Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel again bombarded Gaza’s far-southern Rafah area on Tuesday despite a global storm of outrage over a strike that set ablaze a crowded tent city, killing 45 people according to Palestinian officials. The strike, which Gaza medics said also left hundreds of civilians with shrapnel and burn wo...
Ottawa, Canada – AFP Canada is “horrified” by the deaths of civilians from an Israeli air strike on a camp housing displaced Palestinians in Rafah, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said in a social media post, calling for a cease-fire. “The images coming out of Rafah are horrific and heartbreaking,” Joly said in a se...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Gaza’s death toll from relentless Israeli attacks since last October has reached 36,050, the Health Ministry in the besieged enclave has said. At least 81,026 people have also been injured in the onslaught, the ministry added in a statement. “Israeli forces killed 33 people, injured 383 others in seven ‘massac...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has said it assumed that the Israeli airstrike on Rafah in the Gaza Strip, which killed at least 40 Palestinians, was a “mistake.” Investigations are currently underway in Israel to determine whether it was a targeted attack, government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said at a press briefing in Berlin. “In...
ROME (AA) – Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto has said that attacks against Palestinian civilians in Gaza can “no longer be justified.” “There is an increasingly difficult situation, in which the Palestinian people are being squeezed without regard for the rights of innocent men, women and children who have nothing to do with Hamas...
Istanbul, Turkey – AFP Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that his country would do “everything possible” to hold “barbaric” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to account over deadly strikes in Rafah. “We will do everything possible to hold these barbarians and murderers accountable...
Brussels, Belgium – AFP EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday a UN court ruling telling Israel to stop its offensive in Gaza’s Rafah must be implemented, as European ministers met Arab counterparts in Brussels. Israel has continued to strike Rafah as its government has dismissed Friday’s ruling from the Interna...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories, ISTANBUL (AFP/AA) At least 30 people were killed and dozens injured as Israel targeted a camp for displaced people in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Sunday, said medical sources and officials. The attack occurred near the logistics base of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in Tal al-Sultan, said...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Hamas fired a salvo of rockets at Israel’s commercial hub Tel Aviv for the first time in months, sending people scrambling for shelter. Hamas’s armed wing said it had targeted Tel Aviv “with a large rocket barrage in response to the Zionist (Israeli) massacres against civilians”...
CAIRO (AA) – Aid trucks have begun entering the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom crossing, which connects the Strip and Israel, for the first time since the Israeli military invaded Rafah on May 6, Egyptian media reported on Sunday. Al Qahera news channel aired footage showing the moment humanitarian aid trucks, including four fuel [&hellip...
