Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli forces struck Gaza on Friday as truce efforts failed to make progress and tensions surged on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon. Witnesses reported strikes on the southern city of Rafah and central areas of the Gaza Strip. At Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir al-Balah, men...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 1.5 million displaced individuals in the Gaza Strip have contracted infectious diseases due to absence of waste and sewage disposal facilities because of the Israeli war on the besieged enclave. In a statement, the media office reported: “1,477,748 Palestinian displaced individuals have contracted inf...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Distress calls are coming in from people injured by Israeli attacks on Rafah in southern Gaza, but Israeli military vehicles are keeping rescuers out, says the Gaza Civil Defense Agency. “We’re getting distress calls from injured and trapped people in the Al Qarya as Suwaydiya area in western Rafah, but [&hell...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Fresh strikes by Israel across the Gaza Strip overnight into Monday killed at least 19 Palestinians, as mediators urged Israel and Hamas to agree to a truce and prisoner swap deal outlined by US President Joe Biden. Since Biden spoke at the White House on Friday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [&he...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has accepted most of the broad outlines of a proposed prisoner swap and cease-fire deal announced late last week by US President Joe Biden, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority reported Sunday. The state broadcaster said the Palestinian group Hamas announced that it would respond positively to the proposal. It said the th...
Jerusalem, Occupied Palestinian Territories — AFP In the wake of Israel’s relentless genocidal campaign in Gaza climaxing in its grisly Rafah blitzkrieg, public opinion around the world has clearly shifted with an outpouring of sympathy for the Palestinians. Diplomatic setbacks and intense protests on university campuses for the Fr...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The families of Israelis held by Palestinian resistance fighters in Gaza said on Saturday that the proposal announced by President Joe Biden for a cease-fire gives them hope of finally getting their relatives back. “Biden’s speech offers us real hope for the first time to get our sons back, but Netanyahu may [&hell...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN has warned that displaced people who sought shelter in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip due to Israel’s offensive in Rafah face shortage of safe drinking water. “That’s what our partners who are working on sanitation and water are telling us,” UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters duri...
ATHENS (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday admitted that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is dire, saying Washington is working to allow more aid into the Palestinian enclave. Speaking at a press conference in Prague following an informal meeting of the NATO foreign ministers, Blinken said, “We’ve seen changes, some p...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP The Israeli army said Friday its troops pushed into central Rafah, escalating its nearly eight-month war on Gaza despite international objections over any offensive in the southern Gaza city. Israel first sent tanks and troops into Rafah from the city’s east in early May, ignoring concerns over ...
