ANKARA (AA) – Israeli soldiers, operating in the heavily besieged area of the northern Gaza Strip, posted footage on social media Saturday showing homes in the town of Beit Hanoun being set on fire, accompanied by the racist song “Let your village burn.” The soldiers, part of the military’s 92nd Battalion, were filmed t...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli soldiers have revealed that the army killed Palestinian civilians who entered previously targeted buildings in the Gaza Strip, according to a media report. The Haaretz newspaper in Israel said the army “does not routinely update its list of targets in Gaza, nor does it indicate to forces on the ground which [&hel...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A Hamas fighter reportedly killed two Israeli soldiers before blowing himself up near other troops in the northern Gaza Strip, according to a statement from the group’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades. The statement said that the fighter killed an Israeli army sniper and his aide at “point-blank range” in the Jab...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Two Israeli soldiers were killed in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, the military said on Tuesday. A military statement said the two soldiers, from the army’s Nahal Brigade’s Combat Engineering Corps, were killed in the city, without providing any further details. Israeli media said that an initial probe by the army [&h...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced Sunday that it clashed with Israeli soldiers, many of whom were killed or injured, in the city of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Fighters “engaged” with an infantry Zionist force of 10 soldiers from point-blank range in the Al-Janina neighborhood, th...
JERUSALEM (AA) – At least six Israeli soldiers have taken their own lives in recent months, the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth has revealed, citing severe psychological distress because of wars in the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon as the primary cause. The investigation suggests the actual number of suicides may be higher, as the Israeli [&h...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian resistance group Hamas claimed Tuesday to have killed and injured 10 Israeli soldiers in an ambush in the northern Gaza town of Jabalia. The group’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said its fighters detonated a house in Al-Qasaseeb area as Israeli soldiers moved into the building. It confirmed [&hel...
Turkey’s Terror Crimes Investigation Bureau has filed charges of “premeditated murder” against the Israeli soldiers who deliberately targeted a Turkish-American activist. Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi was fatally shot in the head while peacefully protesting the expansion of Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. Anadol...
ISTANBUL (AA) – American news network CNN has drawn fierce criticism over a piece on the mental health struggles of Israeli soldiers who returned from Gaza. Critics argue it whitewashes the perpetrators of violence and trivializes Palestinians’ suffering. The article, which focused on Israeli soldiers’ experiences of trauma a...
The White House says reports of Israeli soldiers in Gaza regularly using civilians as human shields is “incredibly disturbing.” It added there can be no justification for using civilians as human shields, the New York Times reported. The Israeli army has denied the accusation. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters i...
