ANKARA (AA) – The Palestinian death toll from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7 has jumped to 25,700, the Health Ministry in the blockaded enclave said on Wednesday. The ministry in a statement said 63,740 others have also been injured. Israeli forces committed 24 massacres across the Gaza Strip in the past […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) — Israeli authorities have put a Palestinian teen back behind bars after he was released in a prisoner swap deal in late November, according to a Palestinian prisoners group. “The Israeli occupation authorities re-arrested teen Yousef Abdullah al-Khatib, 17, from Jericho city (eastern occupied West Bank), today,&...
BERLIN (AA) – Ghanaian filmmaker Ayo Tsalithaba has withdrawn his film from the Berlinale film festival, protesting Germany’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza. “I have made the decision to withdraw my film Atmospheric Arrivals from Berlinale Forum Expanded and I will not be attending the festival,” Tsalithaba said in a statement posted on soci...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Qatar has said that mediation efforts for a cease-fire and prisoner swap deal between Israel and Hamas are still ongoing. “We are engaged in serious negotiations and discussions between the two sides of the crisis in Gaza,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari told a press conference in Doha on Tuesday. “Mediation efforts...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has set six conditions for a prisoner swap and cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, an Israeli news channel has revealed. According to Channel 12, Israel is waiting for a response from the Palestinian resistance group Hamas through mediators. “The mediators’ answer is expected to come today or tomorrow after ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Monday rounded up 25 more Palestinians in the occupied West Bank under its arbitrary arrest and detention policies, according to prisoners’ affairs groups. The detentions took place in several areas in the occupied territory, including Jenin, Tulkarm, Qalqilya, Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem, H...
ROME (AA) – The new European military mission in the Red Sea that Italy is promoting with France and Germany will be a “considerable step towards a true European defense,” Italy’s foreign minister said after the three countries presented their plan at the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels. Antonio Tajani told reporters at the [&hell...
MADRID (AA) – Spaniards in more than 90 provinces and regions responded to the protest call of the Solidarity Network against the Occupation of Palestine (RESCOP), an umbrella group of over 100 civil society organizations in the European country. The protesters demanded the establishment of an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip while denou...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army continued incursions into several cities in the occupied West Bank, detaining 22 more Palestinians and destroying several homes, as well as taking people’s money and vehicles, according to prisoners’ affairs groups. Israeli soldiers conducted incursions in several areas of the occupied te...
GENEVA (AA) – Nearly 20,000 babies have been born during the current war in Gaza, while 135,000 children under age 2 are at “severe risk” of malnutrition, UNICEF has said. Noting that the number equals one baby born about every 10 minutes since October 7, Tess Ingram, a UNICEF spokesperson, told a press briefing in […]
