WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has demanded that Israel improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza within 30 days or risk an American arms embargo, the Biden administration confirmed Tuesday. In a Sunday letter to their Israeli counterparts, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made “clear our concerns abo...
Lebanon has submitted a formal complaint to the U.N. Security Council against Israel’s repeated targeting of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Lebanon’s mission to the U.N. in New York filed the complaint under the instructions of Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib to the U.N. Security Council and UN Secretary-General A...
Advocacy group Jewish Voice for Peace staged demonstrations on Monday challenging U.S. military aid to Israel, resulting in more than 200 arrests. A large crowd of demonstrators gathered outside the New York Stock Exchange in solidarity with Palestine. Police intervened and detained several protesters wearing red shirts emblazoned with variou...
ANKARA (AA) – Jordan’s foreign minister has said that the creation of a Palestinian state is the key to peace in the region. “Without the establishment of a sovereign state for the Palestinians, Israel will not achieve peace,” Ayman Safadi said at the Future of Palestine Conference in Ankara. He said Israel only brings destruction [&hell...
BEIRUT (AA) – Rescuers have recovered the bodies of three paramedics from under the rubble following an Israeli airstrike in eastern Lebanon. Israeli warplanes hit a facility of the Islamic Health Authority in Qilya Monday night, destroying the building and killing three paramedics inside. The state news agency NNA said that the bodies of the ...
BEIRUT (AA) – Four members of a family were killed in an Israeli strike on their home in southern Lebanon, local media reported. The state news agency NNA said a father, wife and their two sons lost their lives in the attack that targeted the town of Jarjouaa. The family’s house was levelled in the […]
A senior UN official has revealed that Gaza now has the highest number of child amputees in modern history. Lisa Doughten from the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says 10 children lose limbs daily due to Israel’s ongoing violence in the region. The situation has also worsened for women, who are three […]
On Indigenous Peoples Day, human rights advocates highlighted the contradictions of celebrating the holiday while the US supports Israel’s war in Gaza. Activists, including Jewish American scholar Benay Blend, emphasized the shared colonial struggles of Native Americans and Palestinians. Native Hawaiian professor Uahikea Maile said the day s...
LONDON (AA) – Nearly 50 British lawmakers welcomed the UN’s September 18 resolution calling on Israel to rapidly end its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), and urged their government to halt all military exports to Israel. In an early motion moved by independent MPs Richard Burgeon, Imran Hussain, Zarah Sultana, and...
DOHA, Qatar (AA) – Qatar’s emir has accused Israel of deliberately expanding its aggression as part of a pre-planned agenda against Lebanon and the occupied West Bank. Speaking at the opening of an ordinary session of Qatar’s Shura Council in Doha, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani warned of escalating violence with potential consequ...
