Jenin, Palestinian Territories – AFP Palestinian officials said Israeli forces killed 12 people in three separate raids in the northern West Bank on Tuesday. Five people were killed in the Jenin area and four in Aqaba town in Tubas district when Israeli forces carried out early-morning raids, the health ministry in Ramallah said. The Isr...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Tuesday appointed Yahya Sinwar as its new political chief. Sinwar will replace Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran after he attended the swearing-in ceremony of Iran’s new president on July 31, the group said in a statement on its Telegram channel. Hamas a...
MILTON, Canada (AA) – The UN has announced the completion of an investigation by its Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) into allegations made by Israel against staff members of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) following events on October 7 last year. In relation to the findings, UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq told...
BEIRUT (AA) – Two members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group have been killed in clashes with the Israeli army along the Lebanese-Israeli border. In separate statements, Hezbollah identified the fighters as Ali Jamal al-Din Jawad and Ali Ghaleb Shuqair, which they said were killed “on the road to Jerusalem,” in reference to Hezboll...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh was intended to prolong the military assault on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Russia’s RIA state news agency in an interview. “There is no doubt that the purpose of Mr. Haniyeh’s assassination is to prolong the war and expan...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said that his country does not seek the spread of war in the region but will respond to Israel’s crimes, in particular the assassination of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh. Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran on July 31 after attending Pezeshkian’s swearing-in ceremony. H...
Washington, United States – AFP Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that the United States was working around the clock to prevent escalation in the Middle East and urged Israel and Hamas to “break this cycle” of violence through a cease-fire. With Iran believed to be planning a retaliatory strike against Israel fol...
Rennes, France — AFP When Israeli air strikes hit his neighbourhood early on in the war on Gaza, Palestinian social worker Tareq Abu Eita, 42, saw his whole life upended in seconds. The vicious Israeli bombardment on October 14 blew in the walls of his two-storey family home. It killed his 77-year-old father Hamed, his […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Clashes erupted in the eastern part of Nablus, a city in the northern West Bank, as Israeli forces facilitated the entry of illegal settlers into the tomb of an Islamic scholar, claimed by the Jews to be the resting place of Prophet Yusuf (Joseph) Peace Be Upon Him. Witnesses said that […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies expressed “deep concern” Sunday over the rising tensions in the Middle East. The foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, the US and the High Representative of the European Union in a statement indicated their “deep concern at [&...
