The conflict in Gaza has displaced most of the enclave’s 2.3 million population. Cairo: Israeli fire killed six Palestinians and wounded dozens of others as crowds of residents awaited aid trucks in Gaza City, Gaza health ministry officials said on Thursday. Palestinians were rushing to get aid supplies at theRead More →
Gaza has had its own separate administration run by Hamas since 2007. (File) Ramallah: Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas pressed the group Hamas on Wednesday to agree a Gaza deal quickly to avoid “dire consequences”, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. “We call on the Hamas movement to quickly completeRead More →
27,947 people have been killed in Gaza, says Hamas. (File) Riyadh: Saudi Arabia said on Saturday that Israel’s planned army operation in overcrowded Rafah would cause a “humanitarian catastrophe” and called for the United Nations Security Council to intervene. The kingdom “warned of the extremely dangerous repercussions of storming andRead More →
Benjamin Netanyahu, Joe Biden spoke by phone for the first time in nearly a month. (File) Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday he told US President Joe Biden that he rejected Palestinian sovereignty in the Gaza Strip, in a call the day before. The two leaders spokeRead More →
Antony Blinken was set to meet Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo. Palestinian Territories: Israel bombarded the southern Gaza Strip overnight, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken prepared to travel to Egypt on Thursday for more talks aimed at containing Israel’s war against Hamas. The diplomat was setRead More →
The Gaza war has also seen violence spiral in the occupied West Bank. (File) Palestinian Territories: Israel kept up deadly strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip on Sunday despite growing international calls for a ceasefire and pleas from desperate relatives to bring home the remaining hostages. Fighting raged on inRead More →
All those injured were members of security services, according to police. Jerusalem: Three gunmen attacked a checkpoint near Jerusalem on Thursday, Israeli police said, wounding several people before the attackers were “neutralised”. Four people suffered gunshot wounds, including one who was critically injured, said the emergency medical service Magen DavidRead More →
Over 7,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip in Israeli strikes Jerusalem, Undefined: The United Nations said Friday that “uninterrupted” aid was needed in Gaza after nearly three weeks of Israeli bombardment in retaliation for Hamas attacks this month that has triggered a humanitarian crisis in the besiegedRead More →
Unlike Hamas, the Islamic Jihad does not contest political office. New Delhi: A massive explosion ripped through a hospital in Gaza, killing at least 500 people on Tuesday. The incident sparked global outrage and demonstrations in several Muslim-majority countries. Israel and Palestine exchanged blame for the incident, which US PresidentRead More →
Over 1 million people have fled northern Gaza and moved to the south. New Delhi: An airstrike on a hospital compound in Gaza housing those who were wounded due to Israeli bombardment of the Palestinian enclave killed at least 500 people on Tuesday, Reuters quoting the Hamas-run health ministry sourcesRead More →
