WASHINGTON (AA) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during closed-door talks Monday that the Biden administration and other unspecified world leaders “will stand behind” a cease-fire agreement outlined by President Joe Biden. During his meetings with Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Blink...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Free Palestine movement supporters gathered Monday at Union Square in New York City to demonstrate against Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza and express solidarity with Palestinians. Waving Palestinian flags, they chanted slogans such as “Free, free Palestine” and “Gaza is watching us.” Officers from the Ne...
United Nations, United States – AFP The United Nations Security Council on Monday adopted a US-drafted resolution supporting a cease-fire plan in Gaza, as Washington leads an intense diplomatic campaign to push Hamas to accept the proposal. The text — passed with 14 votes in favor and Russia abstaining — “welcomes”...
Sanaa, Yemen – AFP Yemen’s Huthi group said Sunday it targeted ships off the country’s coast with missiles and drones after maritime security firms said two vessels had caught fire after being hit by projectiles. The strikes are the latest in a flurry of attacks by the group which has been targeting ships in the […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Emergency teams in Gaza retrieved on Monday bodies of Palestinians following a five-day incursion by the Israeli army into the eastern regions of Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, sources and witnesses said. The military withdrew from the city, but Palestinians attempting to return to their homes were targete...
Cairo, Egypt – AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was heading back to the Middle East on Monday to push a cease-fire plan, but Israeli politics and silence from Hamas raised further questions on whether he can succeed. The top US diplomat, paying his eighth visit to the region since October last year, was […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi has extended the closure of the Qatari Al Jazeera television. “We will not allow the Al Jazeera terrorist channel to broadcast in Israel and endanger our soldiers,” Kahri said in a statement. The Israeli minister claimed that the ban was “unanimously adopted by the government, based...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – With hundreds of patients awaiting help, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital is struggling to provide medical attention to the victims of a deadly Israeli attack in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. At least 274 people were killed and nearly 700 others injured in Israeli bombardment of the […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel has killed at least 37,084 Palestinians during more than eight months of its war on Gaza, local health ministry said Sunday. It said the toll includes at least 274 deaths in Saturday’s Israeli raid on the Nuseirat refugee camp in which Israel claimed it freed four of its citizens held […]
Palestinian Territories – JUNE 8, 2024 19:25:19 GMT – AFP Israeli attacks on Nuseirat refugee camp on Saturday killed 210 Palestinians and left hundreds wounded as its forces claimed to have freed four Israelis kept by Hamas since October 7 last year. Gaza media office said “the number of victims from the Israeli occupation&#...
