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...
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...
