Hamas: Egypt warned us Israel was planning to attack Gaza StripKHALED ABU TOAMEH
JERUSALEM, March 31 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday that Israel's military was preparing to launch an attack on Rafah, as truce negotiations resumed in Egypt. Rafah, Gaza's southernmost city, has become a refuge for over one million displaced Palestinia...
financially, and militarily. It has a long history of using its veto in the UN Security Council to support Israel. The US has voted against every draft resolution coming before the Council that criticises Israel, sometimes alone against all other Security Council members....
Israel has been announcing plans to launch a large-scale ground operation in Rafah, where about 1.5 million internally displaced Palestinians reside, a move widely rejected by the international community. Later in the day, at a joint press conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, th...
The three foreign ministers demanded Israel "lift all obstacles and allow and facilitate the use of all land crossing" to expand humanitarian aid delivery to the people of the war-torn enclave. Regarding Israel's announced intention to attack Rafah, the southernmost city of Gaza, the three mini...
Israel has been under intense pressure to give up control of the Philadelphi corridor. First, the Biden administrationwarned Israelagainst an operation in Rafah in the first months of 2023. Once Israel secured the corridor from Hamas and showed the world the terror infrastructure Hamas built in ...
CAIRO —Egypt sent a high-level delegation to Israel on Friday with the hope of brokering a cease-fire agreement with Hamas in Gaza, two officials said. At the same time, it warned that a possible Israeli offensive focused onGaza’s city of Rafah— ...
Israel is eager to escape an attack-response cycle that is expensive in economic terms, militarily demanding, and politically damaging. Scenario 4: Return to Egyptian Control Currently, Egypt has as little to do with Gaza as is possible and frequently closes its single border crossing with the ...
“If this condition is not met, there will be no agreement, and Israel will be forced to act on its own to ensure the safe return of the residents of (Israel’s) north to their homes,” he said. Katz made the statement after Hezbollah’s current leader Naim Kassem warned in a televi...
As desperate Palestinians in sealed-off Gaza try to find refuge under Israel’s relentless bombardment in retaliation for Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 attack, many ask why neighboring Egypt or other Arab countries don’t take them in.