The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet today expressed her concern at the number of Palestinian children killed in recent days and called for those responsible to be held accountable. Last week, 19 Palestinian children were killed, bringing the death toll to 37 since the beginning of the year, according to the UNHCR. […]
Tag: Gaza Strip
Morocco: Nearly 200 people demonstrate against Israel’s crackdown on the Gaza Strip
About two hundred people demonstrated yesterday Monday in Rabat in solidarity with the Palestinians, after the deadly hostilities between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organization in the Gaza Strip, demanding at the same time that the normalization of relations between Rabat and the Jewish state “collapse”. The protesters, who gathered in front of the […]
German Press: Ankara, the favor of authoritarian leaders and NATO
Süddeutsche Zeitung comments on Turkey’s role on the global geopolitical map, observing: “After the new Putin-Erdogan meeting, questions arise. The ‘president of peace’ wants to sell Bayraktar drones to the Kremlin, as well as to Ukraine, to use them in front? Has the Kremlin indirectly given the green light to Ankara’s planned attack on northern […]
The crossing points were opened after the ceasefire between Israel and Islamic Jihad
Fuel tankers entered the Gaza Strip this morning following a truce between the Islamic Jihad group and Israel following three days of hostilities that left 44 Palestinians dead in Israeli airstrikes in the enclave. An AFP journalist saw fuel tankers entering Gaza from the Kerem Shalom crossing, in the southern part of the strip, the […]
Gaza Strip: The Israeli army assures that it respects the truce
The Israeli military confirmed late Sunday that its latest strikes against the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group came minutes before the ceasefire took effect, retracting an earlier announcement. It initially said it struck positions of the Palestinian armed group a few minutes after the suspension of hostilities, which took effect at 11:30 p.m. (local and Greek […]
Gaza: Israel carried out raids after ceasefire came into force
LAST UPDATE: 08.08.2022, 00:27 The issue of the truce between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organization, which came into effect at 11:30 p.m. on Sunday after mediation by Egypt, is developing into a thriller. And this is because, as announced by the Israeli army, an alarm was signaled for the launch of rockets in […]
Gaza: Ceasefire deal at 11.30pm – Israel and Islamic Jihad confirm
LAST UPDATE: 23:32 Egypt called for a ceasefire for today at 23.30, according to a security source. Earlier, the Islamic Jihad group confirmed an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire deal had been reached with Israel today, the third day of hostilities that have killed dozens of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. And Israel officially confirmed the truce coming […]
Israel: Palestinian attack at the Erez border crossing
A mortar attack on the closed Erez border crossing from Israel to Gaza was launched Sunday afternoon by Palestinian forces, according to Israel’s defense ministry, in the third day of fighting between Israeli forces and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group and some hour before the alleged start of the ceasefire between the two sides. “The […]
Gaza Strip: Lack of doctors, medicine crisis, electricity crisis threaten the operation of hospitals
“The situation is very bad!”. The director of al-Sifa hospital in Gaza is sounding the alarm saying there is an urgent need for medicine and electricity to continue treating Palestinians injured by Israeli shelling. Wounded people are arriving “every minute” at al-Sifa hospital, says Mohammed Abu Salmiya, director of one of Gaza City’s major hospitals. […]
Gaza: Israel, Palestinian militants agree to truce, according to Egyptian and Palestinian officials
LAST UPDATE: 18:14 Israel and Palestinian militants agreed to observe a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip from Sunday night as proposed by Cairo, sources said, after a weekend of deadly Israeli shelling of Palestinian targets and rocket fire into Israeli territory by Palestinian enclave. An Egyptian security source said Israel had agreed to the truce […]