BERLIN (AA) – German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday met with the German citizens who were recently evacuated from the Gaza Strip. Dr. Ahmed Abu Nada, chief of vascular surgery at Al-Shifa Hospital, told Anadolu that they had a good meeting, where they had the opportunity to inform President Steinmeier about the dire conditio...
JERUSALEM (AA): Israeli authorities released 39 Palestinian prisoners as part of an exchange deal with Hamas on Friday. An Anadolu correspondent in the West Bank said the first batch of 39 Palestinian prisoners was released from the Israeli Ofer prison, west of Ramallah. Under the Israel-Hamas deal, the prisoners will be released in batches ov...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli forces stormed the homes of two Palestinian prisoners set to be released as part of the hostage swap deal with Hamas, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Club said on Friday. “The Israeli occupation (forces) stormed the homes of the two female captives, Amani Al-Hashem and Zeina Abdo, in Jerusalem, and warne...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Hundreds of people, including foreign nationals in Djibouti, participated in the African Peace March in solidarity with Palestinians in the Djiboutian city of Arta on Friday. The peace rally was organized by Djibouti’s Sports Ministry. The marchers were waving banners with peace slogans and flags of several countries,...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, said on Friday that the movement is committed to implementing the humanitarian pause agreement as long as Israel adheres to it. In a recorded speech broadcast on the Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa satellite channel, Haniyeh said that “the movement affirms its commitm...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel confirmed on Friday that Hamas handed over 13 Israeli prisoner in Gaza to the Red Cross and were taken to the Egyptian side of the border. “The Israeli prisoner are in the hands of the Red Cross,” the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation said. The Israeli prisoner will be transferred by helicopters […]...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Calm returned to Lebanon’s southern border as a four-day pause in Israel’s war against Palestine began, according to state media, residents and an AFP journalist. Since the war began, the area has witnessed deadly exchanges of fire, primarily involving the Israeli army and Lebanon’s Hezbollah ...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Thousands of people who had fled to areas near Gaza’s border with Egypt were preparing to return to their villages as the ceasefire took effect on Friday. However, Israeli warplanes dropped leaflets over the south of the Gaza Strip warning people not to head back to the north. “The war is […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP A four-day pause in Israel’s war against Palestine took effect at 7:00 am (0500 GMT) on Friday. The truce agreement, negotiated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States, brought the first pause in a seven-week-old war during which Israel has killed more than 14,000 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them child...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian child died in the West Bank on Thursday, taking the death toll from Israeli army attacks in the occupied territory to 229 since Oct. 7, the Health Ministry said. A ministry statement said a 12-year-old boy succumbed to injuries he sustained earlier from Israeli army fire in the town […]
