A Palestinian organization has accused Israel of starving more than 9,100 Palestinian detainees in its prisons.  “Israeli prison authorities continue to starve more than 9,100 detainees, including women, children and sick,” the Palestinian Prisoner Society, a local NGO, said in a...

The Israeli army raided several cities and refugee camps across the occupied West Bank early Monday morning, according to Palestinian local sources. Witnesses told Anadolu that the Israeli army stormed towns in Bethlehem and Hebron, as well as the cities of Ramallah, Al-Bireh, and Qalqilya....

The death toll from malnutrition and dehydration in the Gaza Strip has risen to 25, following the deaths of two more victims, including an infant, the Ministry of Health in Gaza said Saturday. “A two-month-old female baby died at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, and another aged 20 at...

Several missiles were fired from southern Lebanon toward border areas in northern Israel, Israeli media reported on Sunday. Israeli Army Radio reported that “about 35 missiles were fired from Lebanon at Meron Air Base.” Some of the missiles were intercepted, while the rest landed in open...

Sweden announced on Saturday that it is lifting a freeze on aid for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), after the UN warned the Security Council last week of “imminent famine” in the Gaza Strip. The Nordic country pledged to give the initial $20 million after...

Several Palestinians were killed and many others injured Saturday as the Israeli army again targeted hundreds of people who were waiting for aid trucks east and west of Gaza City. “A number of dead and wounded arrived at the Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City after being targeted by Israeli...

Safiye Bilbasi, the first female Palestinian ambulance driver, who works as a health care professional in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm, highlighted the challenges of working in the region, and congratulated her fellow women in the Gaza Strip on International Women’s Day.  "If...

Lebanese group Hezbollah on Friday said that three of its fighters were killed in cross-border clashes with Israeli forces.   The slain fighters are identified as Hadi Mahmoud Hegazy, Fadl Abbas Kawar and Ali Amin Marji, a Hezbollah statement said. It did not provide further...

(THE CONVERSATION) In October 2022, Lebanon and Israel signed a maritime border agreement brokered by the U.S., a move interpreted as the beginning of normalizing relations between two countries technically at war. The next step would have been the settlement of the long-running land border...

For Palestinian women, there are “many layers of violence that is being perpetuated against them” by Israel, according to Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls. In an interview with Anadolu for International Women’s Day, marked annually on March 8,...

Palestinian mothers in the Gaza Strip are experiencing exceptionally harsh life conditions under the ongoing devastating Israeli onslaught against the Gaza Strip, which has been taking place since Oct. 7. While women across the world celebrate International Women's Day, Palestinian women,...

Palestinian group Hamas confirmed Thursday that negotiations were still ongoing for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. A statement by the group said a Hamas delegation had left the Egyptian capital, Cairo, for consultations with its leadership. “Efforts are still ongoing to stop the Israeli...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Jordan Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi discussed Thursday the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip, which has entered its 153rd day, according to the State Department. Speaking over the phone, Blinken thanked Safadi for Jordan's "partnership" in...

South Africa is requesting that the International Court of Justice (ICJ issue new additional provisional measures against Israel in light of reports of widespread starvation. According to the document from South Africa, the country wants the Court to indicate further provisional measures...

Israeli forces subjected Palestinians to ill-treatment in detention centers, a UN report said, according to the daily The Guardian. Palestinian detainees were subjected to beating, dog attacks, and sexual assaults, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said in an internal report,...

The Palestinian death toll from Israel's deadly offensive on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023 jumped to 30,717, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Wednesday. The Gaza-based Health Ministry made the statement as the Israeli deadly onslaught on Gaza enters its 152nd day. The...

A Palestinian television presenter and journalist was killed Tuesday in an Israeli air raid on the Gaza Strip, pushing the death toll of press members targeted by Israel since Oct. 7 to 133, said officials and state media. Muhammad Salama, who worked for the Palestinian Al Aqsa channel, was...

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday expressed concern over the "appalling" situation in Gaza, saying children in the northern part of the strip are dying of starvation.  "Severe levels of malnutrition, children dying of starvation, serious shortages of fuel, food...

Syria is poised to come in from the cold at the UN’s nuclear watchdog, with the agency’s boss travelling to Damascus this month. Rafael Grossi revealed he was invited by Syria’s government in order to “re-establish a meaningful, constructive dialogue”. His talks on “remaining issues from...

A Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) ministerial meeting on Sunday called for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. The foreign ministers of the 6-nation bloc along with Egypt, Jordan and Morocco met in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on Sunday. A statement issued following the meeting...