ANKARA (AA) – US Vice President Kamala Harris told her campaign rally in Arizona that it is time to “get a cease-fire deal and get the hostage deal done.” According to The Hill news website, Harris responded to Palestine supporters chanting “Free Palestine” at the rally in Phoenix. “I have been clear: now is the […]...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Japan on Friday commemorated the US atomic bombing of the city in 1945, while refusing to invite Israel to the ceremonies. At 11.02 a.m. local time, the exact moment a US B-29 airplane released its bomb over Nagasaki, the city fell silent in remembrance. The tragic event at the end of World […]
ANKARA (AA) – Iran has said that the Gaza cease-fire is currently part of the country’s priorities, along with the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. The Iranian state news agency IRNA cited a statement by the Iranian permanent mission to the UN responding to a question whether Iran “would reverse its plans to take [&hel...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 15 Palestinians, including children, were killed and dozens injured in Israeli airstrikes on schools sheltering displaced people in Gaza City on Thursday, the Civil Defense Agency said. Israeli warplanes attacked al-Zahraa and Abdel Fattah Hamoud schools in al-Tuffah neighborhood, witnesses said. Medical so...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army has been using artificial intelligence (AI) tools from Microsoft and Google and Amazon’s cloud service for its war on Gaza, according to reports by +972 Magazine and the Hebrew language news site Local Call. An audio recording they obtained reveals that Col. Racheli Dembinsky, commander of the Israeli...
MILTON, Canada (AA) – The UN has announced the completion of an investigation by its Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) into allegations made by Israel against staff members of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) following events on October 7 last year. In relation to the findings, UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq told...
BEIRUT (AA) – Two members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group have been killed in clashes with the Israeli army along the Lebanese-Israeli border. In separate statements, Hezbollah identified the fighters as Ali Jamal al-Din Jawad and Ali Ghaleb Shuqair, which they said were killed “on the road to Jerusalem,” in reference to Hezboll...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh was intended to prolong the military assault on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Russia’s RIA state news agency in an interview. “There is no doubt that the purpose of Mr. Haniyeh’s assassination is to prolong the war and expan...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said that his country does not seek the spread of war in the region but will respond to Israel’s crimes, in particular the assassination of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh. Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran on July 31 after attending Pezeshkian’s swearing-in ceremony. H...
Rennes, France — AFP When Israeli air strikes hit his neighbourhood early on in the war on Gaza, Palestinian social worker Tareq Abu Eita, 42, saw his whole life upended in seconds. The vicious Israeli bombardment on October 14 blew in the walls of his two-storey family home. It killed his 77-year-old father Hamed, his […]
