Congressman Jamaal Bowman, known for his outspoken criticism of Israel, has lost the Democratic Primary of New York’s district 16 to George Latimer in the costliest House primary ever. Latimer’s campaign spent nearly $15 million on the race. He received heavy backing from the pro-Israel lobby, including the powerful American Israel Publ...
BERLIN (AA) – Growing tensions between Israel and Lebanon could trigger a war with “disastrous consequences” for the entire Middle East, Germany’s foreign minister has warned. Speaking to reporters in Jerusalem after her meeting with Israeli counterparts, Annalena Baerbock said the situation is “very serious’ and could get out of control...
Paris, France – AFP A collaborative investigation by international media outlets on Tuesday shed light on the circumstances behind more than 100 Palestinian journalists and media workers being killed in the war on Gaza, some while wearing a press vest. A consortium led by investigative outlet Forbidden Stories and involving around 50 jou...
Two Air Force members have publicly opposed the United States’ policy regarding Gaza, citing moral objections. Larry Hebert and Juan Bettancourt have requested conscientious objector status, expressing dismay over US support for Israel. Hebert was moved by the plight of a young girl in Gaza, drawing parallels to his own daughter, and cri...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel is preparing to change the situation on its border with Lebanon but hopes there will be no need to do so, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said, referring to the army’s ongoing confrontations with the Lebanese Hezbollah group. Speaking to Israel’s Channel 14 about the possibility of a full-blown war with […]...
ANKARA (AA) – The situation in Gaza, where Israel continues its military offensive since last October, has become “incommensurable,” the EU foreign policy chief has said. Josep Borrell, at the doorstep of the EU’s foreign affairs council meeting in Brussels, deplored the death of over 100 Palestinians in latest Israeli attack...
Khan Yunis, Occupied Palestinian Territories — AFP Teenagers across the Gaza Strip should have been taking their final exams this month, a last hurdle before university and lifelong dreams, but Israel’s brutal war imposed upon the battered Palestinian territory has crushed those hopes. According to the education ministry in the Gaz...
Palestinian Territories — AFP Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that “intense” fighting in the southern Gaza city of Rafah is nearly over, more than eight months into the devastating war on the occupied Gaza Strip. “The intense phase of the fighting against Hamas is about to end,” Netanyahu...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli troops tied a wounded Palestinian to a military vehicle during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the army said Sunday. Footage of the incident, which occurred on Saturday, has gone viral and shows a man strapped horizontally to the bonnet of a military jeep as […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Yemen’s Houthis announced late Saturday that their forces, in coordination with an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia known as the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, targeted five ships in the northern Israeli port of Haifa and the Mediterranean Sea. In a statement, the Houthis said: “The Yemeni armed forces carried out two joint mili...
