BEIRUT — Hezbollah has attacked an Israeli base located southwest of Safed city in northern Israel with successive swarms of suicide drones, causing injuries among its members. “On Saturday, the Islamic Resistance fighters launched an air attack with swarms of suicide drones on the Michve Allon base,” Hezbollah said in a statement. “This base includes […]
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Over 60 people killed in Israeli airstrike on school in Gaza city: Palestinian health officials
GAZA STRIP — An Israeli airstrike hit a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City early Saturday, killing more than 60 people, Palestinian health authorities said, in one of the deadliest strikes in the 10-month-old war between Israel and Hamas. The Israeli military acknowledged the strike, claiming without evidence that it hit a Hamas command center within the […]
Hezbollah says it fired dozens of rockets at Israel amid rising tensions
BEIRUT — Hezbollah said it launched rockets at northern Israel Thursday “in response” to a deadly Israeli strike in south Lebanon — the group’s first attack after Israel killed a top commander earlier this week. The Iran-backed group said in a statement that it “launched dozens of Katyusha rockets… in response to the Israeli enemy’s […]
Pakistan condemns killing of Hamas chief as ‘reckless act’
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan said Wednesday the killing of Hamas’s political leader in an air strike in neighbouring Iran blamed on Israel was a “reckless act”, while hundreds of supporters of an Islamist party held a symbolic funeral near Islamabad. Describing the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh as “terrorism”, Islamabad’s foreign ministry said in a statement that […]
Gaza refugee camp bombed 63 times by Israel in a week: Hamas
GAZA — The Israeli army has bombed the central Gazan refugee camp of Nuseirat 63 times in seven days, killing 91 Palestinians and injuring 251 others, the Hamas-run Gaza government media office said. The Gaza-ruling faction on Sunday held the Israeli and the US administrations “fully responsible” for continued killings in the refugee camp, which […]
40 Palestinians killed by 2 Israeli attacks in Gaza: Hamas
GAZA — At least 40 Palestinians were killed in two attacks by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the Hamas-run media office said in a statement. One attack in the UN-affiliated Al-Razi School in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza killed 23 Palestinians, with 73 others injured, the statement said. The […]
Hezbollah targets Israeli military division in response to attacks in Lebanon
BEIRUT — Hezbollah attacked a new Israeli division with assault drones in Illit in response to Israel’s attacks on Lebanon’s southern villages. “In response to the Israeli enemy’s attacks … the fighters of the Islamic Resistance launched an air attack with a squadron of assault drones on the headquarters Command of the newly created 91st […]
Israel confirms killing high-ranking Hamas commander in Gaza
JERUSALEM — Israeli security forces have confirmed that they killed Rafa’a Salameh, the commander of Hamas’s Khan Younis Brigade, in airstrikes in the Gaza Strip late last week. In a statement, the Israeli military and Shin Bet internal security agency said on Sunday that Salameh was killed in the area of Khan Younis, Xinhua news […]
12 Palestinians killed in Israeli air raid on school in Gaza: Sources
GAZA — At least 12 Palestinians were killed and dozens of others wounded in an Israeli air raid on a school housing displaced people in the central Gaza Strip, said Palestinian security and medical sources. Israeli aircraft bombed a school in the Nuseirat refugee camp run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for […]
Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says at least 71 killed in camp strike
GAZA — The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said an Israeli strike on Saturday killed 71 people at the Al-Mawasi camp for war displaced in the south of the Palestinian territory. Al-Mawasi, near the city of Khan Yunis, was designated as one of the safe zones by Israel after it ordered civilians to evacuate other […]