Tag: airstrikes

Israeli Air Force says it launched airstrikes on Hezbollah position

The Israeli Air Force says it has once again attacked a position of the pro-Iranian Shiite Hezbollah militia in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah’s military infrastructure was attacked during the night, Israel’s army announced on Sunday morning. It was not stated whether there were any deaths or injuries. The information could not initially be independently verified. Since […]

Israeli troops push into Jabalia, airstrikes kill five in Rafah

By Nidal al-Mughrabi (Reuters) – Israeli forces thrust deeper into the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza on Tuesday, laying waste to residential districts with tank and air bombardments, residents said, while Israeli air strikes killed at least five people in the southern city of Rafah. Simultaneous Israeli assaults on the northern and southern edges of […]

Aid workers killed by Israeli airstrikes represented ‘best of humanity’

The seven World Central Kitchen aid workers killed by Israeli airstrikes represented the “best of humanity”, Jose Andres, the celebrity chef who founded the organisation, told mourners who gathered on Thursday to honour the dead. They risked everything “to feed people they did not know and will never meet”, he said. Speaking at the memorial […]

Pakistan, Iran vow to mend ties, enhance trade after airstrikes

Islamabad – Pakistani and Iranian leaders on Monday vowed to strengthen relations and enhance bilateral trade to $10 billion a year, leaving behind recent airstrikes against each other and ignoring possible new sanctions against the Persian republic. “We have agreed to enhance our bilateral trade volume to $10 billion (a year),” Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi […]

Germany’s Scholz wars of further escalation after Iran airstrikes

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has warned against “any further escalation” following the Iranian airstrikes on Israel. “Things must not continue in this way,” Scholz said on Sunday in the Chinese metropolis of Chongqing. “We will do everything we can to avoid further escalation.” Scholz once again strongly condemned the Iranian attack. “This is an absolutely […]

Paramedics among the 16 killed by Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon

Israeli airstrikes killed nine people in southern Lebanon late on Wednesday, including paramedics who were preparing to respond to the first strike, the state-run National News Agency said. That raises the number of people killed by Israeli strikes on Wednesday to 16, after an earlier attack hit a different paramedic centre linked to a Lebanese […]