GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The municipality of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip has condemned the Israeli army’s bombing of a drinking water reservoir in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood as a grave violation of humanitarian norms. “The Israeli soldiers’ detonation of the main water reservoir in Tal al-Sultan is a crime against...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Lebanon has called for an international investigation into a strike that killed 12 people including children on the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, warning against a large-scale retaliation. The Israeli military said that an Iranian-made rocket that Hezbollah group fired on Saturday hit a football field in Majdal Sha...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 10 Palestinians were killed, including children, in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, the Civil Defense Agency said. Video clips shared by Palestinians showed a man carrying a “decapitated child” and a mother screaming and crying bitterly near […]...
ANKARA (AA) – At least nine Palestinians have been killed and several others injured in an Israeli attack in the southern Gaza Strip. Medical sources at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said that they received nine Palestinians who were killed in an Israeli army bombing of two houses in southern Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses reported [&hell...
Occupied Palestinian Territories — AFP The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders for residents of southern Gaza’s Khan Yunis city on Saturday, after warning of new operations. The United Nations said more than 180,000 Palestinians have already fled fierce fighting in Khan Yunis since the military began an operation in the a...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli security minister has said that “there will be no halt to the war” amid the US vice president’s call for a cease-fire in Gaza. The daily Haaretz reported earlier on Thursday that after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, US Vice President and presidenti...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Australia, Canada and New Zealand have called for an “urgent” cease-fire in Gaza, which has been under attack by Israel for about ten months. In a joint statement, the three nations said the situation in Gaza is “catastrophic.” “The human suffering is unacceptable. It cannot continue,” the statement said. Crit...
ANKARA (AA) – The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Friday that nine out of 10 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced in the Gaza Strip. “Families seek shelter where they can: overcrowded schools, destroyed buildings, makeshift tents on the sand or amid piles of trash,” the agency said in a statement. It stressed [&he...
LONDON (AA) – The UK has said that it would not proceed with efforts to question whether the International Criminal Court (ICC) has jurisdiction to issue arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister and defense minister, according to local media. The ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan announced in May that he had requested arrest warrants for [...
ANKARA (AA) – The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has strongly criticized allowing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deliver a speech at the US Congress, accusing him of “distorting facts” over his war conduct in Gaza. In a statement, Hamas slammed what it said “giving him an opportunity to polish his f...
