JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday he is holding “contacts” to secure the release of people held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. “We are in contact until this moment. The situation cannot be detailed, and we are working to recover them all,” Netanyahu said during a meeting with families of […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP Iman al-Masry recently gave birth to quadruplets in a hospital in southern Gaza after fleeing her family’s home in the devastated north. The arduous journey “affected my pregnancy”, the 28-year-old said, recounting that she gave birth by C-section on December 18 to two girls and two boys, o...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army needs to be ready to launch an attack against Hezbollah, Chief of General Staff Herzi Halevi said Wednesday. Halevi, along with the Commanding Officer of the Northern Command, Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin, conducted a situation assessment, according to a statement from the army. Saying the army’s primary mission...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has announced that three more of its soldiers were killed in combat during the war on the northern Gaza Strip. In a statement cited by the Times of Israel online newspaper, the Israeli army identified the three soldiers as Lt. Yaron Eliezer Chitiz, 23, deputy commander in […]
TULKAREM CITY, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian doctor on Wednesday said an Israeli soldier stabbed an injured Palestinian in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem. Speaking to the media, Radwan Blaibla, head of Tulkarem Medical Syndicate, said the Israeli army stopped ambulances that were transferring injured Palestinians from the Nour Shams ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – An illegal Israeli settler hung a “donkey’s head” on a grave in a Muslim cemetery in the occupied East Jerusalem. “A settler stormed the Bab al-Rahma cemetery and hung a ‘donkey’s head’ on a grave there,” the Jerusalem governor’s office said in a statement. Palestinian activists shared images and footage showing the [&he...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Authorities in Gaza have accused Israel of stealing organs from the bodies of Palestinians and demanded an international probe. In a statement, the Gaza-based government media office said the examination of bodies revealed that their shapes had changed significantly due to the theft of vital organs from the corpses....
ISTANBUL (AA) – A Gaza-based researcher in artificial intelligence ethics has shared that Israel’s use of a system called ‘Gospel’ in Gaza has increased civilian casualties. The Israeli army used the automated target identification system for the first time in Gaza City during its ongoing war, said Dr. Nour Naim. “...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has detained 12 more Palestinians from various areas of the occupied West Bank. According to a joint statement issued by the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoner Society, the new arrests bring the total number of Palestinians detained by Israeli forces since Octob...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas has denied Iranian claims that its October 7 attack against Israel was in revenge for the killing of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in 2020. Soleimani was assassinated in a US drone strike in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in January 2020. Ramadan Sharif, a spokesman for Iran’s elite ...
