West Asia

UN official resigns protesting world body's failure to prevent genocide in Gaza

Nov 01, 2023 03:45

The director of the New York chapter of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has resigned, protesting the world body's failure to prevent underway genocide in the Gaza Strip, which has come under a brutal Israeli war.
UNRWA chief condemns Israel over ‘collective punishment’ of entire Gaza population

Nov 01, 2023 03:34

The commissioner general for the main UN agency in Palestine has told the UN Security Council Israel is carrying out “collective punishment” of the entire population of Gaza.
Exclusive: Hamas says Al-Aqsa Storm performed ‘miracle in six minutes’

Nov 01, 2023 03:07

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the Occupied Territories which was launched on October 7 performed a miracle over a span of six minutes and shattered the image of the Israeli military.
Israeli airstrike on Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza leaves at least 200 Palestinians dead, mostly women and children

Oct 31, 2023 14:26

At least 200 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been martyred after Israeli airstrikes hit the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, amid the regime’s ongoing bombing campaign against the besieged territory.
Constant Israeli bombardment turning Gaza into ' graveyard of children': UNICEF

Oct 31, 2023 14:25

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has raised the alarm over the rising number of child deaths in the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing incessant bombardment of the besieged Palestinian enclave.
Israel must be held accountable for war crimes in Gaza: Oman

Oct 31, 2023 13:35

Oman has called on the international community to hold Israel accountable for its war crimes in the Gaza Strip and take immediate action to stop the massacre of innocent civilian Palestinians.
Yemeni army launches large-scale ballistic, drone strikes on occupied territories to support Palestinians

Oct 31, 2023 13:34

Yemeni Armed Forces have launched large-scale military strikes against Israeli targets in the occupied territories in support of the Palestinian people during their days-long resistance against the illegal entity’s onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip.
Tel Aviv says struck 300 'targets' in Gaza in 24 hours as civilian death toll mounts

Oct 31, 2023 10:14

The Israeli military says it attacked about 300 targets in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, as the regime’s brutal aggression against the besieged enclave rages on.
Rockets, drones target two US military bases in Syria, Iraq

Oct 31, 2023 09:15

Two major US bases in Syria and Iraq have been targeted by drones and a barrage of rockets, amid rising anti-American sentiments over Washington’s unconditional support for Israel’s onslaught on the Gaza Strip.
‘You want us to die, you want army to kill us,’ Israeli captives tell Netanyahu

Oct 31, 2023 04:45

Hamas has released a video of three captured Israeli women in the besieged Gaza Strip voicing outrage at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for declining to agree to a swap deal and a ceasefire in the wake of the October 7 Operation al-Aqsa Storm, the largest military campaign in decades by the Gaza-based resistance groups against the occupiers.