JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has announced the death of another one of its soldiers during a battle in the northern Gaza Strip. Sgt. First Class (res.) Maor Gershoni, 24, of the army’s 6th Brigade’s 8173rd Battalion, was killed in the besieged territory on Wednesday evening, the Israeli army said in a statement. According [&he...
KARACHI / NEW DELHI (AA) – Pakistan has rejected the Indian parliament’s legislation on the future of the Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir, dubbing it a “farce.” India’s parliament on Wednesday passed the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization (Amendment) Bill 2023 and the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill 2023....
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian man succumbed to wounds sustained by Israeli army gunfire last month in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank. According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, Awad Tayeh Muhammad Anbar, 47, had been critically injured by Israeli forces during a raid on the Tulkarem camp on [&...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army raided and sealed an orphanage near Hebron city in the southern occupied West Bank, and seized all its assets and material on Thursday. Eyewitnesses said that the Israeli army raided the headquarters of the Beit Ummar Association for Orphan Care in Beit Ummar town, and seized the association’s ...
LONDON (AA) – Dublin has been tied to Ramallah as part of a “friendship agreement,” the Dublin City Council said Thursday. It comes following a meeting last December between then-Council Chief Executive Owen Keegan and Palestinian Ambassador to Ireland Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid where they discussed the potential for cooperation ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that there remains a gap between Israel’s intent to protect civilians and results on the ground in Gaza. “We stand here almost a week into this campaign in the south, after the end of the humanitarian pause, it remains imperative that Israel put a […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Lebanon on Thursday of Gaza-like consequences if the Hezbollah group decided to engage in an all-out war against Israel. “If Hezbollah chooses to start an all-out war, then it will be responsible for turning Beirut and South Lebanon, not far from here, into Gaza and Khan [...
ANKARA (AA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday said that Israel’s deadly strikes on journalists in Lebanon were an “apparently deliberate attack on civilians and thus a war crime.” “Two Israeli strikes on a group of Lebanese, American, and Iraqi journalists in south Lebanon on October 13, 2023, were apparently deliberate attacks on c...
ANKARA (AA) – The commander of an Israeli search and rescue team stoked controversy last month while discussing the army’s role in the October 7 attack by Hamas, saying that Israeli civilians were killed when Israeli army tanks fired at houses to reclaim the agricultural community of Kibbutz Kfar Aza near the Gaza Strip from […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iranian judicial authorities on Thursday announced the seizure of two vessels over alleged smuggling of fuel in the Persian Gulf. Mojtaba Ghahrami, chief justice of the southern Hormozgan province, said two vessels carrying 210,000 liters of “smuggled fuel” were seized in the waters of Qeshm Island. He said Iran...
