GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The accumulation of garbage and waste is threatening the health of Palestinians struggling to survive in difficult conditions in Gaza, which has been under intense attacks by Israel for months. Due to the lack of municipal services, pollution crisis caused by garbage and other waste has deepened in Gaza, which...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The imam of the Great Omari Mosque insists on reciting the adhan — the Muslim call to prayer — and performing congregational prayers amid the rubble of the mosque that was destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in the old town of Gaza City. In one corner of the mosque, Sheikh Fadi […]
ANKARA (AA) – The death toll of women and children in Gaza in Israel’s attacks since October 7 exceeds six times that of the Russia-Ukraine War. According to the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission (HRMMU) in Ukraine, 10,378 civilians, including 579 children and 2,992 women, have been killed, and 19,632 others injured since the begi...
BERLIN (AA) – A group of lawyers has filed a criminal complaint against top German government officials for supporting Israel’s war crimes and “genocide” against Palestinians. Nadija Samour, one of the lawyers, said that German politicians, including Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, are responsib...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Former Israeli Maj. Gen. Itzhak Brik has revealed the “total chaos” suffered by soldiers in the Gaza Strip in terms of the availability of equipment and logistical services needed for war. Brik, a former military general, told the Israeli daily Maariv about the “total chaos in Israeli army ranks that is...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces detained 22 more Palestinians across the occupied West Bank late Friday and early Saturday, according to prisoners’ rights groups. “The Israeli occupation forces arrested at least 22 citizens from the West Bank, including journalist Sami Al-Saei, two children, and former prisoners,” the Commissio...
LONDON (AA) – Israel, as the occupying power for many decades, is actively preventing the full realization of the Palestinians’ right to self-determination, Slovenia’s delegation to the International Court of Justice said Friday. Presenting Slovenia’s statements in advisory proceedings on the legal consequences arising ...
GENEVA (AA) – A UN report Friday urged accountability and justice for severe violations of armed conflict laws and other gross human rights violations committed by all parties in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, including East Jerusalem and Israel. The UN Human Rights Office report covers the year leading up to Oct. 31, 2023. “The [&hell...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli War Cabinet member Benny Gantz threatened on Friday that the army “will eventually launch its much-anticipated offensive” in the southern Gazan city of Rafah. “The fighting will continue also in the future, deep within the enemy’s territory and not along the border,” Gantz said in a video message shared on social...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Japan has reiterated its position that the way forward to end the conflict between Israel and Palestine is a two-state solution. Tokyo “believes a two-state solution for a future independent Palestinian state, living side by side with Israel with peace and dignity, remains the only viable path for both peoples,” Tomohiro ...
