MOSCOW (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed concern over the current escalation of tensions in the Middle East, calling Israel’s war on Palestine “one of the bloodiest in a long series of clashes” and emphasizing the need to correct historical injustices against the Palestinian people. Speaking at a meeting i...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has said that Israel’s failure to protect civilians in the Gaza Strip could lead to a generation of Palestinians resistant to cooperation with Israel. During remarks to reporters in Rome, Austin said he regularly discusses the importance of protecting civilians and providing humanita...
ROME (AA) – The University of Milan has suspended an agreement with Israel’s Reichman University on an exchange of students and researchers after its rector, Marina Brambilla, met with a delegation of Palestinian students who had been pressing for a boycott of relations with Israeli universities. The university’s administration cited the...
Gaza City, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian women displaced by the Israeli army’s attacks on northern Gaza since October 6 have shared their harrowing experiences with journalists. Malak Elyan and Aya Al-Tanani arrived in Gaza City from Beit Lahiya, visibly exhausted from the bombardments, hunger, and the toll of forced migration. They recounted a...
GENEVA (AA) – Israel permitted only four out of 66 planned humanitarian aid missions to northern Gaza during the first 20 days of October, with no food aid allowed for 14 days, the UN humanitarian office (OCHA) has said. OCHA spokesman Jens Laerke detailed a severe deterioration in humanitarian access, revealing that Israeli authorities ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Illegal Israeli settlers stormed the tomb site of Sheikh Yussef Dawiqat, in the West Bank city of Nablus, according to witnesses. The illegal Jewish settlers entered the sacred site under police protection and forcibly performed Jewish religious rituals there, the witnesses said. Provoked Palestinian residents hurled...
ISTANBUL (AA) – American news network CNN has drawn fierce criticism over a piece on the mental health struggles of Israeli soldiers who returned from Gaza. Critics argue it whitewashes the perpetrators of violence and trivializes Palestinians’ suffering. The article, which focused on Israeli soldiers’ experiences of trauma a...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – United Nations agencies have postponed a polio vaccination campaign for Palestinian children in the northern Gaza Strip because of a deadly Israeli onslaught. The World Health Organization (WHO) said Gaza’s Health Ministry and UN partners “were compelled to postpone the polio vaccination campaign in northern Gaza” d...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinians in northern Gaza “are waiting to die” as Israel escalated its offensive in the area, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has said. “Our staff report that they cannot find food, water or medical care,” UNRWA Commissioner-General Phillippe Lazzarini said in a statement. “T...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Ala’ Yousef Hasan, the director of “From Ground Zero”, is optimistic about Palestine’s future. “We still have hope that we will have the chance to have our freedom,” he said. At the 6th International Friendship Short Film Festival, Hasan discussed his short film project “From Ground Zero,” which aims to ...
