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Intel suspends expansion of factory plan in Israel

Intel is halting the expansion of a major factory project in Israel, which was going to pump an extra $15 billion towards a chip plant....

UN Security Council votes for US-drafted Gaza ceasefire resolution

The United Nations Security Council on Monday adopted a US-drafted resolution supporting a ceasefire plan in Gaza, as Washington leads an intense diplomatic campaign to push Hamas to accept the proposal....

Blinken in Israel to push Gaza ceasefire plan

US secretary of state Antony Blinken landed in Israel on Monday to promote a Gaza truce and hostage release plan as Israeli bombardment again rocked the Palestinian territory...

Understanding Iran’s ‘offensive-defensive’ strategy

THIS spring, Iran’s unprecedented direct military tit-for-tat escalation against its regional arch-foe Israel amid the ongoing Gaza war was accompanied by a deteriorating domestic landscape marked by higher repression and a deepening economic crisis...

Baby Ahmad was beheaded by Israel, with a US bomb

AHMAD Al-Najjar was a happy one-year old child from Gaza. He loved trampolines, balls, and cats. Born as the youngest of his four siblings, his father liked to call him ‘bobba’ or ‘baby.’..

Gaza war death toll reaches 37,084

Hamas-run Gaza’s health ministry said on Sunday that at least 37,084 people have been killed in the territory during more than eight months of war between Israel and...

Two killed in south Lebanon fire after Israeli strikes

Israeli strikes on Saturday killed two people and sparked wildfires in southern Lebanon, state media said, with Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah announcing the...

Hamas says over 200 killed as Israel rescues four Gaza hostages

Israel announced its forces rescued four hostages on Saturday from a Gaza refugee camp in an operation which the Hamas-run government media office said left 210 Palestinians dead and hundreds wounded....

D-8 urges world to up pressure on Israel

An alliance of mostly Muslim-majority countries including Turkey, Egypt and Iran on Saturday demanded full Palestinian membership of the United Nations and greater...

210 killed in Gaza camp,   Israel rescues four hostages

Israel said its forces rescued four hostages alive from a Gaza refugee camp on Saturday, after an operation that militant group Hamas said left 210 of Palestinians dead and...

The no-rules international order

THE skin is the largest organ of the human body. It covers our entire surface, at some points only as thin as a piece of paper and at other points about...

Israel pounds Gaza refugee camp

Israeli forces bombarded a Gaza refugee camp on Friday after a deadly strike on a UN-run school there, as the war sparked by Hamas’s unprecedented attack on...

Israel’s strike on UN school in Gaza kills 27

The Israeli military said Thursday it had carried out a deadly strike on a UN school in Gaza that it said housed a Hamas compound, with the militant group saying the attack killed at least 27 people.

Israel bombs Gaza as mediators to discuss truce, hostage plan

Israel’s military pounded central Gaza with heavy air strikes on Wednesday as US, Qatari and Egyptian mediators planned to resume talks on a truce and hostage release deal...

Israel, Russia and int’l law

INTERNATIONAL law — the recognized rules of behavior among nations based on customary practices and treaties, among them the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — has been agreed upon by large and small nations alike...

Israel’s backhanded apology was no apology at all

ON MAY 27, Israel appeared to ‘apologise’ for the deaths of 45 Palestinians resulting from its bombing raid on a ‘humanitarian zone’ in Rafah. By any measure, it was a backhanded apology that conveyed more insult than atonement. As Israeli apologies, even those that are insincere, are rare, it’s worth examining the background that led up to this one...

Gaza: fate of western civilisation

BLACKENED smoke in the background, the raging inferno ripped through tents long after Israel had bombed another designated ‘safe’ zone for evacuated civilians from north of Gaza. A charred body, of a boy or a girl, pulled from the wreckage, still burning...

ICJ is collateral damage in dysfunctional global system: experts

Ignored by Russia and Israel, the International Court of Justice is hamstrung by a dysfunctional global system that sees countries comply with its rulings — or not — based on their own double standards, experts say....

Israel carries on killings as mediators press for truce

Israel bombarded the Gaza Strip on Sunday as mediators called on both sides to agree to a truce and hostage release deal outlined by...

Maldives to ban tourists from Israel to protest Gaza war

The Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives will ban Israelis from the luxury tourist hot spot, the office of the president said Sunday, announcing a national rally in ‘solidarity with Palestine’.

Burning of Rafah’s tent people

PEOPLE were saying their evening prayers when the IDF attacked the refuge camp at Tel al-Sultan in southern Gaza, where thousands had fled from the Israeli invasion of Rafah. They were told by the Israelis this was a safe zone, a secure place to shelter their children and grandparents...

Israel kills three in Lebanon, W Bank

Lebanon’s state media on Sunday reported that two civilians were killed in an Israeli strike in the south of the country, as fighting between Israel and the powerful...

Political parties protest at Israeli aggression thru countrywide events

Leaders and activists of different political parties and organisations called on the international community to be vocal against Israeli aggression on Gaza on...

Gaza pounded after Biden pushes Israeli ceasefire plan

Israeli forces hammered Rafah in southern Gaza with tanks and artillery Saturday, hours after US President Joe Biden said Israel was offering a new roadmap toward...

Indonesia ready to send peacekeepers, medical staff to Gaza

Muslim-majority Indonesia is ready to send ‘significant peacekeeping forces’ as well as medical personnel to Gaza if Hamas accepts a new ceasefire proposal, president-elect Prabowo Subianto said on Saturday....

Biden pushes Israeli plan, urges end to Gaza war

US President Joe Biden said Friday Israel had offered a new roadmap towards a permanent peace in Gaza, urging Hamas to accept the surprise deal as it was ‘time for this war to end.’

Israel troops push into central Rafah

The Israeli army said Friday its troops pushed into central Rafah, escalating its nearly eight-month war with Hamas despite international objections over any offensive in the southern Gaza city...

Israel’s onslaught of revenge

‘All eyes on Rafah’ image shared 44m times

An AI-generated image bearing the words ‘All eyes on Rafah’ has been shared by more than 44 million Instagram accounts since Monday after a deadly Israeli strike at a camp for displaced Palestinians in the Gazan city....

‘Except Israel’ removed from Bangladesh passport overlooking MoFA: Momen

Former foreign minister AK Abdul Momen on Friday said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was not consulted while removing the words ‘except Israel’ from the e-passport though the Bangladesh’s position regarding Israel remained unchanged.