United Nations, United States — AFP The United Nations will be launching a $2.8 billion appeal for donations this year to help the war-ravaged population of the Gaza Strip as well as West Bank Palestinians, a senior agency official has said. The “flash appeal” addresses humanitarian funding needs through the end of 2024, acco...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Jordan has called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to avoid dragging the Middle East region into more escalation with Iran. Iran launched a barrage of drones and missiles at Israel on Saturday in response to the April 1 attack on the Iranian Consulate in Damascus, Syria, in which at least […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Malak Haniyeh, the granddaughter of Hamas’s political bureau chairman Ismail Haniyeh, has succumbed to injuries sustained in an Israeli strike that killed other family members on the first day of the Muslim festival of Eid-al-Fitr, according to medical sources. Three sons of Haniyeh, along with several of his grandc...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Illegal Israeli settlers have resumed their attacks on Palestinian villages and towns in the West Bank. “The terrorist gangs of colonialists with the protection of the (Israeli) occupation army are closing the bridge of the village of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah,” the Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission sa...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel will pay the price for its oppression in Gaza, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas. In a phone call with Abbas, Erdogan said: “Israel will pay the price for oppression. All means must be mobilized for a cease-fire in Gaza, including (the implementation of the) UN [&he...
NEW YORK Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine, told the General Assembly on Monday that the Palestinians had waited long enough and deserved membership of the UN. “I ask you: Does the UN membership want us to be their fellow member? Do you want us to be a fellow member of you […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Mohammad Mustafa, appointed prime minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA), has formed a new government, mostly composed of new technocrats. Names that dominated the political arena in the West Bank for years are now absent from the lineup except for Interior Minister Ziad Hab al-Reeh, who is affiliated with ...
BERLIN (AA) – German police on Saturday cracked down harshly on pro-Palestinian protesters inside Berlin’s Central Train Station, including assaulting a Muslim woman, as captured by video at the scene. Demonstrators at the station chanted slogans in support of Palestine, and clashes broke out between protesters and police. Police detained some...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Amid the ongoing onslaught by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza, a petition has been moved in the New Zealand parliament seeking support for the people in the besieged coastal enclave. “We call for the New Zealand government to fulfill its international legal obligations, and to demonstrate moral leadership to the rest of [&h...
Beijing, China — AFP China has welcomed the UN Security Council call for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, urging swift “action” to halt fighting over the final weeks of Ramadan. After more than five months of war, the UN Security Council for the first time demanded an immediate cease-fire in Gaza after Israel’s forefron...
