WASHINGTON (AA) – The US carried out “self-defense strikes” against Houthi targets in Yemen, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced Sunday. “On February 10, between 4 – 5 pm, (Sanaa time) (1300-1400GMT), US Central Command (CENTCOM) forces successfully conducted self-defense strikes against two unmanned surface vess...
ATHENS (AA) – Germany has said that an Israeli attack on Rafah in Gaza would lead to a humanitarian catastrophe. “The plight in Rafah is already incredible. 1.3 million people are seeking protection from the fighting in a very small area. An offensive by the Israeli army on Rafah would be a humanitarian catastrophe in […]
RIYADH (AA) – Saudi Arabia warned on Saturday of the repercussions of a possible Israeli incursion into the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, the last refuge for displaced Palestinians, according to Saudi Press Agency. “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has warned of the extremely dangerous repercussions of storming and targeting the c...
GAZA CITY (AA) – The government media office in Gaza has warned of a “global massacre” if Israel invades Rafah Governorate in the southern Gaza Strip, the last refuge for displaced people in the enclave. In a statement, the office said: “We warn of a global catastrophe and massacre that may leave tens of thousands […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Pro-Palestinian protesters on Friday interrupted former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s speech at the Columbia University, and called her a “war criminal.” “Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, you are a war criminal! The people of Libya, the people of Iraq, the people of Syria, the people of Yemen, the people of P...
Jerusalem, Undefined — AFP Israeli history teacher Meir Baruchin has paid a high price for denouncing the war in Gaza: he was sacked from his job and even locked up as a “high-risk detainee”. The school teacher triggered a firestorm after October 7, by posting a photo of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army. He […]
GENEVA (AA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has documented 721 attacks by Israel on healthcare in the occupied Palestinian territories since October 7. To a question at a UN press conference, Tarik Jasarevic, a WHO spokesman, said some 357 of the attacks were carried out in the Gaza Strip in which 645 people were […]
ATHENS (AA) – UNICEF has warned against a military operation in the city of Rafah, southern Gaza, where over 600,000 children and their families – around a million people – have been displaced under the pressure of over four months of Israeli war. “An escalation of the fighting in Rafah, which is already straining under […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Right-wing Israeli activists and relatives of prisoners in Gaza obstructed humanitarian aid trucks from entering the enclave on Friday. “Activists of the Order 9 movement blocked the Nitzana Border Crossing to prevent trucks with humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip,” Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported. It added th...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army detained 15 more Palestinians during raids across the occupied West Bank, according to prisoners’ affairs groups. This brought the total number of Palestinians detained by the Israeli forces since October 7 to 6,940, the Commission of Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society said in a joint s...
