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JERUSALEM (AA) – A recent poll has revealed that 65% of Israelis are dissatisfied with the performance of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vis-à-vis the war on Gaza. The survey conducted by the Israeli Kantar Institute included 756 people and showed that 63% expressed satisfaction with the performance of Defense Minister Yuval Gantz in the co...
LONDON (AA) – Ship traffic in the Red Sea decreased by 20% in December 2023, as shipping companies suspended their operations or shifted their routes to the Cape of Good Hope after the Houthis in Yemen attacked commercial vessels in the Red Sea linked to Israel. Yemen’s Houthi group, officially known as Ansar Allah, has […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli government and its members are advocating for ethnic cleansing and even genocide in Gaza, Knesset member Ofer Cassif, who has supported South Africa’s genocide proceedings against Tel Aviv, has said. “My constitutional duty is to Israeli society and all its residents, not to a government whose mem...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A speech by President Joe Biden at a church on Monday was interrupted by calls for a cease-fire in the besieged Gaza Strip. “If you really care about the lives lost here, then you should honor the lives lost and call for a cease-fire in Palestine,” one protestor shouted while Biden was […]
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib said Monday that his country is ready to “fully” implement UN Resolution 1701. “Lebanon is ready to fully implement Resolution 1701 provided that Israel withdraws from occupied Lebanese lands and stops its violations of Lebanese sovereignty,” he told a press conference in t...
BEIRUT (AA) – The Israeli army targeted several areas in southern Lebanon with phosphorus bombs on Monday, state media reported. The attacks targeted Al-Awaida Hill between the towns of Odaisseh and Kfarkela in southern Lebanon, Lebanon’s official news agency NNA reported. An Israeli drone targeted a car with a guided missile on the Dabs...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 23,084 Palestinians have been killed and 58,926 others injured in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, the Health Ministry in the besieged enclave said Monday. A ministry statement said that 249 people had been killed and 510 others injured in the Israeli onslaught in the […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel hit targets in south Gaza and across its border with Lebanon, the army said Monday ahead of a visit by the top US diplomat who is seeking to avert a wider war. Gaza’s health ministry said 73 dead and 99 wounded had arrived at Al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza’s Deir […]
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Israel killed a top commander of the Hezbollah group in a strike on south Lebanon, a security source told AFP Monday. Hezbollah later announced the killing of a “commander”, naming him as Wissam Hassan Tawil. It said he died “on the road to Jerusalem” — the phrase used for fighters kill...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has rounded up 40 more Palestinians in military raids carried out across the occupied West Bank since Sunday evening, according to prisoners’ affairs groups. According to a joint statement by the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners Society, the new arrests...
