Israel’s Transport Ministry plans to buy a port in Cyprus to inspect aid destined for the besieged Gaza Strip, Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported on its website. The newspaper reports that following instructions from Minister Miri Regev, a ministry delegation led by the head of the state-owned Israel Ports Company, Uzi Itzhaki, and members of … Read more
Around the neck of both hangs a silver pendant. It says “NOVA”. THE Danielle Gelbaum and Clil Valiano, the young people sitting calmly across from me in the hotel lobby in downtown Athens, on the 151st day of the Gaza war, experienced the Hamas terrorist attack at the Supernova festival on October 7. Four hundred … Read more
Joe Biden organizes a plan to send humanitarian aid by sea, with the creation of a temporary port in Gaza by the US military. According to ERT’s correspondent in Washington, Lena Argyris, the White House confirms the information of cooperation with Cyprus. “The initial missions will be through Cyprus, with the help of the US … Read more
In the Gaza Strip, at least five people were killed and 10 injured when an airplane dropped humanitarian aid on a refugee camp. About this channel CNN said journalist Khader Al-Zaaun, who was present at the scene of the tragedy. The incident occurred in the Al-Shati camp west of Gaza City on Friday. At the … Read more
“Keep your mind on the child, because if the child is spared, there is hope” says the verse from the song “Kapote tha rthun na tou poun” by Pavlos Sidiropoulos. But in Gaza, many children have lost their lives in the war that has been raging for five months. And what didn’t die slowly and … Read more
The UN today called on the world to “flood” Gaza with aid to save starving children after visiting two hospitals for the first time since the war began in October. “Children are starting to die of hunger. This is not a danger warning like the others,” Jens Lerke, spokesman for the Office for the Coordination … Read more
Any exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners can only take place after a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Osama Hamdan, a top Hamas official, said today. As negotiations continued in Cairo between the Palestinian Islamist movement and representatives of the US, Qatar and Egypt, Hamdan gave a press conference in Beirut in which he … Read more
Negotiations for a possible truce in the Gaza Strip are back on the table as Ramadan approaches. Yesterday the US armed forces made the first airdrops of humanitarian aid to the civilian population on the brink of starvation. In the Egyptian capital, the delegation of Hamas is expected to give an “official answer” to the … Read more
Four more children died of malnutrition and dehydration at a hospital in the famine-threatened northern Gaza Strip after five months of war between Hamas and Israel, the Palestinian Islamist group’s health ministry said tonight. These children died at the Kamal Antoine hospital, as reported by the ministry’s spokesman Ashraf al-Kindra. He clarified that a total … Read more
Two non-governmental organizations today accused Israel of continuing to cut humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip despite a request by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to make every effort to prevent genocide in the besieged territory. Amnesty International said the Israeli authorities had failed to take the minimum steps required to comply with the … Read more