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 […]
GAZA CITY- (AA)- Abou Mohammed is an internally displaced Palestinian who fled the ongoing war on Gaza from the Bureij refugee camp to Rafah. At 60 years of age, he has experienced many wars and attacks on his native occupied land. However, he feels the current war is unprecedented in its brutality. He believes that […]
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, says that Rafah is overwhelmed by the influx of displaced Palestinians. “The city is usually home to only 250,000 persons. And now, it’s more than 1.3 million,” said UNRW spokesperson Adnan Abu Hasna. “We have recently noticed a major collapse i...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has announced expanding its military operations in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. In a statement, it said: “The Israeli army is expanding its activities in the Khan Younis area. “The forces began an attack to destroy enemy infrastructure in the city of Khan Younis,” it added. The statement mentioned [...
Palestinian Territories – AFP An estimated 100,000 more displaced people have arrived in the already-teeming southern border city of Rafah in recent days following the intensification of Israel’s attacks around Deir al-Balah and Khan Yunis, according to the UN humanitarian office. At Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah, Palestinians ...
