JOHANNESBURG (AA) – South Africa has called on the United Nations to deploy a rapid protection force to protect the civilian population in Gaza. “All countries genuinely committed to a rules-based system underpinned by international law must act immediately,” South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation or foreign...
Paris, France – AFP Billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday said that his Starlink satellite service would support internet access for “internationally recognised aid organisations in Gaza,” which have faced a telecommunications blackout since Friday. Starlink is a network of satellites in low Earth orbit that can provide internet ...
ANKARA (AA) – Egypt has warned of the humanitarian and security repercussions of the Israeli ground operation in the Gaza Strip, and held Tel Aviv responsible for violating the UN resolution which called for a humanitarian cease-fire. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said the ground invasion would increase the number of casualties, a...
– ANKARA (AA) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in New York has condemned Israel’s recent criticism of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Israeli top officials criticized recent remarks of Guterres on the recent escalations in Gaza, including Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan, who demanded that Guterr...
The UN is reporting that in a powerful speech, Pakistan’s ambassador Munir Akram said “We all know who started this. It is 50 years of Israeli occupation and the killing of Palestinians with impunity, he said. Israel can’t face the truth or face justice. The Israeli occupation is the original sin, not what happened on 7 October. [&hellip...
The United Nations General Assembly on Friday adopted a resolution calling for an “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce” between Israeli forces and Hamas militants in Gaza. It also demands “continuous, sufficient and unhindered” provision of lifesaving supplies and services for civilians trapped inside the enclave, as news repor...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) — Displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are showing signs of disease caused by overcrowding and poor sanitation amid Israeli airstrikes and blockade on the seaside enclave. “We sleep on the ground in hospitals. There is no aid or medicine,” Nadine Abdul Latif, 12, shared. “Patients are sleeping on the ground [&hell...
LONDON (AA) – The residents of Gaza need a cease-fire now to ensure their continued survival from a siege that has deprived them of the bare necessities of life, said the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees or UNRWA. Philippe Lazzarini, the agency’s commissioner-general, also condemned the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, which have [&he...
WASHINGTON (AA) – UN General Assembly President Dennis Francis, while denouncing attacks by Hamas on Israel, has condemned the “indiscriminate” attacks by Israel against Palestinians. Francis said Hamas’ attacks were “shocking” and “has no place in our world,” in opening remarks to the Assembly’s...
United Nations, United States – AFP The Palestinian Authority’s foreign minister has deplored inaction by the UN Security Council to stop “massacres” in Gaza by Israel. “The ongoing massacres being deliberately and systematically and savagely perpetrated by Israel — the occupying power against the Palestinia...
