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EL PASO, Texas – It wasn’t until Alma Zavala was at the top of the 30-foot steel border fence that she realized how far she had to fall. “I hugged the wall,” she said. “My hands were bleeding from the rough edges. The guide was screaming, ‘Let go! Let go!’ I dropped down and felt […]

Intense clashes broke out on Monday around a hospital in northern Gaza, where thousands of patients and displaced individuals have sought refuge for weeks. A man carries a child injured in an Israeli strike on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, Nov. 20, 2023. (AFP Photo) Israeli forces are concentrating efforts on clearing medical […]

Hundreds of U.S. Jewish activists peacefully occupied New York’s Statue of Liberty on Monday to demand a cease-fire by Israel and an end to the “genocidal bombardment” of civilians in Gaza. Pro-Palestinian activists are seen with the Statue of Liberty in the background, New York City, U.S., Nov. 6, 2023. (AFP Photo) Dressed in black […]

The Foreign Ministry recalled Türkiye’s ambassador to Israel on Saturday for consultations amid Israel’s attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure in Gaza. Foreign Ministry headquarters in Türkiye’s capital Ankara in this undated file photo. (AA File Photo) “In view of the unfolding humanitarian tragedy in Gaza caused by the continuing attacks by Israel against civilians, […]

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Israel to do more to protect Palestinian civilians, bringing up the idea of “humanitarian pauses” on Friday, shortly before Israeli airstrikes targeted Gaza’s largest hospital. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv on Nov. 3, 2023. (AFP Photo) After meeting […]

After four weeks of war, one and a half million Gazans, out of an estimated 2.7 million have now been displaced. However, at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, only around 800 people – almost all of them dual nationals and a few dozen wounded, have been allowed to flee. It is the only route […]

Hamas claims hundreds dead in Israeli apartment bombing Gaza’s Hamas-run Interior Ministry says that 400 people have been killed or injured after Israeli airstrikes hit apartment blocks. The attack reportedly happened in the residential Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. An Interior Ministry spokesperson told reporters on Tuesday that six bombs had hit the apartments. […]

Airport reopens a day after hundreds stormed through terminal and onto tarmac, hunting Israelis and Jews, as a flight arrived from Tel Aviv   This frame grab taken from video footage posted on the Telegram channel @askrasul on October 29, 2023 shows a mob looking for Jews and Israelis on the apron area of an […]

Israel expands ground assault into Gaza Israeli troops and tanks pushed deeper into Gaza on Monday, advancing on two sides of the territory’s main city. Video circulating on social media shows an Israeli tank and bulldozer in central Gaza blocking the enclave’s main north-south highway, which the Israeli military earlier told Palestinians to use to […]

With the besieged enclave cut off from the world, Israeli attacks are “literally destroying Gaza from air, land, and sea,” the Palestinian ambassador to the UK said on Friday. Flares fired by the Israeli army light up the sky east of Khan Yunis on the southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, Oct. 27, 2023. (AFP Photo) “I […]