RAMALLAH (AA) – The Israeli forces have detained 55 Palestinians in the West Bank, and East Jerusalem, according to official sources. “Israeli forces carried out detention operations in various regions of occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank,” Emani Serahine, an official with the Palestinian Prisoners Association said. Serahine reported t...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Jordan has sent a plane with humanitarian aid to Egypt for the Gaza Strip, which is under total lockdown and intense Israeli attacks. In a statement, the Hashemite Charity Foundation said: “A humanitarian aid plane carrying mostly medical supplies was sent to Gaza on the instructions of King Abdullah II of Jordan.” […]...
LONDON (AA) – The families of British diplomats are departing Israel as a “precautionary measure,” the UK Foreign Office has said. The embassy would remain open and continue to offer consular services to those in need, it added. In a dramatic escalation of Mideast tensions, Israeli forces have launched a sustained and forceful military campaig...
BERLIN (AA) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced that the Palestinian group Hamas would be outlawed in the wake of deadly attacks in Israel. “The Federal Ministry of the Interior will ban Hamas from operating in Germany,” said the chancellor in a statement to parliament explaining his government’s stance on the latest situation ...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed on a visit to Israel Thursday that the United States will “always” back it but said the Palestinians also have “legitimate aspirations” not represented by Hamas. Palestinian fighters killed 1,300 people in Israel, and took about 150 hostages in ...
Brussels, Belgium — AFP The president of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola has said she believes the Israeli killings on Saturday in the Hamas attack were motivated by anti-Semitism. “October 7 is a day that will go down in global infamy,” she said on Wednesday, referring to Hamas’s Operation Al Aqsa Flood that st...
ANKARA (AA) – Israeli airstrikes have displaced more than 260,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN humanitarian office has said. “Over 263,934 people in Gaza are believed to have fled their homes,” the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said. Fears are mounting that the number of displaced Palestinian...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Gaza Strip will face a humanitarian catastrophe if safe corridors are not opened up for aid, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has warned. “The Gaza Strip will witness an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe if safe corridors are not opened for the arrival of ...
BERLIN (AA) – German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said on Wednesday he has offered support to his Israeli counterpart Yoav Galant against Hamas. The federal (German) government has also made this offer to the Israeli military attaché, said Pistorius in Berlin after a meeting of the parliament’s Defense Committee. “Both have said so f...
ATHENS (AA) – Pope Francis has expressed concern over the total siege of Gaza, saying the Middle East does not need war but peace, the official Vatican News agency reported on Wednesday. Referring exclusively to the Israeli lives, the Pope said, “I pray for those families who have seen a day of celebration turned into […]
