TEL AVIV (Sputnik) - Hostilities in the Gaza Strip will last at least another seven months, Israeli National Security Council chief Tzachi Hanegbi said on Wednesday.
While continuing military support of Israel, the corridor is the Biden administration’s most exaggerated attempt to aid Gazans who are facing a humanitarian crisis. Food and medical supplies from around the world are sent by air or sea to the...
The court order, which includes an increase in humanitarian aid to the region as well as access to the area for war crimes investigators, will no doubt be difficult to enforce. The judges have also said that Israel must open the Rafah crossing for...
Previously, Netanyahu and Biden denounced the charges as “outrageous”, with the Israeli prime minister calling it antisemitic.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Germany currently has no plans to recognize Palestine as a state, since a token recognition would lead nowhere, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Friday.
Both Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden have lambasted the charges against the Israeli leader, with Biden calling the decision “outrageous” and Netanyahu referring to it as a “farce” and antisemitic.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is expected to arrive in Saudi Arabia on Saturday before traveling to Israel amid rising tensions over the Israeli military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US House of Representatives passed a bill to compel the provision of certain arms to Israel withheld by the Biden administration over a prospective large-scale military operation in the Gaza Strip city of Rafah.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The Canadian government imposed sanctions on four Israeli individuals over their involvement in “extremist settler violence” in the West Bank, Global Affairs Canada (GAC) said on Thursday.
Amid growing international consternation over Tel Aviv’s stance on Rafah, with warnings that further military escalation could cause a “humanitarian catastrophe,” US President Joe Biden has been taking heat on the home front and abroad over...
TUNIS (Sputnik) - Israel’s amendments to a ceasefire proposal made by mediators have led talks on the truce in the Gaza Strip to a deadlock, the chairman of the political office of Palestinian movement Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, said on Wednesday.
The Philadelphi accord was added to the Israel-Egypt peace treaty in 2005 following the evacuation of Israeli settlements in Gaza. Israel’s recent capture of the Egypt side of the crossing is being seen as a breach of that accord.
The news comes just days after Biden announced a hold on the provision of 2,000 pound bombs to Israel, citing concerns over the potential for mass civilian casualties.
Major Harrison Mann's resignation is not the first departure of a US official in protest against the Biden administration’s Gaza policy. Two State Department officials similarly quit earlier, lambasting Washington for continuing to “send a steady...
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Israel has opened a new Western Erez border crossing in the northern Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian aid to residents of the enclave, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken admitted Israel has killed more civilians than Hamas fighters, responding to the reporter’s question about the National Security Memorandum 20 which he submitted to Congress on May 10.
Since the October 7 Al-Aqsa Flood operation by Hamas, Israel has killed more than 35,000 Palestinians in Gaza, mostly women and children according to Palestinian authorities. According to official Israeli numbers, roughly 1,100 Israelis were...
Palestinian prisoners were handcuffed for so long that their limbs died and had to be amputated, three Israeli whistleblowers who spoke to US media revealed, detailing a litany of alleged abuses against prisoners held by Israel in the Sde Teiman...
Just days following Israel’s military assault on Rafah, a recent report says that hospitals in Rafah are at risk of being overwhelmed by a “wave” of injured Palestinians while access to the city has been blocked - cutting off desperately needed...
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The Biden administration's report on whether Israel violated US law and international humanitarian law during its military operations in the Gaza Strip has been delayed indefinitely, Politico reported on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The “limited” Israeli military operation in Rafah has not crossed President Joe Biden's “red line” and therefore has not yet led to any changes in the US administration's policy towards its closest ally in the Middle East,...
