JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel is preparing to change the situation on its border with Lebanon but hopes there will be no need to do so, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said, referring to the army’s ongoing confrontations with the Lebanese Hezbollah group. Speaking to Israel’s Channel 14 about the possibility of a full-blown war with […]...
ANKARA (AA) – The situation in Gaza, where Israel continues its military offensive since last October, has become “incommensurable,” the EU foreign policy chief has said. Josep Borrell, at the doorstep of the EU’s foreign affairs council meeting in Brussels, deplored the death of over 100 Palestinians in latest Israeli attack...
Khan Yunis, Occupied Palestinian Territories — AFP Teenagers across the Gaza Strip should have been taking their final exams this month, a last hurdle before university and lifelong dreams, but Israel’s brutal war imposed upon the battered Palestinian territory has crushed those hopes. According to the education ministry in the Gaz...
Palestinian Territories — AFP Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that “intense” fighting in the southern Gaza city of Rafah is nearly over, more than eight months into the devastating war on the occupied Gaza Strip. “The intense phase of the fighting against Hamas is about to end,” Netanyahu...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli troops tied a wounded Palestinian to a military vehicle during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the army said Sunday. Footage of the incident, which occurred on Saturday, has gone viral and shows a man strapped horizontally to the bonnet of a military jeep as […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Yemen’s Houthis announced late Saturday that their forces, in coordination with an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia known as the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, targeted five ships in the northern Israeli port of Haifa and the Mediterranean Sea. In a statement, the Houthis said: “The Yemeni armed forces carried out two joint mili...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) — A Palestinian child succumbed to injuries inflicted by Israeli army gunfire near the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. In a statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry said “the child, Muhammad Murad Ahmad Hoshiya, 12, succumbed to critical injuries he sustained about a week ago in Ramallah.” The...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 37,551 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s ongoing offensive on the Gaza Strip since last October, the Health Ministry in the besieged enclave has said. A ministry statement added that 85,911 other people have also been injured in the onslaught, most of them – like those killed – women and […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israel killed at least 41 Palestinians and injured several others on Saturday in two separate attacks in Gaza City. Medical sources told Anadolu that the Israeli army targeted a house in the neighborhood of Al-Tuffah in eastern Gaza City, killing 17 Palestinians and injuring several others. They also said that [&hel...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP A daily “pause” the Israeli military declared in Gaza to facilitate aid flows has had no impact on deliveries of badly needed supplies, says the UN health agency. More than eight months of attacks by Israel have led to dire humanitarian conditions in the Palestinian territory and repeated UN warnings...
