Geneva, Switzerland — AFP Gaza’s health system is on its knees and cannot afford to lose another ambulance or a single hospital bed more, the World Health Organization has warned. “The situation is getting more and more horrible by the day… beyond belief, literally,” WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told a press ...
Palestinian Territories — AFP Israeli forces continued pounding Gaza’s ruined cities Friday even as UN Security Council was about to discuss a resolution calling for cease-fire. Weeks of Israeli air and ground attacks have left 17,177 people dead in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the latest toll from the Palestine He...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Palestinian resistance group Hamas has denounced the arrest of displaced civilians in a school in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli army, saying that “stripping them of their clothes” is the work of “terrorist militias.” In a statement, the group said: “The crime of arresting, searching displaced civilians, stripping them of [&...
GENEVA (AA) – Austria has announced that it is restoring aid funds for Palestine and releasing €17.5 million (approximately $18.8 million) for nine projects that had been frozen by Vienna after the events of October 7. The funds will be used for nine projects totaling €17.5 million (approximately $18.8 million), the Foreign Ministry said...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Nearly half a million Israelis have left the country since the launch of Israel’s war on Gaza on October 7, according to a local newspaper. The Population and Immigration Authority estimates that 370,000 people left Israel in the past two months, including 230,309 in October and 139,839 in November, Zman magazine s...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has announced the death of another one of its soldiers during a battle in the northern Gaza Strip. Sgt. First Class (res.) Maor Gershoni, 24, of the army’s 6th Brigade’s 8173rd Battalion, was killed in the besieged territory on Wednesday evening, the Israeli army said in a statement. According [&he...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian man succumbed to wounds sustained by Israeli army gunfire last month in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank. According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, Awad Tayeh Muhammad Anbar, 47, had been critically injured by Israeli forces during a raid on the Tulkarem camp on [&...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestine has condemned a UK decision to carry out surveillance flights over the Gaza Strip, saying the move makes London complicit in the Israeli onslaught on the Palestinian enclave. “Britain’s decision to send surveillance planes over Gaza reflects complicity in the Israeli genocidal war [on Gaza],R...
BETHLEHEM, Palestine (AA) – A church in the occupied West Bank’s historic city of Bethlehem has prepared a decoration for this year’s Christmas using debris instead of a Christmas tree in response to Israel’s attacks on Gaza. “While genocide is being committed against our people in Gaza, we cannot celebrate the birth of...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China has said that “major countries” must practice “fairness and justice” on the situation in the besieged Palestinian enclave of Gaza. Beijing conveyed the message to Washington during a phone call between top diplomats of China and the US. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi discussed [&...
