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Strike on central Israel wounds 19

A missile strike in Israel’s Sharon area wounded 19 people, police said early Saturday, after the army reported three projectiles were fired from Lebanon into central Israel.

Deadly Israeli strikes on ‘apocalyptic’ north Gaza

Israel on Saturday again carried out deadly air strikes on north Gaza, where the UN calls conditions ‘apocalyptic’, as Lebanon’s Hezbollah intensified rocket fire near Israel’s commercial hub of Tel Aviv, on Israel’s second front...

Israeli strikes hurt Iran, further escalation possible: analysts

While heeding US calls to steer clear of nuclear or oil infrastructure, Israel in its strikes on Iran inflicted severe damage on Iranian air defences and missile capacities and could yet launch...

Lebanon accuses Israel of rejecting truce after Beirut strikes

Lebanon’s prime minister on Friday accused Israel of rejecting a ceasefire after the Israeli military bombed the Hezbollah stronghold of south Beirut for the first time this week.

Israel’s extremists have plan for day after genocide

Under the slogan ‘Gaza is Ours, Forever’, a large number of Israeli extremists and right-wing politicians met in the settlement of Be’eri, near the Gaza border region, on October 20–21.

WHO ‘deeply concerned’ about ‘rising attacks’ on Lebanon healthcare

The World Health Organisation said Friday it was deeply concerned about Israeli attacks hitting healthcare workers and facilities in Lebanon, in its war against Hezbollah.

Hezbollah open to truce with Israel if offer made

Hezbollah’s new leader on Wednesday said the beleaguered Lebanese movement could agree to a ceasefire under certain terms, as Israeli forces expand their bombardment of the group’s bastions.

Genocidal scorecard

A United Nations report, published on Monday, lays out in chilling detail the advances made by Israel in Gaza as it seeks to eradicate ‘the very existence of the Palestinian people in Palestine.’ This genocidal project, the report ominously warns, ‘is now metastasizing to the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.’..

Israeli forces strike deadly bombing in Gaza

Israeli forces carried out new deadly bombings targeting Hamas in Gaza on Wednesday, as international mediators prepared to propose a short-term truce to free hostages and avert a humanitarian catastrophe...

Financing Israel’s war

Deadly Israeli strike in Gaza amid anger over UN agency ban

A single Israeli air strike on a residential block left nearly 100 dead Tuesday, Gaza’s civil defence agency said, as Israel faced criticism after its parliament voted to ban the key UN aid agency working in the Palestinian territory...

S Africa files ‘evidence’ of ‘genocide’ by Israel in ICJ case

South Africa has filed ‘evidence’ of a ‘genocide’ committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip with the International Court of Justice, the office of president Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday.

Iran moves to triple military budget amid Israel tensions

Iran’s government has proposed tripling its military spending, an official said Tuesday, as tensions with arch-rival Israel rise following recent tit-for-tat missile strikes.

The US-Israel plan for the Gazans

DAN Cohen, an American Jew whose family in Lithuania had been wiped out by Hitler’s forces, is one of the great investigative journalists on Israel-Palestinian affairs, and he headlined on October 21, ‘US authorizes CIA mercenaries to run biometric concentration camps in Gaza Strip.’ He opened:...

Iran vows to ‘respond firmly’ to Israeli strikes

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday that Tehran would ‘respond firmly and effectively’ to deadly Israeli strikes on military sites over the weekend...

Crippling UNRWA

THE man has a cheek.  Having lectured Iranians and Lebanese about what (and who) is good for them in terms of rulers and rule (we already know what he thinks of the Palestinians), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been keeping busy on further depriving access and assistance to those in Gaza and the West Bank...

UN proposal for a ‘safe zone’

THE war and conflicts between Russia and Ukraine, Palestine and Israel, and others —Bangladesh’s own political situation for the last couple of months, as it appears — turned the Rohingya refugee crisis a ‘less important’ concern. But the situation of the Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar is dire. On the one hand, the number of Rohingya has been increasing...

Lebanon complains to UN over Israel strike on journalists

Lebanon said Monday it had submitted a complaint to the United Nations Security Council over an Israeli strike last week that killed three journalists in the country’s south...

Oil prices fall, global stocks increase

Oil prices tumbled and global stocks mostly rose Monday on relief that Israel’s strikes on Iran avoided the country’s energy infrastructure...

Israel pounds Gaza, Lebanon after Iran strikes

Israel bombarded Hezbollah and Hamas targets in Lebanon and Gaza on Sunday, with no respite in the conflict one day after its strikes on Iran raised fears of a broader war...

Israel’s war on journalism

THERE are some 4,000 foreign reporters accredited in Israel to cover the war. They stay in luxury hotels. They go on dog and pony shows orchestrated by the Israeli military. They can, on rare occasions, be escorted by Israeli soldiers on lightning visits to Gaza, where they are shown alleged weapons caches or tunnels the military says are used by Hamas...

Bangladesh unequivocally condemns Israeli attacks on Iran

Bangladesh on Sunday unequivocally condemned the recent Israeli military strikes on Iran, viewing these actions as a severe violation of Iran’s sovereignty and a breach of the United Nations Charter and international law...

Nations call for de-escalation, condemn Israel for Iran strike

The US, Britain and the European Union called for ‘de-escalation’ after Israel on Saturday hit military targets across Iran in deadly retaliatory strikes as Muslim countries and Russia blamed...

Israel’s assassination campaign

IN RECENT times, Israel’s geopolitical calculus has taken even more aggressive steps and strategies, executing the high-profile assassinations of Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah. These killings are part of a broader strategy rooted in Israel’s longstanding policy of targeted assassinations — once covert but...

Two dead in Israeli strikes on military targets: Iran

Iran said an Israeli attack targeted military sites in the Islamic republic on Saturday, killing two soldiers, almost a month after Israel vowed to avenge a missile barrage that raised fears of a full-scale Middle East war...

Israel hits Iran military sites

Israel bombed military targets in Iran on Saturday, killing at least two soldiers, fulfilling a vow to avenge a missile barrage and stirring fears of a full-scale Middle East war.

Israeli forces detain hundreds at Gaza hospital

Gaza’s health ministry said on Friday hundreds of patients and staff were detained in north Gaza’s last functioning hospital, after the Israeli army said it was on the ground in the area.

Lebanon vs Israeli savagery

THE Israeli war machine is accelerating its attacks on North Gaza, Lebanon, the West Bank and as far away as Yemen. It even hit Egypt ‘by mistake.’

Iran says neighbours won’t allow use of their ‘soil or airspace’ for attack

Iran’s neighbours have pledged they will not allow the use of their ‘soil or airspace’ for any attack, Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said Tuesday, as Israel weighs a retaliation for the...

54 Bangladesh nationals return to Dhaka from Lebanon

The first batch of 54 Bangladesh nationals evacuated from Lebanon arrived in Dhaka by a Saudi Arabian commercial flight on Monday afternoon.