Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Fresh strikes by Israel across the Gaza Strip overnight into Monday killed at least 19 Palestinians, as mediators urged Israel and Hamas to agree to a truce and prisoner swap deal outlined by US President Joe Biden. Since Biden spoke at the White House on Friday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [&he...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has accepted most of the broad outlines of a proposed prisoner swap and cease-fire deal announced late last week by US President Joe Biden, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority reported Sunday. The state broadcaster said the Palestinian group Hamas announced that it would respond positively to the proposal. It said the th...
Beirut, Lebanon — AFP Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah said it launched a series of attacks on Israeli military positions after state media reported Israel had stepped up its own strikes the night before. Since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza on October 7, the situation on the Lebanese-Israeli border has remained tense. On Sat...
Jerusalem, Occupied Palestinian Territories — AFP In the wake of Israel’s relentless genocidal campaign in Gaza climaxing in its grisly Rafah blitzkrieg, public opinion around the world has clearly shifted with an outpouring of sympathy for the Palestinians. Diplomatic setbacks and intense protests on university campuses for the Fr...
ANKARA (AA) – The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) “received horrific reports” from its premises in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip, during the Israeli military offensive in the camp. In a statement, UNRWA said displaced people, including children, who were sheltering in its schools in Jabalia, were killed and injured ...
GENEVA – AFP The humanitarian aid allowed into the Gaza Strip is not getting to people in need, the United Nations has said, urging Israel to fulfil its legal obligations. “The aid that is getting in is not getting to the people, and that’s a major problem,” Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN humanitarian agency [&hellip...
ATHENS (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday admitted that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is dire, saying Washington is working to allow more aid into the Palestinian enclave. Speaking at a press conference in Prague following an informal meeting of the NATO foreign ministers, Blinken said, “We’ve seen changes, some p...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP The Israeli army said Friday its troops pushed into central Rafah, escalating its nearly eight-month war on Gaza despite international objections over any offensive in the southern Gaza city. Israel first sent tanks and troops into Rafah from the city’s east in early May, ignoring concerns over ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden said Friday that Israel has presented Hamas with a three-phase deal that would end all attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip and release prisoners that continue to be held in the coastal enclave. The president asked Hamas to accept the deal, and urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to […]
Urif, Palestinian Territories — AFP A rusty barbed wire fence towers above the students entering Urif high school in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where increased violence by illegal Israeli settlers since October 7 has struck fear into Palestinians. “We tell the students … to come to school together and not on their own, b...
