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...
Palestinian Territories — AFP Israeli forces continued pounding Gaza’s ruined cities Friday even as UN Security Council was about to discuss a resolution calling for cease-fire. Weeks of Israeli air and ground attacks have left 17,177 people dead in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the latest toll from the Palestine He...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has announced the death of another one of its soldiers during a battle in the northern Gaza Strip. Sgt. First Class (res.) Maor Gershoni, 24, of the army’s 6th Brigade’s 8173rd Battalion, was killed in the besieged territory on Wednesday evening, the Israeli army said in a statement. According [&he...
BERLIN (AA) – German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said on Wednesday he has offered support to his Israeli counterpart Yoav Galant against Hamas. The federal (German) government has also made this offer to the Israeli military attaché, said Pistorius in Berlin after a meeting of the parliament’s Defense Committee. “Both have said so f...
Jerusalem, Occupied Palestinian Territories — AFP Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has ordered a “complete siege” on the Gaza Strip as the military pounded the Palestinian territory with air strikes. “We are putting a complete siege on Gaza… No electricity, no food, no water, no gas — it’s all clo...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel is close to carrying out a military campaign against Lebanon, the country’s permanent delegate to the United Nations has warned. Israel is “the nearest to launching military action in Lebanon since the 2006 [war],” Gilad Erdan told Army Radio, citing what he called Hezbollah escalation along the border. The ...
