WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden threw cold water Wednesday on prospects for a new deal to secure the release of Israelis held by Hamas, but maintained his senior officials are continuing to pursue a breakthrough. Asked about the prospects for a deal materializing anytime soon, Biden told reporters, “there’s no expectation ...
Palestinian Territories – AFP The leader of Hamas travelled to Egypt on Wednesday as hopes grew that Israel and the Palestinian group may be inching toward another truce and prisoner swap deal. The Qatar-based Hamas chief, Ismail Haniyeh, arrived in Cairo for discussions on the “aggression in the Gaza Strip and other matters”...
ANKARA (AA) – The number of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since October 7 in Gaza has risen to 97, according to authorities in the enclave. “The number of journalist martyrs has risen to 97 since the start of the [Israeli] brutal aggression on Gaza,” said the Gaza-based government media office. The last journalist ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army rounded up 30 more Palestinians in the West Bank, a prisoners’ affairs groups said on Tuesday. The new arrests brought the number of Palestinians detained by Israeli forces in the occupied territory to 4,605 since October 7, the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs and the Palestinian P...
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – – AFP The Houthis have vowed to continue attacks on Red Sea shipping “even if America succeeds in mobilising the entire world”. The United States has condemned “unprecedented” attacks by Yemeni rebels on Red Sea shipping as the Houthis vowed to continue military operations as lo...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army has turned the Al-Awda Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip into a “military barracks,” says the Health Ministry in the besieged Palestinian enclave. In a statement, ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said the Israeli army is holding 240 Palestinians, including 80 medical staff, 40 patients and 120 displaced...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel’s war on Gaza has been deadly for journalists – the deadliest ever conflict for media workers, specifically because of the high number of fatalities in such a short period of time, says the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). CPJ data as of December 17 shows at least 64 media workers killed […]
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories — AFP In what was once the courtyard of the Kamal Adwan hospital in the northern Gaza city of Beit Lahiya, Palestinians wade through the rubble, searching for corpses. The sound of one of them sobbing breaks out while he wraps a body to prepare for burial. Mahmud Assaf, 50, came […]
NICE, France (AA) – Left-wing lawmakers in Paris have blasted Tel Aviv over the killing of a French Foreign Ministry staffer in Gaza during an airstrike and demanded sanctions against Israel. Prominent members of the French parliament accused France of failing to take necessary measures to protect its staffer and his family. “This ...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israelis held by Palestinians are not Tel Aviv’s “top priority” and they cannot be saved without a deal, says an Israeli media report. According to the investigation conducted by the Tel Aviv-based “+972 online magazine” in cooperation with Local Call news website, the Israeli leadership has R...
