WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has decided to move ahead with the shipment of 500-pound bombs to Israel, which was previously paused due to concerns of Israel’s ground invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah and massive killings of civilians, a report said Wednesday. The bombs “are in the process of being shipped” after […]...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – The prestigious CAN$100,000 ($73,000) Canadian Scotiabank Giller Prize was dealt a blow Wednesday when 15 authors pulled their books from consideration because of the sponsors’ ties to Israeli arms manufacturers. “As authors, we cannot abide our work being used to provide cover for sponsors actively investing in ar...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The UK’s new Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Wednesday that relations with the US are “stronger than ever now” as he met with President Joe Biden for an Oval Office sit-down. “This special relationship is so important,” Starmer said in brief remarks before reporters were ushered out of the room....
NICE, France (AA) – The arrest in France of political scientist Francois Burgat who has advocated for Palestine has sparked a strong backlash in the country. Burgat, a renowned political scientist who supports the cause of besieged Gaza, was placed in custody over alleged “advocacy of terrorism,” his lawyer said. The European Jewish Organizati...
ANKARA (AA) – Israeli forces killed 52 more Palestinians in attacks in the Gaza Strip, bringing the overall death toll to 38,295 since Oct. 7 last year, the Health Ministry in the besieged enclave said on Wednesday. A ministry statement added that at least 88,241 other people have been injured in the onslaught. “Israeli forces killed 52 [&hell...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel killed at least 29 people in a strike at a school turned shelter in southern Gaza on Tuesday, a hospital source in Khan Yunis said. There was no immediate comment from Israel. Hamas’ Qatar-based political chief Ismail Haniyeh said he had warned mediators that the “catastrophic consequences...
MADRID (AA) – Spain’s left-wing opposition Podemos party has accused the government of hypocrisy regarding arms sales to Israel. Deliberating on a report by the Delas Center for Peace Studies that examined arms exports to Israel in 2022-23, the party’s leader Ione Belarra argued that arms exports to Israel from Spain since October ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has threatened war with Hezbollah if the resistance group did not withdraw beyond the Litani River in southern Lebanon. “[Hezbollah chief Hassan] Nasrallah, if you don’t stop the threats and violence and withdraw to the Litani River, you will be considered the destroyer of Lebanon,” s...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The Yemeni Houthi group has said that it jointly attacked with the Iraqi Islamic Resistance group a “vital target” in the Israeli southern city of Eilat. In a statement, the Houthi group’s military spokesman Yahya Saree said the attack was carried out with a number of combat drones, and claimed to [&...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel killed at least 16 Palestinians and wounded dozens others in a series of overnight strikes and shelling across the Gaza Strip. A local medical source told Anadolu that seven people were killed in Israeli shelling on their home in the Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip. Six others from the Mhanna […]
