BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) – Newly appointed British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has threatened to withdraw Foreign Office support for Scottish ministers after Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf met the Turkish president without the presence of UK officials. In a letter to the Scottish National Party (SNP) government, Cameron said ...
Palestinian Territories — AFP Israel bombed southern Gaza’s main city on Monday after Hamas warned no Israeli prisoners would leave the territory alive unless its demands for the release of Palestinian prisoners were met. Israel has killed nearly 18,000 people — mostly women and children — in a deadly military offensive...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has said that three more soldiers were killed during attacks on the besieged and battered Gaza Strip. “Three reserve forces were killed in the battles taking place in Gaza and their families have been informed,” Israeli public broadcaster KAN said. The fatalities pushed the Israeli army’s death toll since [&he...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has no plans to evacuate the residents of the Gaza Strip towards the Egyptian border, the state media claimed on Sunday. “The relationship between Israel and Egypt is strategic and important, and the two countries are cooperating to prevent masses of Palestinians in Gaza from storming the border into Sinai,” an [&...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that it is “unacceptable” for Israel to use the events of October 7 as a pretext for the collective punishment of the Palestinian people. Addressing the 21st Doha Forum in Qatar, he called for an international observation mission for the Gaza Strip. He suggested that [&helli...
ANKARA (AA) – Popular US Senator Bernie Sanders has said that it would be “irresponsible” for the US to provide an additional $10 billion in military aid to Israel to sustain its “war against Hamas”. Sanders made the remarks while appearing on the CBS News program Face the Nation, according to The Hill news outlet. […]...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian resistance group Hamas has reiterated its commitment to the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and rejected the forced displacement of Palestinians at the hand of Israel. In a statement marking the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Universal Declaration ...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanon has announced the closure of all government offices and institutions nationwide on Monday in solidarity with Gaza and the southern Lebanese villages affected by Israeli attacks. In an official statement, the secretary-general of Lebanon’s Council of Ministers, Mahmoud Mekkiya, announced that Prime Minister ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian death toll from the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has climbed to 17,997 since October 7, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Sunday. Speaking at a press conference, ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said 49,229 other people were injured in the Israeli onslaught on the […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Hamas is part of the Palestinian political landscape, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh has said. “Hamas is part of the Palestinian political map, and if Israel claims that it will eliminate, this will not happen, and it is unacceptable to us,” Shtayyeh said in a speech at the 21st edition of […]...
