El Alamein, Egypt – AFP Top US diplomat Antony Blinken met Egypt’s president Tuesday for talks about a Gaza cease-fire after saying Israel had accepted a US “bridging proposal” for a deal. The Palestinian resistance group said it was “keen to reach a cease-fire” agreement but protested US modifications in th...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 16,480 Palestinian children have been killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip since October last year, local authorities said on Monday. Ismail Thawabteh, who heads Gaza’s government media office, told Anadolu 35 Palestinian children have died from malnutrition and dehydration amid a tight Israeli block...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has said that 207 of its team members have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the outbreak of the Israeli war on October 7. “207 UNRWA team members have been killed in Gaza since the war […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has denounced last month’s Israeli airstrikes on Al Hudaydah Port in western Yemen as a “possible war crime.” At least six civilians were killed and over 80 others injured on July 20 when Israeli warplanes struck more than two dozen oil storage tanks and two shipping cranes in […]
BEIRUT (AA) – Two people were killed in the southern Lebanese town of Houla following an Israeli drone strike, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry. The incident was part of an intensifying conflict between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah along the Lebanon-Israel border. The official Lebanese news agency confirmed the dea...
LONDON (AA) — The Scottish government announced Monday that it had suspended all meetings with Israeli ambassadors until “real progress” is made towards peace in the Gaza Strip and unimpeded access is granted to humanitarian assistance to the enclave. In a statement, External Affairs Secretary Angus Robertson said the Scottish gove...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Palestine government has initiated regional and international communications to ensure the success of President Mahmoud Abbas’ anticipated visit to the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian leadership has already begun diplomatic moves and communications around the world in preparation for Abbas and his delegation’s...
ANKARA (AA) – All kinds of torture and genocide against Palestinians have been carried out in Gaza, the sister of Nadi Sallout, an aid worker from World Central Kitchen (WCK) who had been killed by Israel said while recounting the horrors of the brutal Israeli war on Gaza. “For about a year, all kinds of […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 40 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, pushing the overall death toll since last Oct. 7 to 40,134, Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Monday. A ministry statement added that some 92,743 other people have been injured in the ongoing deadly attacks. “Israeli forces killed 40 people […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden said Sunday he believes that a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip is “still possible.” The talks are “still underway. We’re not giving up. (It’s) still possible,” Biden told reporters. Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by the Palestinian group Hamas...
