ANKARA (AA) – Six staffers of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) were among those killed in an Israeli attack on a UN-run school in the central Gaza Strip on Wednesday. At least 18 people were killed in two airstrikes on al-Jaouni School in the Nuseirat refugee camp on Wednesday, according to local health […]
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Separate Israeli strikes Tuesday in south Lebanon killed five people including three Syrian children, with Hezbollah announcing rocket fire at Israel in retaliation. “Three Syrian children” were killed “in an enemy raid that targeted farmland in the village of Umm Toot”, the National News Age...
In the last 24 hours, Israeli airstrikes have killed 68 Palestinians and injured 235 others in Gaza. Forty displaced Palestinians, including 14 children and nine women, are among the dead. They were sheltering at the United Nations-run al-Sardi school, where 70 others were injured. The U.N. refugee agency UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says ...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Gaza media office said Tuesday morning that Israeli strikes had killed another 78 people overnight. Meanwhile, Israel has said its war in southern Gaza will soon enter a less intensive phase. More than 100 days into the war, the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come under intense internati...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Communications and internet services were completely cut off Wednesday in wide areas of the Gaza Strip amid Israeli airstrikes in various parts of the enclave. This marks the seventh outage in the Palestinian territory since Oct. 7, Jawwal and Paltel telecom providers said in a statement. In the six previous outages, fix...
Palestinian Territories – AFP At least 12 people were killed in Israeli strikes on the central city of Deir al-Balah on Sunday, according to the health ministry in Gaza. Witnesses also reported Israeli air and artillery strikes on the southern municipality of Bani Suhaila east of Khan Yunis, the Gaza Strip’s second city. Meanwhile...
JERUSALEM – AFP Gaza’s health ministry on Friday reported 40 dead in Israeli strikes near Gaza City and “dozens” more in the northern Jabalia refugee camp and Khan Yunis. Israeli forces have encircled major urban centres as they seek to “destroy Hamas”, making much-needed aid deliveries to Gaza almost imposs...
ANKARA (AA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday said that Israel’s deadly strikes on journalists in Lebanon were an “apparently deliberate attack on civilians and thus a war crime.” “Two Israeli strikes on a group of Lebanese, American, and Iraqi journalists in south Lebanon on October 13, 2023, were apparently deliberate attacks on c...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The EU on Wednesday said it is engaged in efforts to establish a secure conduit for the expeditious delivery of aid to Gaza Strip, where Israel has launched airstrikes after a surprise attack by Hamas. “Member states of the European Union, in collaboration with undisclosed regional and international entit...
