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 […]
Geneva, Switzerland – – AFP Israel’s deadly military offensive in the erstwhile “safe zone” for internally displaced Palestinians sheltering in Rafah is already taking a dire health toll in southern Gaza. If it continues, “substantial” increases in deaths of the severely injured can be expected, a top ...
Washington, United States – AFP The United States said Tuesday it still considers Israel’s assault on the southern Gazan city of Rafah to be “limited in scope” despite a weekend attack that left 45 people dead as a blaze tore through a camp for displaced people. “Right now it is still our assessment that what [&he...
Paris, France — AFP About 10,000 people took part in a demonstration near the Israeli embassy in Paris against Israel’s bombing of the refugee town of Rafah. The demonstrators gathered a few hundred metres from the embassy in the centre of the French capital and chanted “We are all Gaza children”, “Free Gaza”...
Cairo, Egypt – AFP Egypt’s military said Monday that a border guard was killed in a shooting in the Rafah border area with Gaza, where Israeli forces are deployed, adding that a probe had been launched. “The Egyptian armed forces, through the competent authorities, are investigating a shooting incident in the Rafah border are...
