Austin, United States – AFP Spiraling pro-Palestinian protests that are rocking universities across the United States spread to more campuses Wednesday, triggering suggestions from a senior Republican leader that the National Guard could be brought in. The comments from House Speaker Mike Johnson are likely to evoke strong emotions in a ...
ANKARA (AA) – Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has stressed the need to open Israeli crossings with the besieged Gaza Strip. “We demand that the six Israeli crossings with Gaza be opened to humanitarian aid,” said Shoukry in a joint news conference with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan in Istanbul. The Egyptian official stresse...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Türkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has said that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories is one of the primary causes of instability in the Middle East region. “The occupation of Palestinian territories by Israel and the unconditional support of the West for this are one of the main reasons for the instability ...
The New York Times has issued an internal memo advising journalists to limit the use of terms like “genocide” and “occupied territory” in the newspaper’s coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza. Written by Times editors Susan Wessling and Philip Pan, it discourages the use of specific terms, which some staff see as favor...
United Nations, United States — AFP The United Nations will be launching a $2.8 billion appeal for donations this year to help the war-ravaged population of the Gaza Strip as well as West Bank Palestinians, a senior agency official has said. The “flash appeal” addresses humanitarian funding needs through the end of 2024, acco...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Jordan has called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to avoid dragging the Middle East region into more escalation with Iran. Iran launched a barrage of drones and missiles at Israel on Saturday in response to the April 1 attack on the Iranian Consulate in Damascus, Syria, in which at least […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Malak Haniyeh, the granddaughter of Hamas’s political bureau chairman Ismail Haniyeh, has succumbed to injuries sustained in an Israeli strike that killed other family members on the first day of the Muslim festival of Eid-al-Fitr, according to medical sources. Three sons of Haniyeh, along with several of his grandc...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Illegal Israeli settlers have resumed their attacks on Palestinian villages and towns in the West Bank. “The terrorist gangs of colonialists with the protection of the (Israeli) occupation army are closing the bridge of the village of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah,” the Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission sa...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel will pay the price for its oppression in Gaza, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas. In a phone call with Abbas, Erdogan said: “Israel will pay the price for oppression. All means must be mobilized for a cease-fire in Gaza, including (the implementation of the) UN [&he...
NEW YORK Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine, told the General Assembly on Monday that the Palestinians had waited long enough and deserved membership of the UN. “I ask you: Does the UN membership want us to be their fellow member? Do you want us to be a fellow member of you […]
