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JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel is weighing the opening of the Erez (Beit Hanoun) crossing to allow humanitarian aid into the Palestinian enclave amid US pressure, according to the Israeli media. The move comes ahead of a planned visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Israel next week, Haaretz newspaper reported. Israel has shut [&hell...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – At least 51 Palestinian women from the Gaza Strip are held in a prison in northern Israel, according to prisoners’ affairs groups. “The women detainees are held at Damon Prison in northern Israel,” the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a joint statement. The statement, howe...
ANKARA (AA) – Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri was assassinated in a strike by an Israeli warplane in Lebanon, Israeli media reported on Thursday. The Lebanese media earlier reported that Arouri was killed in an Israeli drone strike on a Hamas office in Beirut’s southern neighborhood Tuesday evening. Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, citing ...
GENEVA (AA) – The UN human rights chief has said that he is “very disturbed” by the Israeli government’s suggestion of mass displacement of Palestinians from Gaza. “Very disturbed by high-level Israeli officials’ statements on plans to transfer civilians from #Gaza to third countries,” Volker Turk said in a ...
Washington, United States – AFP The United States has criticized South Africa for bringing a genocide case against Israel before the UN’s top court, rejecting accusations against its ally over the war in Gaza. The International Court of Justice in The Hague will next week hold hearings on a filing by South Africa that alleges [&hel...
Washington, United States – AFP Hamas still has a “significant force posture” inside Gaza after nearly three months of Israeli military operations, says the White House. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters at a briefing on Wednesday it was an “attainable goal” for Israel to knock out the ...
BEIRUT – AFP Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has warned Israel against all-out conflict, after Israeli army chief Herzi Halevi, in a visit to the Lebanese border, said troops were “in very high readiness”. In a televised speech, Nasrallah said that “for now, we are fighting on the frontline following meticulous calcul...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli bombing killed dozens of people overnight in Gaza, the health ministry of the Palestinian territory said Thursday. The Gaza health ministry reported “dozens of martyrs and more than 100 wounded in the continued barbaric aerial and artillery bombardment of citizens’ homes in the Gaza Strip...
Tehran, Iran – AFP Iran has blamed Israel and the United States for twin bomb blasts that killed at least 95 people in the country’s south on Wednesday, ripping through a crowd commemorating Revolutionary Guards general Qasem Soleimani four years after his death in a US strike. The two explosions — labelled a “terrorist...
United Nations, United States – AFP Eighteen shipping companies are re-routing their vessels around Africa to avoid the Red Sea amid an upsurge in attacks on shipping, blamed by Western countries on Yemen’s Houthi rebels, the UN’s maritime agency said Wednesday. “A significant number of companies, around 18 shipping com...
