Vice President Kamala Harris. File | Photo Credit: AP U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will meet the visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House this week, but will not be able to preside over a joint session of the U.S. Congress which would be addressed by him, according to her aide. “We … Read more
A Palestinian man feeds a bird inside a tent at a camp which was recently attacked in Israeli strikes, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on July 18, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters An Israeli parliament vote to oppose a Palestinian state as an “existential threat”, just days ahead … Read more
Palestinians shelter in a tent camp near a wastewater pool, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, July 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel hammered the Gaza Strip from the air, sea and land on Monday as the war in the Palestinian territory showed no sign of abating, with … Read more
Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack in Israel and Israel’s continuing war on Gaza have brought the Palestine question back to the fore of West Asia’s geopolitics. As the war has destroyed much of Gaza and killed 37,000 of its people, the world has also seen more and more countries voicing strong support for a future … Read more
Israeli air strikes pounded parts of Gaza’s biggest city on July 11, Hamas said, after Israel’s military declared an end to its operation in an eastern district that saw Gaza City’s heaviest combat in months. The upsurge in fighting, bombardment and displacement followed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement in late June that “the war … Read more
This video grab shows Mohammed Abu Selmia, the director of Gaza’s main hospital, who was detained by Israeli forces in November, sitting with his family after his release, along with other detainees, at a hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip on Monday, July 1, 2024. Israel released the director of Gaza’s main hospital on Monday … Read more
A man holds a bag as Palestinians search for casualties at the site of Israeli strikes on houses, amid Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City, on June 22, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters At least 42 people were killed in Israeli attacks on districts of Gaza City in the north of the Palestinian enclave on June … Read more
Mourners gather next to the bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike that hit a tent camp, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Al-Mawasi area in western Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 21, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli forces shelled tent camps for displaced Palestinians north of … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and former Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz. File. | Photo Credit: AP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dissolved the influential War Cabinet tasked with steering the war in Gaza, Israeli officials said on June 17, a move that comes days after a key member of the body … Read more
Food and goods stalls are set up by vendors outside the burnt-out ruins of the UN agency, The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) building (L), in the Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip. | Photo Credit: AFP The U.N. Security Council on June 10 … Read more