BERLIN (AA) The number of attacks targeting asylum seekers and refugee centers almost doubled in 2023, according to figures recently made public. German police registered 2,378 attacks targeting refugees last year, up from 1,248 attacks recorded in 2022, according to the official figures by the Interior Ministry. At least 219 people were injur...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinians taking refuge in Rafah refuse to leave the southern Gaza Strip city despite concerns of an impending Israeli ground invasion. More than a 100 people were killed and hundreds injured in attacks launched by the Israeli army on Rafah this week. Local sources report that Israeli warplanes carried out ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged all “conscientious” countries to protect the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), which he said provided a “lifeline for 6 million refugees in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine.” Speaking at the World Governments Summit in Dubai, the Unite...
RIYADH (AA) – Saudi Arabia warned on Saturday of the repercussions of a possible Israeli incursion into the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, the last refuge for displaced Palestinians, according to Saudi Press Agency. “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has warned of the extremely dangerous repercussions of storming and targeting the c...
ATHENS (AA) – UNICEF has warned against a military operation in the city of Rafah, southern Gaza, where over 600,000 children and their families – around a million people – have been displaced under the pressure of over four months of Israeli war. “An escalation of the fighting in Rafah, which is already straining under […]
GENEVA (AA) – Bitter fighting in Sudan continues fueling one of the world’s biggest displacement crisis and in response the UN has appealed for a combined $4.1 billion to meet the most urgent humanitarian needs of civilians. The UN said the appeal, also on behalf of its partners, seeks to help cover more than 1.5 […]
ANKARA (AA) – Hundreds of young students stormed a Rohingya refugee shelter in Indonesia’s westernmost province of Aceh and forced them to leave the building, local media reported. A group of students entered a building where the authorities had housed around 135 Rohingya refugees, including women and children, and attacked them, accordi...
Lhokseumawe, Indonesia — AFP On a remote island in northwestern Indonesia, just miles from the white sand beaches where more than a thousand Rohingya refugees have arrived since mid-November, throngs of residents marched outside a temporary shelter housing the newcomers. “Shoo them away!” a protest leader chanted, met by chee...
Lhokseumawe, Indonesia — AFP Indonesian police and fishermen say they have begun patrolling parts of the country’s westernmost province to prevent Rohingya refugees from landing on its shores, after nearly 1,100 members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority arrived this month. Thousands from what has been described by the UN a...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Most of the 327,000 Afghan refugees returned from Pakistan are in “very bad condition,” a UN official has said. “Today, I’m here at the border with Pakistan in Torkham and I’m witnessing thousands of Afghans returning from Pakistan to Afghanistan,” UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator ad ...
