Iran’s president says Tehran has to deal with Washington
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran will not be able to ignore its arch-foe the United States and needs to “handle its enemies with forbearance”, state media reported on ...
Israel continues to batter Lebanon, five airstrikes on Beirut suburbs
The Israeli military carried out at least five airstrikes on the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut on Tuesday, after Israel’s defence minister ruled out any ceasefire in Lebanon until ...
Netanyahu approved pager attacks against Hezbollah
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved pager attacks that dealt a deadly blow to the Iran-backed Lebanese armed group Hezbollah in September, Omer Dostri, spokesperson for his office, said on ...
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Syria says seven civilians killed in Israeli strike near Damascus
An Israeli strike on a residential building in the Sayeda Zainab district south of the Syrian capital Damascus killed seven civilians on Sunday, the Syrian defence ministry said, in the ...
Qatar to pull out of Gaza ceasefire mediation, source says
Qatar will stop trying to mediate a Gaza ceasefire deal until Hamas and Israel show a “sincere willingness” to return to the negotiating table, an official briefed on the matter ...
Colonialism, starvation and resistance
By Charles Z. Levkoe, Martha Stiegman, Sarah Rotz and Tammara Soma
For more than a year, the Israeli state has been engaged in a massive incursion into Gaza following the ...
Israeli rejects ‘biased’ warning of famine in Gaza
Israel rejected on Saturday a group of global food security experts’ warning of famine in parts of northern Gaza where it is waging war against Palestinian militant group Hamas.
“Unfortunately, ...
At least 24 killed in Pakistan train station bomb blast, police say
At least 24 people were killed and more than 40 injured in a bomb blast at a railway station in Quetta in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, police and other officials told Reuters.
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Hezbollah calls for US action, not words,
Hezbollah welcomes any effort to stop the war in Lebanon but does not pin hopes for a ceasefire on any particular U.S. administration, Hezbollah lawmaker Ibrahim al-Moussawi said on ...
Gaza war
Nearly 70% of Gaza war dead women and children, UN rights office says
The U.N. Human Rights Office said on Friday nearly 70% of the fatalities it has verified in the Gaza war were women and children, and condemned what it called a ...
More families stream out of north Gaza, as tanks push deeper
Israeli forces stepped up bombardment across the Gaza Strip on Thursday and ordered more evacuations, creating a fresh wave of displacement from northern Gaza, to which Palestinians fear they will ...
Israeli police briefly arrest two French officials in ‘unacceptable’ move, France says
France’s foreign minister refused to enter a holy site under French administration in Jerusalem on Thursday due to the presence of Israeli security forces, who briefly arrested two French ...
Palestinians dismayed by Trump’s win, their leaders urge peace
Palestinians, locked in war with Israel for more than a year, expressed fear at Donald Trump’s return to the White House, while the leaders of the militant group Hamas ...
Yoav Gallant sacking removes thorn in Netanyahu’s side
Yoav Gallant knew he was living on borrowed time as Israel’s Defence Minister after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first attempt to sack him last year failed in the ...
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Israeli PM Netanyahu fires Gallant, new minister to destroy Hamas, Hezbollah
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday, saying he had no trust in him over the management of Israel’s ongoing military operations.
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Over 100 patients set to be evacuated from Gaza, WHO says
More than 100 patients including children will be transferred out of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in a rare medical evacuation from the Palestinian enclave during the Israel-Hamas war, a World ...
Israeli airstrikes kill at least 30 Palestinians in Gaza, at least 4 killed in West Bank.
Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 30 Palestinians since Monday night, Palestinian media and medics said on Tuesday, while four people were killed on Tuesday during an ...
Israel ends relations with UN Palestinian relief agency UNRWA
Israel has officially notified the United Nations that it was cancelling the agreement that regulated its relations with the main U.N. relief organization for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) since 1967, the ...
Is UN likely to suspend Israel over treatment of Palestinians?
By Aidan Hehir
“Where is the UN?” is a question that has often been asked since the start of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. As the death toll rises ...
Kombos pledges deeper relations with Qatar after meeting PM
Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos pledged to further deepen relations between Cyprus and Qatar after meeting the country’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani on Sunday.
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North Gaza ‘apocalyptic,’ everyone at ‘imminent risk’ of death
The situation in the northern Gaza Strip is “apocalyptic” as Israel pursues a military offensive against Hamas militants in the area, top United Nations officials warned.
“The entire Palestinian population ...
Khamenei says US, Israel face ‘crushing response’ for confronting Iran
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that the United States and Israel will “undoubtedly receive a crushing response” for what they do against his country, state media ...
Nineteen reported injured in central Israel after projectile launch
Nineteen people in central Israel’s Sharon region were injured, the Israeli police said, after the military reported the launch of three projectiles from Lebanon into Israeli territory early on ...
Ceasefire hopes fade as Israel bombards Gaza, Lebanon
Prospects of a ceasefire between Israel and its foes Hamas and Hezbollah ran aground on Friday as Israeli airstrikes killed at least 64 people in the Gaza Strip, according to medics ...