Israeli strike kills 12 in south Gaza
THE civil defence agency in Gaza said an Israeli strike on a tent housing displaced Palestinians near the southern city of Khan Yunis on Wednesday killed at least 12 people...
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Israeli fire kills 27 near Gaza aid point
Rescuers said the Israeli military killed at least 27 people near a US-backed aid centre in Gaza on Tuesday, with the army reporting it had fired on ‘suspects who advanced toward the troops’.
Eight injured in ‘flamethrower’ attack on Israeli hostage protest in US
A man yelling ‘free Palestine’ used incendiary devices to torch protesters rallying in support of Israeli hostages, injuring at least eight people in the US state of Colorado on Sunday.
Arab ministers slam Israel’s ban on West Bank visit
The foreign ministers of five Arab countries who had planned to visit the occupied West Bank this weekend on Saturday condemned Israel’s decision to block their plans...
Israel strike on south Lebanon kills one
Lebanese official media said an Israeli strike killed one person in the south on Saturday despite a six-month-old ceasefire, as Israel said it targeted a Hezbollah militant.
When the dead speak and the living refuse to listen
THE problem with writing about Gaza is that words can’t explain what’s happening in Gaza. Neither can images, even the most gut-wrenching and heartbreaking. Because what needs to be explained is the inexplicable. What needs to be explicated is the silence in the face of horror...
Israel kills Hamas’s presumed leader in Gaza
Israel said Wednesday its military killed Mohammed Sinwar, Hamas’s presumed Gaza leader and the brother of Yahya, the slain mastermind of the October 2023 attacks that sparked the Gaza war...
France, Indonesia call for Israeli-Palestinian progress
France and Indonesia called Wednesday for progress on ‘mutual recognition’ between Israel and the Palestinians at a key meeting next month as Emmanuel Macron visited Jakarta, bringing the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation into his diplomatic efforts...
Israeli strikes destroy last plane at Huthis’ airport
Israeli air strikes blew up the last remaining plane at rebel-held Yemen’s international airport, Israel and a Yemeni official said on Wednesday, weeks after an earlier attack inflicted major damage...
International law and Israel’s reign of terror in Gaza
AS THE world watches, one of history’s greatest crimes has taken form. Inaction, complicity and silence in the face of genocide have caused profound suffering to the Palestinian people. No final reckoning or redress would be equivalent to the scale and magnitude of Israel’s depraved criminality...
UK surgeon in Gaza says ‘never seen so many blast injuries’
A British surgeon visiting a Gaza hospital said Monday she had ‘never seen so many blast injuries’ as Israel ramps up operations in the coastal Palestinian territory ravaged by 20 months of war...
Israeli strikes kill 52, including 33 in a school
Rescuers said devastating Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip killed at least 52 people on Monday, 33 of them in a school turned shelter...
Israeli strikes kill 22 in Gaza
Rescuers in Gaza said 22 people were killed and dozens more wounded in Israeli air strikes across the Palestinian territory on Sunday.
Israeli strikes kill 15 in Gaza
Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli strikes killed at least 15 people on Saturday across the Palestinian territory, where Israel has ramped up its military offensive in recent days.
Waves upon sea of silence
A COUPLE of weeks after Israel began its campaign of terror in Gaza two Octobers ago, a journalist and novelist named Omar El Akkad published a note on X, formerly known as Twitter, that has stayed with me ever since:...
Israeli strikes kill 16 in Gaza
Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli strikes killed at least 16 people on Friday across the Palestinian territory, where Israel has ramped up its military offensive in recent days.
WHO begs Israel to show ‘mercy’ in Gaza
Fighting back tears, the head of the World Health Organisation on Thursday urged Israel to have ‘mercy’ in the Gaza war and insisted peace would be in Israel’s own interests.
Israel strikes kill 52 in Gaza
Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli strikes had killed at least 52 people since dawn Thursday across the territory, where Israel has ramped up its military offensive in recent days.
Iran will hold US responsible for any Israeli attack on its nuclear sites
Foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran would hold the United States responsible for any Israeli attack on its nuclear facilities, after US media reported that Israel was preparing for a strike.
Israeli embassy staffers shot dead in Washington
Two staffers of Israeli embassy were shot dead late Wednesday outside a Jewish museum in Washington by a gunman who shouted ‘free Palestine,’ authorities said, with US, Israeli and other world leaders expressing outrage over the killings.
Israeli warning fire at diplomats sparks outcry amid Gaza pressure
Israeli troops fired warning shots during foreign diplomats’ visit to the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the military said, drawing condemnation as pressure mounted on Israel to allow aid into war-battered Gaza...
Oil prices jump
Crude prices rallied Wednesday following a report that US intelligence suggested Israel was planning a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, which would send geopolitical tensions into overdrive and fuel regional conflict fears...
44 killed as Israel steps up offensive in Gaza
Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli strikes on Tuesday killed at least 44 people across the war-ravaged Palestinian territory, where Israel has intensified a military offensive aimed at crushing Hamas...
Israeli strikes kill 52 in Gaza
Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli attacks on Monday killed at least 52 people, as the military pressed a newly intensified campaign in the war-ravaged territory...
Israel says intercepted missile from Yemen, Huthis claim attack
The Israeli military said Sunday it had intercepted a missile fired from Yemen, where the Iran-backed Huthi rebels claimed launching two missiles at Israel’s main airport...
Israeli air strikes kill 50 in Gaza
Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli air strikes on Sunday killed at least 50 people, more than half of them children, a day after Israel announced an expanded military campaign in the besieged territory.
Israel expands Gaza offensive to defeat Hamas
Israel’s military launched intensified Gaza operations on Saturday aimed at ‘the defeat of Hamas’, with rescuers in the besieged Palestinian territory reporting at least 10 killed by new Israeli strikes...
Israel kills Hezbollah commander in Lebanon
Israel’s military said it killed a local Hezbollah commander on Saturday in south Lebanon, where authorities reported one dead in the fourth Israeli strike within days despite a November ceasefire.
Watching Gaza starve to death
THE situation in Gaza today starkly highlights Israeli exceptionalism. Israel is employing the starvation of two million Palestinians in the blockaded and devastated Gaza Strip as a tactic to extract political concessions from Palestinian groups operating there...
Israeli strikes kill 100 in Gaza
Palestinian rescuers reported more than 100 people killed Thursday in Israeli strikes on blockaded Gaza, where a US-backed organisation said it intends to begin distributing aid by the end of the month.
