ISTANBUL (AA) – Türkiye will take steps to ensure that political and military leaders who massacred people in Gaza face trial in the international courts, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. Calling Israel a “terrorist state,” the Turkish leader accused Tel Aviv of implementing a strategy of destroying all of Gaza along with its residents...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army rounded up another 78 Palestinians in raids across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, a local nongovernmental organization said. In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said 17 female university students from Hebron city were among the detainees. Tensions have been running high across th...
ATHENS (AA) – The Palestinian struggle at its very core is an “anti-imperialist character,” according to a Palestinian community leader in Greece. While the world’s attention is again on the Palestine-Israel issue due to the ongoing Gaza crisis, Mohammed al-Sayyed, president of the Palestinian Community in Greece, emphasized the need to view t...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – More than 60 left-wing politicians from Europe and Latin America have signed a petition calling on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate Israeli leaders for genocide. “We’re not going to allow a genocide with our silence and complicity,” said Ione Belarra, Spanish minister for social rights, as she launched...
GENEVA (AA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the “best way” to ensure the safety of patients as well as civilians taking shelter at Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital is not a risky evacuation but “stopping hostilities now.” At a UN press conference in Geneva, WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris said t...
WASHINGTON (AA) – More than 400 US officials from 40 government agencies have sent a letter to President Joe Biden, opposing his support for Israel in its war on the Gaza Strip, and demanding a cease-fire. The letter, first reported by the New York Times, signed by political appointees and staff members from the State […]
Israel’s war on Palestine: Day 40 Death & Injury Toll: Total Palestinian deaths from Israeli aggression: 11,240 (75% children, women, elderly) Children: 4,630 Women: 3,130 Elderly: 678 Palestinians under rubble: >3,500 (including 1,740 children) Injured people: >29,000 (mostly children and women) Family massacres: 1,153 Al-Ahli Bapt...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has rejected growing calls for a cease-fire in Gaza and reaffirmed its support for Israel’s strikes which have claimed more than 11,100 lives, many of them children. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock expressed doubts about a cease-fire, arguing that it was not clear how this could be negotiated, how it could [&hel...
NEW DELHI (AA) – A senior leader of India’s main opposition Congress party has hit out at the international community, calling the death toll of 11,000 from Israeli strikes on Gaza “a deplorable and disgraceful milestone.” “…over 11,000 people killed in Gaza of which almost half are children. One child is being killed every ten […...
Brussels, Belgium – – AFP The EU’s humanitarian aid chief has called for “meaningful” pauses in Israel’s war on Gaza and urgent deliveries of fuel to keep hospitals working in the territory. “It is urgent to define and respect humanitarian pauses,” Janez Lenarcic, European Commissioner for Crisis...
