Israel serves 45-day closure order on Al Jazeera in West Bank after raid
Armed and masked Israeli forces raided the office of Al Jazeera in the occupied West Bank on Sunday and served a 45-day closure order on the global news channel.
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Israel military strikes launchers as Hezbollah fires 90 rockets
Israel鈥檚 military said its air force struck on Saturday thousands of rocket launchers in southern Lebanon that posed an 鈥榠mmediate鈥� threat, as fears grew of all-out war with Lebanese group Hezbollah...
Israel challenges ICC arrest request for Netanyahu
Israel said on Friday it had submitted an 鈥榦fficial challenge鈥� to a request from the International Criminal Court prosecutor for an arrest warrant against prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Saudi cools talk of Israel ties as war spreads
Just a year after announcing that diplomatic ties with Israel were getting closer, Saudi Arabia鈥檚 de facto leader has shut down talk of normalisation as the Israel-Hamas war...
Hezbollah in disarray after death of top commanders in Israeli strike
Hezbollah was in turmoil on Saturday after Israel took out two leaders of its elite operations unit in a strike on a command meeting in a Beirut stronghold that Lebanese authorities said killed 31 people....
Israeli strike on Gaza school kills 21
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency reported 21 killed in an Israeli strike on Saturday, the latest attack on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians where the...
UN members demands Israel ends occupation of Palestinian territories
UN member states voted Wednesday to formally demand an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories within 12 months and the imposition of sanctions for non-compliance.
Hezbollah reeling after second wave of deadly blasts
Israel said on Thursday it bombed Hezbollah sites in Lebanon, piling pressure on the militant group already reeling after a series of deadly explosions targeting its communications systems that it blamed on Israel...
Canada hits Hamas, Israeli settlers, Iran with new sanctions
Canada on Wednesday announced further sanctions against Hamas over its 鈥榓cts of terror鈥� and several Israeli settlers for 鈥榚xtremist violence鈥� against Palestinian...
New device blasts kill nine, wound 300 in Lebanon
A second wave of device explosions killed nine people and wounded more than 300 in Hezbollah strongholds of Lebanon in the Middle East on Wednesday, officials said, stoking fears of an all-out war in the region.
Israel widens focus of war to include Lebanon front
Israel announced the expansion of its war aims on Tuesday, widening its nearly year-long fight against Hamas in Gaza to focus on Hezbollah along its northern border with Lebanon...
Huthis missile hits central Israel in rare attack
A Yemeni rebel missile triggered a rush to shelters in central Israel on Sunday, a rare incident that caused no injuries but again added to regional tensions nearly a year into the Gaza war...
Israeli strike on Gaza school, houses kills 16
An Israeli air strike hit a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City on Saturday, with Palestinian rescuers reporting five dead and the Israeli military saying it had targeted Hamas militants...
Spain hosts meeting on Gaza war solution
Ministers from Muslim and European countries along with the European Union鈥檚 foreign affairs chief gathered Friday in Madrid to discuss how to advance a two-state solution to the...
Raided West Bank city holds funerals
The families of Palestinians killed in an air strike in the occupied West Bank city of Tubas held funerals on Friday after Israeli forces withdrew following their latest raid in the territory.
UN decries 鈥榮taggering鈥� economic devastation across Gaza, West Bank
Israel鈥檚 war against Hamas has decimated Gaza鈥檚 economy, shrinking it to less than one-sixth of its 2022 level, amid an 鈥榓larming decline鈥� in the West Bank, the...
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...
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...