ISTANBUL (AA) – Journalists in Gaza are dying at a rate far higher than other professionals, suggesting they are being deliberately targeted. “The mortality rate among journalists is much, much higher than in other civilian professions. Indeed with more than 12% of Gazan journalists dead, it’s a mortality rate that would be u...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army killed two Palestinians and injured four others in a drone strike on the Balata refugee camp in the city of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. According to official Palestinian news agency Wafa, the drone strike took place as Israeli forces raided the Balata camp in eastern Nablus, […]
The American Association of University Professors has endorsed academic boycotts against Israel, marking a significant departure from its previous stance. This change follows the International Court of Justice’s ruling accusing Israel of apartheid and ongoing investigations into its potential genocide in Gaza. The AAUP’s new policy, diverging ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel is pushing the International Criminal Court (ICC) to delay the issuance of arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes in Gaza, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. Official sources said Tel Aviv is putting diplomatic pressure on The Hague-based court ...
ANKARA (AA) – Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton’s call to block fleeing Gazans from entering the country has triggered backlash from the government and civil society organizations. Calling for a stop to migration from the besieged Palestinian coast enclave, Dutton had said the arrival of people from a war zone to Australia ...
BEIRUT (AA) – At least 10 people were injured in an Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon, the Health Ministry said, as fears continued to grow of a full-blown war between Israel and Hezbollah. Three of the injured were in serious condition following the attack that targeted the town of Abbasiyyeh in Tyre city, the […]
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Visiting US envoy Amos Hochstein warned that the clock was ticking for a Gaza cease-fire that could also help end 10 months of cross-border exchanges between Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Israel. His Lebanon trip came a day before cease-fire negotiations between Hamas and Israel resumed, with top diplomats scramblin...
Tammun, Palestinian Territories – – AFP Israeli troops have killed five Palestinians in air strikes and a raid in the north of the occupied West Bank. Tubas governor Ahmad Saad reported that four Palestinians were killed in Tammun and one in Tubas. “The (Israeli) forces are withholding the bodies of the five martyrs, and when...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Two members from Gaza’s Civil Defense Agency were killed by Israeli army fire in the southern city of Rafah on Wednesday, the agency said. The agency identified the two victims as Sohaib Abu Taqiya and Diab Abu Jamous. At least 82 civil defense members have been killed in Israeli attacks […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP President Joe Biden said Tuesday that a cease-fire deal in Gaza could deter Iran from attacking Israel in retaliation for the killing of a Hamas leader that sent regional tensions soaring. His remarks came after Iran rejected Western calls to “stand down” its threat of reprisals. The Islamic repu...
