CNN has apologized to British-American broadcaster Mehdi Hasan after a conservative commentator on the show suggested he should be killed on live television. The network removed Ryan Girdusky after he told Hasan, “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off.” This was in reference to deadly attacks linked to Israel that killed 40 people in Lebanon [&he...
JERUSALEM (AA) – An Israeli has been killed in a rocket attack from Lebanon following an escalation of cross-border fire from Israel into Lebanon. Israel’s ambulance service Magen David Adom said an Israeli man died from rocket fire in Ma’alot Tarshiha Jewish settlement in the Galilee region in northern Israel. Israeli public broadcaster...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hezbollah issued orders Saturday evening for the immediate evacuation of 25 settlements in northern Israel, warning residents that these areas are now “legitimate military targets.” In a video message posted on Telegram, Hezbollah addressed residents, stating, “You are requested to evacuate immediately. Your settlements h...
BERLIN (AA) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called on Iran to exercise restraint after Israel’s attack to avoid further escalation in the region. In a statement posted on social media, Scholz said the Israeli government has informed Berlin that it carried out “precise and targeted” strikes on Iran’s military facilities. “They have tr...
LONDON (AA) – A Norwegian humanitarian aid organization says Israel is waging “a war of aggression” against Lebanon’s entire population, not just Hezbollah, local media reported. “It is high time that the world dares to call a spade a spade. We are witnessing a war of aggression,” local news agency NTB quoted Norwegian People’s Aid...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Stressing that there should be “no more suffering and destruction in Palestine and Lebanon,” China’s President Xi Jinping has called on the BRICS member states to “uphold peace and strive for common security.” “We should come forward together to form a stabilizing force for peace and explore soluti...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Members of the European Parliament have called for an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon following Israeli airstrikes there which have injured several UN peacekeepers in recent weeks and also condemned its continuing attacks in the Gaza Strip. As violence escalates across the Middle East, several parliamentarians expressed t...
BEIRUT (AA) – Six women and children from the same family have been killed and eight others injured in an Israeli drone attack on the Nabi Anam neighborhood in Baalbek, eastern Lebanon, according to Lebanese media reports. The state-run National News Agency reported that Israeli warplanes carried out the strike at 5.50 am local time, [&h...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has presented its conditions for ending its war in Lebanon to the US, with a document outlining terms for a ‘diplomatic solution’, according to the American news site Axios. “Israel gave the US a document last week with its conditions for a diplomatic solution to end the war in Lebanon and […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Nearly 32,000 people took to the streets of Brussels Sunday to call for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and Lebanon, according to the police. The demonstrators also called on the Belgian government to push for a complete international military embargo against Israel. The event was organized by a coalition of civil society...
