Displaced Palestinians among 13 killed in Israel strikes
Gaza civil defence agency said on Tuesday that at least 13 people, including some living in tents for displaced Palestinians, were killed in Israeli air strikes overnight.
Gaza civil defence agency said on Tuesday that at least 13 people, including some living in tents for displaced Palestinians, were killed in Israeli air strikes overnight.
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...
THE ongoing violence in Gaza has reached an alarming peak, with 93 more lives lost in the latest Israeli airstrikes on October 30. This brings the death toll past 43,000, a tragic number mostly comprising civilians and children, making it one of the deadliest periods in the region’s history. Each day, Gaza witnesses unimaginable destruction, and the...
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.
UN food agencies warned Thursday of deadly hunger levels in 16 ‘hunger hotspots’ in coming months, with the Palestinian territories, Sudan and South Sudan, Mali and Haiti of most concern.
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...
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...
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.
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:...
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...
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...
The World Health Organisation chief warned Saturday of a disastrous situation in the north of war-ravaged Gaza, with ‘intensive military operations unfolding around and within healthcare facilities’...
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...
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.
Gaza’s civil defence agency said Thursday more than 770 people have been killed in the north of the territory since Israel launched an assault aimed at preventing Hamas from regrouping there.
US secretary of state Antony Blinken said on Wednesday ‘now is the time’ to end the conflict in Gaza, and urged Israel to avoid further escalation with Iran.
I GET calls and emails from my old friends and editors of some of the newspapers and online portals who ask me if I am doing okay. When I tell them I am doing okay, they ask me why...
Protest crackdowns, banned marches, media workers at risk -- a UN expert on Friday accused Western nations and Israel of freedom of speech violations in the year since the Gaza war broke out.
Gaza’s civil defence agency said an Israeli strike on Friday night near Jabalia in the territory’s north killed 33 people at a refugee camp.
The one million children in Gaza are living a ‘hell on Earth’, the UN said on Friday, with around 40 children having been killed there every day over the past year.
Israel conducted raids on Gaza on Friday after killing Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
Some 3,45,000 Gazans face ‘catastrophic’ levels of hunger this winter after aid deliveries fell, a UN-backed assessment said Thursday, warning of the persistent risk of...
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned Wednesday of the risk of famine in Gaza, a day after the United States said Israel had been warned to improve...
Turkey’s foreign minister on Tuesday called for sanctions against Israel, urging the international community to cut support over the conflict in the Middle East.
The prestigious Bayeux War Correspondents’ Awards on Saturday honoured reporters from Agence France-Presse, the BBC and others documenting conflict and strife around the world...
Nicaragua on Friday announced plans to break off relations with Israel over the war in Gaza, calling the Israeli government ‘fascist and genocidal’...
Leaders from nine European countries around the Mediterranean Sea on Friday called at a summit in Cyprus for an end to fighting in Gaza and Lebanon.
Gaza’s civil defence agency Friday said at least 30 people have been killed by Israeli strikes throughout the day in northern Gaza’s Jabalia town and refugee camp amid intense...
Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan renewed his attacks on Israel as he arrived in Tirana Thursday, the first stop of a Balkans tour that will also take him to Serbia.
Rescuers in Gaza said Israel conducted a deadly air strike Thursday on a school housing families displaced by the war, though the Israeli military said it was a Hamas command centre.