ZURICH — Unemployment in Gaza has soared to nearly 80% since the Israel-Hamas war erupted, with the devastated enclave’s economy in almost total collapse, the International Labour Organization said on Thursday. Economic output has shrunk by 85% since the conflict with Israel began a year ago, plunging almost the entire 2.3 million population into poverty, […]
WASHINGTON — The United States has warned Israel to take immediate steps to improve humanitarian aid access in Gaza within a month or face potential restrictions including suspension of military support, The Washington Post reported. This marks the most significant pressure Washington has placed on Israel since its war with Hamas began a year ago. […]
GAZA — A Hezbollah drone attack on an army base in central Israel killed four soldiers and severely wounded seven others Sunday, the military said, in the deadliest strike by the militant group since Israel launched its ground invasion of Lebanon nearly two weeks ago. The Lebanon-based Hezbollah called the attack near Binyamina city retaliation […]
JERUSALEM — The Israeli military on Saturday renewed its orders for Palestinian in the northern Gaza Strip to leave their homes and shelters as troops press on a weeklong offensive against militants. Most of the fighting in the past week was centered in and around Jabaliya that was pounded by Israeli war jets and artillery. […]
GAZA — An Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza killed at least 21 people on Thursday, with the toll likely to rise, Palestinian medical officials said. Israel has continued to strike at what it says are militant targets across the Palestinian enclave even as attention has shifted to its war against […]
TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is heading to Saudi Arabia Wednesday for talks on efforts to end Israeli attacks on Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, his ministry said. Hamas and Hezbollah are both in the Iran-backed “Axis for Resistance” of militant groups in the region. Araghchi will visit the Gulf kingdom […]
NEW YORK — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reaffirmed the organisation’s call for immediate ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon amid escalating tensions in the Middle East region. “We cannot and will not give up on our calls for an immediate ceasefire both in Gaza and Lebanon, the immediate and unconditional release of hostages, and immediate […]
JERUSALEM — In the past year in the Gaza Strip, Israel has bombed more than 40,000 targets, found 4,700 tunnel shafts and destroyed 1,000 rocket launcher sites, the military said on Monday’s one-year anniversary of the Hamas-led militant attacks that triggered Israel’s assault on the enclave. Tallying troops whose names it received permission to publish, […]
GAZA — The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Sunday an Israeli strike on a mosque-turned-shelter in central Deir al-Balah killed 26 people, while Israel’s military said it had targeted Hamas. “The number of martyrs brought to hospitals as a result of the occupation’s targeting of displaced people in the Ibn Rushd school and […]
NEW YORK — Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that the war with Hamas can end if the latter lays arms and releases the hostages, while asserting that Israel will continue its fight until it achieves “total victory.” Issuing a stern warning to Iran, Netanyahu said there is “no place” in Iran, where the […]