GAZA — Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Thursday that Israel aims to “empty” the Gaza Strip of Palestinians, especially in the northern part where it launched a sweeping assault this month. “It has been a full year since the greatest catastrophe that the Palestinian people experienced after the Nakba of 1948, which is the Israeli […]
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Israel pounds Beirut, levels residential complex: state media
BEIRUT — Israel unleashed a wave of air strikes on Hezbollah’s southern Beirut stronghold on Wednesday night, Lebanese state media said, as the Israel-Hezbollah war reached its one-month mark. With six buildings levelled in at least 17 Israeli raids, the strikes mark one of the most brutal nights in the capital’s southern suburbs since the […]
Iran says neighbours won’t allow use of their ‘soil or airspace’ for attack
TEHRAN — Iran’s neighbours have pledged they will not allow the use of their “soil or airspace” for any attack, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tuesday, as Israel weighs a retaliation for the Islamic republic’s missile strike. “All our neighbours have assured us that they won’t allow their soil or airspace to be used […]
Death toll from Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon reaches 2,464: Health Ministry
BEIRUT — The death toll from Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon since the beginning of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict has reached 2,464, with injuries up to 11,530, the Lebanese Health Ministry has reported. On Saturday alone, 16 people were killed and 59 others wounded in Israeli attacks, the ministry said on Sunday. It noted that 11 people […]
87 dead or missing after Israeli strikes on northern Gaza: Palestinian officials
GAZA STRIP — The Palestinian Health Ministry said that the Israeli strikes on multiple homes in the northern Gaza Strip overnight and into Sunday left at least 87 people dead or missing, AP reported. It said another 40 people were wounded in the strikes on the town of Beit Lahiya, which was among the first […]
At least 73 killed in an Israeli attack on north Gaza’s Beit Lahiya, IDF calls number “exaggerated”
TEL AVIV — An Israeli attack on Beit Lahiya in north Gaza has killed as many as 73 people, while many more are feared trapped under rubble, Al Jazeera reported Gaza authorities. The death toll is expected to rise as rescue efforts continue, Gaza’s Government Media Office said. The situation in northern Gaza remains dire […]
Israel releases new footage of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar
TEL AVIV — The Israeli Defense Forces Spokesperson revealed new footage on Saturday evening documenting the death of Hamas leader and mastermind of the October 7 attacks Yahya Sinwar. Sinwar and two other terrorists were killed in a chance encounter with Israeli soldiers in Rafah on Thursday. His body was taken to Israel and positively […]
Over 400 killed in two weeks of Israeli assault on territory’s north: Gaza rescuers
JERUSALEM — Gaza’s civil defence agency said Saturday more than 400 Palestinians were killed in the north of the territory over the past two weeks during an ongoing military assault Israel says is aimed at preventing Hamas militants from regrouping. The military launched a sweeping air and ground assault targeting northern Gaza on October 6. […]
Drone launched towards Israel PM Netanyahu’s house, no casualties
JERUSALEM — Israel’s government said a drone was launched toward the the prime minister’s house Saturday, with no casualties. Sirens wailed Saturday morning in Israel, warning of incoming fire from Lebanon, with a drone launched toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house in Caesarea, the Israeli government said. Neither he nor his wife were home […]
Iran’s Khamenei says Hamas was alive and will survive despite the death of Sinwar
TEHRAN — Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that Hamas was alive and will survive despite the death of its leader Yahya Sinwar in an Israeli military operation in Gaza. “His loss is certainly painful for the resistance front” against Israel, “but it will not end at all with the martyrdom of […]