Airlines halt many Middle East flights
Global airlines cancelled flights to Tel Aviv, Tehran and other Middle East destinations, or rerouted planes, on Friday after countries shut airspaces following Israeli strikes on Iran.
Global airlines cancelled flights to Tel Aviv, Tehran and other Middle East destinations, or rerouted planes, on Friday after countries shut airspaces following Israeli strikes on Iran.
Bangladesh has unequivocally expressed its strong condemnation and deep concern over Israel bombing Iran’s nuclear and military sites and killing scientists.
Oil prices soared and stocks sank after Israel launched strikes on Iranian nuclear and military sites on Friday and warned of more to come, stoking fears of a full-blown war.
Iran called Israel’s wave of strikes on Friday a ‘declaration of war’, after the Israeli military hit about 100 targets including nuclear facilities and killed senior figures, among them the armed forces chief and top nuclear scientists.
At least six nuclear scientists were killed on Friday in Israel’s attacks on Iran, media outlets in the Islamic republic reported.
Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that a wave of Israeli strikes on Iran had been ‘very successful,’ warning they were only the opening salvos in a broader campaign against the Islamic republic.
Israel carried out strikes against Iran on Friday, targeting its nuclear and military sites, and killing the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and top nuclear scientists.
Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli fire killed 22 people across the Palestinian territory on Thursday, including 16 who were waiting to collect aid.
Israel’s refusal to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza and its targeting of aid distribution points is causing civilians to starve which constitutes a war crime, Sweden’s foreign minister said Thursday.
The Gaza civil defence agency said Israeli forces opened fire on people waiting to enter a US-backed food distribution centre on Wednesday, killing 31 and wounding ‘about 200’...
THIS is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide. It will be over soon. Weeks. At most. Two million people are camped out amongst the rubble or in the open air. Dozens are killed and wounded daily from Israeli shells, missiles, drones, bombs and bullets...
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said the war in Gaza ‘hurts my whole body’ as he delivered an emotional speech while being honoured by the University of Manchester.
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday accused Israel of ‘kidnapping us in international waters and taking us against our will to Israel’ after security forces intercepted a boat carrying humanitarian aid bound for Gaza...
An Israeli strike killed a Lebanese man and his son Tuesday in a southern village, the Lebanese health ministry and state media said, the latest deaths despite a November ceasefire.
The UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway announced sanctions against two Israeli ministers on Tuesday for ‘repeated incitements of violence against Palestinian communities’, they said in a joint statement.
Israeli forces intercepted a Gaza-bound aid boat on Monday, preventing the activists on board -- including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg -- from reaching the blockaded Palestinian territory...
Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 36 Palestinians on Saturday, six of them in a shooting near a US-backed aid distribution centre...
Abeer Ghazzawi had little time to visit her two sons' graves for the Muslim holiday of Eid ul-Azha before Israeli soldiers cleared the cemetery near the refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on four judges at the International Criminal Court including over an arrest warrant for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as it ramped up pressure to neuter the court of last resort...
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...
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’.
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.
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...
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.
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 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 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 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...
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...
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...