The Israeli project aimed at displacing Palestinians from Gaza is “impossible to achieve”, Sami Abu Zuhri, a senior Hamas official, said. Speaking from the Algerian city of Setif, Abu Zuhri said the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation [ More … ]
During the Israel-Palestine war, the United States media works to legitimize ‘Israel’s barbarism against the Palestinians’ in Gaza. By presenting Israel’s terror campaign against Palestinians as if it were defensible, the US media are doing [ More … ]
Hundreds of foreign nationals managed to exit Gaza through the Rafah crossing, but some Egyptian citizens and Palestinian/Egyptians remain stranded as Israel’s war rages. It was a long-awaited family reunion. In October, Reem Rasmi traveled [ More … ]
At least 100 people were arrested in Egypt after taking part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations late last week, reported Reuters, citing lawyers working on the cases, on Tuesday. State-approved protests against Israel’s military campaign in the [ More … ]
Egypt and Jordan harshly criticized Israel over its actions in Gaza at a summit held in Cairo on Saturday, AP reported. The Associated Press says this is a sign that the two Western allies that [ More … ]
Under Israel’s continued airstrikes on Gaza for two weeks after Hamas’ attack on 7 October, about 5,000 Palestinians, including children, women, and elderly people, have been killed so far. Leaders and top officials from more [ More … ]
Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Wednesday that Egyptians in their millions would reject the forced displacement of Palestinians into Sinai, reported Reuters Sisi added that any such move would turn the Sinai Peninsula into [ More … ]
Egypt is coming under intense pressure to allow refugees to cross the border and escape an Israeli bombing campaign and expected ground invasion, reported Wall Street Journal. “But for Cairo, opening the border —and for [ More … ]
Egypt reportedly discussed the Gaza aid, but rejected allowing corridors for civilians, fleeing the war. Egypt has long restricted the flow of Gazans on to its territory, even during the fiercest conflicts. Egypt has discussed [ More … ]
Qatar is holding negotiations between Palestinian groups and Israel for a possible deal on prisoner swap, an informed Palestinian source told Anadolu Agency on Monday. The source, which preferred his name not to be mentioned, [ More … ]
As heavily armed Israeli soldiers stormed the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, at least nine Palestinians, including an elderly woman, were killed and about 20 wounded. The Palestinian Ministry of [ More … ]
A new report on Israeli apartheid has recently been launched by a Palestinian coalition of human rights organizations, notably the Al-Haq organization amid an escalating Israeli crackdown on Palestinian human rights and advocacy work. The [ More … ]
Palestinian factions have condemned Tuesday’s meeting between Mahmoud Abbas and Benny Gantz, near Tel Aviv, Anadolu Agency reported. Palestinian officials said the meeting between President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz dwelt on [ More … ]
UNRWA, the agency for Palestinian refugees, said hundreds of Palestinians are facing serious shortages amid renewed fighting between Assad forces and rebels The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees warned on Sunday of the humanitarian [ More … ]
A family of four sons, two daughters, and both their parents has been homeless since 12 May when their apartment was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike on their six-storey residential tower block in Al Naser [ More … ]
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