WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden’s remarks in which he claimed he had seen “confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children” were based on media reports and on claims from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesperson, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The newspaper cited a White House spokesperson who clarif...
ANKARA (AA) – Israeli Health Minister Moshe Arbel told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu late Wednesday that he had ordered a halt to the treatment of Hamas members in public hospitals, local media reported. In a letter to Netanyahu, Arbel said that the issue of treating the Hamas militants in the public hospitals has caused “tremendous ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US and Israel should bomb Iran, Senator Lindsey Graham said Wednesday. Asked during an interview with CNN whether he wanted the US and Israel to “bomb Iran even in the absence of direct evidence of their involvement” in the attack by the Palestinian Hamas group on Israel, the Republican senator responded: [&he...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Hamas said Wednesday that the military operation it launched against Israel is a “supremely defensive operation.” “The military operation (launched Saturday) targeted Israeli military locations and bases,” Husam Badran, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, told Anadolu. Badran describe...
Brussels, Belgium — AFP The president of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola has said she believes the Israeli killings on Saturday in the Hamas attack were motivated by anti-Semitism. “October 7 is a day that will go down in global infamy,” she said on Wednesday, referring to Hamas’s Operation Al Aqsa Flood that st...
ANKARA (AA) – Israeli airstrikes have displaced more than 260,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN humanitarian office has said. “Over 263,934 people in Gaza are believed to have fled their homes,” the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said. Fears are mounting that the number of displaced Palestinian...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Gaza Strip will face a humanitarian catastrophe if safe corridors are not opened up for aid, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has warned. “The Gaza Strip will witness an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe if safe corridors are not opened for the arrival of ...
BERLIN (AA) – German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said on Wednesday he has offered support to his Israeli counterpart Yoav Galant against Hamas. The federal (German) government has also made this offer to the Israeli military attaché, said Pistorius in Berlin after a meeting of the parliament’s Defense Committee. “Both have said so f...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli Foreign Ministry on Wednesday declined to comment on Washington’s announcement of holding discussions with Tel Aviv and Cairo to establish a humanitarian corridor for civilians in Gaza. An official at the ministry, requesting anonymity, told Anadolu: “We have no comment on this matter at the moment.” US N...
ATHENS (AA) – Pope Francis has expressed concern over the total siege of Gaza, saying the Middle East does not need war but peace, the official Vatican News agency reported on Wednesday. Referring exclusively to the Israeli lives, the Pope said, “I pray for those families who have seen a day of celebration turned into […]