RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has detained 28 more Palestinians in various areas of the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, according to a statement. A joint statement issued by the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society said the new arrests brought the total number of Pales...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip are grinding animal feed to make bread due to the prolonged scarcity of wheat flour amid Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid. Awatif al-Besyuni, who has been affected by Israel’s attacks, told the media that residents have been forced to grind broken wheat ...
LONDON (AA) – Amnesty International has urged donor countries to reverse their decision to suspend funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) following unfounded Israeli allegations, describing it “inhumane” and a “devastating blow” to more than 2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The London-based ri...
Beirut, Lebanon — AFP Dozens demonstrated outside the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees in Beirut on Tuesday against several countries’ decision to suspend funding for the body after Israel alleged some staff had participated in Hamas’s October 7 attack. At least 12 key donor countries have said they will halt fu...
GENEVA (AA) – The European Commission has stated that it will take its upcoming UNRWA funding decisions in light of the outcome of an investigation into Israeli allegations. “Humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank will continue unabated through partner organisations,” a commission statement said. “Cu...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has condemned a meeting of Israeli ministers and far-right groups to promote Palestinian emigration and rebuild Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip. Foreign Ministry spokesman Sebastian Fischer said the participation of several Israeli government ministers at the conference, and speeches made there were unacceptabl...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli army forces detained 40 more Palestinians in military raids carried out across the occupied West Bank on Monday, according to prisoners’ affairs groups. Most of the arrests took place in the cities of Jenin and Hebron in the northern and southern West Bank, the Commission of Detainees Affairs and the [&hellip...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Two more Palestinian journalists have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, pushing the death toll of press members targeted by Israel since October 7 to 122, officials and state media said. Israeli warplanes targeted the home of journalist Isam Al-Lulu in the town of Al-Zawayda in central […]...
JERISALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has shot dead a Palestinian youth near the city of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank in an alleged knife attack against the soldiers, according to Israel’s public broadcaster KAN. Witnesses said that the Israeli army opened fire on the Palestinian, believed to be a student, at the [&hell...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has criticized Peru for allowing its citizens to fight with the Israeli army in its war on Gaza. This statement followed Peru’s condolences for a soldier killed during the war. In a tweet on its official account, Peru’s Foreign Ministry said: “The Peruvian government regre...
