Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – AFP Saudi Arabia has suspended talks on potentially normalising ties with Israel, a source told AFP on Saturday, as the war raged between Israel and Hamas. The Palestinian group launched a large-scale attack on Israel on October 7 which killed 1,300 people, sparking a retaliatory bombing campaign that has killed at...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army on Saturday claimed that it had killed a senior Hamas leader who it said led the surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7. “Ali Qadi led the inhumane, barbaric October 7 massacre of civilians in Israel,” the Israeli army said in a statement. There was no comment from the […]
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP A Reuters journalist was killed Friday and six others from AFP, Reuters and Al Jazeera were wounded while working in southern Lebanon, the three news organisations said. A group of journalists from different media outlets was near the village of Alma al-Shaab, close to the border with Israel, when they were [&hellip...
GENEVA (AA) – The UN’s Palestine refugee agency UNRWA has warned that Gaza is fast becoming a “hell hole” amid intensifying violence, urging protection of civilians across the blockaded enclave. Calling Israel’s order for the evacuation of more than a million Palestinians from northern Gaza within the next 24 hour...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that civilian casualties will be “absolutely unacceptable” in case of an Israeli ground operation in the Gaza Strip. Speaking at a meeting of the heads of the Commonwealth of Independents States (CIS) in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek, Putin said that employing heavy mil...
GENEVA (AA) – Amnesty International has said its Crisis Evidence Lab has verified that Israeli military units striking Gaza are equipped with white phosphorus artillery rounds. “We are investigating what appears to be the use of white phosphorus in Gaza, including in a strike near a hotel on the beach in Gaza City,” the right...
GENEVA (AA) – Palestinian civilians have “no safe place left to go” as violence has intensified, the World Health Organization has said. “With ongoing airstrikes, civilians have no safe place left to go. The Palestinian Ministry of Health has informed WHO that it is impossible to evacuate vulnerable hospital patients fr...
Beijing, China — AFP An Israeli embassy worker in Beijing has been attacked, Israel’s foreign ministry said. Video geolocated by AFP shows the man was stabbed with a knife on a street in the Chinese capital. “An Israeli employee of the Israeli embassy in Beijing was attacked today,” a foreign ministry statement said, ad...
Marrakesh, Morocco — AFP Israel’s war on Gaza has cast a shadow over the IMF-World Bank annual meetings in Morocco, with warnings that it has darkened the outlook for an already sluggish global economy. The global lenders are holding their gathering, which brings together finance ministers and central bankers from around the world,...
Tehran, Iran — AFP Thousands of Iranians took to the streets of Tehran on Friday in a show of support for Palestinians amid a bloody conflict between Israel and Hamas. The demonstrators waved the flags of Iran, Palestine and Hezbollah and set fire to the flags of the US and Israel, according to witnesses. They […]