A leading antisemitism watchdog on Monday filed a lawsuit in US federal court on behalf of more than 100 victims of the October 7 terrorist attack in Israel, and their families, accusing Iran, Syria and North Korea of providing material support to Hamas. If successful, the lawsuit, filed in the US District Court in Washington, […]
Israel released the director of Gaza’s main hospital on Monday, after holding him for seven months without charge or trial over allegations the facility had been used as a Hamas command centre. He said he and other detainees were held under harsh conditions and tortured. The decision to release Mohammed Abu Selmia, apparently taken in […]
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel released the director of Gaza’s main hospital on Monday, seven months after the military raided the facility over allegations it was being used as a Hamas command center. The release of Mohammed Abu Selmia without charge or trial raised further questions about Israel’s allegations regarding Shifa Hospital, which […]
The Israeli armed forces continued their offensive in Shejaiya, a neighbourhood in the east of the city of Gaza, on Sunday. Over the past few days, the troops have eliminated several fighters from the Palestinian Islamist Hamas militia, found weapons and carried out targeted attacks on booby-trapped fighting positions, the Israeli army announced on Sunday […]
The European Union hit two extremist Palestinian Islamist groups, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), with new sanctions on Friday. Three companies and six people have been targeted with punitive measures for financing the two groups and “enabling their violent actions.” New sanctions apply to Zuheir Shamlakh, who according to the EU, is a money […]
Roba Abu Jibba looked shell-shocked as the doctor delivered his news: She couldn’t have the operation she desperately wanted. She nervously scrunched the fabric of her dress, fighting off the tears that began flooding her one remaining eye. The 19-year-old Palestinian woman had pinned all her hopes on getting a prosthetic eye after suffering life-changing […]
The sister of Ismail Haniyeh, a Hamas political leader, has become his latest family member to be killed in an Israeli strike, the terror group said. Zahr died along with her husband and children overnight on Monday in an attack on Beach Camp, north of Gaza City. Basem Naim, the Hamas spokesman, said it took […]
The parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a 23-year-old Israeli American who was kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, said Monday that newly released video of his abduction should serve as a “call of action” to do everything possible to free the remaining hostages. “That’s our son,” Jon Polin told NBC News’ Matt Bradley in Jerusalem. “I […]
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – The United Nations Palestinian refugee agency was sued on Monday by dozens of Israelis who accused it of aiding and abetting the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel. In a complaint filed with the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the plaintiffs said the United Nations Relief and Works […]
STORY: :: ISRAELI CHANNEL 14 :: Israel’s Netanyahu says ‘intense fighting’ with Hamas is ending, but war will go on Channel 14 Host: “I mean it’s within a month?” Netanyahu: “The end of the phase of intense fighting?” Channel 14 Host: “Yes, is it up to a month?” Netanyahu: “Very soon.” :: June 23, 2024 […]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the phase of intense fighting against Hamas was coming to an end but that the war would not end until the Islamist group no longer controls the Gaza Strip. Once the intense fighting is over in Gaza, Netanyahu said, it will allow Israel […]
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears increasingly at odds with both the U.S. government and his own military over his handling of the war in Gaza, and the divisions come amid mounting concern that another front in the war, with serious implications for U.S. forces in the region, could open up. A fracture appeared in […]