Gaza City- Occupied Palestinian Territories- “Look how we live! There are no bathrooms, no water and no food. Trash is everywhere. We sleep near piles of garbage!” says a displaced Palestinian woman living in a destroyed UNRWA school that has been turned into a shelter in Jabalia, in the north of the Gaza Strip. As famine […...
RAFAH, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES (AFP)- Forced to flee her home by Israeli bombardment, Asmaa Ahmed gave birth in the middle of the night in a Gaza City school that had no electricity. “I was very, very afraid to lose the baby,” 31-year-old Ahmed tearfully recounted how her son Faraj came into the world four months ago […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army carried out several raids across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, arresting a number of Palestinians and demolishing a Palestinian home. Witnesses reported that the Israeli army raided the Kafr Dan town, near the cities of Jenin and Tulkarem, in the northern West Bank. Raids were also reporte...
GAZA (AA) – Starving children in the besieged Gaza Strip are getting poisoned by fodder they have to eat due to food shortage caused by continuous Israeli bombing. Israel, which has been attacking Gaza from air, land and sea for about five months, does not allow water, food, medicine, fuel and electricity to be delivered […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – A team of Australian lawyers has referred Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to the International Criminal Court (ICC) as an “accessory to genocide” in Gaza. He is the “first leader of a Western nation to be referred to the ICC under Article 15 of the Rome Statute,” said Birchgrove Legal, who filed the […]
MOSCOW (AA) – Israel’s “inadequate interpretation of the right to self-defense” is the primary reason for the escalation of the confrontation in the Gaza Strip, Russian geopolitical analyst Vitaly Naumkin says. Speaking at a news conference on Monday to explain the deliberations and outcome of the February 29-March 2 in...
NEW DELHI (AA) – An Indian national was killed by an anti-tank missile launched from southern Lebanon into northern Israel, the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi has said. Southern Lebanon has been targeted by Israel several times over the past few weeks, leading to dozens of casualties. In a statement issued Tuesday morning, the Israeli [&he...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army detained 55 more Palestinians in military raids across the occupied West Bank on Monday, according to prisoners’ affairs groups. At least 22 people were taken into Israeli custody in Hebron city, while other arrests took place in the cities of Bethlehem, Ramallah, Jerusalem, and Qalqilya, the C...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Brazil and Russia have underlined the importance of efforts to achieve a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, where over 30,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since early October last year. A statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Mikhail Bogdanov, Moscow’s special envoy for the Middle East and Africa, held...
ANKARA (AA) – Israeli tanks “deliberately” ran over Palestinians alive on Sunday, according to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. The Geneva-based organization described these crimes as “part of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.” Euro-Med reported several cases of Israeli forces running over Palestin...
