GENEVA (AA) – Israel permitted only four out of 66 planned humanitarian aid missions to northern Gaza during the first 20 days of October, with no food aid allowed for 14 days, the UN humanitarian office (OCHA) has said. OCHA spokesman Jens Laerke detailed a severe deterioration in humanitarian access, revealing that Israeli authorities ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Illegal Israeli settlers stormed the tomb site of Sheikh Yussef Dawiqat, in the West Bank city of Nablus, according to witnesses. The illegal Jewish settlers entered the sacred site under police protection and forcibly performed Jewish religious rituals there, the witnesses said. Provoked Palestinian residents hurled...
ISTANBUL (AA) – American news network CNN has drawn fierce criticism over a piece on the mental health struggles of Israeli soldiers who returned from Gaza. Critics argue it whitewashes the perpetrators of violence and trivializes Palestinians’ suffering. The article, which focused on Israeli soldiers’ experiences of trauma a...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – United Nations agencies have postponed a polio vaccination campaign for Palestinian children in the northern Gaza Strip because of a deadly Israeli onslaught. The World Health Organization (WHO) said Gaza’s Health Ministry and UN partners “were compelled to postpone the polio vaccination campaign in northern Gaza” d...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinians in northern Gaza “are waiting to die” as Israel escalated its offensive in the area, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has said. “Our staff report that they cannot find food, water or medical care,” UNRWA Commissioner-General Phillippe Lazzarini said in a statement. “T...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Ala’ Yousef Hasan, the director of “From Ground Zero”, is optimistic about Palestine’s future. “We still have hope that we will have the chance to have our freedom,” he said. At the 6th International Friendship Short Film Festival, Hasan discussed his short film project “From Ground Zero,” which aims to ...
DAKAR, Senegal (AA) – Graffiti artists are raising awareness in Senegal about the Israeli attacks in Palestine and Lebanon by painting messages of support on the walls of Dakar. The Pan-African Graffiti Artists Collective (RBS) and the Anti-Apartheid African Artists group collaborated to create graffiti on the busiest street in the Ouaka...
ANKARA (AA) – Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has strongly condemned the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar by Israeli forces. In a statement on X, Anwar said Malaysia mourns the loss of a “fighter and defender of the Palestinian people.” “Malaysia strongly condemned the killing, and it was clear that the regim...
ANKARA (AA) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reaffirmed the commitment to support Palestinian resistance in the wake of the killing of Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas political bureau. In a statement on X, Khamenei said “the loss of Yahya Sinwar is painful for the Resistance Front.” But, he added, the “front […]...
ANKARA (AA) – At least eight people have been killed and several others injured in Israeli attacks on northern Gaza, Palestinian sources said. According to medical sources, four people were killed and over 15 others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a home in the Tuba area of the Jabalia refugee camp. In a separate […]
