Gaza rescuers say 18 killed in Israeli strike on school
Israel bombed a school housing displaced Palestinians in central Gaza, which rescuers said killed 18 people, including UN staffers, while the Israeli army said it hit a Hamas control centre...
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Canada recently blocked weapons sales to Israel: FM
Canada has suspended some 30 permits for arms shipments to Israel, including a rare move against a US company鈥檚 Canadian subsdiary鈥檚 deal with the US government, the foreign minister said Tuesday...
Israeli strike kills 40 in humanitarian zone in Gaza
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said an Israeli strike on Tuesday on a humanitarian zone in the Palestinian territory killed 40 people, with the Israeli army saying it had targeted a...
Israeli strikes on Syria kill 16
Syrian state media said on Monday that overnight Israeli strikes killed 16 people in central Hama province, while a war monitor reported a higher death toll in the 鈥榠ntense鈥� raids on military sites...
Family demands probe into Israeli killing of American
The family of a Turkish-American woman shot dead while demonstrating against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank demanded an independent investigation into her death on Saturday, accusing the Israeli military of killing her 鈥榲iolently鈥�...
Gaza war in its 12th month with truce hopes slim
The war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza entered its 12 month Saturday with little sign of respite for the Palestinian territory or hope for Israeli hostages still held captive...
Israeli troops leave Jenin with Gaza talks deadlocked
Israeli forces appeared to be winding down a deadly 10-day raid in a flashpoint city in the occupied West Bank on Friday, as key ally Germany warned against treating the territory like Gaza.
Testing the boundaries for ethnic cleansing in West Bank
THERE is a pretence of novelty in Israel鈥檚 most recent offensive in the West Bank, which it has glibly called 鈥極peration Summer Camps.鈥� Even before it began, Israel announced that the operation was...
Netanyahu trying to thwart Gaza truce: Hamas
Hamas on Thursday accused Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to 鈥榯hwart鈥� a Gaza truce deal, after the Israeli premier said the Palestinian militant group has 鈥榬ejected everything鈥� in negotiations...
Evolution of Zionist aggression
THE most significant recent escalation in the ongoing Zionist real estate project, enabled by apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian people, occurred on October 7, 2023, when Hamas fighters broke through Gaza鈥檚 prison fence, carrying out a bloody incursion on Israeli military installations and border towns. Since, the Israel 鈥楧efence鈥� Forces have...
Time for a Gaza truce deal: US
The United States said on Tuesday it was time to 鈥榝inalise鈥� a deal between Israel and Hamas to end the Gaza war, after Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu鈥檚 refusal to bow to pressure...
Starmer defends Israel arms suspension as 鈥榣egal decision鈥�
UK prime minister Keir Starmer defended on Wednesday his government鈥檚 partial suspension of arms exports to Israel over fears they could be used in a breach of humanitarian law as 鈥榓 legal decision鈥�...
Arms embargo on Israel is not a radical idea, it鈥檚 the law
AS ISRAEL launches its largest military assault in the West Bank in twenty years, I cannot stop thinking about the people I met in the occupied territory. I think of the mother in Jenin who was on the phone with her two sons seconds before their house was burned in an Israeli raid. I think of the wife of a man who was being held in an Israeli prison without...
Israelis go on strike for Gaza deal after hostage deaths
Strike action brought parts of Israel to a halt on Monday in a bid to raise pressure on the government to secure the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza, after the military recovered the bodies of six captives that the health ministry said had been 鈥榤urdered鈥� by Hamas...
Israel recovers hostage bodies from Gaza
Israel announced Sunday its troops had found six dead hostages in a Gaza tunnel, as Israeli police said a 鈥榮hooting attack鈥� in the occupied West Bank killed three officers...
Israeli troops on day four of deadly West Bank raid
Israel pressed on with a large-scale military operation in the occupied West Bank against Palestinian militants for a fourth day Saturday, as fierce fighting raged in the nearly 11-month Gaza war...
Death toll rises as Israeli West Bank raids enter second day
The death toll climbed on Thursday as Israel pressed a large-scale military operation in the occupied West Bank for a second day, despite UN concerns it is 鈥榝uelling an already explosive situation鈥�...
Gaza death toll rises to 40,476
The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Tuesday that at least 40,476 people have been killed in the war between Israel and Palestinian militants, now in its 11th month...
Israel strikes Gaza after Lebanon flare-up
Israel鈥檚 military struck the Gaza Strip on Monday a day after truce talks in Cairo coincided with a major but brief cross-border escalation involving Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon...
Israel strikes Lebanon
Israel launched air strikes into Lebanon on Sunday, saying that it had thwarted a large-scale Hezbollah attack, while the Lebanese group announced its own cross-border raids to avenge a top commander鈥檚 killing...
3 die as Israeli strikes south Lebanon
Lebanon鈥檚 health ministry said three people were killed Sunday in Israeli raids in the country鈥檚 south.
Gaza talks set to resume in Cairo as fighting rages
Negotiators geared up for a crucial weekend of Gaza ceasefire talks Saturday, as Hamas said it was sending delegates to Cairo but would not participate in the discussions, and fighting raged in the Palestinian territory....
Border corridor becomes sticking point in Gaza truce talks
A narrow stretch of land along the Gaza Strip鈥檚 border with Egypt has emerged as the main stumbling block in negotiations for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Israel strikes on Lebanon kill 7
Lebanon鈥檚 health ministry said on Friday Israeli strikes killed seven people including a child in different parts of the south, with Hezbollah saying three of its fighters were...
Proliferating evacuation orders sow chaos, confusion in Gaza
The Israeli military has issued so many evacuation orders in 10 months of war that many Gaza civilians no longer heed them, despairing of finding space or safety in the...
Ceasefire hopes fade as Gaza fighting rages
Hopes were dwindling on Thursday for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, where fighting raged despite pressure from the United States on Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas to reach an agreement...
Israel kills top Fatah commander
Israel killed a senior commander from Fatah鈥檚 armed wing on Wednesday in a strike on Lebanon, leading to accusations from the Palestinian movement that Israel is trying to 鈥榠gnite a regional war鈥�...
12 killed in Israeli strike on Gaza school shelter
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said an Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter killed at least 12 people on Tuesday, while the Israeli military said it struck a Hamas command centre...
Gaza protesters breach Democratic convention fence in Chicago
Protesters against Israel鈥檚 war in Gaza briefly breached the outer security fence of the Democratic convention in Chicago on Monday, hours before US president Joe Biden passed the torch to...
Thou shalt not commit genocide
THERE is only one way to end the ongoing genocide in Gaza. It is not through bilateral negotiations. Israel has amply demonstrated, including with the assassination of the lead Hamas negotiator, Ismail Haniyeh, that it has no interest in a permanent ceasefire...