UN Security Council aims to vote Friday to boost aid to Gaza
A United Nations Security Council vote on a bid to boost aid to the Gaza Strip was delayed by another day to Friday even though Israel’s ally the United ...
Israel ‘promoting maritime humanitarian corridor’ says country’s FM (Update 2)
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen arrived in Cyprus on Wednesday at noon for an official visit aimed at discussing the implementation plans of the ‘Amalthia’ initiative for humanitarian aid to ...
Israel battles Hamas on streets of Gaza city as UN delays vote again
Israeli troops and Hamas militants fought fierce gun battles on the streets of Gaza’s second-biggest city on Wednesday as the United Nations delayed a vote on a bid to ...
Cyprus’ Gaza initiative focus of Israeli FM’s visit
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen will visit Cyprus on Wednesday in the light of Nicosia’s initiative for humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza.
Government Spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis said that ...
Multinational coalition forms to safeguard shipping amid Houthi attacks in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden
Several countries have agreed to jointly carry out patrols in the southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden to try to safeguard commercial shipping against attacks by Yemen’s Houthi ...
Vessel attacked in Red Sea off Yemen coast, US officials blame Houthis (Updated)
Mounting attacks by the Iran-aligned Yemeni Houthi militant group on ships in the Red Sea are disrupting maritime trade as leading global freight firms reroute around the Cape of Good ...
US-based Human Right Watch accuses Israel of abhorrent war crime (Updated)
U.S.-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Israel on Monday of trying to starve Palestinians in Gaza during its war with Hamas, a charge Israel said came from an “...
US defense secretary to push for ‘softer’ Israeli approach in Gaza
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in Israel on Monday for talks expected to focus on Israel’s eventual end to high intensity war in Gaza and its transition ...
Israel launches fresh strikes on Gaza as UN nears vote on aid
Israeli forces launched fresh attacks throughout the night across the Gaza Strip, residents said on Monday, as the United Nations Security Council looked set to vote on a demand that ...
Israel-Qatar meet, raising prospects of Gaza hostage talks
Israel appeared to confirm that new negotiations were under way to recover hostages held by Hamas, after a source said Israel’s intelligence chief met the prime minister of Qatar, ...
US stresses safety for Gaza civilians as Israel unrelenting in attacks
A U.S. security envoy had talks with Israel about shifting its strategy in Gaza toward surgical operations against Hamas and away from a broad ground campaign, as Palestinians reported ...
Israel strikes southern Gaza, faces calls to reduce civilian toll
Israel kept up its barrage of the Gaza Strip on Thursday despite intensifying international calls to reduce civilian casualties and address a mounting humanitarian catastrophe.
In central Rafah, in the ...
‘No lethal cargo’ sent to Israel from British bases
The RAF has transported no “lethal cargo” to the Israeli Defence Forces, the British High Commission in Nicosia said on Wednesday.
“On the occasion of the first Annual UK-Republic of ...
UN demands ceasefire in Gaza as Israel, U.S. show increasing divisions
Israel faced growing diplomatic isolation in its war against Hamas as the United Nations demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and U.S. President Joe Biden told the longtime ...
North denies hosting terrorists plotting to attack Israelis
Turkish Cypriot leaders have rejected Israeli allegations that the north was being used by Iran to harbour terrorists with the aim of attacking Israelis in Cyprus.
Israel had said on ...
Four Palestinians killed in Israeli raid on West Bank’s Jenin
Four Palestinians were killed on Tuesday in a drone strike during an Israeli raid on the occupied West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp, the Palestinian health ministry ...
Hunger rises in Gaza as UN prepares to vote on ceasefire resolution
Hunger was worsening among Palestinians in the besieged Gaza strip, aid agencies said, as the United Nations General Assembly prepared to vote on Tuesday on an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in ...
Fighting intensifies across Gaza, raising alarm over potential exodus into Egypt
Fighting between Israel and Hamas intensified across Gaza on Monday, fuelling fears flagged by the United Nations at the weekend of a breakdown in public order and a mass exodus ...
Black lives matter. Do Palestinian lives matter?
By Fahri Zihni
Of course, all lives matter. All human rights, including the ultimate right to life itself apply to all humans irrespective of race, religion, or any other human ...
Israel sharply ramps up Gaza strikes, US alarmed (update)
Israel sharply ramped up strikes on the Gaza Strip, pounding the length of the Palestinian enclave and killing hundreds in a new, expanded phase of the war that Washington said ...
Hundreds more Palestinians killed as Israel pursues Hamas in south Gaza (Update)
Israel battled Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip’s biggest cities on Thursday, leaving hundreds more Palestinians dead as almost 2 million displaced Gazans struggled to find safe refuge amid critical ...
UK defence minister in Cyprus to meet officials on British bases
British Defence Minister Grant Shapps is travelling to Cyprus on Wednesday to meet with officials and staff at the United Kingdom’s British bases.
Shapps’ trip to Cyprus is part ...
Israel’s bombing of Gaza not a ‘Just War’
“If you (Americans) were OK with us killing 5,000 children, you are OK with killing 10,000 children,” said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli diplomat who helped negotiate the Oslo peace accords in ...
Israel says fighting Hamas across Gaza, ships attacked in Red Sea
The Israeli military said its forces were confronting Hamas fighters across the Gaza Strip, indicating its planned ground offensive in the enclave’s refugee-crowded south had begun as Israeli bombing ...