AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – The leaders of Jordan, Egypt, and Palestine will hold summit talks in the Jordanian port city of Aqaba on Wednesday to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip. A statement by Jordan’s Royal Court said King Abdullah II will meet with Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas “to discuss [&he...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Tuesday raided the city of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its medical teams treated eight Palestinians injured from Israeli live bullets in the Askar refugee camp in Nablus City. Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli forces raided the Askar camp a...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Egypt is refusing to cooperate with Israel regarding greater surveillance of the Philadelphia Corridor, a narrow buffer zone between Egypt and Gaza, an Egyptian news outlet has reported. Al-Qahera News quoted an Egyptian official who said such reports were “completely false.” Last week, Israeli reports claimed that Israel...
LONDON (AA) – Six-year-old Palestinian-American Wadea al-Fayoume was stabbed 26 times at his home in Illinois, US, by his landlord, who was screaming anti-Muslim slurs as he brutally attacked the little boy. Just moments before, the assailant, 71-year-old Joseph M. Czuba, told the boy’s mother, Hanaan Shahin, who was also stabbed and criticall...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Some 13,000 Israelis have been injured, including 2,500 soldiers, during Israel’s deadly war on Gaza that began October 7, Health Minister Uriel Busso has said. Speaking during a session of the Knesset’s Health Committee, Busso said two billion shekels ($538 million) have been allocated for the mental health and re...
BERLIN (AA) – German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has criticized Israel’s policy of constructing and expanding illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian territories. “The construction of settlements is illegal. It undermines lasting peace and endangers the two-state solution and thereby endangers Israel’s security,” Baerboc...
London, United Kingdom – – AFP A British-Palestinian doctor who worked in Gaza hospitals during the Israeli attacks hopes that testimony he has given to UK police will lead to prosecutions for war crimes. Ghassan Abu Sitta, a plastic surgeon specialising in conflict injuries, spent 43 days volunteering in the besieged Palestinian t...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli government and its members are advocating for ethnic cleansing and even genocide in Gaza, Knesset member Ofer Cassif, who has supported South Africa’s genocide proceedings against Tel Aviv, has said. “My constitutional duty is to Israeli society and all its residents, not to a government whose mem...
LONDON (AA) – More than 90,000 people, which is about 4% of the population in Gaza, are dead, wounded or missing, says a human rights monitor. The Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor says Israel’s continuous air, land and sea attacks have destroyed about 70% of the Gaza Strip’s civilian infrastructure since October 7. In a [&helli...
GAZA CITY- (AA)- Abou Mohammed is an internally displaced Palestinian who fled the ongoing war on Gaza from the Bureij refugee camp to Rafah. At 60 years of age, he has experienced many wars and attacks on his native occupied land. However, he feels the current war is unprecedented in its brutality. He believes that […]