Gaza: The Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA) has said that the Gaza Strip is experiencing a cash liquidity crisis due to the disruption of banking operations caused by the ongoing Israeli attacks. Many banks have been destroyed amid the conflict, and it has become impossible to open the remaining bank branches in the entire region due […]
New York: Siege, hunger, and diseases will soon become the main killer in Gaza, said commissioner- general of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Philippe Lazzarini, who heads the UNRWA for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, took to X on Wednesday to vent his concern for the growing hunger and spread of diseases […]
Blinken to visit Egypt to accelerate ceasefire talks Doha: The ongoing indirect peace talks in Qatar capital have hit a roadblock after Israel refused to budge on many demands put forward on behalf of Hamas According to sources in the Israel defense ministry, the Israeli delegation led by Mossad Chief David Barnea told the mediators, […]
Tel Aviv: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu railed on Sunday against growing criticism from the United States against his leadership amid the devasting war with Hamas, saying the pressure won’t stop Israel from achieving “total victory.” In recent days, top officials from the US, Israel’s staunchest ally which has provided key military and diplomatic support […]
New Delhi: The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has called on Israel to halt its ground assault on Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, saying 1.2 million people there have nowhere safe to go. “I’m gravely concerned about reports of an Israeli plan to proceed with a ground assault on Rafah,” WHO chief […]
‘All we can do for Gaza is just offer our Du’a.” This is an oft-repeated statement by enraged Arabs and Muslims who feel helpless before the Israeli genocide in Gaza. But is it true that only invocations and supplications are possible, as tens of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are being killed and […]
Stars wear pins calling for immediate ceasefire in Gaza as well as release of captives Los Angeles: Celebrities, including musicians Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, Poor Things star Mark Ruffalo, and comedian Ramy Youssef, wore red pins at the 96th Academy Awards to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. But what is the symbolism behind […]
Washington: United States President Joe Biden has warned that there are “red lines” Israel should not cross in its war in Gaza while insisting he would never abandon the US ally. In a contradictory and confusing interview with MSNBC aired on Saturday, Biden said that an Israeli invasion of the city of Rafah would be […]
Jared Kushner, a former US official whose relationship to power is that he married the wealthy daughter of a man who was later to become the US president, once attempted to teach Palestinians how to handle their own struggle for freedom. In 2020, he advised Palestinians to stop ‘doing terrorism’, summing up the Palestinian problem […]
The Palestinian city of Rafah is not just older than Israel, it is as old as civilization itself. It has existed for thousands of years. The Canaanites referred to it as Rafia, and Rafia has been almost always there, guarding the southern frontiers of Palestine, ancient and modern. As the gateway between two continents and […]