ATHENS (AA) – Italy’s Greens and Left Alliance (AVS) has urged the government to recognize Palestine as a state and support the International Criminal Court (ICC) to hold Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu liable for “crimes against humanity” in Gaza. Speaking to the country’s state-run ANSA news agency, party’s lawmaker Angelo Bonelli ...
A parade held in New York City for Israel Day was countered by demonstrators showing their support for Palestine. The parade began amid Israel’s relentless eight-month-old war on Gaza that has killed over 36,200 Palestinians, most of them children and women. Those marching for Israel Day confronted the group protesting Israel’s war and human ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has accepted most of the broad outlines of a proposed prisoner swap and cease-fire deal announced late last week by US President Joe Biden, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority reported Sunday. The state broadcaster said the Palestinian group Hamas announced that it would respond positively to the proposal. It said the th...
Beirut, Lebanon — AFP Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah said it launched a series of attacks on Israeli military positions after state media reported Israel had stepped up its own strikes the night before. Since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza on October 7, the situation on the Lebanese-Israeli border has remained tense. On Sat...
Rome, Italy — AFP Daily life has become “apocalyptic” in southern Gaza since Israel moved into the city of Rafah, the UN’s food agency said Friday. “The exodus that we’ve seen in the past 20 days or so out of Rafah has been an awesome and horrific experience for many, many people,” Matthew Hollingworth...
Jerusalem, Occupied Palestinian Territories — AFP In the wake of Israel’s relentless genocidal campaign in Gaza climaxing in its grisly Rafah blitzkrieg, public opinion around the world has clearly shifted with an outpouring of sympathy for the Palestinians. Diplomatic setbacks and intense protests on university campuses for the Fr...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN has warned that displaced people who sought shelter in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip due to Israel’s offensive in Rafah face shortage of safe drinking water. “That’s what our partners who are working on sanitation and water are telling us,” UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters duri...
Nicosia, Cyprus — AFP Cyprus has said that humanitarian aid shipped to Gaza is being stored using a floating mechanism after the US-built pier was damaged. “No aid was sent today, but the one (shipment) that left two days ago is now being stored using a floating mechanism until the dock is fully repaired,” said government [&h...
ANKARA (AA) – The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) “received horrific reports” from its premises in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip, during the Israeli military offensive in the camp. In a statement, UNRWA said displaced people, including children, who were sheltering in its schools in Jabalia, were killed and injured ...
GENEVA – AFP The humanitarian aid allowed into the Gaza Strip is not getting to people in need, the United Nations has said, urging Israel to fulfil its legal obligations. “The aid that is getting in is not getting to the people, and that’s a major problem,” Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN humanitarian agency [&hellip...
