GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian man has been killed by Israeli army fire in the central Gaza Strip, in the latest violation of the cease-fire and prisoner exchange agreement, a medical source said. Witnesses said Israeli forces stationed east of Deir al-Balah opened fire intentionally as an unarmed Palestinian resident was simply sta...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children have joined a distance learning program in the war-torn Gaza Strip since January, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) reports. “Nearly 260,000 children have enrolled in UNRWA’s distance learning program since January,” the UN agency said in a statement. Gaza’s...
RAMALLAH, Palestine/ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army killed a Palestinian young man in Jenin amid the ongoing offensive in the northern occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement that the Israeli army handed over to its medical teams “a martyr in his twenties in the Eastern neighborhood of Jenin.R...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli extremists have repeatedly targeted churches in East Jerusalem’s Old City during religious ceremonies, according to local reports. In a statement, Old City Police Commander Dvir Tamim said: “We are witnessing a phenomenon of hatred directed toward Christians in the Old City, particularly extremist (Jewish) indivi...
NABLUS, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army raided another neighborhood in Nablus as part of its ongoing military offensive in the northern occupied West Bank, just before the start of Ramadan. Eyewitnesses told reporters that Israeli troops stormed the Popular Housing Neighborhood in eastern Nablus, surrounded a residential building, and ...
CAIRO/ANKARA (AA) – Egypt wants Palestinians to remain in Gaza during the reconstruction of the enclave. Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty stated this during a phone call with his Portuguese counterpart, Paulo Rangel. Abdelatty acknowledged Portugal’s support for Egypt and expressed hope for continued backing for a strategic partnership between ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Education and Higher Education Ministry in Gaza has reported that Israel’s genocidal war spanning over 15 months has left 85% of schools out of service resulting in a two-year interruption in education. In a statement, Ahmed Al-Najjar, the director-general of the ministry’s Public Relations Uni...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Gaza government has announced that Israel is delaying the implementation of the humanitarian provisions of the cease-fire agreement which came into effect on January 19. Speaking at a press conference at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, Salama Marouf, head of the Gaza Government Media Office, sai...
BERLIN (AA) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has rejected President Donald Trump’s plan to “take over” Gaza and resettle its Palestinian population in other countries in the region. “I completely reject what President Trump has put on the table,” the Social Democrat said during a campaign event in Ludwigsburg. “The population of Gaza must...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Legal analysts argue that President Donald Trump’s executive order on combating antisemitism is unlawful. Hatem Bazian, a professor at the University of California’s Ethnic Studies Department, and Robert McCaw, national government affairs director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), spoke about the potent...
