LONDON (AA) – The UK’s decision to halt 30 of its 350 arms export licenses to Israel will not have a “material impact” on Israel’s security, the British defense secretary has said. Speaking to Times Radio, John Healey said the suspension decision “will not have a material impact on Israel’s security.” Healey...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel is pushing the International Criminal Court (ICC) to delay the issuance of arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes in Gaza, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. Official sources said Tel Aviv is putting diplomatic pressure on The Hague-based court ...
LONDON (AA) – The UK has said that it would not proceed with efforts to question whether the International Criminal Court (ICC) has jurisdiction to issue arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister and defense minister, according to local media. The ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan announced in May that he had requested arrest warrants for [...
Hodeida, Yemen — AFP Following Israel’s deadly strike on the port of Hodeida, Yemen’s Houthis have promised a “huge” retaliation against Israel, as regional fallout widens from months of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. On Sunday, Israel claimed that it had intercepted a missile allegedly fired from Yemen and...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has announced plans to establish “rapid response forces” in the illegal Israeli settlements. He unveiled the plans as he inspected Israeli military forces along the contact line between the West Bank and Israel, accompanied by the chair of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Co...
The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor Karim Khan has disclosed that he is receiving threats amid investigations into top Israeli officials. In an interview with CNN, Khan revealed a senior figure’s blunt statement that the court was “built for Africa and for thugs like Putin,” not for the West and its allies. He was referring to [&he...
Tel Aviv, Israel — AFP Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant says he is opposed to Israeli military control or taking responsibility for the governance of the Gaza Strip after the ongoing war on Gaza ends. “Since October, I have been raising this issue consistently in the cabinet, and have received no response,” Gallan...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli troops continued attacks across the Gaza Strip Tuesday that forced new waves of Palestinian mass displacement. Nearly 450,000 Palestinians have been displaced from Rafah since May 6, and around 100,000 from northern Gaza, UN agencies said. That means around a quarter of Gaza’s population...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Israeli army issued on Monday morning urgent evacuation orders to Palestinian residents and displaced individuals in several areas of eastern Rafah, telling them to immediately relocate to the town of al-Mawasi. “The Israeli army is expanding the humanitarian zone in Al-Mawasi and urging Palestinians to temporar...
Golan Heights, Occupied Palestinian Territories – AFP In the green hills of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights near Lebanon, Arye and Ditza Alon are hiking through a tranquil nature reserve, wondering whether the wider region could become a war zone. While mediators hope for a truce soon in the ongoing war raging in Gaza to the […...
