again focus...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 165 Palestinians were killed and 280 injured in Gaza in 24 hours, the territory’s Health Ministry said on Saturday. “The Israeli occupation committed 14 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 165 martyrs and 280 injured during the past 24 hours,” the ministry said in a statement. “Many people [&helli...
Cairo, Egypt – AFP A Doctors Without Borders (MSF) medic on Friday described unparallelled conditions in the Gaza Strip following a visit to the besieged territory in which he witnessed oversaturated hospitals and ever-closer bombardment. Enrico Vallaperta left Gaza after spending several weeks in the war-torn Palestinian territory for c...
Damascus, Syria – AFP An Israeli strike on Damascus killed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ spy chief for Syria and three other Guards members on Saturday, Iranian media said, in an attack that flattened a multi-storey residential building. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said six people were killed in the Isra...
BERLIN (AA) – A group of German, Canadian and American lawmakers have signed an open letter calling on their countries’ leaders to step up diplomatic efforts for an “urgent humanitarian cease-fire” in Gaza. The letter, published by the TAZ newspaper, was signed by German parliament’s Vice President Aydan Ozoguz, Social Democrat Par...
Beijing, China – AFP China has called for an end to “harassment” of civilian vessels in the Red Sea after attacks on ships by Houthis in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. Houthi attacks on vessels in and around the Red Sea have led to retaliatory strikes in Yemen by US and British forces. Some shipping […]
TEL AVIV – AFP Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rebuffed American calls for the creation of an independent Palestinian state, putting the US-Israeli divide on the matter on sharp display. Netanyahu’s insistence that Israel must retain “security control over all the territory west of the Jordan River”...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Another Palestinian journalist was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, taking their number to 119 since October 7, the government media office said. A statement by the media office said Wael Abu Fannouna was killed in Gaza City, but did not provide any further details. […]
