Items by Anadolu Agency
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- October 25, 2024 Anadolu Agency
Europe's silence on Gaza: Arts community faces criticism
Europe’s culture, cinema and arts sectors remain largely silent on Israel’s actions in Gaza, where international court trials accuse Israel of genocide against Palestinians. Anadolu’s series, “Silent Supporters of Israel’s Genocide in Europe”, reveals how European cultural industries support Israel’s stance, often exerting pressure on artists who show solidarity with...
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- October 25, 2024 Anadolu Agency
Cracks in Israel's shield: How global attitudes on Tel Aviv are shifting
“When I went to the West Bank earlier this year, I met Palestinians whose communities have suffered horrific violence at the hands of Israeli settlers. The inaction of the Israeli government has allowed an environment of impunity to flourish, where settler violence has been allowed to increase unchecked.” These were...
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- October 24, 2024 Anadolu Agency
New book reveals Netanyahu's resistance to humanitarian aid for Gaza during US high-level talks
Veteran American journalist Bob Woodward’s new book, “War”, reveals that the Israeli government has been refusing to allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip since last October in high-level engagements with US officials. The book provides an inside look at the high-level engagements between Washington and Tel Aviv following Hamas’s...
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- October 24, 2024 Anadolu Agency
Is Israel moving its Eswatini embassy back from South Africa?
The tiny Southern African kingdom of Eswatini has diplomatic ties with Israel going back over five decades, Anadolu Agency reports. Today, as Israel faces growing international isolation for its genocide in Gaza and escalating assault on Lebanon, Eswatini seems to be among the few countries moving ever closer to Tel...
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- October 17, 2024 Anadolu Agency
Israel ‘crematorium’ of civilians at Gaza Hospital
On 17 October, 2023, the Israeli army attacked the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, killing nearly 500 Palestinians and injuring over 340 others, according to health officials in Gaza. Some of the victims had already fled to the hospital and its surroundings to find refuge following warnings and calls...
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- October 15, 2024 Anadolu Agency
US to deploy THAAD missile defence system in Israel, to be operational against ballistic and hypersonic missiles
Following the Pentagon’s decision to send a Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) battery and military personnel to Israel amid rising tensions with Iran, the technical capabilities of the system have drawn considerable attention. Anadolu has compiled details of the THAAD system, a highly regarded air defence technology designed to...
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- October 14, 2024 Anadolu Agency
Israel chasing historical Zionist aim of occupying southern Lebanon, wider region: Expert
Israel’s escalating war on Lebanon, particularly the intensified attacks and ground invasion in its southern region, are all parts of the historical Zionist objective of controlling southern Lebanon and parts of the wider region, according to a prominent Lebanese analyst. Even before there was the state of Israel, the Zionists...
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- October 8, 2024 Anadolu Agency
Gaza faces one of largest cases of ecocide in recent history
Since 7 October, 2023, thousands of civilians have lost their lives in Gaza, where Israel has continued its attacks, turning the destruction caused by these assaults into ecocide. In Israel’s attacks in Gaza, nearly 42,000 Palestinians were killed in one year, and nearly 100,000 were injured. In addition to this humanitarian...
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- October 7, 2024 Anadolu Agency
1 year of Gaza genocide: Psychological terror 'part of Israel's genocidal plan' - UN Special Rapporteur
After a year of Israeli attacks, the psychological toll on Gaza’s inhabitants, especially children, has reached alarming levels, deepening existing challenges that an estimated half of the population was already going through before 7 October last year. The ongoing violence has created a cycle of anxiety and trauma in the...
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- October 4, 2024 Anadolu Agency
How will Israel fare against Hezbollah on the ground?
As tensions flare in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, with the Lebanese group reporting the deaths of 17 Israeli soldiers in the south of the country, questions now arise on Israel’s abilities on the ground. Despite the assassination of Hezbollah’s Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah, in a massive bombing and...
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- October 3, 2024 Anadolu Agency
West Bank crisis escalates amid global focus on Gaza
Amid the ongoing violence and devastation in Gaza, much of the world has turned a blind eye to the equally volatile but less overt conflict simmering in the West Bank. While not as brutally visible as Gaza’s plight, the situation in the West Bank is equally dangerous, threatening to...
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- September 30, 2024 Anadolu Agency
After Nasrallah's assassination, what's next for Israel?
The recent assassination of Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in a deadly Israeli bombing south of Beirut has prompted critical questions about Israel’s next steps. While speculation abounds on a potential ground invasion of Lebanon, experts suggest that a major land assault is unlikely. Israeli academic expert, Ori Goldberg, believes that...
