Palestinians check the grounds of a school after an Israeli air strike hit the site, in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on September 11, 2024, amid the ongoing war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. | Photo Credit: AFP An Israeli air strike on Wednesday (September 11, 2024) hit a central Gaza … Read more
Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces mounting international and domestic pressure after the killing in Gaza of six captives, with US President Joe Biden saying he is not doing enough to secure the release of hostages. Britain said Monday it would suspend some arms exports to Israel, citing a “clear risk” they could be … Read more
Washington: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken left Saturday on a mission to the Middle East to push ahead a Gaza ceasefire deal, as cautious optimism rises. The top US diplomat, who is putting off vacation plans for his ninth trip to the Middle East since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, will fly to … Read more
Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, August 4, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters An Israeli airstrike hit two schools in Gaza City on August 4, killing at least 25 people, the Palestinian official news agency said, while the … Read more
Middle East tensions soared on August 3 as Iran and its allies readied their response to the assassination of Hamas’s political leader, blamed on Israel, spurring fears of a regional war. Israel’s ally the United States said it would move warships and fighter jets to the region, while Western governments called on their citizens to … Read more
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an airstrike on his home in Tehran on Tuesday. The Palestinian militant group Hamas and Iran‘s elite Revolutionary Guards confirmed the death in separate statements. Haniyeh’s death followed his participation in the inauguration of Iran’s new president.“Hamas declares to the great Palestinian people and the people of the … Read more
Palestinian children inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Rafah. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Hamas is suggesting during ceasefire negotiations that an independent government of non-partisan figures run post-war Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a member of the Palestinian Islamist movement’s political bureau said Friday. “We proposed that a … Read more
Mourners gather next to the bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike that hit a tent camp, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Al-Mawasi area in western Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 21, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli forces shelled tent camps for displaced Palestinians north of … Read more
Israel’s air and ground campaign in Gaza has killed hundreds of family members from the same bloodline, an unprecedented toll on the small community mostly made up of refugees and their descendants. An Associated Press investigation analyzed 10 strikes across the Gaza Strip between October and December that killed over 500 people. Nearly every Palestinian … Read more
Israeli forces struck Gaza and battled Hamas militants on Friday as truce efforts failed to make progress and tensions surged on Israel‘s northern border with Lebanon. Witnesses reported strikes on the southern city of Rafah and central areas of the Gaza Strip. At Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir al-Balah, men gathered … Read more