BERLIN (AA) – Germany has approved arms exports to Israel worth more than €30 million ($31.2 million) over the past few weeks, German newsweekly Der Spiegel reports. Overall, Germany gave the green light to weapons exports to Israel worth more than €160 million over the course of the year, despite growing international criticism of genoc...
President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, has praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Waltz credited Netanyahu for key regional achievements, including weakening Hezbollah and exposing Iran’s air defenses. He said Iran now is vulnerable, with its finances and proxy networks disrupted. Waltz also...
More than 500 taxpayers from Northern California have filed a lawsuit, accusing Congress members of funding genocide in Gaza by aiding Israel. They accuse Congress members Jared Huffman and Mike Thompson of violating laws by voting to allocate $26.38 billion in military aid to Israel in April 2024. They claim that U.S.-provided weapons were u...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel confirmed Monday that it assassinated Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and warned the leadership of Yemen’s Houthi group of similar action. Defense Minister Israel Katz’s comments, aired on Israel’s public broadcaster, followed a ballistic missile strike two days earlier by the Houthis which Israel’s air defense system...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Two former Israeli intelligence officers say that Mossad controlled “every aspect” of the attacks on Lebanon and Syria in September. Planning for the two-day act of terror, which killed 30 and injured over 3,000 on September 17 and 18, began a decade ago by weaponizing walkie-talkies, according to former Mossad offi...
ANKARA (AA) – China has dispatched a new contingent of peacekeepers to join the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), according to the Ministry of National Defense and state-run media reports. The second group of personnel from China’s 23rd peacekeeping contingent successfully arrived in southern Lebanon, where they joi...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 20 Israelis were injured when a missile launched from Yemen landed in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area in central Israel. The Israeli army confirmed the attack, stating: “A missile originating in Yemen impacted central Israel after interception attempts failed.” According to Magen David Adom, Israel’s ambu...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli soldiers have revealed that the army killed Palestinian civilians who entered previously targeted buildings in the Gaza Strip, according to a media report. The Haaretz newspaper in Israel said the army “does not routinely update its list of targets in Gaza, nor does it indicate to forces on the ground which [&hel...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken has pushed back on statements from Israeli leaders that their occupation of the Gaza Strip will remain open-ended. Blinken said it is “in Israel’s interest to find a way to take an off-ramp in Gaza,” because Israel has achieved two of its stated goals in the besieged [&helli...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A former senior State Department official has accused the US of lacking a policy on Palestine, adding that its actions are largely based on Israeli preferences. Mike Casey, who resigned as deputy political counselor on Gaza in July, voiced criticisms in an interview with The Guardian newspaper. “We don’t have a policy [...
