Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli strikes killed dozens more people overnight, the health ministry in Gaza said Thursday, including in the territory’s south where Israel has intensified operations. The renewed strikes came as medicine for Israelis held by the Palestinian resistance groups and fresh aid for civilians entered the...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Israel’s army chief said Wednesday the likelihood of war breaking out on the country’s northern border with Lebanon has become “much higher”. “I don’t know when the war in the north is, I can tell you that the likelihood of it happening in the coming months is much higher tha...
LONDON (AA) – The container and dry cargo ship traffic through the Red Sea has shown a significant decline as shipping companies are forced to suspend their voyages through this route or divert it to the Cape of Good Hope. While daily container vessel traffic through the Red Sea halved in January 1-10 compared to […]
ROME (AA) – Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has said that Gaza needs a “civil government” and that all G-7 countries are working towards a two-state solution to the conflict. “I will reiterate to Israeli authorities that Italy aims at a ‘civil government’ in Palestine, to a two-state solution. The two people, two states is […]...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and his Cabinet ministers have signed special postcards addressed to the UN chief, urging the world body to recognize Palestinian nationhood. “This special postcard is to express the wishes of the people of Malaysia by urging the UN to accept Palestine as a member state and demanding [&hel...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Palestinian death toll from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7 has surged to 24,448, the Health Ministry in the blockaded enclave said on Wednesday. The ministry in a statement said 61,504 others were also injured. Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since the Oct. 7 attack by Palestinian […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP Another 81 people were killed in overnight strikes, including in the main southern city of Khan Younis, said the health ministry in Gaza on Wednesday. Just before midnight on Tuesday, witnesses reported strikes on the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, sparking panic among the hundreds of displaced people seeki...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that Arab countries do not want to get into the “business of rebuilding Gaza” if the enclave is “leveled again” in a year. “Arab countries are saying this – they’re saying: look, we’re not going to get into the business – for example – [&hel...
LONDON (AA) – British lawmaker Zarah Sultana accused the government on Tuesday of being “deeply complicit” in Israel’s “genocidal assault” in Gaza, calling on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to “stop arming war crimes.” In a letter to Sunak, Sultana mentioned the genocide case brought by South Africa at the...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US Senate rejected a resolution late Tuesday which demanded that the State Department report on Israeli human rights violations in Gaza. The resolution, introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders, “directs the State Department to provide any credible information it may have on potential violations of internationally...
