ISTANBUL (AA) – Indonesia has extended its support to South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The Southeast Asian nation’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi will also deliver an oral statement before the ICJ on February 19 as part of the proceedings instituted by South Africa against Israel’s alleged genocid...
ANKARA (AA) – Hamas has described the US position on South Africa’s lawsuit against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as showing “contempt for international law and (being) an American attempt to disrupt it.” In a statement, the Hamas group said the comments by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken rega...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – The Moroccan government said Wednesday that it is ready to deliberate a petition calling for halting normalization with Israel. The government “is ready to deliberate the petition,” government spokesman Mustafa Baytas said following a cabinet meeting. Human rights activists announced plans to submit a petition demanding t...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Wednesday detained 26 more Palestinians in various areas of the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. According to a joint statement issued by the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society, the new arrests bring the total number of Palestinians de...
Ramallah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel kept bombing Gaza on Wednesday as US top diplomat Antony Blinken met the head of the Palestinian Authority, which Washington hopes could govern the coastal territory after the war ends. As the US secretary of state’s motorcade arrived under tight security in Ramallah in the occupied We...
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanese group Hezbollah said Tuesday that three of its members had been killed in clashes with Israeli forces in southern Lebanon. The group, however, did not provide any details about the circumstances leading to their death, saying only they were killed on the road to Jerusalem, a phrase used by the movement […]
ANKARA (AA) – Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of Britain’s main opposition Labour Party, said Monday that the government should support the genocide case filed by South Africa against Israel. In his speech in parliament, Corbyn drew attention to the suffering of Palestinians, who have been subjected to Israeli attacks since Oct. 7 last ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Tuesday raided the city of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its medical teams treated eight Palestinians injured from Israeli live bullets in the Askar refugee camp in Nablus City. Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli forces raided the Askar camp a...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 57 bodies and 65 injured were brought to Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in 24 hours, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Tuesday. The ministry, however, did not provide further details on the victims. Israel has killed more than 23,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, in Gaza [&h...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Egypt is refusing to cooperate with Israel regarding greater surveillance of the Philadelphia Corridor, a narrow buffer zone between Egypt and Gaza, an Egyptian news outlet has reported. Al-Qahera News quoted an Egyptian official who said such reports were “completely false.” Last week, Israeli reports claimed that Israel...
