Palestinian Territories — AFP Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has said that a truce agreement with Israel is in sight, raising likelihood of dozens of people taken prisoners on October 7 being released. There was no immediate response from Israel on the status of negotiation efforts to secure the release. Some prisoners have been released by...
ISTANBUL (AA) – After years of impunity for policies that rights groups have described as apartheid and building illegal settlements in violation of international laws, a veteran war crime prosecutor has expressed hope that there could now be some accountability for Israel’s actions against Palestinians. “If other countries raise the imp...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has detained 880 Palestinian children since the start of this year, a local nongovernmental organization says. “More than 200 children are still in custody, including 26 held under Israel’s policy of administrative detention” without charge or trial, the Palestinian Prisoners Society said in a ...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories — AFP Palestinian officials said a field hospital sent by Jordan has finally entered the Gaza Strip, the first since Israel’s war on Gaza erupted. “The hospital will be established in Khan Yunis, to receive the wounded and the sick, under catastrophic conditions which southern hospitals are expe...
Beijing, China — AFP Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said that the world must “act urgently” to calm Israel’s war on Gaza as he hosted diplomats from Arab and Muslim-majority nations in Beijing. A delegation of foreign ministers of the Palestinian Authority, Indonesia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan are in Beijing ...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will visit Israel and Palestine in the first international trip since his reelection, the government announced on Monday. On Thursday, he will meet with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. During the...
Israel’s War on Palestine: Impact Overview (Day 46) Humanitarian Impact in Palestine Total Palestinian Death Toll: Over 13,000 (75% non-combatants; 5,500 children, 3,500 women, 678 elderly) Injuries: Over 32,000, predominantly children and women Massacres: 1,330 family massacres; Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital bombing killed 471 Civil Defense ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Communications and internet services have finally been partially restored in the Gaza Strip, a telecom service has announced. Paltel said in a statement that their service partially returned after the entry of a limited quantity of fuel through the UN refugee agency, UNRWA. “The continuity of services depends o...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is looking for an “illusion” at the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Hamas has said. “Netanyahu and his war cabinet are looking for a mirage that indicates their inability and hollow arrogance,” Abu Obaida, a spokesman for the Palestinian group’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigad...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Ahmad Shabat, a 3-year-old Palestinian boy, calls for his mother at the Suhada Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza Strip. Despite fleeing northern Gaza to the south, it is the third time that Ahmad has been targeted by Israeli airstrikes since the outbreak of the war on the […]
