U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken met the Israeli President, Isaac Herzog on Tuesday to negotiate a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The negotiation was part of the efforts by the U.S. Qatar and Egypt on Gaza, the meeting was delayed for months. Antony Blinken’s trip to the...
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged the Middle Eastern governments to pressure Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement to accept U.S. President Joe Biden proposal to end the war in Gaza. “My message to governments throughout the region and people throughout the region: If you want a ceasefire, press...
Israeli forces on Saturday rescued four Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas into the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7 2023 while 94 Palestinians were killed in airstrikes in the same area. The hostages, 25-year-old Noa Argamani, Shlomi Ziv, 40, Almog Meir Jan, 21, and Andrey Kozlov, 27, were abducted...
Commander-in-chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Hossein Salami, has threatened to retaliate after an Israeli airstrike near Aleppo, Syria killed its member. Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported on Wednesday. Salami offered condolences over the death of Saeed Abyar, who was identified as a “military adviser’’...
French President Emmanuel Macron has called for “reforms” from the Palestinianrr Authority in perspective of recognising the state of Palestine. According to a press statement from the Elysee, Macron talked on the telephone with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas over the Gaza situation. Both presidents called for an immediate...
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has denied its involvement in a bombing on a camp in the Al-Mawasi area near Rafah city that killed at least 21 and injured dozens. In a statement, the IDF said that “contrary to the reports from the last few hours, the IDF...
Massive protests erupted overnight in Istanbul following Israel’s attack on a Palestinian camp in the Gaza Strip, local media reported on Monday. The report said, many demonstrators gathered in front of the Israeli Consulate General in the Levent neighborhood on the European side to denounce the attack. Protesters...
U.S. President Joe Biden has rejected accusations against the Israeli leadership that it is committing genocide in its fight against Palestinian militant organisation, Hamas in the Gaza Strip. “Contrary to allegations against Israel made by the International Court of Justice, what’s happening is not genocide. We reject that,”...
By ESTHER ALEXANDER, Abuja – The State of Palestine has vowed that it would continue to resist Israeli’s efforts to remove them from their lands amid the genocide war in Gaza strip . “The Palestinian people will continue to resist the Israeli occupation. There is nothing more moral,...
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video statement that the Israeli forces will continue their attacks in Gaza in spite the U.S. threat to halt some weapon shipments. “If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone,” said Netanyahu in a public speech made...
No fewer than 29 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Friday, the official news agency WAFA reported. The people died when a residential building was struck. Dozens of people were also injured in the attack. The Israel Defense Force in a statement on Friday, said the...
Israel on Friday denounced a resolution passed by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) calling for Israel to be held accountable for possible war crimes in the Gaza Strip. The 47-member UN rights body on Friday also urged a halt to weapons sales to Israel for violations...
A British national was among the seven aid workers killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza, the World Central Kitchen (WCK) charity has said. Seven aid workers from the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland, dual citizens of the U.S. and Canada, and Palestine were killed while travelling...
Thousands of Israelis took to the streets again on Saturday to protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing religious government. This is happening as there is no sign of a let-up in Israel’s military campaign in Gaza almost six months in. In Tel Aviv, demonstrators called for early...
Israeli Army said on Wednesday it was continuing its operation in the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, the largest health facility in the Gaza Strip. This has led to the death of many more militants being killed in the fighting. “So far, the troops have killed around 90 terrorists...
U.S. President Joe Biden has expressed optimism about an imminent ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian militant Hamas movement in the Gaza war. “My national security adviser tells me that we are close. “We’re not done yet. My hope is by next Monday we’ll have a ceasefire,’’ he...
No fewer than 52 States and three International Organisations have provided comments and presentations on the legal consequences of Israel’s policies and practices in Occupied Palestinian Territory. The UN correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the states made their presentations during the public hearing...
Gaza war spreads to hospital as 25,000 civilians killed UN humanitarians have expressed deep concern for patients and others seeking treatment who had “no way in and out’’ amid continuing fighting in Gaza including reported attacks on hospitals in the southern city of Khan Younis. Speaking in Geneva on...
The Israeli army said that 21 soldiers have been killed in the central Gaza Strip, marking the deadliest single incident for the troops in the more than three-month-old war against Hamas militants. Army spokesman Daniel Hagari, speaking after a news blackout was lifted on Tuesday morning, said the...
Palestinian militant group Hamas on Sunday defended its October 7 attacks against Israel but admitted to “faults” and called for an end to “Israeli aggression” in Gaza, where the health ministry said the death toll passed 25,000. Southern Gaza is the latest focus of Israel’s battle to...