JERUSALEM (AA) – Two months after Israel started its war on Gaza, many sectors in the country have failed to rebound from its impacts despite its conservative hardline government’s efforts to prop up the economy. Most sectors in Israel’s economy experienced a downturn after October 7, when Tel Aviv responded to an attack by t...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Nearly half a million Israelis have left the country since the launch of Israel’s war on Gaza on October 7, according to a local newspaper. The Population and Immigration Authority estimates that 370,000 people left Israel in the past two months, including 230,309 in October and 139,839 in November, Zman magazine s...
Paris, France -AFP An investigation by Agence France-Presse into the strike in southern Lebanon on October 13 that killed a Reuters journalist and injured six others, including two from AFP, points to a tank shell only used by the Israeli army in this high-tension border region. Jointly conducted with Airwars, an NGO that investigates attacks ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has announced the death of another one of its soldiers during a battle in the northern Gaza Strip. Sgt. First Class (res.) Maor Gershoni, 24, of the army’s 6th Brigade’s 8173rd Battalion, was killed in the besieged territory on Wednesday evening, the Israeli army said in a statement. According [&he...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army raided and sealed an orphanage near Hebron city in the southern occupied West Bank, and seized all its assets and material on Thursday. Eyewitnesses said that the Israeli army raided the headquarters of the Beit Ummar Association for Orphan Care in Beit Ummar town, and seized the association’s ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that there remains a gap between Israel’s intent to protect civilians and results on the ground in Gaza. “We stand here almost a week into this campaign in the south, after the end of the humanitarian pause, it remains imperative that Israel put a […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Lebanon on Thursday of Gaza-like consequences if the Hezbollah group decided to engage in an all-out war against Israel. “If Hezbollah chooses to start an all-out war, then it will be responsible for turning Beirut and South Lebanon, not far from here, into Gaza and Khan [...
ANKARA (AA) – The commander of an Israeli search and rescue team stoked controversy last month while discussing the army’s role in the October 7 attack by Hamas, saying that Israeli civilians were killed when Israeli army tanks fired at houses to reclaim the agricultural community of Kibbutz Kfar Aza near the Gaza Strip from […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Even discussing the claim that Israel would establish a buffer zone in Gaza is disrespectful to the Palestinians, the Turkish president has said. “Gaza belongs to the Palestinians. We do not recognize any decision-maker that ignores their decisions,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan told journalists on his return flight from a two-day visi...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestine has condemned a UK decision to carry out surveillance flights over the Gaza Strip, saying the move makes London complicit in the Israeli onslaught on the Palestinian enclave. “Britain’s decision to send surveillance planes over Gaza reflects complicity in the Israeli genocidal war [on Gaza],R...
