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 ...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Rafah residents reported intense artillery shelling and gunfire Thursday in Gaza’s far-southern city after Israel said it had seized a strategic corridor on the Palestinian territory’s border with Egypt. The Israeli military launched its incursion into Rafah in early May despite internatio...
Beijing, China – AFP Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Thursday for a peace conference on Israel’s war on Gaza as he addressed Arab leaders and diplomats at a forum in Beijing. Addressing the delegations on Thursday morning, Xi said China supported a “broad-based” peace conference to resolve the conflict. “Th...
Beijing, China – AFP Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Thursday urged the international community to ensure Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are not displaced from their war-ravaged territory. “I… call on the international community to immediately provide for long-term humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip and to e...
United Nations, United States – AFP The United States is wary of a new UN resolution on Israel’s war on Gaza, its deputy ambassador said Wednesday as a draft seeks an immediate cease-fire. Algeria called an urgent UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday after an Israeli strike killed 45 people at a tent camp in […]
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has denounced the recent joint Israel-US assault in Gaza’s “safe zone” Rafah, labeling it as genocidal brutality. At least 40 people were killed in an Israeli bombing of a tent housing displaced Palestinians in Rafah on Sunday. America’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group criticized the B...
CNN says its analysis by weapons experts shows munitions made in the United States were used in the deadly Israeli strike on a refugee camp in Rafah on Sunday. Serial numbers matched those for a manufacturer of GBU-39 parts based in California. About 1.3 million Palestinians took shelter in Rafah to avoid Israeli bombings of […]
