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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 14, 2023 (AFP) – Palestinian militants have a command center at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, the White House said Tuesday, backing up a key Israeli justification for military moves on the facility. Hamas and Islamic Jihad operate a “command and control node from Al-Shifa in Gaza City,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters, citing US intelligence sources. “We have information that Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad use some hospitals […]
GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories, Nov 15, 2023 (AFP) – Israeli forces said on Wednesday that they were carrying out an operation in Gaza’s largest hospital, targeting a suspected Hamas command centre located below thousands of ailing and sheltering civilians. After warnings from the United States and others that the Al-Shifa hospital must be protected, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in the early hours that they had entered the compound in Gaza City. “Based on […]
JERUSALEM, Nov 14, 2023 (AFP) – Israel’s army cited a discarded baby bottle, makeshift toilet and bullet-scarred motorbike as evidence Hamas held hostages in a Gaza hospital, as an Israeli soldier was declared killed in captivity Tuesday. On Monday evening, army spokesman Daniel Hagari said troops “found signs that indicate that Hamas held hostages” in the basement of Al-Rantisi children’s hospital in Gaza City. AFP was not able to independently confirm the allegation, and Hamas […]
By Adel Zaanoun with Joe Stenson in Jerusalem GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories, Nov 14, 2023 (AFP) – Gaza’s main hospital has been forced to bury scores of dead patients in a mass grave, its director said Tuesday, as US President Joe Biden pressed Israel to protect the complex trapped in fierce combat. Israeli forces were at the gates of the sprawling Al-Shifa hospital they say sits atop an underground Hamas command base, but the militants […]
BET SHEMESH, Israel, Nov 14, 2023 (AFP) – Israeli police said Tuesday they were investigating “several cases” of alleged sexual violence against women by Hamas militants during the October 7 attacks, citing “multiple witnesses” to incidents of rape. Since the Hamas attack, police have been gathering evidence about allegations of sexual violence from witnesses, surveillance footage and the interrogations of Palestinian militants arrested in the aftermath. “We have no living victims who said ‘we have […]
By Adel Zaanoun with Sarah Benhaida in Jerusalem GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories, Nov 14, 2023 (AFP) – With tanks massed at the gates of Gaza’s largest hospital, US President Joe Biden pressed Israeli allies to protect civilians, who on Tuesday were trapped inside with dwindling supplies of fuel and water. After days of heavy air strikes around Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital, witnesses said tanks and armoured vehicles were metres from the gate of the besieged […]
By Danny KEMP WASHINGTON, Nov 13, 2023 (AFP) – Indonesian President Joko Widodo pressed US President Joe Biden during a visit to the White House on Monday to do more to end “atrocities” in Gaza and help bring about a ceasefire. The Israel-Hamas war overshadowed the talks, which had been meant to showcase an upgrade in ties between Indonesia and the United States ahead of Biden’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week. “Indonesia […]
By Adel Zaanoun with Sarah Benhaida in Jerusalem GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories, Nov 13, 2023 (AFP) – The hospitals in northern Gaza have been forced out of service amid fuel shortages and intense combat, with the death toll inside the territory’s largest facility rising, the Hamas-run health ministry said Monday. Israel argues its Hamas enemies built their military headquarters under the Al-Shifa hospital complex, while UN agencies and doctors in the facility warned a lack […]
WASHINGTON, Nov 12, 2023 (AFP) – The United States carried out strikes against two Iran-linked sites in Syria on Sunday in response to attacks on American forces, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said. It is the third time in less than three weeks that the US military has targeted locations in Syria it said were tied to Iran, which supports various armed groups that Washington blames for a spike in attacks on its forces in the […]
By James PHEBY LONDON, Nov 11, 2023 (AFP) – UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Saturday condemned far-right protesters and Hamas sympathisers, as hundreds of thousands of pro-Palestinian supporters marched through London calling for a ceasefire in Israel’s war in Gaza. Nearly 2,000 police were out in force to keep rival groups apart, with the march organised on Armistice Day, the annual event when Britain remembers its war dead with solemn ceremonies at war memorials. […]
WASHINGTON, Nov 10, 2023 (AFP) – Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out a ceasefire in Gaza on Thursday, saying the military was performing “exceptionally well,” but insisted Israel does not plan to reoccupy the Palestinian territory. “A ceasefire with Hamas means surrender,” he told Fox News, adding there was no “timetable” for the military offensive. “I think the Israeli army is performing exceptionally well,” he added. “However long it takes, we’ll do it.” Israel […]
EILAT, Israel, Nov 9, 2023 (AFP) – A drone on Thursday hit a school in the southern Israeli resort of Eilat and Israeli air defences later intercepted a missile over the Red Sea, the military said. Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels said they had launched “a barrage of ballistic missiles” at southern Israel, but did not mention drones in their statement. No one was physically hurt in the explosion at the Eilat elementary school caused by […]
