Freed Palestinian prisoner Jamal Zuweiri, 69, center, is welcomed upon arrival at al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, after being released from an Israeli prison, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Ten Palestinians...
The family of Fatima Al-Absi share Iftar, the fast-breaking meal, on the first day of Ramadan in their damaged apartment in Jabaliya, northern Gaza Strip, on Saturday, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi) JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.S. and Israel have reached out to officials of three East...
Freed Palestinian teenagers wave as they are greeted upon their arrival after being released from detention in an Israeli prison in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Negotiations between Israel and Hamas on...
GAZA/RAMALLAH, Palestine -- Thousands of Palestinians marked on Wednesday the 46th anniversary of Palestinian Land Day in the cities of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. Local Palestinian media outlets reported that the Palestinians commemorate the Land Day anniversary through...
Israeli and Egyptian officials held talks in both countries Sunday aimed at bolstering the Cairo-brokered ceasefire that ended the latest deadly flare-up of violence between the Jewish state and Gaza's Hamas rulers. Israel's Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi (C) looks on during his meeting with his...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. is asking the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on the possibility of using the ASEAN Response Fund to help the Palestinians address the reported spread of coronavirus cases in Gaza. Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. (Malacañang)...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken left Monday for a Middle East trip aimed at consolidating the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, a modest objective as Washington expresses a commitment to advancing a two-state solution. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves as he departs Andrews Air...
The Philippine government on Thursday placed Gaza under Alert Level 2 as it prepares to evacuate Filipinos who wish to return home due to the escalating conflict between the Israelis and the Hamas militants. The alert level situation in Israel and Gaza Strip issued by the Philippines (Facebook/DFA)...
Disabled Palestinian Eyad Saleha, 33, was waiting for lunch Wednesday when a missile fell on his family home in Gaza, killing him, his pregnant wife and their three-year-old daughter, his brother and authorities said. A brother weeps in front of the corpses at the morgue, where Eyad Saleha, a...
The United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is seeking immediate access into Gaza to provide aid to children bearing the effects of escalating clashes between Israelis and Palestinians. A man mourns over the bodies of three children from the Al-Tanani family and a fourth child, killed in...
The UN Security Council was due to hold an emergency meeting Tuesday amid a flurry of urgent diplomacy aimed at stemming hostilities between Israel and armed Palestinian groups that have left over 200 dead. Explosions light-up the night sky above buildings in Gaza City as Israeli forces shell the...
Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday said US President Joe Biden had "bloody hands" because of his support of Israel in the raging conflict in the Gaza Strip. The Turkish president's comments in a nationally televised address represented one of his strongest attacks on Biden since his arrival in...
