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...
ANKARA (AA) – France has decided to freeze Palestinian resistance group Hamas leader’s assets for six months under a ruling published in the Official Gazette on Tuesday. The decision came with a ministerial ruling adopted by economy and interior ministries on November 30 . Assets belonging to or controlled by Yahya Sinwar or on his [&hel...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – At least 60 Palestinians have been detained by Israeli forces in fresh military raids across the occupied West Bank, according to a local nongovernmental organization. The Palestinian Prisoner Society said the detainees included 30 Palestinians who were taken into custody in Jenin in northern West Bank. “The arrests ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas would not govern the Gaza Strip during his term. “As long as I’m the prime minister of Israel, this will not happen,” Netanyahu said on social media platform X, in response to a report by Sky News Arabia that […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Some 73 Palestinians were killed and 123 others injured in Israeli attacks on central Gaza Strip over the past day, the Palestinian Health Ministry said on Wednesday. “73 martyrs and 123 others injured are the total casualties that arrived in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital (near Deir al-Balah city) over the past [&h...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are living in “utter, deepening horror”, the UN human rights chief said Wednesday. Volker Turk said there was a high risk of atrocity crimes being committed in such “catastrophic” humanitarian circumstances. “Civilians in Gaza continue to be relentless...
GENEVA (AA) – UNICEF has warned that the so-called “safe zones” declared by Israel in Gaza pose risks to be “zones of disease.” “Without water, without sanitation, without shelter, the so-called ‘safe zones’ risk becoming zones of disease,” UNICEF spokesperson James Elder said in a UN press brief...
KHAN YOUNIS, Palestine (AA) – Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said on Tuesday that its fighters had targeted several Israeli military vehicles in Khan Younis city in the southern Gaza Strip. The brigades said on Telegram that they targeted five Israeli military vehicles in the east of Khan Younis city with “Al-Yasin 105̶...
