Iran says a blast in its consulate in Syria’s capital Damascus was the result of a strike by Israeli warplanes. Eight people were reportedly killed, including Mohammad Reza Zahedi, an officer in an elite unit of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, as well as several diplomats. The incident has brought a dramatic escalation in Israel’s ongoing [...
Rafah, Egypt – AFP UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, on a visit to the doorstep of war-ravaged Gaza, on Saturday said the world has seen enough of its horrors and appealed for a cease-fire to allow in more aid. He spoke at the crossing on the Egyptian side of Rafah, where most of Gaza’s population has […]
Houston – AFP Like her ancestors before her, Emirati astronaut Nora AlMatrooshi has spent much of her life gazing up at the stars and dreaming of flying to the Moon. This week, she became the first Arab woman to graduate from NASA’s training program, ready to blast off into the cosmos. AlMatrooshi, 31, was one […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Wednesday stormed into the city of Qalqilya, northern the occupied West Bank, and raided several homes in the city. Eyewitnesses told Anadolu that the Israeli army deployed its snipers on the houses’ roofs, and imposed a closure on several neighborhoods in Qalqilya. As a result of the ...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The US and the UK have carried out 300 airstrikes in Yemen since last month, according to the Houthi group. “The US is attacking Yemen and it will not escape punishment,” Hussein al-Ezzi, a Houthi official in their Foreign Ministry, told a press conference cited by the Houthi-run Al-Masirah Television. “We […]...
GENEVA (AA) – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday ordered Israel to take “all measures within its power” to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza, but fell short of ordering a cease-fire. South Africa brought a genocide case against Israel to the ICJ earlier this month and asked it to grant emergency measures [&hell...
By Pascale Coissard Rogeret, MSF emergency coordinator in Gaza My name is Pascale, and I have been working as an emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Gaza for just over three weeks. This week, I sat down with some of our patients at Al-Emirati Hospital in Rafah, where people receive postpartum [&h...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP The Israeli army has denied telling the World Health Organization to empty an aid warehouse in southern Gaza within 24 hours before ground operations in the area render it unusable. “We didn’t ask you to evacuate the warehouses and we also made it clear (and in writing) to the relevant #UN […...
ANKARA (AA) – Muslims in the US have launched a campaign against President Joe Biden’s bid for re-election in 2024 over his support for Israel in its war against the Palestinian group Hamas. A group of Muslim leaders from Michigan, Minnesota, Arizona, Wisconsin, Florida, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania gathered over the weekend in Dearb...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli forces on Sunday raided the Sawaneh neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, claiming that a residential building where the Imam or prayer leader of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, lives is an “unauthorized construction.” “A large force of Israeli police and intelligence raided the building, incl...
