LONDON (AA) – A UN commission has said international law obligates the UN’s member states to end Israel’s unlawful presence in Palestinian territories. In a legal position paper, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, said that it found the advisory op...
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least five people have been killed and several others injured in Israeli airstrikes in different areas of southern Lebanon. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that an Israeli airstrike targeted the town of Jwaya in the Tyre district of southern Lebanon, killing three people and injuring several others. Debris ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has called up an additional reserve brigade to its northern border to bolster its invasion of Lebanon. “In accordance with the situational assessment, the IDF (army) is calling up an additional reserve brigade for operational missions in the northern arena,” a military statement said. “This will enable t...
Israel shot dead a 59-year-old Palestinian woman while attending to her family’s olive grove in the village of Faqqua, east of Jenin in the north of the occupied West Bank. Hanan Abu Salami was shot in the back Thursday morning as she was picking olives with other members of her family when soldiers stationed on […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has called for regional de-escalation during a meeting in Cairo with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. A statement by the Egyptian Presidency said that the meeting dwelt on current developments in the Middle East region. Sisi reiterated Egypt’s position to avoid expanding the confl...
Advocacy group Jewish Voice for Peace staged demonstrations on Monday challenging U.S. military aid to Israel, resulting in more than 200 arrests. A large crowd of demonstrators gathered outside the New York Stock Exchange in solidarity with Palestine. Police intervened and detained several protesters wearing red shirts emblazoned with variou...
ANKARA (AA) – Jordan’s foreign minister has said that the creation of a Palestinian state is the key to peace in the region. “Without the establishment of a sovereign state for the Palestinians, Israel will not achieve peace,” Ayman Safadi said at the Future of Palestine Conference in Ankara. He said Israel only brings destruction [&hell...
BEIRUT (AA) – Rescuers have recovered the bodies of three paramedics from under the rubble following an Israeli airstrike in eastern Lebanon. Israeli warplanes hit a facility of the Islamic Health Authority in Qilya Monday night, destroying the building and killing three paramedics inside. The state news agency NNA said that the bodies of the ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem has said that a Gaza cease-fire is the key to ending the current crisis. “We have the right to target any point in Israel after its violations in Lebanon,” Qassem said in a televised speech. “Rocket fire will continue.” “The solution is a cease-fire based on an […]...
LONDON (AA) – Nearly 50 British lawmakers welcomed the UN’s September 18 resolution calling on Israel to rapidly end its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), and urged their government to halt all military exports to Israel. In an early motion moved by independent MPs Richard Burgeon, Imran Hussain, Zarah Sultana, and...
