GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israeli detainees held in the Gaza Strip fear for their lives due to Israeli airstrikes on the enclave, and have asked the Netanyahu government: “Do you want us dead?” The military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, Al-Quds Brigades, aired a video of two Israeli detainees held in the Gaza […]
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – South African citizens joining the Israeli army amid its war on Gaza could face prosecution back home, the Foreign Ministry has warned. “The South African Government is gravely concerned by reports that some South African citizens and permanent residents have joined or are considering joining the Israeli Defence Force...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army rounded up 30 more Palestinians in the West Bank, a prisoners’ affairs groups said on Tuesday. The new arrests brought the number of Palestinians detained by Israeli forces in the occupied territory to 4,605 since October 7, the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs and the Palestinian P...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army has turned the Al-Awda Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip into a “military barracks,” says the Health Ministry in the besieged Palestinian enclave. In a statement, ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said the Israeli army is holding 240 Palestinians, including 80 medical staff, 40 patients and 120 displaced...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel’s war on Gaza has been deadly for journalists – the deadliest ever conflict for media workers, specifically because of the high number of fatalities in such a short period of time, says the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). CPJ data as of December 17 shows at least 64 media workers killed […]
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories — AFP In what was once the courtyard of the Kamal Adwan hospital in the northern Gaza city of Beit Lahiya, Palestinians wade through the rubble, searching for corpses. The sound of one of them sobbing breaks out while he wraps a body to prepare for burial. Mahmud Assaf, 50, came […]
ANKARA (AA) – The Israelis held by Palestinians are not Tel Aviv’s “top priority” and they cannot be saved without a deal, says an Israeli media report. According to the investigation conducted by the Tel Aviv-based “+972 online magazine” in cooperation with Local Call news website, the Israeli leadership has R...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Several Palestinians held by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip have died inside a detention center in southern Israel, according to the Israeli media. The Haaretz newspaper said hundreds of Palestinian detainees were held inside a detention center in Beersheba for several weeks. “Many of them died inside the center,” the daily ...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel is using starvation as a “weapon of war” in Gaza by intentionally cutting people’s access to water and food, which is a war crime, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. “Israeli forces are deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food, and fuel, while willfully impeding humanitarian assistance, apparently razing agric...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Palestine (AA) – Families have turned to burying the bodies of their relatives killed in Israeli airstrikes in makeshift mass graves scattered throughout the Gaza Strip. The burials in makeshift graves are due to the difficulty of reaching cemeteries because of the continual bombardment. Palestinians interviewed by the med...
