Four Israeli hostages taken by Hamas from a music festival during the group’s October 7 terrorist attack were rescued alive Saturday during a raid on the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces, the security service Shin Bet, and the Israeli police announced in a joint statement. 25-year-old Noa Argamani, 21-year-old Almog Meir […]
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Dozens killed in Israeli Air-Strike on Gaza school
An Israeli airstrike at a school in Gaza Thursday claimed the lives of more than 35 people, with many more injured, according to local officials. The Israel Defense Forces defended the “precise attack” on the compound embedded within a school in Nussierat and said it took out 20-30 terrorists, some of whom it alleged participated […]
Turkish President blames US for ‘Gaza Genocide’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an important NATO ally, blamed the United States for a “genocide” in Gaza while labeling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a bloodthirsty “vampire.” Erdogan made the comments in a speech to Turkey’s parliament, speaking after a recent Israeli airstrike led to dozens of civilian deaths in Rafah. Though several other […]
Israeli Tanks rolling through Central Rafah
Israeli tanks advanced to the centre of Rafah for the first time on Tuesday, witnesses said, three weeks into a ground offensive in the southern Gaza city that has stirred global condemnation for its continued civilian toll.Tanks and armoured vehicles mounted with machineguns were spotted near Al-Awda mosque, a central Rafah landmark, the witnesses told […]
Israeli Air-Strike On Rafah kills dozens
At least 45 people have been killed, including women and children, in an Israeli air strike on a camp for displaced Palestinians in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, the Hamas-run health ministry says.Videos from the scene in the Tal al-Sultan area on Sunday night showed a large explosion and intense fires burning.The Israel Defense […]
Israeli activists blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza
The war in Gaza is being fought on many fronts.One of them is aid.Months after some Israelis started to protest against aid lorries entering Gaza at the main Kerem Shalom crossing, the battle has moved to other key junctions, where rival groups of activists do their best to block or protect aid convoys.In recent weeks, […]
Int. Criminal Court seeks arrest of Netanyahu
The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity over the October 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza, the court’s prosecutor Karim Khan told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive […]
Netanyahu says 1/2 of 35,000 killed are civilians
Israel’s prime minister said on a podcast that almost half of those killed in the Gaza war are Hamas fighters, again addressing a civilian toll that has sparked global outrage. Benjamin Netanyahu maintained the overall toll is lower than that given by authorities in the Palestinian territory. According to the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, […]
Netanyahu ignores Biden & launches Gaza attack
Israel sent tanks into eastern Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip early on Sunday, after a night of heavy aerial and ground bombardments, killing 19 people and wounding dozens of others, health officials said. Jabalia is the biggest of Gaza’s eight historic refugee camps and is home to more than 100,000 people, most of whom […]
Israel fumes over Biden threat to withhold arms
Israel reacted with a mix of concern and fury Thursday to President Joe Biden’s warning that he would cut off weapons to the U.S. ally’s military if it moves forward with a full-scale assault on Rafah, the city in southern Gaza where more than 1 million Palestinians are sheltering. The threat, which marked a shift […]
Israel begins strikes on Gaza city of Rafah
Israel’s military carried out airstrikes in Rafah on Monday, residents said, hours after Israel told Palestinians to evacuate parts of the southern Gaza city where more than a million people uprooted by the war have been sheltering.Fears are growing of a full-blown assault in Rafah, long threatened by Israel, against holdouts of the Palestinian militant […]
Israel shuts down Al Jazeera news agency
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that Al Jazeera is to be shut down in Israel. Mr Netanyahu accused the Qatari-owned network of “incitement” and said the cabinet decision had been unanimous. Al Jazeera condemned the move as “criminal”. Foreign journalists are banned from entering Gaza and Al Jazeera staff there have been some […]