GENEVA (AA) – Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said that Germany will continue to supply arms to Israel, which continues air and ground attacks in Gaza and Lebanon. During the German Bundestag debate on the events of October 7, 2023, Scholz said: “We have supplied weapons and we will supply weapons. … We have made decisions […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – One more journalist was killed when Israeli warplanes targeted a Palestinian television crew, and two others were injured in Israeli forces’ attacks in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Al-Aqsa TV reported on its Telegram channel that photojournalist Mohammad Al-Tanani was killed and reporter Tamer Lubbad ...
BEIRUT (AA) – The Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah says it repelled two attempted incursions by Israeli forces into southern Lebanon, resulting in injuries among Israeli soldiers. In a statement, Hezbollah reported that its fighters targeted advancing Israeli troops with artillery and rocket fire in the Labbouneh area, ultimately forc...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Representative Pramila Jayapal has slammed the Biden administration for the lack of movement toward an independent investigation into the killing of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi last month by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. Jayapal also urged the US government to demand accountability by stop...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Israel’s relentless attacks in Gaza have caused ecocide by damaging agricultural lands, water resources, ecosystems, and biodiversity. The term ecocide, used as an abbreviation for ecological destruction, is defined by the European Law Institute as “the destruction and devastation of the environment at any cos...
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah has said that it backs political efforts by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri to reach a cease-fire with Israel. “We have full confidence in the big brother Berri,” Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem said in a televised speech. He said Hezbollah’s military capabilities are still ...
LONDON (AA) – UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has firmly rejected calls to ban arms sales to Israel, despite escalating violence in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and Lebanon. During Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons, Starmer responded with a clear “no” when asked by MP Zarah Sultana if he would halt the [&h...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Israel’s genocidal military aggression in Gaza constitutes the “gravest” crimes against humanity committed since World War II, says Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar. In an exclusive interview on the first anniversary of Israel’s brutal military onslaught on the Gaza Strip, Dar s...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – People in major Pakistani cities held rallies and demonstrations, as well as formed human chains, to express solidarity with Palestinians on the first anniversary of Israeli forces’ genocidal war on Gaza. Different political and religious parties, primarily the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), the country’s main...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Hundreds of Israelis demonstrated outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in West Jerusalem on Monday to demand a prisoner exchange agreement with Palestinian factions in Gaza. The demonstration coincided with the first anniversary of Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which has killed nearly 42,000 ...
