ANKARA (AA) – The number of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since October 7 in Gaza has risen to 97, according to authorities in the enclave. “The number of journalist martyrs has risen to 97 since the start of the [Israeli] brutal aggression on Gaza,” said the Gaza-based government media office. The last journalist ...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – South African citizens joining the Israeli army amid its war on Gaza could face prosecution back home, the Foreign Ministry has warned. “The South African Government is gravely concerned by reports that some South African citizens and permanent residents have joined or are considering joining the Israeli Defence Force...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army rounded up 30 more Palestinians in the West Bank, a prisoners’ affairs groups said on Tuesday. The new arrests brought the number of Palestinians detained by Israeli forces in the occupied territory to 4,605 since October 7, the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs and the Palestinian P...
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – – AFP The Houthis have vowed to continue attacks on Red Sea shipping “even if America succeeds in mobilising the entire world”. The United States has condemned “unprecedented” attacks by Yemeni rebels on Red Sea shipping as the Houthis vowed to continue military operations as lo...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army has turned the Al-Awda Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip into a “military barracks,” says the Health Ministry in the besieged Palestinian enclave. In a statement, ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said the Israeli army is holding 240 Palestinians, including 80 medical staff, 40 patients and 120 displaced...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army said that another two of its troops died in Gaza, where fierce battles are taking place with Palestinian fighters. Israeli public broadcaster KAN said the two soldiers were killed in northern Gaza on Monday, and identified them as Master Sgt. Daniel Yacov Ben Harosh, 31, and Capt. Rotem Yosef […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – An Israeli woman who was freed in a recent prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas says her mother was killed and she was wounded when Israeli forces opened fire on the vehicle in which they were abducted. In an interview that aired on Israel’s Channel 12, the woman recounted being taken by […]
United Nations, United States – AFP Israel’s steps to allow aid into Gaza are “far short of what is needed,” senior United Nations official Tor Wennesland said on Tuesday. “The delivery of humanitarian aid in the (Gaza) Strip continues to face nearly insurmountable challenges,” said Wennesland, the organizat...
London, United Kingdom – AFP A British Royal Navy destroyer has joined a new international maritime protection force to protect shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. HMS Diamond is part of the Operation Prosperity Guardian task force seeking to deter attacks from Iran-backed Yemeni rebels on commercial vessels in the busy Bab [&helli...
GENEVA – AFP UNICEF spokesperson James Elder, who spent nearly two weeks in Gaza, said at a press briefing in Geneva that he was “furious that those with power shrug at the humanitarian nightmares unleashed on a million children” in Gaza. He spoke of the fate of children hospitalised after having undergone amputations and who...
