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 […]
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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 […]
Turkey says it has carried out new airstrikes against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey has carried out a new round of airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in neighboring Iraq, the Turkish defense ministry said Monday. Warplanes struck suspected positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in the regions of Hakurk, Metina and Gara in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, according to the statement. The airstrikes […]
Officials say Israeli airstrikes in Gaza kill at least 22 people including baby
Palestinian health officials say Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza city of Rafah have killed at least 22, including six women and five children. One of the children killed in the strikes overnight into Monday was a newborn baby of only five days of age. “Everyone was sleeping in their beds,” said Mahmoud Abu Taha, whose […]
Officials say Israeli airstrikes in Gaza kill at least 22 people including baby
Palestinian health officials say Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza city of Rafah have killed at least 22, including six women and five children. One of the children killed in the strikes overnight into Monday was a newborn baby of only five days of age. “Everyone was sleeping in their beds,” said Mahmoud Abu Taha, whose […]
The Latest | Israeli airstrikes on Rafah kill at least 22 people, Palestinian health officials say
Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah have killed at least 22 people, including six women and five children, Palestinian health officials said. One of the children killed in the strikes overnight into Monday was just 5 days old. Israel has regularly carried out airstrikes on Rafah since the start of the war […]
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 […]
Biden and Netanyahu speak for 1st time since Israeli airstrikes killed 7 aid workers
President Biden spoke by phone Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the first conversation between the two leaders since Israeli airstrikes killed at least seven humanitarian aid workers in Gaza. The call comes at a time of growing U.S. disapproval of Israel’s handling of the war against Hamas fighters in Gaza that followed the […]
Biden and Netanyahu speak for first time since Israeli airstrikes killed seven aid workers
President Biden spoke by phone Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the first conversation between the two leaders since Israeli airstrikes killed at least seven humanitarian aid workers in Gaza. The call comes at a time of growing U.S. disapproval of Israel’s handling of the war against Hamas fighters in Gaza that followed the […]
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 […]