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- September 26, 2024 Anadolu Agency
Selective outrage: The US bias in the cases of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi and Hersh Goldberg-Polin
Recently, the White House’s response to two deadly events in the Occupied Palestinian Territories has, once again, revealed the problems of selectivity, discrimination and double standards tainting the American administration’s approach to Palestinian rights. On 31 August, 2024, President Joe Biden issued a strong statement condemning the abduction and death...
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- September 26, 2024 Anadolu Agency
Film about Israel corruption screened in Canada after court denies Netanyahu injunction
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was unsuccessful last week in censoring a documentary film revealing secret tapes of Israeli police interrogating him and other key witnesses during criminal investigations on charges of corruption, fraud and bribery against him. Netanyahu was officially charged on 21 November, 2019 with fraud, breach...
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- September 25, 2024 Anadolu Agency
New vision a must for colonial, archaic UN Security Council: Oxfam chief
The current UN system is “paralyzed, dysfunctional and ineffective”, and in dire need of a complete revamp to make it “fit for purpose for today’s reality”, according to the head of Oxfam International. Ahead of the ongoing UN General Assembly session in New York, the anti-poverty confederation released a report...
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- September 24, 2024 Anadolu Agency
How binding is the UN resolution: Will Israel be out of Palestine in 12 months?
On 18 September, 2024, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution demanding that Israel bring to an end its “unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” and do so within the next 12 months. The text was adopted by a vast majority of 124 votes in favour,...
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- September 24, 2024 Anadolu Agency
Litani River at the heart of conflict between Israel, Hezbollah
The Litani River in southern Lebanon has emerged as the centre of the current conflict between Hezbollah and Israel. This weekend, Israeli Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, threatened that Tel Aviv would take action against Hezbollah if the international community failed to push the Lebanese group beyond the Litani River. The following...
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- September 17, 2024 Anadolu Agency
India-administered Kashmir set for first local elections in a decade
Local elections are set to kick off in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, the first regional polls there since 2014. Voting will be held in three phases – 18 September, 25 September and 1 October – followed by counting and results on 8 October. The elections have greater significance as...
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- September 13, 2024 Anadolu Agency
West’s complicity in Israel crimes goes way beyond just weapons: Legal expert
The complicity of Western nations in Israel’s war on Gaza and its illegal Occupation of Palestinian Territories extends beyond the sphere of weapons and military support, according to a prominent expert of international law. The political and diplomatic support extended to Israel by its Western allies, which allows it to...
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- September 6, 2024 Anadolu Agency
FACTBOX - 14 most prominent foreign activists killed by Israel over last 2 decades
For many years, the Palestinian cause, particularly in Gaza, has garnered significant global attention, both in terms of human rights and media coverage. This attention has prompted many activists and supporter groups from various countries to travel to Gaza to offer assistance and witness the reality on the ground first-hand. One...
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- September 6, 2024 Anadolu Agency
‘Game of demographics’: How Israel aims to wipe out Palestinians from Occupied East Jerusalem
For months, as death and destruction rained down on Gaza, analysts have been calling the world’s attention to Israel’s simultaneous war on the other Palestinian Territories, the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The plight of Palestinians in the West Bank has garnered some global attention as Israel launched its...
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- August 30, 2024 Anadolu Agency
The Development Road is gaining momentum
The Development Road Ministers’ Summit in Istanbul on 29 August marked a pivotal moment in the advancement of the Turkiye-Iraq Development Road Project, highlighting critical considerations in its implementation. During a press conference with his Iraqi counterpart, Razzaq Muhibis Al-Saadawi, Turkish Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Abdulkadir Uraloglu, underscored...
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- August 29, 2024 Anadolu Agency
US support for Israel fuels anger across nation ahead of presidential election
The run-up to the US presidential election in November is charged with an atmosphere of unprecedented tension, driven primarily by two key issues: the economy and the ongoing crisis in Gaza. As Americans grapple with economic hardships and inflation, their frustration is compounded by their government’s role in supporting Israel’s...
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- August 27, 2024 Anadolu Agency
Algeria intellectual labels Israel a 'product of Western colonialism'
Algerian intellectual, Abderrazak Makri, described Israel as a historical product of Western colonialism, asserting that the state’s formation was deeply rooted in the legacy of Western powers. Makri, who also serves as the Secretary-General of the Kuala Lumpur Forum for Thought and Civilisation, spoke to Anadolu about the role that...