WASHINGTON (AA) – UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric on Friday voiced concern over Israeli premier’s plan for civilian evacuation from Rafah in southern Gaza. “We are extremely worried about the fate of civilians in Rafah,” Dujarric told reporters in New York. His remarks came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel launched new air strikes Friday on the city of Rafah in Gaza’s far south, after US President Joe Biden said its response to Hamas’s October 7 attack has been “over the top”. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he has ordered Israeli forces to “prepare to operate...
WASHINGTON (AA) – UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process warned Wednesday about a “completely catastrophic” potential Israeli military operation in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. “We know very well. The Israelis know, even better, but still planning that having a very active warfare in the area of R...
GENEVA (AA) – “Everything possible” must be done to avoid intensified hostilities in the Rafah city in southern Gaza, which may lead to a “large scale” loss of civilian lives, the UN humanitarian office warned on Tuesday. “We can warn what might unfold with the ground invasion and we can make clear what the ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has said that Palestine rejects any Israeli attempt to transfer or replace the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. “Israel is trying to relocate the crossing to another location. We affirm this is a pure Egyptian-Palestinian matter,” S...
BERLIN (AA) — German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has warned Israel against a military attack in the southernmost city of the Gaza Strip. “To act now in Rafah, in the last and most crowded place, as announced by the Israeli defense minister, would simply not be justified,” Baerbock said in an interview with the RND […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP Deadly strikes were reported early Saturday in the overcrowded Gaza border town of Rafah — dubbed a “pressure cooker of despair” by the UN — as international mediators readied a new push to seal a tentative deal between Israel and Hamas. Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army arrested a number of workers at the UN agency for Palestinian refugees or UNRWA while they were moving to Rafah in southern Gaza, a witness told Anadolu on Wednesday. Speaking to Anadolu reporter, a Palestinian woman, Fatema Abou Jou’eid, said the UNRWA workers were arrested on Monday [&...
RAFAH – AFP Palestinians living in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip are worried about the possible cut of supplies by UNRWA. “Stopping supplies distribution from UNRWA (will lead to) a catastrophe in the Gaza Strip,” said Bassam Al-Masri, a Palestinian displaced from Beit Hanoun. “Those distributions are our main pillar...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Wala Barbakh was shocked when the Israeli army took the body of her daughter, Jana, 14, from a grave after she was killed in an airstrike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Barbakh, who was displaced from the city with her family to Rafah in the southernmost part […]
