GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza Strip faces overwhelming challenges in patient care, with wooden boards used to cope with patients’ influx. The situation inside the facility is catastrophic, and the number of patients exceeds the number of beds by five times, the hospital’s spokesp...
ANKARA (AA) – The UN human rights office has warned of a “rapidly deteriorating” human rights situation in the occupied West Bank. In its flash report, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Israel to “end unlawful killings and settler violence” against the Palestinian population. “...
JERUSALEM (AA) – An explosive-laden unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from Syria crashed in the Golan Heights, Israeli Army Radio reported on Thursday. According to the radio report, this marks the first incident of its kind since October 7. The UAV crash caused damage to a building in the Israeli-occupied area, but no injuries were reported...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian youth succumbed to his injuries from Israeli military gunfire earlier this month in the occupied West Bank, authorities said. In a statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry said that Tareq Maher Shakhshir, 21, succumbed to severe injuries he sustained during an Israeli military raid in the city o...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has issued three tenders for building 1,839 illegal settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem, according to an Israeli rights group. In a statement, Ir Amim organization said 500 units will be built in the Mount Scopus settlement, 1,039 in French Hill, or Givat Shapira, settlement, and 300 others in East Talpiot [&hel...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli Embassy in Seoul has removed a controversial video from social media channels following strong reactions from South Koreans, according to media reports. The embassy had uploaded a video that featured an imaginary attack on Seoul on Christmas by Hamas. It prompted a strong reaction from the South Korean governmen...
Tehran, Iran – AFP Thousands amassed Thursday in the Iranian capital for the funeral of senior Revolutionary Guards commander Razi Moussavi, three days after he was killed in an Israeli strike. The crowd in Tehran’s central Imam Hossein square chanted “Death to Israel” and “Death to America”. Israel has long...
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Thursday warned of an all-out war in the region due to Israeli “provocations.” “The continuation of Israeli provocations in southern Lebanon could lead to a deterioration of the situation and the outbreak of an all-out war in the region,” Mikati said during a meeting with [&helli...
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...
