ANKARA (AA) – Iran has said that the Gaza cease-fire is currently part of the country’s priorities, along with the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. The Iranian state news agency IRNA cited a statement by the Iranian permanent mission to the UN responding to a question whether Iran “would reverse its plans to take [&hel...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 15 Palestinians, including children, were killed and dozens injured in Israeli airstrikes on schools sheltering displaced people in Gaza City on Thursday, the Civil Defense Agency said. Israeli warplanes attacked al-Zahraa and Abdel Fattah Hamoud schools in al-Tuffah neighborhood, witnesses said. Medical so...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army has been using artificial intelligence (AI) tools from Microsoft and Google and Amazon’s cloud service for its war on Gaza, according to reports by +972 Magazine and the Hebrew language news site Local Call. An audio recording they obtained reveals that Col. Racheli Dembinsky, commander of the Israeli...
MILTON, Canada (AA) – The UN has announced the completion of an investigation by its Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) into allegations made by Israel against staff members of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) following events on October 7 last year. In relation to the findings, UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq told...
BEIRUT (AA) – Two members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group have been killed in clashes with the Israeli army along the Lebanese-Israeli border. In separate statements, Hezbollah identified the fighters as Ali Jamal al-Din Jawad and Ali Ghaleb Shuqair, which they said were killed “on the road to Jerusalem,” in reference to Hezboll...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh was intended to prolong the military assault on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Russia’s RIA state news agency in an interview. “There is no doubt that the purpose of Mr. Haniyeh’s assassination is to prolong the war and expan...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said that his country does not seek the spread of war in the region but will respond to Israel’s crimes, in particular the assassination of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh. Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran on July 31 after attending Pezeshkian’s swearing-in ceremony. H...
Rennes, France — AFP When Israeli air strikes hit his neighbourhood early on in the war on Gaza, Palestinian social worker Tareq Abu Eita, 42, saw his whole life upended in seconds. The vicious Israeli bombardment on October 14 blew in the walls of his two-storey family home. It killed his 77-year-old father Hamed, his […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Clashes erupted in the eastern part of Nablus, a city in the northern West Bank, as Israeli forces facilitated the entry of illegal settlers into the tomb of an Islamic scholar, claimed by the Jews to be the resting place of Prophet Yusuf (Joseph) Peace Be Upon Him. Witnesses said that […]
-TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – The assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was “designed and executed” by Israel with support from the US, using a short-range projectile, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has said. In a statement, the IRGC called the assassination a “terrorist crime” and vowed “severe punishment.” Ha...