ISTANBUL (AA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called for Israel’s suspension from the UN General Assembly. “I call for suspending Israel’s membership in the General Assembly until it fulfills its obligations and the conditions for accepting its membership and implements all the resolutions of the UN and its bodies,” he said in ...
ATHENS (AA) – Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) staged protests in 10 countries across the world to pay homage to the journalists killed in Gaza. The non-profit in a statement said the Israeli army, since last October, has killed over 130 journalists in the Palestinian enclave. The protests were organized in Germany, Brazil, Spain...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Far-right radical Zionist Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has threatened to withdraw from the ruling coalition if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to a cease-fire with Hezbollah. The US, the EU, and nine other nations called on Israel and Hezbollah to agree to a 21-day cease-fire amid an escalation in their cross-bord...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Pro-Palestinian activists in Belgium are working to remove the status of the Brussels municipality of Ixelles and city of Antwerp as “twin cities” with the Israeli town of Megiddo. Belgian citizen Malika Hamri, the pioneer of the initiative, shared that protests have been held in front of the Ixelles municipal buil...
Cornell University has suspended a PhD student following his involvement in a free-Palestine demonstration at a recent campus career fair. Momodou Taal leads the Coalition for Mutual Liberation and is a student at Cornell’s African studies program. Last week, he participated in a walk-out with over 100 protesters targeting companies like Boei...
ATHENS (AA) – Greece’s New Left party placed a banner in the yard of the parliament building in solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon. “Peace Now! Solidarity with Lebanon, Freedom for Palestine,” read the banner that was held by five lawmakers. “The far-right government of Israel pursues genocide in Gaza with the terrorist attacks and de...
MOSCOW (AA) – The Kremlin has urged Russians in Lebanon to leave the country for security reasons. The Russian embassy and other diplomatic missions in Lebanon are working to inform some 3,000 Russian citizens staying in Lebanon about the existing warnings and recommendations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at a press briefing in M...
ANKARA (AA) — Pope Francis has called on the international community to “make every effort to stop this terrible escalation” after days of intense Israeli airstrikes killed hundreds in Lebanon. “I am saddened by the news coming out of Lebanon,” the pope said at his weekly general audience at the Vatican, voicing hope &#...
ANKARA (AA) – Qatar and Saudi Arabia have expressed deep concern over Israel’s ongoing escalation of attacks on Lebanon, warning that Tel Aviv’s “impunity” is driving it to escalate the situation, endangering regional security. The Qatari Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it “strongly condemns the Israeli ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Francesca Albanese, UN’s special rapporteur on Palestine, has sharply criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assertion that Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon were solely aimed at Hezbollah, calling the claim false. “Like the Palestinians, the Lebanese know that you are lying,” Albane...
