JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli army is holding hundreds of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, said to be “Hamas’ armed wing elite forces members”, in extremely inhuman conditions. Israeli Channel 12 estimated that 300 members of the Al-Qassam Brigades elite forces, known as Nakba Forces, are currently being held in Israel. It ...
ANKARA (AA) – A UN agency has urged Israel to launch an investigation into incidents in which its army killed at least 11 unarmed Palestinian men in front of their family members in Gaza City. “The Israeli authorities must immediately institute an independent, thorough and effective investigation into these allegations, and if found to b...
The Hague, Netherlands – AFP A group of Dutch civil servants staged an unusual protest in front of the country’s Foreign Affairs Ministry on Thursday to call for a cease-fire in war-torn Gaza. Around 150 ministerial workers held up placards and unfurled a banner reading “Civil Servants Demand Cease-fire” over lunchtime,...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel has ordered more evacuations in southern Gaza’s main city as diplomats pressed on with efforts to secure a pause in the war that Hamas says has claimed 20,000 lives. The United Nations said Israel had issued evacuation orders on Wednesday for large areas of Khan Yunis, where more than 140,000 [&...
BEIRUT (AA) – Hezbollah struck several Israeli army locations and illegal Jewish settlements in response to Israel directly targeting civilian homes in southern Lebanon. In a statement, the Hezbollah said it targeted the illegal Israeli settlements of Doviv and Avivim with appropriate weapons. “The [Lebanese Hezbollah] resistance r...
ANKARA (AA) – French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that the idea of fighting against terrorism should not be about “razing the Gaza Strip to the ground.” Macron claimed that Paris’ position had been the same since the start of the conflict in the Middle East, despite what critics have said. “We cannot a...
JERUSALEM (AA) – A member of Israel’s Knesset (parliament) has called for dismissing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying he has become a “burden” for the state. “It pains me to say these words in the midst of the war, but it seems there is no other option,” Meirav Cohen, a member of “There is a […]
Tel Aviv (AA) – Israel’s Chief of General Staff and National Security Minister shouted at each other during a cabinet meeting, Channel 12 reported. Herzi Halevi shouted at Itamar Ben-Gvir, “Don’t threaten me,” during a weekly cabinet meeting on Monday when “the issue arose of soldiers taking control of a loudspeaker system in...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has defended the violence by illegal Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Violence by illegal Jewish settlers “is a marginal phenomenon and there is a sharp decrease in the actions of Jews against Arabs,” Ben-Gvir said during a situation assessment meeting cited by Israeli publ...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said that “the time has come for Europeans to speak clearly and with one voice” on Israel’s brutal attacks on the Gaza Strip. “Not because the world is watching or because history will judge us … but because human beings are suffering; little children are […]
