LONDON (AA) – Haim Sofer, an Orthodox Jewish rabbi in the UK, cried while voting for photographs from Gaza for Anadolu Agency’s Photos of the Year competition. Sofer, a member of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta movement, voted for Ashraf Amra’s photograph titled ‘The Cry Out’, in which a woman mourns during a funeral cer...
GAZA, Palestine (AA) – Israel wants “to export its crisis abroad” through the assassination of Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri, a senior leader of the Palestinian resistance group has said. “This criminal, arrogant Zionist enemy, despite its failures and disappointments after three months of its barbaric aggression on Gaza...
BERLIN (AA) – A group of Palestine supporters staged a rally Thursday in Berlin to protest Israel’s ongoing attacks on Gaza, which have killed more than 22,400 people and left the coastal enclave in ruins. Despite heavy rain, the protesters gathered outside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s office to express solidarity with the...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The assassination of Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri will not shake the Palestinian group, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has said. “It is wrong to believe that the assassination will shock Hamas and that the group will not be able to replace him,” Barak told Israeli Channel 13 Wednesday evening. “Whoever [&hellip...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel is weighing the opening of the Erez (Beit Hanoun) crossing to allow humanitarian aid into the Palestinian enclave amid US pressure, according to the Israeli media. The move comes ahead of a planned visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Israel next week, Haaretz newspaper reported. Israel has shut [&hell...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Fayza Abdul Aziz, 11, and Mira Ayash, 8, two Palestinian girls who were injured in separate Israeli attacks in the southern Gaza Strip, are currently hospitalized at the Gaza European Hospital in Khan Younis City. The scenes of the Israeli bombardment haunt the girls in the form of “terrifying nightmares...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel is holding secret talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo, urging the Central African country to take in Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, the Israeli media has reported. According to the Times of Israel news website, Israeli officials held talks with officials in DR Congo and other African nations to accept [...
CHICAGO (AA) – Participants of the congress organized by the Muslim American Society (MAS) and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) told the media that they hesitated to express their views on Israel’s attacks on Palestine. They hold the Biden administration responsible for the increasing pressure in all areas, from social me...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 4,119 Palestinian school students have been killed and 7,536 others injured in the relentless ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza, according to the Palestinian Education Ministry. In addition to the students’ casualties in Gaza, the Israeli army also killed 37 school students and injured 282 others in the occupied West...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian officials have called an Israeli soldier taking an infant girl from Gaza “a heinous crime,” saying she should be handed back immediately. “The kidnapping of the infant girl from the Gaza Strip is evidence that the (Israeli) occupation army is committing the most heinous crimes agai...