JERUSALEM – AFP Gaza’s health ministry on Friday reported 40 dead in Israeli strikes near Gaza City and “dozens” more in the northern Jabalia refugee camp and Khan Yunis. Israeli forces have encircled major urban centres as they seek to “destroy Hamas”, making much-needed aid deliveries to Gaza almost imposs...
DUBAI – AFP German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has said her country expected Israel to adapt its military action in order to alleviate civilian suffering and to allow more humanitarian aid. “Things cannot go on as they are now” and “no one can remain indifferent when thousands of children are killed,” she s...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Dozens of people, including children, were killed and injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house on Friday in the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said. “Al-Amal Hospital received numerous injuries and casualties as Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – At least four Palestinians were injured on Friday by Israeli army gunfire targeting a mosque in northern Jerusalem, according to medical sources. In a statement, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that its crews dealt with four injuries from Israeli gunfire in the town of Hizma. “The Israeli army ...
Ramallah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli forces shot dead six Palestinians Friday in a raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said. The Israeli army said it conducted a “counter-terrorism” operation. The ministry said those who lost their lives included a 14-year-old boy and a...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Electronic Intifada is an independent online publication which is playing a pivotal role in combatting disinformation and fake news, providing alternative perspectives, analysis, and firsthand accounts from those at the center of all the death, destruction and suffering in Gaza. “The mainstream US media and … the European m...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Two months after Israel started its war on Gaza, many sectors in the country have failed to rebound from its impacts despite its conservative hardline government’s efforts to prop up the economy. Most sectors in Israel’s economy experienced a downturn after October 7, when Tel Aviv responded to an attack by t...
GENEVA (AA) – Austria has announced that it is restoring aid funds for Palestine and releasing €17.5 million (approximately $18.8 million) for nine projects that had been frozen by Vienna after the events of October 7. The funds will be used for nine projects totaling €17.5 million (approximately $18.8 million), the Foreign Ministry said...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Nearly half a million Israelis have left the country since the launch of Israel’s war on Gaza on October 7, according to a local newspaper. The Population and Immigration Authority estimates that 370,000 people left Israel in the past two months, including 230,309 in October and 139,839 in November, Zman magazine s...
Paris, France -AFP An investigation by Agence France-Presse into the strike in southern Lebanon on October 13 that killed a Reuters journalist and injured six others, including two from AFP, points to a tank shell only used by the Israeli army in this high-tension border region. Jointly conducted with Airwars, an NGO that investigates attacks ...
