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WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that the US will make “another push” with Türkiye, Egypt, Qatar, Israel and others to achieve a cease-fire and prisoner exchange deal in Gaza. “Just as the Lebanese people deserve a future of security and prosperity, so do the people of Gaza. They too deserve an en...
JERUSALEM (AA) – A cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah brokered with US and French diplomatic efforts came into effect Wednesday at 4 a.m. local time (0200GMT). Under the agreement, the Lebanese Armed Forces will be deployed in southern Lebanon within 60 days, during which time Israel will gradually withd...
JERUSALEM (AA) – A rocket fired from resistance forces in Lebanon has caused heavy damage in an Israeli settlement in northern Israel, local media reported. Israeli Channel 12 said five rockets were fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon into Upper Galilee in northern Israel. According to the broadcaster, a rocket hit a building in the Kiryat [...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Far-right extremist Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has called a US-backed cease-fire with Hezbollah a “grave mistake.” In a post on his X account, Ben-Gvir said accepting the US cease-fire proposal would mean missing out on an “historic” opportunity to ‘destroy Hezbollah.’ The hardline fan...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah is expected to be announced within two days, according to Israeli media. The public broadcaster KAN, citing an Israeli source, said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been consistently obstructing a cease-fire with Hamas, has in this...
HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – The US vetoed a UN Security Council draft resolution on Wednesday that demanded an “immediate, unconditional, and permanent” cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. It also urged the prevention of starvation of Palestinians. The draft resolution, submitted by 10 elected members of the Council — Algeria, Ec...
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 13 people were killed in overnight airstrikes staged by the Israeli army in southern Lebanon, local media reported on Wednesday. Fighter jets struck a home in Maarakeh town, killing two people, the state news agency NNA reported. Two airstrikes in Kfar Melki and Zefta towns left at least four people […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – An Israeli minister has called for extending the occupation of the Gaza Strip “for a very long time” and annexing the occupied West Bank. “I don’t believe there should be an exit strategy from Gaza,” Settlement Minister Orit Strook told Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper. “We set very clear goals for this war, which […]...
ISTANBUL (AA) – An Israeli captive has said army attacks in Gaza endanger the lives of captives, calling for protests in Israel to press for a prisoner swap deal with Palestinians. A video of Alexander Turbanov, 28, was released by Palestinian resistance group Islamic Jihad on its Telegram channel. “For over a year, I have […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Stressing that there should be “no more suffering and destruction in Palestine and Lebanon,” China’s President Xi Jinping has called on the BRICS member states to “uphold peace and strive for common security.” “We should come forward together to form a stabilizing force for peace and explore soluti...
