WASHINGTON (AA) – The US and the UK have imposed sanctions on four military officials from Yemen’s Houthi group for attacks on Israel-bound vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in retaliation to the ongoing Israeli onslaught on Gaza. “The Houthis’ ‘terrorist’ attacks on merchant vessels and their civilian c...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has defended the violence by illegal Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Violence by illegal Jewish settlers “is a marginal phenomenon and there is a sharp decrease in the actions of Jews against Arabs,” Ben-Gvir said during a situation assessment meeting cited by Israeli publ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his US counterpart Joe Biden told him he would have the US Congress approval for F-16 sales after the Turkish parliament ratified Sweden’s NATO bid. “If we operate this simultaneously, we will have the opportunity to pass this through parliament much more easily,” Erdo...
Palestinian Territories — AFP Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh has said that any plan for post-war Gaza that does not involve Hamas is just a “delusion”. “Any arrangement in Gaza or in the Palestinian cause without Hamas or the resistance factions is a delusion,” said Haniyeh in a televised speech. Haniyeh’s comme...
BERLIN (AA) – EU member states are discussing sanctions against violent illegal Israeli settlers who have carried out acts of terrorism against Palestinians in the West Bank, Germany’s deputy foreign minister said on Monday. “We are currently discussing what we can do, as EU member states, on this issue. As Germany, we are also consideri...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Palestinian resistance group Hamas has denounced the arrest of displaced civilians in a school in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli army, saying that “stripping them of their clothes” is the work of “terrorist militias.” In a statement, the group said: “The crime of arresting, searching displaced civilians, stripping them of [&...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – The East African Community (EAC) officially embraced Somalia as its eighth member state during the 23rd ordinary summit of EAC heads of state. In a communique by the EAC Summit of Heads of State, the regional bloc said that the leaders from the region agreed to admit “the Federal Republic of […]
Belfast, United Kingdom — AFP Northern Ireland may be thousands of miles from the Middle East, but signs of the current heightened conflict can be seen on the streets of the British province. Palestinian and Israeli flags flutter in pro-Irish and pro-UK neighbourhoods in Northern Ireland, tapping into its own history of conflict and divi...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US Homeland Security Department has responded to an “increase in threats” against Jews, Muslims and Arab-Americans since October 7, Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has said. “In the days and weeks since the attack, we have responded to an increase in threats against Jewish, Muslim and Arab-American communities an...
Strasbourg, France – – AFP EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has said that there is “no excuse for hitting a hospital full of civilians” in Gaza, but did not apportion blame for the blast. The European Commission president told EU lawmakers the “facts need to be established” on the the Gaza hospital strike. Isra...
