JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli government has decided to postpone municipal elections to February 27, according to local media. The polls were originally scheduled for January 30. Military data shows that 688 candidates for 144 cities and towns are currently serving in army reserves and could not be spared for elections. “We usually ...
LONDON (AA) – Britain is preparing to launch a wave of air strikes against Houthis in Yemen who have been targeting Israel-bound vessels in the Red Sea, according to a media report. Under the plans, the UK would join with the US and possibly another European country to unleash a salvo of missiles against preplanned […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel must increase humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza as the aid entering the enclave meets only 10% of its needs, according to the Israeli media. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz wrote: “Half of Gaza’s population is in a state of severe or extreme hunger, and 90% of Gaza’s more than two million […]...
JERUSALEM (AA) – A total of 29 soldiers have been killed in “friendly fire and operational incidents” during the ground offensive in Gaza since October 27, Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation KAN has reported. Of them, 18 soldiers were killed in friendly fire, two with gunfire (without further details), and nine in ammunition a...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The deaths of Palestinians from the nearly three-month devastating Israeli onslaught on Gaza has reached 22,000, according to the Health Ministry in the besieged enclave. Ashraf al-Qudra, spokesman for the ministry, made the statement as Israel’s deadly onslaught on Gaza enters its 87th day. He noted that the ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, has seized an Israeli reconnaissance drone in the Gaza Strip. The drone was on a surveillance mission in Beit Hanoun in the northern Palestinian enclave, Al-Qassam said in a statement. Meanwhile, Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, said i...
IDLIB (AA) – Four Syrians were killed and 11 injured on Monday in an attack by the Bashar al-Assad regime in western Aleppo, said local sources. According to civilian defense sources, the regime forces, stationed in the town of Nubbul in northwest Aleppo, along with Iranian-backed groups, launched an attack on the Darat Izza district [&h...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel has warned the Gaza war will continue throughout 2024 as unrelenting strikes killed dozens in the Palestinian territory and Hamas fired a rocket barrage at the stroke of midnight. Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari said that some of the 300,000 army reservists would get a break from the war, in ...
Bamako, Mali – AFP The UN mission in Mali ended a decade of deployment in the crisis-wracked country on Sunday, meeting a December 31 deadline agreed after Mali’s military leaders ordered it to leave. The UN stabilisation mission (MINUSMA) had been in place since 2013, and its withdrawal is igniting fears that fighting will intensi...
LONDON (AA) – British Foreign Secretary David Cameron held a phone call on Sunday with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian to discuss the attacks by Yemen’s Houthis on vessels in the Red Sea. Cameron told Amir-Abdollahian that the attacks “threaten innocent lives and the global economy.” “I made clear that Iran ...
