GENEVA (AA) – The cost of meeting the needs of 2.7 million people in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank is estimated to be $1.2 billion, the UN humanitarian affairs office has said. Spokesperson Jens Laerke told a UN press briefing in Geneva that the agency will update its flash appeal accordingly on Monday, […]
STOCKHOLM) – Sweden has urged Israel to abide by its obligations under international law and refrain from targeting areas in the Gaza Strip where there is risk of civilian casualties. Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said Friday Israel has a right to defend itself against Hamas attacks, but criticized Israeli military strikes that hav...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories– AFP Israel has begun sending thousands of Palestinian workers back to Gaza who had been stranded inside Israel since its war on Gaza erupted. “Thousands of workers who were blocked in Israel since October 7 have been brought back,” Hisham Adwan, head of Gaza’s crossings authority, said. A...
Israel-Palestine war: Day 28 The besieged Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip faces consistent Israeli attacks from land, air, and sea. Israeli fighter jets bombed the entrance to Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, killing and injuring several. Al-Shifa provides shelter to many displaced and wounded Palestinians and has been warned b...
ISTANBUL (AA) – There are voices within Israel critical of the actions taken by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government in response to the Hamas’ October 7 attack. Daniel Levy, a former senior adviser during ex-Premier Ehud Barak’s government, says it is “important to call out lies … (that) are justifying the mass killing [&...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden’s handling of Israel’s escalating invasion of the besieged Gaza Strip has been nothing short of “horrific,” says a Jewish-American activist who was detained last week following a protest on the Capitol Hill. “It is absolutely unbearable to watch the way our government ha...
ANKARA (AA) – Australia has urged Israel to stop the killing of civilians and warned that Tel Aviv faces “grave risks” if the conflict in Gaza spreads. Speaking to reporters in Adelaide on Thursday, the South Australia capital, Foreign Minister Penny Wong reiterated her country’s call for humanitarian pauses in Gaza. “We want humanitaria...
GAZA, Palestine (AA) – Hamas’ armed wing said on Thursday that it had targeted two Israeli vehicles in the northwestern Gaza Strip. The brigades said on Telegram that they targeted two Israeli vehicles in northwestern Gaza with Yasin 105 shells. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli side on the claim. On Wednesday, the [&...
Tunis, Tunisia — AFP Tunisia’s parliament has begun debating a bill that would criminalize any normalization of ties with Israel as besieged and impoverished Gaza continues being pounded by deadly airstrikes leading to a death toll approaching 10,000. The draft bill defines “normalization” as “recognition of the Z...
LONDON (AA) – Pro-Palestinian demonstrators on Thursday protested outside the London offices of a firm supplying weapons to Israel. Leonardo, an Italian weapons firm with a presence in Britain, faced protesters from the group Palestine Action criticizing it for being a “supplier of weaponry for Israel’s fighter jets” an...
