MADRID (AA) – Portugal’s Foreign Minister Jose Gomes Cravinho has expressed deep sorrow over the deaths of three Portuguese nationals, including two children, in recent Israeli bombing attacks in the Gaza Strip. The deaths occurred November 15 in a bombing attack in the southern Gaza Strip. Cravinho conveyed condolences of the gove...
BEIRUT (AA) — Hezbollah announced Saturday that it downed an Israeli drone with a surface-to-air missile over the Galilee Panhandle area. In a statement, the group said that it “shot down an enemy Israeli Hermes 450 aircraft, a multi-mission combat drone, with a surface-to-air missile” in the region close to Lebanon’s souther...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) — The military wing of the Palestinian resistance group Islamic Jihad has said that its fighters have destroyed two Israeli tanks and a bulldozer in the Gaza Strip and targeted several other military vehicles. In a statement, the Al-Quds Brigades said it “bombed enemy gatherings in the woods of the Kissufim [&he...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Hundreds of people had to leave Gaza’s main hospital on Saturday after its director said Israel’s army had ordered evacuation of the facility where more than 2,000 patients, medics and displaced people were trapped by Israeli attacks. Columns of sick and injured — some of them amputees R...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The director of a Palestinian hospital was killed in an Israeli airstrike south of Gaza City late Friday, according to the official Palestinian WAFA news agency. The attack targeted the Al-Wafa Hospital for the Elderly Care in the Al-Zahraa neighborhood, killing director Midhad Mhaisen, said WAFA, citing local...
GENEVA (AA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) chief has called Israel’s proposal for a so-called “safe zone” in Al-Mawasi in the southern Gaza Strip a “recipe for disaster.” “Attempting to cram so many people into such a small area with such little infrastructure or services will significantly increase r...
GENEVA (AA) – Israel’s proposed so-called “safe zone” is “neither safe nor feasible,” as civilians must be protected throughout Gaza wherever they are, the UN human rights chief has said. “The current Israeli proposal for a so called ‘safe-zone’ is untenable. The zone is neither safe nor fe...
Ankara, Turkey – AFP More than two dozen Palestinian cancer patients, who had crossed from Gaza into Egypt, have arrived in Turkiye for treatment. Turkiye has sent a ship loaded with material for field hospitals, ambulances and generators to Egypt to treat civilians who have been able to flee Israel’s military assault on the besieg...
GENEVA (AA) – The leaders of a number of UN agencies and humanitarian organizations said Thursday that they will not take part in any “safe zones” in Gaza declared by Israel, which is only one side in the conflict. “As humanitarian leaders, our position is clear: We will not participate in the establishment of any [&hel...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Jordan announced Thursday that it will not sign a deal with Israel to exchange solar energy for desalinated water in light of Israel’s war against Hamas. “The energy for water deal was supposed to have been done last month, but we’re not going to sign it,” Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi [&hell...