OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – The Barcelona city council has approved a declaration suspending relations with Israel until there is a permanent cease-fire in Gaza and the country “respects the basic rights of the Palestinian people.” The declaration was put forward by far-left Barcelona en Comun party and backed by Socialist Party, as well ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli hardline National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has threatened to resign from the government if fighting does not resume following the end of the four-day humanitarian pause announced after the hostage-exchange agreement between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Hamas leadership. Ben-Gvir made the statement...
Jerusalem (AA/AFP) The Israeli prime minister’s office said Thursday the authorities were in contact with the families of the prisoners after receiving “a first list of names”. It did not immediately specify who was on the list, which was announced shortly after Qatar and Hamas said a cease-fire would go into effect at 7:00 a...
JERUSALEM: British Foreign Minister David Cameron on Thursday reiterated his country’s support to Israel, saying “we stand with the people of Israel in sympathy for what you have gone through”. During a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his visit to Jerusalem, he said: “There’s never an exc...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the prisoner swap with Hamas will not include the release of Palestinians sentenced for killing Israelis. Netanyahu, addressing a news conference, also said that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will be allowed to visit the other captives in Gaza to pro...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has officially denied involvement in the seizure of a cargo ship by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the southern Red Sea amid soaring tensions over the War on the Gaza Strip. In his weekly news briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani termed as “false” the Israeli accusations of Iran’s involvement in […]...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Türkiye will take steps to ensure that political and military leaders who massacred people in Gaza face trial in the international courts, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. Calling Israel a “terrorist state,” the Turkish leader accused Tel Aviv of implementing a strategy of destroying all of Gaza along with its residents...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The death toll from a power outage at the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City has risen to 15, including six premature babies, the hospital director said Monday. “Six premature babies and nine injured people at the hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) died today as a result of the power outage,” Mohamed Abu […]
Palestinian Territories — AFP Israeli attacks raged around Gaza’s biggest hospital Sunday where doctors said thousands of Palestinians were trapped in dire conditions. Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital is caught in Israel’s ground offensive aimed at “destroying Hamas”, and the compound has been repeatedly hit by...
Paris, France – AFP French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday opened a conference on humanitarian aid for Gaza by calling for a “ceasefire”, echoed by other delegates looking to support the Palestinian territory under bombardment by Israel since the October 7 attack by Hamas. “In the immediate term, we need to work o...
