The United States withheld 3,500 bombs last week, officials said. President Joe Biden withheld 2,000-pound and 500-pound bombs that he feared could be dropped on Rafah by Israel. The news came as Biden again conflated campus protests against Israel’s war on Gaza with antisemitism. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told the Senate the administ...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Smoke rose from strikes on Gaza’s crowded southern city of Rafah Thursday after US President Joe Biden vowed to stop supplying artillery shells and other weapons to Israel if a full-scale offensive into the city goes ahead. It was the starkest warning yet from the United States, Israel’s m...
GENEVA (AA) – Switzerland has decided to contribute 10 million Swiss francs (over $11 million) to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), focusing on the basic needs of the people in Gaza. “The CHF 10 million contribution is exclusively earmarked for Gaza and will be used to provide the urgent assistance specified in the [&...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian groups have strongly rejected any foreign party controlling the Rafah border crossing, a day after the Israeli army occupied it. In a statement, the Follow-up Committee for National and Islamic Forces, which includes the majority of Palestinian groups, said regardless of the accuracy of the reports...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel on Wednesday claimed to have reopened of the Kerem Shalom commercial crossing with Gaza following a few days of its closure. The crossing, also known as Karm Abu Salem crossing, is located in the southern Gaza Strip, near Rafah, which is being attacked by the Israeli forces. According to the Israeli […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israel killed at least 35 Palestinians and injured 129 others in airstrikes on Rafah in the past 24 hours, a medical source told Anadolu on Wednesday. The medical source also said the Palestinian victims were those who arrived at the Kuwait Hospital in Rafah city, adding that children and women […]
Washington, United States – AFP The United States paused a shipment of bombs to Israel last week over fears it would invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah, an official said Tuesday, marking the first time that President Joe Biden has squeezed military aid to the key US ally since it launched its war on […]
United Nations, United States – AFP UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday demanded that Israel re-open crossings into Gaza immediately to allow essential aid in, and urged it to “stop any escalation” after it sent tanks into Rafah. “Things are moving in the wrong direction. I am disturbed and distressed by th...
ANKARA (AA) – The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has said that Israel’s interruption to the supply of aid at the Rafah crossing will affect humanitarian response across war-torn Gaza. The Israeli army said earlier on Tuesday that its forces have seized control of the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing with Eg...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Israeli army on Tuesday said that it had seized control of the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. In a statement, the Israeli army said its 401st armored brigade took “operational control” of the Rafah crossing from the Palestinian side. The spokesman of the Palestinian border crossi...
