- Hezbollah claims five attacks on Israeli positions
- Gaza rights group warns of Rafah "bloodbath"
- Israel kills 17-year-old Palestinian in West Bank
- Dozens of Israelis enter Al-Aqsa Mosque conducting 'provocative tours'
EU Foreign Policy chief voices alarm over potential Israeli assault on Rafah
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell Fontelles expressed deep concern about the looming threat of an Israeli assault on Rafah.
He labelled reports alarming, emphasizing the potentially catastrophic consequences for the 1.4 million Palestinians in Rafah, who lack a haven and face the risk of starvation.
Borrell highlighted the severe humanitarian situation, warning that an Israeli military offensive could exacerbate the crisis and inflict an unbearable toll on civilians.
- Friday Feb 09 2024 | 10:16 PM
Netanyahu orders Israeli military to carry out Rafah plan
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister claims to have given the Israeli military instructions to devise a strategy for driving out the last few Hamas battalions in addition to evacuating people from Rafah.
At least 21 individuals were killed by Israeli snipers in Khan Younis outside Nasser Hospital, with medical personnel being among those targeted. 107 Palestinians have lost their lives and 142 have been injured in the last 24 hours.
- Friday Feb 09 2024 | 09:44 PM
Hezbollah declares five attacks on Israeli positions
The Lebanese group had a busy day for its fighters after an attack on one of its regional commanders in southern Lebanon's Nabatieh yesterday.
In the last hour, the group has published five posts on its Telegram channel claiming strikes, as per Al Jazeera.
Gaza's Al-Amal Hospital caught in Israeli shelling, gun fire
- Thursday Feb 08 2024 | 06:26 PM
WATCH: Doctors, paramedics decry worsening situation in Gaza hospital
'Not one house left undamaged': UN laments catastrophic Gaza destruction
- Thursday Feb 08 2024 | 03:00 PM
Jordan's Abdullah to meet Biden and western leaders to lobby for end of Gaza war
Jordan's King Abdullah began on Thursday a tour of major western capitals that will take him to the United States to meet President Joe Biden to lobby for an end to the war in Gaza, the royal palace said.
The monarch, who first visits France and Germany, would also hold talks in the United States with top Congressional leaders, politicians and administration officials. The statement did not give a date for the meeting with Biden.
- Thursday Feb 08 2024 | 02:28 PM
Palestinian families, children sleep inside chicken cages
Palestinian man killed in occupied West Bank by Israeli forces
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports a Palestinian man shot by Israeli troops near the entrance to the village of Deir Sharaf, west of Nablus, has died.
Wafa news agency also updated its earlier report, adding another young Palestinian man was injured after being shot in the hand, Al Jazeera reported.
A confrontation broke out after soldiers closed the checkpoint and prevented Palestinians from crossing. The Israeli army claimed one of the men opened fire on them when soldiers stopped his car.
- Thursday Feb 08 2024 | 01:07 PM
Iraq says repeated US strikes pushing gov't to end US-led coalition's mission
Repeated US strikes against Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq
are pushing the government to end the mission of the US-led coalition in the country, the prime minister's military spokesman Yahya Rasool said on Thursday.
- Thursday Feb 08 2024 | 11:07 AM
Kataib Hezbollah commander killed in Baghdad in US strike
A commander from Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed armed group in Iraq that the Pentagon has blamed for attacking its troops, was killed in a US strike on Wednesday, the US military said.
"(US) forces conducted a unilateral strike in Iraq in response to the attacks on US service members, killing a Kataib Hezbollah commander responsible for directly planning and participating in attacks on US forces in the region," a statement from the military said. It did not name the commander.
It added that there were no indications of civilian casualties.
Two security sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the commander was Abu Baqir al-Saadi, killed in a drone strike on a vehicle in eastern Baghdad.
One of the sources said three people were killed and that the vehicle targeted was used by Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), a state security agency composed of dozens of armed groups, many of them close to Iran.
Kataib Hezbollah fighters and commanders are part of the PMF.
- Thursday Feb 08 2024 | 09:00 AM
Gaza ceasefire hopes alive with more talks planned
Mediators from the US, Qatar, and Egypt scrambled to forge a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in their four-month-old war in the Gaza Strip after America's top diplomat on a Middle East mission said there was still hope for a deal.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he saw room for negotiation, and a Palestinian Hamas delegation led by senior official Khalil Al-Hayya was due to travel on Thursday to Cairo for ceasefire talks with Egypt and Qatar.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday rejected Hamas' latest offer, calling it "delusional," and Hamas urged Palestinian armed factions to go on fighting.
"There are clearly nonstarters in what (Hamas has) put forward," Blinken said on Wednesday at a late-night press conference in a Tel Aviv hotel, without specifying what the nonstarters were.
"But we also see space in what came back to pursue negotiations, to see if we can get to an agreement. That's what we intend to do."
Before heading back to the U.S., Blinken was due to hold meetings in Israel on Thursday, including with family members of hostages still held in Gaza who have clamoured for Netanyahu to make winning their freedom his top priority.
- Wednesday Feb 07 2024 | 10:48 PM
UN chief alarmed by reports Israeli military to focus on Rafah
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that he is "especially alarmed" by reports that the Israeli military intends to focus next on Rafah in Gaza.
"Such an action would exponentially increase what is already a humanitarian nightmare with untold regional consequences," Guterres told the 193-member UN General Assembly, as he again called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and the unconditional release of all hostages.
- Wednesday Feb 07 2024 | 07:07 PM
Israel assessing Gaza truce proposal: official
Israel has said that officials were "looking intently" at a new Gaza truce proposal presented by Qatari negotiators, a government spokesperson said on Wednesday.
"We have received an update, we have received notification from the Qatari negotiators. We are looking at them. The Mossad is looking intently at what was presented to us," spokesperson Avi Hyman told reporters, repeating a statement from Tuesday evening.
- Wednesday Feb 07 2024 | 03:40 PM
Protests in front of UNWRA office in West Bank against funding cuts
0 Comments