The International Criminal Court has accepted 64 fillings by states, organizations and persons to intervene in Prosecutor Karim Khan’s requests to issue arrest warrants for top Israeli and Hamas officials. Among the leaders with an arrest warrant out is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The US, Palestine, Germany, South Africa, Bangla...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has killed at least 589 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since October 7, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday. In its statement, the ministry noted that some 142 children were among the slain. Earlier in the day, the Health Ministry announced that three Palestinians were killed by [&hel...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army at dawn Wednesday killed five more Palestinians in an airstrike on a home in Jabalia town in the northern Gaza Strip. The Palestinian official news agency Wafa quoted reported that the five Palestinians were killed during an Israeli raid on a home in the Juron area in Jabalia. It […]
ANKARA (AA) – Protesters projected “Arrest war criminal Netanyahu” onto Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Washington hotel as he arrived to address the US Congress, highlighting growing tensions over Israel’s actions in Gaza. Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside Netanyahu’s hotel in Washington,...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hamas on Tuesday evening denied links to any clip threatening attacks on Israeli athletes at the upcoming Paris Olympics, calling it a fake video circulated by Israeli security forces for nefarious purposes. Hamas political bureau member Izzat al-Rishq said in a statement that Israeli security forces circulated a fake video dep...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Hundreds of Jewish protesters gathered inside the Capitol building Tuesday to demand a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip and an arms embargo against Israel. Activists with Jewish Voice for Peace staged a sit-in in the Cannon Rotunda, wearing shirts that read: “Stop Arming Israel” and “Not in Our Name.”...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army on Tuesday killed three Palestinians, including a woman, during raids across the occupied West Bank. In a statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry said two Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in Sa’ir town, southern occupied West Bank, and a woman was killed in the northern city of Tulkarem. Th...
ISTANBUL (AA) – An Israeli negotiating team will leave for Qatar on Thursday to continue talks on a Gaza cease-fire and prisoner swap deal with Palestinian factions, according to the Israeli media. A statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he held “in-depth discussions” Sunday on efforts to reach a prisoner swap deal ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – A newborn baby was the only survivor of an Israeli airstrike that killed her entire family in the northern Gaza Strip this month. Asma Ajour is one of 17,000 Palestinian children orphaned by Israel’s war on Gaza that has killed nearly 39,000 people since October 7, 2023. “Asma was pulled […]
Although Vice President Kamala Harris is closely connected to the US Jewish community through her husband, Doug Emhoff, she has taken a strong stance against Israel’s war on Gaza. Harris has been seen as the “bad cop” in the Biden administration’s approach to Israel. Harris, who previously called for a cease-fire and increased aid to […...
