WASHINGTON (AA) – The Biden administration has provisionally approved a $680 million weapons sale to Israel, including precision munitions like JDAM kits and small-diameter bombs, according to a report. US officials recently briefed Congress on the proposal, a customary step before a public announcement, the Financial Times reported, cit...
JERUSALEM (AA) – A rocket fired from resistance forces in Lebanon has caused heavy damage in an Israeli settlement in northern Israel, local media reported. Israeli Channel 12 said five rockets were fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon into Upper Galilee in northern Israel. According to the broadcaster, a rocket hit a building in the Kiryat [...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah is expected to be announced within two days, according to Israeli media. The public broadcaster KAN, citing an Israeli source, said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been consistently obstructing a cease-fire with Hamas, has in this...
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...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Protests erupted in Stockholm, Amsterdam and Geneva as hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets Saturday to voice outrage against Israel’s aggression against the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. Despite the weather being extremely cold, around 1,000 people gathered in Stockholm’s Odenplan on the call of various ci...
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 13 people were killed in overnight airstrikes staged by the Israeli army in southern Lebanon, local media reported on Wednesday. Fighter jets struck a home in Maarakeh town, killing two people, the state news agency NNA reported. Two airstrikes in Kfar Melki and Zefta towns left at least four people […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Six Israelis have been lightly injured as a barrage of rockets was fired from southern Lebanon in response to Israel’s attacks. An Israeli military statement said 15 rockets were fired from Lebanon, triggering air-raid sirens in northern and central Israel. The army said some of the rockets were intercepted, while ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen says he will support measures blocking certain offensive arms sales to Israel amid its ongoing wars on Gaza and Lebanon. Van Hollen said he has chosen to support the joint resolutions of disapproval because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly violated US laws governi...
BEIRUT (AA) – At least 26 people have been killed and dozens injured as Israel launched fresh airstrikes in southern Lebanon, local media said. Israeli fighter jets conducted 10 airstrikes in the city of Nabatieh, leaving eight people dead and injuring several others, the state news agency NNA reported. Six medics were also killed in [&h...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hamas mourned the death of Mohammad Afif, Hezbollah’s media relations chief, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike Sunday in Beirut. “The assassination of a political media figure will not silence the voice of resistance but will instead expose the deep moral chasm in which the occupation lies,” Hamas said in a […...
