RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Gaza’s population has declined by 6% as a result of Israel’s genocidal war, official figures have shown. Ola Awad, head of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), said the territory’s population dropped to 2.1 million, down by 160,000 people since 2023. Awad said nearly 45,500 people have been dire...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s destruction of hospitals in northern Gaza is part of a campaign of “ethnic cleansing” against Palestinians, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz wrote in a recent editorial. The editorial criticized the Israeli army’s actions in northern Gaza, saying they are aimed at preventing displaced Palestinians...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US is “aware of reports and still gathering information” about the Israeli detention of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, said the State Department on Monday. The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that Israeli forces arrested Abu Safiya in northern Gaza, and other s...
ANKARA (AA) – UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has strongly criticized an Israeli draft bill aimed at recruiting volunteers as prison guards, warning that it could lead to increased abuses against Palestinian detainees. In a post on X, Albanese called the proposal “so sickening,” saying “Israel MUST BE STOPPED: starti...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen has threatened to assassinate Yemen’s Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi as regional tension continues to escalate over Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. “I’m sending a message to the Houthi leader that if he continues with his actions, he will end up exactly like (Hamas leader ...
ANKARA (AA) – World Health Organization (WHO) director-general has called on Israel to stop attacks on hospitals in the Gaza Strip. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X that “Hospitals in #Gaza have once again become battlegrounds and the health system is under severe threat.” He stressed that the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza w...
JERUSALEM (AA) – A private Israeli broadcaster, in an investigative report aired late Saturday, said a bomb was planted in Ismail Haniyeh’s room in his Tehran residence. Haniyeh was killed inside his residence during a visit to Tehran on July 31. The assassination was carried out with a “precision bomb” placed inside Haniyeh&...
ISTANBUL (AA) — Israel’s over 80-day siege of northern Gaza endangers the lives of the 75,000 Palestinians still in the area, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement. The UN agency’s statement came after Israel’s attack on the Kamal Adwan Hospital resulted in the loss of the last fully functioning medical facility in [&he...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US on Friday said hospitals should not be “active scenes of combat and conflict” after Israeli army’s burning of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza Strip, and forcibly removing its patients and medical staff, causing several deaths. “Hospitals should not be active scenes of combat and conf...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Jordan, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia strongly condemned an Israeli raid on the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. The Israeli army raided the hospital in Beit Lahia town, burning large sections and forcing patients and displaced civilians to flee. The Jordanian Foreign Ministry called...
