RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army detained 51 more Palestinians in the West Bank on Tuesday, according to a local nongovernmental organization. Most of the detainees were taken into custody in Jenin city in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a statement. The number of Palestinians detained by Israe...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli forces bombed more areas in the devastated Gaza Strip on Tuesday as the UN General Assembly was due to vote on a new demand for a cease-fire. More than two months into the war, the visiting chief of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, likened Gaza to “hell […]
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army on Tuesday stormed into the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, a Health Ministry official said. According to Ashraf al-Qudra, the spokesman for the Gaza-based ministry, the Israeli army is assembling the Palestinian men, including the health staff, in the hospital’s square. He expressed fear that th...
GENEVA – AFP Palestinian National Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki has said people in the Gaza Strip are “starving because of Israel’s deliberate use of starvation as a weapon of war”. Speaking at a meeting in Geneva to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,...
ISLAMABAD / KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least 28 security personnel and 27 suspected militants were killed on Tuesday in three separate incidents in northwestern Pakistan, including a shooting and bomb attack, officials said. The incidents took place in different parts of Dera Ismail Khan district of the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa p...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli forces killed four Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry reported. The ministry did not provide further details on the fatalities, while the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said they were killed in a drone strike on the Old City. Arou...
BERLIN (AA) – EU member states are discussing sanctions against violent illegal Israeli settlers who have carried out acts of terrorism against Palestinians in the West Bank, Germany’s deputy foreign minister said on Monday. “We are currently discussing what we can do, as EU member states, on this issue. As Germany, we are also consideri...
ANKARA (AA) – Democrat lawmaker Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has slammed the US government for vetoing a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, calling the move “shameful.” “The Biden Admin can no longer reconcile their professed concern for Palestinians and human rights while also s...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) – Newly appointed British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has threatened to withdraw Foreign Office support for Scottish ministers after Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf met the Turkish president without the presence of UK officials. In a letter to the Scottish National Party (SNP) government, Cameron said ...
Palestinian Territories — AFP Israel bombed southern Gaza’s main city on Monday after Hamas warned no Israeli prisoners would leave the territory alive unless its demands for the release of Palestinian prisoners were met. Israel has killed nearly 18,000 people — mostly women and children — in a deadly military offensive...