An explosion rocked a historic Greek Orthodox church in Gaza City on Thursday night amid Israel’s continued bombardment of the Gaza Strip, as the country’s military prepared to enter the Palestinian territory to destroy the Hamas militant group. Videos emerged early on Friday of apparent damage and casualties at the St. Porphyrios Orthodox Church in […]
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Iran ramps up tensions with ominous threat
Iran’s foreign minister posted an ominous tweet on Wednesday that said time is “running out” for Israel. The post was made hours after an explosion at a Hamas-run hospital in Gaza suffered an explosion that left hundreds dead. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian posted the tweet after Hamas blamed Israel for the blast at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, […]
Over 500 killed in Hospital Blast; who did it ?
Hamas has said it will provide the international community with evidence proving Israeli culpability in Tuesday’s explosion at a hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, that reportedly killed hundreds and has been blamed by Israel on a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) rocket fired that went off course. The disaster at the al-Ahli Baptist Hospital has […]
Iran calls US involvement a”strategic mistake’
Iran has stepped up its fiery rhetoric towards the United States and the West amid concerns that the Israel-Hamas war could spill over into the wider region. Tehran gives moral and financial support to Hamas which controls the Gaza Strip and whose militants attacked southern Israel, killing over 1,400 people and taking 200 hostages, according […]
US desperate to contain Israel-Hamas War
The US and its allies are ratcheting up efforts to prevent the war between Israel and Hamas from engulfing the wider region, acting on concerns that an invasion of the Gaza Strip by Israeli forces could prompt Iran to enter the conflict. The US has warned Iran in recent days through back-channel talks about the […]
Gaza strikes ‘No Longer Self Defense’ says China
Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip have gone “beyond the scope of self-defense,” China’s foreign minister has said, as the encroaching possibility of an Israeli ground attack threatens to further endanger Palestinian civilians who have been caught up in the fighting. Protecting “the basic needs of the people in Gaza” is a priority and […]
Catch 22; Israel says leave Gaza, but many can’t
The Israeli military called for the evacuation of Gaza City Friday ahead of an expected ground invasion against Hamas, which controls the territory. Israel’s order calls for people living in north Gaza to move south of the Wadi Gaza area, located in the middle of the Gaza strip. Hamas, which launched the deadly incursion into […]
U.N.; Israel order to evacuate Gaza ‘Impossible’
The fighting between Israel and Hamas entered a seventh day on Friday with fears of a ground offensive growing stronger following an Israeli order to evacuate the northern region of the Gaza Strip. Israel’s military told the United Nations late Thursday that all of northern Gaza’s population needs to evacuate to the southern portion of […]
Netanyahu; Every Hamas member is a dead man
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said that every member of Hamas is a “dead man,” as he announced a new national emergency government to fight against the Palestinian militant group. The premier said that the people and leadership of Israel were “united” in fighting Hamas, whose attacks in the south of the country on Saturday […]
Israel’s goal in Gaza; elliminate Hamas
Israeli forces preparing to invade the Palestinian Gaza Strip have no intention of re-establishing a permanent presence in the Hamas stronghold, Israel’s former ambassador to the United Nations has said, as the under-siege coastal enclave withers under a pre-incursion air, land and sea bombardment. Danny Danon says Israel is preparing to “use a lot of […]
More than 1,600 now dead in Israel-Hamas war
More than 1,600 people have been killed since the Hamas militant group launched a surprise assault on Israel from Gaza early Saturday, leading Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare “we are at war.” An Israeli embassy spokesperson said Monday the death toll has risen to at least 900 Israelis, most of them civilians. Another […]
Iran gave go-ahead for Hamas attack on Israel
Iran was directly involved in the planning of the Saturday terror attack on Israel, which has spurred a war between the country and the Hamas terrorist organization, which operates out of the contested Gaza Strip, according to reports. Iranian security officials reportedly met with several terrorist entities over months to plan the terrorist attack that […]