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ANKARA/DOHA, Qatar (AA) – Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani called Sunday for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip and the delivery of humanitarian aid to the blockaded territory. His remarks came during a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who arrived in Doha as part of a regional tour. Talks […]
PARIS (AA) – The French Jewish Union for Peace (UJFP) has strongly condemned the “murder of Judaism” by the Israeli government. In a statement the Jewish collective highlighted the ongoing Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, reporting 30,000 Palestinians killed or missing in the past three months. “This number, equiva...
Ramallah, Palestinian Territories – AFP An early morning strike by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank killed six Palestinians, while an Israeli police officer died when a roadside bomb hit her vehicle Sunday, sources on both sides said. Violence in the West Bank since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza has surged to […]
ANKARA (AA) – An Israeli soldier has been seen mocking Palestinians in front of the bombed Al-Azhar University in Gaza in a video shared on social media. The footage shared on social media shows the soldier mocking Palestinians among the ruins of the school in the northern Gaza Strip that was bombed by Israeli forces. […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 16 Palestinians, mostly children, were killed and 50 injured in two attacks by the Israeli army on a UN-owned school in the central Gaza Strip and the southern city of Khan Yunis, media reports said Saturday. The army targeted a school belonging to the UN Relief and Public […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel claimed it had “dismantled” Hamas’s military leadership in northern Gaza as its war on Gaza entered a fourth month Sunday, with fears mounting that the conflict could spread into neighbouring Lebanon. Israel’s army said late Saturday it had “completed the dismantling of t...
Chania, Greece – AFP Washington’s top diplomat Antony Blinken said Saturday that he wants to make sure the conflict in the Middle East “doesn’t spread”, as he held meetings in Turkey and Greece. Blinken, on a new tour of the Middle East, met Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Crete on Saturday, a few hour...
LONDON (AA) – More than 90,000 people, which is about 4% of the population in Gaza, are dead, wounded or missing, says a human rights monitor. The Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor says Israel’s continuous air, land and sea attacks have destroyed about 70% of the Gaza Strip’s civilian infrastructure since October 7. In a [&helli...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Clashes occurred between Jordanian soldiers and smugglers from Syria, injuring a number of them and leaving some others arrested, said Jordan’s army in a statement. “Since two o’clock in the morning, Saturday, armed clashes have been taking place between border guard forces and large armed groups of smugglers o...
TEHRAN (AA) – The death toll from the bombings that ripped through southeastern Iran’s Kerman city on Wednesday has risen to 91, with two more people succumbing to their injuries in hospitals. Seyyed Mohammad Saberi, the head of the Medical Emergency Organization in Kerman, said an eight-year-old child and a 60-year-old man have died in ...
