Rafah, Palestinian Territories– AFP Israel has begun sending thousands of Palestinian workers back to Gaza who had been stranded inside Israel since its war on Gaza erupted. “Thousands of workers who were blocked in Israel since October 7 have been brought back,” Hisham Adwan, head of Gaza’s crossings authority, said. A...
Israel-Palestine war: Day 28 The besieged Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip faces consistent Israeli attacks from land, air, and sea. Israeli fighter jets bombed the entrance to Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, killing and injuring several. Al-Shifa provides shelter to many displaced and wounded Palestinians and has been warned b...
Tel Aviv, Israel – AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated Friday that Israel has the right and obligation to defend itself as it continues to pummel the Gaza Strip with an air and ground assault. “Israel has not only the right but the obligation to defend itself… to make sure that this October […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – The US has been flying drones over the Gaza Strip in search of captives held by Hamas, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority said on Friday. The authority did not provide further details, but Israeli Channel 12 reported that the US Army has been flying unarmed MQ-9 Reaper drones in the skies of the […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – There are voices within Israel critical of the actions taken by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government in response to the Hamas’ October 7 attack. Daniel Levy, a former senior adviser during ex-Premier Ehud Barak’s government, says it is “important to call out lies … (that) are justifying the mass killing [&...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden’s handling of Israel’s escalating invasion of the besieged Gaza Strip has been nothing short of “horrific,” says a Jewish-American activist who was detained last week following a protest on the Capitol Hill. “It is absolutely unbearable to watch the way our government ha...
ANKARA (AA) – Australia has urged Israel to stop the killing of civilians and warned that Tel Aviv faces “grave risks” if the conflict in Gaza spreads. Speaking to reporters in Adelaide on Thursday, the South Australia capital, Foreign Minister Penny Wong reiterated her country’s call for humanitarian pauses in Gaza. “We want humanitaria...
GAZA, Palestine (AA) – Hamas’ armed wing said on Thursday that it had targeted two Israeli vehicles in the northwestern Gaza Strip. The brigades said on Telegram that they targeted two Israeli vehicles in northwestern Gaza with Yasin 105 shells. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli side on the claim. On Wednesday, the [&...
Tunis, Tunisia — AFP Tunisia’s parliament has begun debating a bill that would criminalize any normalization of ties with Israel as besieged and impoverished Gaza continues being pounded by deadly airstrikes leading to a death toll approaching 10,000. The draft bill defines “normalization” as “recognition of the Z...
LONDON (AA) – Pro-Palestinian demonstrators on Thursday protested outside the London offices of a firm supplying weapons to Israel. Leonardo, an Italian weapons firm with a presence in Britain, faced protesters from the group Palestine Action criticizing it for being a “supplier of weaponry for Israel’s fighter jets” an...