RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestine’s permanent representative to the UN warned Tuesday that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in northern Gaza face imminent execution for refusing to abandon their land and homes. Riyad Mansour was speaking at a session of the UN Security Council focused on the situation in the Middle East. Mansour ...
The State Department has expressed concern about Israel’s move to ban the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees. Spokesman Matthew Miller says the move poses risks for millions of Palestinians who rely on UNRWA for essential services. These include health care and primary and secondary education. Miller’s ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Vice President and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, campaigning in Washington, D.C., faced protests from hundreds of people expressing disapproval of her administration’s Gaza policy. With just one week until the presidential election on Nov. 5, Harris held a rally at the Ellipse in the capital, the same site where form...
AMSTERDAM (AA) – Major technology companies, defense contractors, and retail chains are under increasing scrutiny and facing boycott campaigns for their direct and indirect support of Israel’s war on Gaza, amid escalating concerns regarding corporate complicity in genocide. As part of Anadolu Ajansi’s series ‘Silent Supporters of Israeli...
JERUSALEM (AA) – An Israeli has been killed in a rocket attack from Lebanon following an escalation of cross-border fire from Israel into Lebanon. Israel’s ambulance service Magen David Adom said an Israeli man died from rocket fire in Ma’alot Tarshiha Jewish settlement in the Galilee region in northern Israel. Israeli public broadcaster...
BEIRUT (AA) – The Lebanese group Hezbollah said Tuesday that it has elected Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem as its new leader. “Hezbollah’s Shura Council agreed to elect… Sheikh Naim Qassem as secretary-general of the group,” it said in a statement. Qassem, 71, succeeds Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed i...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 93 Palestinians were killed and scores injured in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, according to local authorities. Israeli fighter jets hit a 5-story building in the city as more than 200 people were inside, Gaza’s government […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed grave concern Monday over bills passed by Israel’s parliament banning the UN relief agency for Palestinians from operating in the country, which could affect its work in the Gaza Strip. “I am deeply concerned by the adoption today by the Knesset of Israel of two laws...
More than 6,000 military flights originating from Western nations landed in Israel in one year, facilitating the transportation of arms, Al Jazeera reports. Using open-source flight data, Defence Editor Alex Gatopoulos, reveals the significant military assistance provided to Israel by Western nations. The investigation details the establishme...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden said Monday that Israel’s war on the besieged Gaza Strip “should end” as the Palestinian death toll in the coastal enclave has topped 43,000. “We need a cease-fire. This war should end,” the president said in brief remarks before reporters after he cast his early ballot ...
