Palestinian Territories – AFP United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has voiced alarm that hundreds of thousands of Gazans “are being confined into ever smaller areas” in the southern of the territory. “There is no safe place in Gaza,” he said on Sunday. Israel has killed more than 15,500 pe...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The situation of the health sector in Gaza is “unimaginable,” the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. “The reports of ongoing hostilities and heavy bombardment in Gaza are petrifying,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X. “Yesterday (Saturday) our team visited Nassar Medical Hospital in the south. It...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Hamas’ armed wing on Sunday said that it hit a target where “60 Israeli soldiers were positioned” in central Gaza Strip. “Today (Sunday) at dawn, our members placed three anti-personnel explosives in a circular manner and detonated them at 0430 a.m, at the point where 60 Israeli soldiers were posit...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has warned of war expansion in the region if Israeli forces continue to commit war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian spoke by phone with European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell about the latest developments on Israel’s a...
JENIN, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian teenager who received serious bullet wounds from the Israeli army last month died of his wounds on Saturday after being admitted to a hospital in Jenin, in the northern West Bank, for 23 days. “Sharif Al-Shaer, 16, died as a result of being shot by occupation bullets in Jenin,” […]
BOGOTA, Colombia (AA) – Colombian President Gustavo Petro has compared the “genocide of the Palestinian people” to the future of countries in the Global South in the face of the climate crisis. “Genocide and barbaric acts unleashed against the Palestinian people is what awaits those who are fleeing the south because of the climate crisis...
ANKARA (AA) – Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati has blamed Israel for the country’s climate crisis, saying the Israeli army’s aggressive use of bombings, particularly phosphorus weapons, has caused irreparable damage to more than 5,000 square meters of agricultural land and forests. “The serious environmental deterioration in Le...
Jerusalem – AFP Israel has killed at least 240 people and injured another 650 since early Friday, the Hamas government in Gaza said Saturday. The deaths occurred as a result of “hundreds of air strikes, artillery and navy bombardments, everywhere in the Gaza Strip”, Hamas said in a statement, adding that Israeli forces had &#...
LONDON (AA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) chief has said that the deliveries of essential supplies to Gaza must “urgently resume.” “Deliveries of essential supplies to #Gaza must urgently resume and be restored at least to levels reached during the recent truce – but much more than that is needed,” Tedros Adhano...
MADRID (AA) – In Spain, Israel’s attacks on Gaza stirred up more interest in Islam and the conflict in the Middle East, according to a local Muslim leader. Umar del Pozo, head of the Association of Islamic Community in Spain and of the Granada Mosque Foundation, shared that the Palestinian issue raised questions in people’s [&helli...