AMSTERDAM (AA) – A man who worked for Dutch intelligence in 2005 sabotaged an Iranian nuclear facility without the knowledge of the Dutch government, a media report has claimed. Dutch national Erik van Sabben was recruited in 2005 by the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD), the daily Volkskrant revealed. Van Sabben, whose spouse i...
Geneva, Switzerland – – AFP The UN has voiced alarm at the killing of journalists in Gaza, a day after two Al Jazeera reporters died in an alleged Israeli strike. Al Jazeera reported that two of its Palestinian journalists were killed in the southern city of Rafah, in what it claimed was an Israeli “targeted […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Tuesday said four more soldiers were killed in fighting with Palestinian groups in southern and central Gaza Strip. Six others were seriously wounded in the battles, the military said in a statement cited by the Times of Israel news website. As many as 180 Israeli soldiers […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 57 bodies and 65 injured were brought to Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in 24 hours, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Tuesday. The ministry, however, did not provide further details on the victims. Israel has killed more than 23,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, in Gaza [&h...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Egypt is refusing to cooperate with Israel regarding greater surveillance of the Philadelphia Corridor, a narrow buffer zone between Egypt and Gaza, an Egyptian news outlet has reported. Al-Qahera News quoted an Egyptian official who said such reports were “completely false.” Last week, Israeli reports claimed that Israel...
LONDON (AA) – Six-year-old Palestinian-American Wadea al-Fayoume was stabbed 26 times at his home in Illinois, US, by his landlord, who was screaming anti-Muslim slurs as he brutally attacked the little boy. Just moments before, the assailant, 71-year-old Joseph M. Czuba, told the boy’s mother, Hanaan Shahin, who was also stabbed and criticall...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Some 13,000 Israelis have been injured, including 2,500 soldiers, during Israel’s deadly war on Gaza that began October 7, Health Minister Uriel Busso has said. Speaking during a session of the Knesset’s Health Committee, Busso said two billion shekels ($538 million) have been allocated for the mental health and re...
BERLIN (AA) – German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has criticized Israel’s policy of constructing and expanding illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian territories. “The construction of settlements is illegal. It undermines lasting peace and endangers the two-state solution and thereby endangers Israel’s security,” Baerboc...
London, United Kingdom – – AFP A British-Palestinian doctor who worked in Gaza hospitals during the Israeli attacks hopes that testimony he has given to UK police will lead to prosecutions for war crimes. Ghassan Abu Sitta, a plastic surgeon specialising in conflict injuries, spent 43 days volunteering in the besieged Palestinian t...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – More than 12,000 attacks were carried out by Israeli authorities and illegal Jewish settlers in 2023, a Palestinian official reported. “The occupation authorities and their settlers carried out 12,161 attacks, including 5,308 after October 7,” head of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, Moayad Shaa...
