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 […...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Former Israeli Maj. Gen. Itzhak Brik has revealed the “total chaos” suffered by soldiers in the Gaza Strip in terms of the availability of equipment and logistical services needed for war. Brik, a former military general, told the Israeli daily Maariv about the “total chaos in Israeli army ranks that is...
BERLIN (AA) — German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has warned Israel against a military attack in the southernmost city of the Gaza Strip. “To act now in Rafah, in the last and most crowded place, as announced by the Israeli defense minister, would simply not be justified,” Baerbock said in an interview with the RND […]
Istanbul, Turkiye – – AFP A Turkish court released an Israeli footballer who had been detained over accusation of incitement to hate by displaying an offensive message referring to Israel’s assault on Gaza during a first division match. Sagiv Jehezkel, 28, held up a bandage on his wrist reading “100 days. 07/10” n...
ANKARA (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stopped his defense minister from holding separate talks with the director of Israel’s Mossad spy agency on efforts to secure the release of Israeli detainees in Gaza, the local media has reported. Israel’s Channel 12 cited government sources which said that Yoav Gallant has bee...
Tel Aviv (AA) – Israel’s Chief of General Staff and National Security Minister shouted at each other during a cabinet meeting, Channel 12 reported. Herzi Halevi shouted at Itamar Ben-Gvir, “Don’t threaten me,” during a weekly cabinet meeting on Monday when “the issue arose of soldiers taking control of a loudspeaker system in...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel is using starvation as a “weapon of war” in Gaza by intentionally cutting people’s access to water and food, which is a war crime, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. “Israeli forces are deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food, and fuel, while willfully impeding humanitarian assistance, apparently razing agric...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Attacks by “extremist settlers” against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank “must stop,” US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on Monday. “Attacks by extremist settlers against the Palestinians in the West Bank must stop and those committing the violence must be held accountable,R...
