WASHINGTON (AA) – Two key Democrats in the US Congress signed off on a major arms sale to Israel that includes 50 F-15 fighter jets worth more than $18 billion, The Washington Post reported Monday. Citing three unnamed US officials, it said Representative Gregory Meeks and Senator Ben Cardin agreed to support the deal under […]
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP A US envoy held talks with top Israeli leaders to press for de-escalation on the Lebanese border, as an Israeli official said Hezbollah had fired thousands of projectiles towards Israel in the last eight months. Israel and Hezbollah, a Hamas ally, have traded near-daily cross-border fire since October last year...
GAZA CITY / ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army on Monday burned down the departure hall on the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing, disconnecting Palestinians in the Gaza Strip from the outside world. The Israeli army also set fire to other facilities and buildings, according to an Anadolu correspondent. Several Palestinian social media a...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Another journalist was killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip on Monday, bringing the total number of media persons’ deaths to 151 since Oct. 7 last year, local authorities said. In a statement, the Gaza Government Media Office identified the victim as Mahmoud Qasem, who worked for a local […]
RAMALLAH (AA) – Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank are unable to celebrate Eid al-Adha as they once did because of economic hardships, severe attacks in the Gaza Strip and unlawful actions in the West Bank. Israel’s attacks on Gaza have killed at least 37,232 Palestinians, including 15,517 children and 10,279 women, and...
Occupied Palestinian Territories- AFP Eight Israeli soldiers were killed in a blast in southern Gaza Saturday, the military said, in one of its heaviest losses of the war, as witnesses reported street battles between occupying troops and the Palestinian resistance. The military said the IDF soldiers were killed when the Namer armoured vehicle ...
Mina, Saudi Arabia – AFP Pilgrims performed Sunday the last major ritual of the hajj, the “stoning of the devil”, in western Saudi Arabia, as Muslims the world over celebrated the Eid al-Adha holiday. Beginning at dawn, the 1.8 million Muslims undertaking the pilgrimage this year threw seven stones at each of three concrete w...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israel’s ban on the entry of sacrificial animals has deprived tens of thousands of families in the Gaza Strip of the opportunity to observe Eid al-Adha and perform the sacrificial rituals as part of Islamic religious practices, the Gaza media office said Saturday. In a statement on the eve of […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP In tents in the stifling heat and in bombed-out mosques, people of Gaza marked Sunday the start of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, devoid of the usual cheer. “There is no joy. We have been robbed of it,” said Malakiya Salman, a 57-year-old displaced woman, now living in a tent […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Fourteen Palestinians, including at least one baby, were killed and many others injured on Saturday in an Israeli army airstrike targeting homes in eastern Gaza City, Wafa news agency reported. Israeli warplanes targeted three homes in the Al-Tuffah and Al-Shujaiya neighborhoods in Gaza City, resulting in the ...
