LONDON (AA) – Six-year-old Palestinian-American Wadea al-Fayoume was stabbed 26 times at his home in Illinois, US, by his landlord, who was screaming anti-Muslim slurs as he brutally attacked the little boy. Just moments before, the assailant, 71-year-old Joseph M. Czuba, told the boy’s mother, Hanaan Shahin, who was also stabbed and criticall...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Some 13,000 Israelis have been injured, including 2,500 soldiers, during Israel’s deadly war on Gaza that began October 7, Health Minister Uriel Busso has said. Speaking during a session of the Knesset’s Health Committee, Busso said two billion shekels ($538 million) have been allocated for the mental health and re...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – More than 12,000 attacks were carried out by Israeli authorities and illegal Jewish settlers in 2023, a Palestinian official reported. “The occupation authorities and their settlers carried out 12,161 attacks, including 5,308 after October 7,” head of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, Moayad Shaa...
JERUSALEM (AA) – A recent poll has revealed that 65% of Israelis are dissatisfied with the performance of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vis-à-vis the war on Gaza. The survey conducted by the Israeli Kantar Institute included 756 people and showed that 63% expressed satisfaction with the performance of Defense Minister Yuval Gantz in the co...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli government and its members are advocating for ethnic cleansing and even genocide in Gaza, Knesset member Ofer Cassif, who has supported South Africa’s genocide proceedings against Tel Aviv, has said. “My constitutional duty is to Israeli society and all its residents, not to a government whose mem...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A speech by President Joe Biden at a church on Monday was interrupted by calls for a cease-fire in the besieged Gaza Strip. “If you really care about the lives lost here, then you should honor the lives lost and call for a cease-fire in Palestine,” one protestor shouted while Biden was […]
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib said Monday that his country is ready to “fully” implement UN Resolution 1701. “Lebanon is ready to fully implement Resolution 1701 provided that Israel withdraws from occupied Lebanese lands and stops its violations of Lebanese sovereignty,” he told a press conference in t...
BEIRUT (AA) – The Israeli army targeted several areas in southern Lebanon with phosphorus bombs on Monday, state media reported. The attacks targeted Al-Awaida Hill between the towns of Odaisseh and Kfarkela in southern Lebanon, Lebanon’s official news agency NNA reported. An Israeli drone targeted a car with a guided missile on the Dabs...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel hit targets in south Gaza and across its border with Lebanon, the army said Monday ahead of a visit by the top US diplomat who is seeking to avert a wider war. Gaza’s health ministry said 73 dead and 99 wounded had arrived at Al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza’s Deir […]
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Israel killed a top commander of the Hezbollah group in a strike on south Lebanon, a security source told AFP Monday. Hezbollah later announced the killing of a “commander”, naming him as Wissam Hassan Tawil. It said he died “on the road to Jerusalem” — the phrase used for fighters kill...
