ANKARA (AA) – The UN’s top humanitarian aid official has warned that “the entire population of North Gaza is at risk of dying” amid a fierce, weeks-long Israeli army push. “Hospitals have been hit and health workers have been detained. Shelters have been emptied and burned down,” said Joyce Msuya, acting under-secretary-general for humanitaria...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – More than 820 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli military’s 22-day “campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing,” in northern Gaza, the Gaza Government Media Office said. “The Israeli army has killed over 820 Palestinians within the span of just over three weeks in northern Gaza,” Ismail ...
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...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has started to increase its military exports to Israel, official figures reveal. The German Foreign Ministry has confirmed that the government has approved exports of military equipment and weapons worth €94 million ($101.5 million) to Israel in the last three months. The figures were released in response to a parli...
BERLIN (AA) – If Donald Trump is re-elected, his four-year term could cost Germany up to €180 billion (approximately $194.2 billion) in a “trade war,” German Economic Institute (IW) said in a report released on Thursday. According to the report, Trump’s pledge to increase tariffs to reduce the US trade deficit could cause sig...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed concern over the current escalation of tensions in the Middle East, calling Israel’s war on Palestine “one of the bloodiest in a long series of clashes” and emphasizing the need to correct historical injustices against the Palestinian people. Speaking at a meeting i...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has said that Israel’s failure to protect civilians in the Gaza Strip could lead to a generation of Palestinians resistant to cooperation with Israel. During remarks to reporters in Rome, Austin said he regularly discusses the importance of protecting civilians and providing humanita...
ROME (AA) – The University of Milan has suspended an agreement with Israel’s Reichman University on an exchange of students and researchers after its rector, Marina Brambilla, met with a delegation of Palestinian students who had been pressing for a boycott of relations with Israeli universities. The university’s administration cited the...
Gaza City, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian women displaced by the Israeli army’s attacks on northern Gaza since October 6 have shared their harrowing experiences with journalists. Malak Elyan and Aya Al-Tanani arrived in Gaza City from Beit Lahiya, visibly exhausted from the bombardments, hunger, and the toll of forced migration. They recounted a...
