United Nations, United States – AFP The United States on Friday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have called for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza. Washington dashed a growing clamor for an immediate cease-fire that had been led by UN chief Antonio Guterres and Arab nations. American envoy Robert Wood said the resolution ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A Turkish court has issued an arrest warrant for the son of Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in connection with a fatal motorcycle accident in Istanbul. The arrest warrant for the Somali president’s son was issued, alleging his involvement in the incident that resulted in the death of motorcycle rider Yunus Emre [&h...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has said two soldiers were killed and another seriously injured as its ground offensive continues in the battered, besieged Gaza Strip. Israel resumed its military offensive against the Gaza Strip on December 1 with characteristic brute force after the end of a weeklong suspension. At least 17,177 Palestinians...
Geneva, Switzerland — AFP Gaza’s health system is on its knees and cannot afford to lose another ambulance or a single hospital bed more, the World Health Organization has warned. “The situation is getting more and more horrible by the day… beyond belief, literally,” WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told a press ...
Palestinian Territories — AFP Israeli forces continued pounding Gaza’s ruined cities Friday even as UN Security Council was about to discuss a resolution calling for cease-fire. Weeks of Israeli air and ground attacks have left 17,177 people dead in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the latest toll from the Palestine He...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Israel’s war on the besieged Gaza Strip is “part of the assault to end the Palestinian people as a nation,” Palestine’s UN envoy warned Friday. Riyad Mansour dismissed the notion that there is any doubt about Israel’s war aims, saying, “Are we supposed to pretend we don’t know t...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Health Ministry in Gaza on Friday said the Israeli army is besieging the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern the Gaza Strip and opening fire towards the hospital. In a statement, the ministry said the Israeli army snipers are taking positions in the surrounding buildings of the hospital and […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Palestinian resistance group Hamas has denounced the arrest of displaced civilians in a school in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli army, saying that “stripping them of their clothes” is the work of “terrorist militias.” In a statement, the group said: “The crime of arresting, searching displaced civilians, stripping them of [&...
United Nations, United States – AFP The United States told a UN Security Council meeting on Friday that it opposed an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. “While the United States strongly supports the durable peace, in which both Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and security, we do not support calls for an immediate ceasefire,&...
JERUSALEM- AFP Salvoes of rockets were launched at the US embassy in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, the mission said, the latest in a flurry of such attacks in response to Israel’s war in Gaza. There was no claim of responsibility and no reported casualties or damage, but the mission said the attack was “initiated [&...
