RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The losses of private sector businesses in Palestine had reached approximately $1.5 billion in the first two months of Israel’s devastating onslaught on the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) has said. The PCBS said in a statement that the daily losses of the private sector in Gaza ...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip will last “for many more months,” Israel’s army chief Herzi Halevi said on Tuesday. The war “will continue for many more months, and we will work with different methods so that our achievements are preserved for a long time”, Halevi said at a te...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel on Tuesday returned the bodies of 80 Palestinians after taking them from morgues and graves in Gaza to check there were no hostages among them, sources in the territory’s health ministry said. The bodies, which had been transported to Israel, were returned through the Red Cross to Hamas a...
Sanaa, Yemen – AFP Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Tuesday claimed a missile strike on a vessel in the Red Sea and a drone attack towards Israel in solidarity with Gaza. In a statement, the rebels said they carried out an operation against a commercial ship they identified as MSC UNITED, and launched a number of […]
JERUSELAM (AA) – Palestinian Christian theater artists in Jerusalem presented a poignant play portraying the birth of Jesus in contemporary Palestine. This year, the Christmas celebrations were marred by the ongoing violence in Gaza perpetrated by Israel. The actors from the Al-Sabil Cultural Center, a Palestinian Christian group, delive...
ANKARA (AA) – The United States has sent 230 cargo planes and 20 ships loaded with weapons and military equipment to Israel since the launch of the War on Gaza on October 7, according to the Israeli media. The US military assistance includes artillery shells, armored vehicles and basic combat tools for soldiers, the Yediot […]
ANKARA (AA) – A French publisher has said many people are trying to muzzle voices critical of Israel in France and announced the re-release of the book “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.” La Fabrique told the media that the book by renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, which discusses the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people [&he...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has said two more of its soldiers have been killed in the Gaza Strip. Israeli public broadcaster KAN identified the slain soldiers as Staff Sgt. Elisha Yehonatan Lober, 24, and Sgt. First Class (res.) Joseph Yosef Gitarts, 25, of the 179th Reserve Armored Brigade. The death toll […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Iraqi government has condemned the US targeting of its military sites, labelling it a “clear hostile act.” In a statement, the media office of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani said the US act “runs counter to the pursuit of enduring mutual interest in establishing security and stability,”...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestine on Monday condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to encourage Palestinians to voluntarily leave Gaza, calling for an international stand against it. “Netanyahu’s confessions regarding the displacement of our people is a new blow to the countries supporting him in the ge...
