Category: 2. Middle East

At least 58,026 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip since October 2023, the Health Ministry said on Sunday, Anadolu reports.

A ministry statement said that 139 bodies were brought to hospitals in the last 24 hours, while 425 people were injured, taking the number of injuries to 138,520 in the Israeli onslaught.

“Many victims are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it…

Israeli opposition leaders on Sunday sharply criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government for allocating 15 billion shekels ($4 billion) to build what Tel Aviv calls a “humanitarian city” for Gaza’s population in Rafah, Anadolu reports.

Last week, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that he has instructed his army to prepare a plan to relocate all Palestinians to what he called a “humanitarian city” on the ruins of Rafah in southern…

Israeli forces arrested at least 15 Palestinians on Sunday while illegal Israeli settlers set fire to a farming structure in the occupied West Bank, according to official Palestinian media and local sources, Anadolu reports.

In pre-dawn raids, Israeli troops stormed areas in Salfit, Nablus, Jenin, Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Hebron, arrested Palestinians, assaulted residents, and ransacked homes, the Palestinian News Agency Wafa reported.

Separately, Wafa said a…

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) warned Sunday of a sharp rise in malnutrition cases across the Gaza Strip following Israel’s tightened blockade and continued prevention of humanitarian aid deliveries, Anadolu reports.

In a statement, the agency said one of its clinics in Gaza “has seen an increase in the number of malnutrition cases since March, when the siege imposed by the Government of Israel started.”

“UNRWA hasn’t been allowed to…

Israel is expected to present a new withdrawal map during ceasefire negotiations in Qatar, after talks stalled over Tel Aviv’s insistence on maintaining control of a large area along the Gaza Strip, media reports said Saturday, Anadolu reports.

Israel’s Channel 12 said mediators are waiting for the new map to be submitted by Israel.

Hamas had agreed to a buffer zone with a width of 0.7 to 1 kilometers (0.43 to 0.62 miles), but Israel’s last proposal…

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Saturday that illegal Israeli settlers are killing Palestinians every day in the occupied West Bank, Anadolu reports.

Olmert told Channel 13 TV that Israelis are killing Palestinians daily in “Judea and Samaria” (the West Bank), and the far-right “Hilltop Youth” are committing war crimes.

He dismissed claims that the group is a minority as “a lie,” saying: “They are not a minority, on the contrary, they…

Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen said the Gaza Strip should remain in a state of devastation without reconstruction for decades, media reports said Saturday, Anadolu reports.

Speaking to Israel’s Channel 14 television, Cohen said Israel has no intention of assisting in rebuilding Gaza’s destroyed infrastructure.

“Gaza should remain in ruins for decades without reconstruction,” he was quoted.

Referring to the army’s two main goals in Gaza, Cohen said…

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli air strikes on Sunday killed more than 40 Palestinians, including at a market and a water distribution point, as talks for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas stalled.

Delegations from Israel and the Palestinian militant group have now spent a week trying to agree on a temporary truce to halt 21 months of bitter fighting in the Gaza Strip.

But on Saturday, each side accused the other of blocking attempts to secure an agreement at the indirect talks in…