A senior Palestinian official rejected on Friday a move by Israel’s finance minister intended to promote new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, saying it was aimed at pursuing a “war of genocide” against Palestinians. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Thursday the Israeli government would also take punitive steps
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Israeli strikes kill 2 in Syria, flatten Lebanon building, wound 5
The Israeli military allegedly struck targets in Syria and Lebanon on Wednesday night, according to state media in the two countries. Two people were killed in an Israeli strike on southern Syria, the official SANA news agency reported, citing a military source. “At around 11:40 p.m., the Israeli enemy carried out an
Israeli airstrikes kill at least 24 Palestinians in Gaza City
Israeli forces mass on Rafah’s outskirts as US warns a major assault could halt arms
Israeli forces massed tanks and opened fire close to built-up areas of Rafah on Thursday, residents said, after U.S. President Joe Biden vowed to withhold weapons from Israel if its forces launch a major invasion of the southern Gaza city. As ceasefire talks continued in Cairo, Palestinian militant groups Hamas and
US foreign policy in Middle East still governed by Israeli priorities
The vote and the American veto at the United Nations Security Council on April 18 was predictable. Though European countries are increasingly supportive of a Palestinian state, the US is not yet ready for that eventuality, for these reasons: One, US foreign policy in the Middle East is still governed by
Israeli strike on Gaza hospital kills four, wounds 17
Israeli fire kills six Gazans awaiting aid trucks, say Palestinian health officials
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 the Kuwait roundabout in northern Gaza City late on Wednesday evening when Israeli forces opened fire,
Israeli strike on Lebanese house kills five: state media
At least five people were killed Saturday, four from the same family, and nine wounded in an Israeli strike on a house in southern Lebanon, the country's official National News Agency reported. Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement and Israel have traded deadly cross-border fire on a near-daily basis since war broke out
Expanding Israeli settlements a war crime: UN
Expanding Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories constitutes "a war crime" and risks eliminating "any practical possibility" of a viable Palestinian state, the United Nations rights chief warned on Friday. Volker Turk said there had been a drastic acceleration in Israel's illegal settlement building in the occupied West Bank, at
Foreign Minister to join OIC meeting on Israeli aggression
Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud, now in Turkiye, will attend an extraordinary meeting of OIC Council of Foreign Ministers in Jeddah on March 5 to discuss the continued Israeli aggression against Palestinian people. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will hold the meeting at the headquarters of its General Secretariat in Jeddah,