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...
JERUSALEM (AA) – A Palestinian detainee sexually abused by Israeli soldiers at the Sde Teiman Prison in the Negev desert has been transferred to an Israeli hospital in critical condition, the Israeli public broadcaster KAN has said. The state-run broadcaster did not reveal the name of the prisoner. The broadcaster said that the victim was [&he...
JERUSALEM (AA) – A Palestinian prisoner was sexually abused by Israeli soldiers at the Sde Teiman Prison in the Negev desert in southern Israel, according to Israeli media. Israeli public broadcaster KAN, citing a security source, said the victim was finally taken to a hospital with severe injuries to an intimate body part, which left [&hellip...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army has announced the killing of two more occupation soldiers during battles in the central Gaza Strip. In a statement, the army identified the soldiers as Maj. Omer Smadga, 25, and Maj. Gen. Saadia Yaakov Dery, 27. The military said at least five soldiers were also injured, three of them […]
ANKARA (AA) – Hamas’ armed wing Al-Qassam Brigades on Saturday said that it killed 15 Israeli soldiers in Rafah. In a statement, Al-Qassam Brigades said it targeted “a Zionist Merkava tank with an Al-Yassin 105 shell in the Al-Tanour neighborhood east of the city of Rafah in southern Gaza Strip.” It added that its fighters […]...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP The Israeli army said four soldiers were killed on Friday when an “explosive device” went off near a school in Gaza City. “The four soldiers were killed in the same incident, from an explosive device near a school in the area of Zeitoun”, a southern neighbourhood of Gaza City, the milita...
ANKARA (AA) – Two Israeli soldiers were killed in clashes with Palestinian resistance fighters in the Gaza Strip, the army said on Sunday. A military statement said the two soldiers, from the Givati Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, were killed in the southern Gaza Strip. It, however, did not provide details about the circumstances of their death...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army said Wednesday that 15 more soldiers had been injured in clashes in the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours. Figures released by the army showed that 1,352 soldiers had been wounded since Israel expanded its ground offensive in the Gaza Strip on Oct. 27. According to military figures, […]