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...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called on Israel not to reoccupy Gaza once its war against the Palestinians ends. Earlier this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would take “overall security responsibility” for the territory following its war against Palestine. Key ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – There are voices within Israel critical of the actions taken by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government in response to the Hamas’ October 7 attack. Daniel Levy, a former senior adviser during ex-Premier Ehud Barak’s government, says it is “important to call out lies … (that) are justifying the mass killing [&...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s finance minister has frozen the transfer of tax revenues amounting to some $188 million monthly to the Palestinian Authority (PA), according to the Israeli media. Bezalel Smotrich said the funds will be withheld over the failure of the Ramallah-based authority to condemn the October 7 cross-border incursions by the Ha...
BERLIN (AA) – Israel has criticized Germany for not rejecting a UN resolution which called for an urgent humanitarian truce in Gaza. Israel’s ambassador to Berlin, Ron Prosor, said Germany’s decision last week to abstain in the UN General Assembly vote was “more than disappointing” for his country. “Friday’s abstention is morally w...
