Tag: Israel-Hamas
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UN rapporteur calls for global action to stop ‘genocide’ in Gaza
The United Nations’ special rapporteur for Gaza and the West Bank said yesterday [Macau time] that it’s time for nations around the world to take concrete ... -
Mediators work on proposal for long-term truce as Israeli strike on Gaza kills 23
Arab mediators are working on a proposal to end the Israel-Hamas war that would include a five to seven year truce and the release of all remaining hostages, ... -
Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli crowds rally across the world
Crowds were participating in pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protests and memorial events across Europe, North Africa and Asia on Sunday on the eve of the first anniversary ... -
Strikes in central Gaza kill 20 Palestinians as mediators make new push on cease-fire deal
Israeli airstrikes early yesterday killed 20 Palestinians in central Gaza, including six children and three women, some of them inside a purported “safe zone” declared by ... -
War crimes prosecutor seeks arrest of Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Netanyahu
The chief prosecutor of the world’s top war crimes court sought arrest warrants yesterday [Macau time] for leaders of Israel and Hamas, including Israeli Prime Minister ... -
UN’s top court opens hearings on the Israeli military’s incursion into Rafah
South Africa told the United Nations’ top court yesterday the situation in Gaza has reached “a new and horrific stage” as it sought emergency measures to ... -
Hamas is reviewing an Israeli proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza, as a planned Rafah offensive looms
Hamas said Saturday it was reviewing a new Israeli proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza, as Egypt intensified efforts to broker a deal to end the ... -
Israel says Iran launched more than 300 drones and missiles, 99% of which were intercepted
Booms and air raid sirens sounded across Israel early yesterday after Iran launched hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles in an unprecedented revenge mission ... -
Worst-ever Israel-Hamas combat as Russian attacks on Ukraine grind on
A boy, his face coated in fresh blood, screams as rescuers try to pull him out of the rubble of a destroyed building following an Israeli ... -
Truce extended another day but talks could get tougher
Israel and Hamas agreed yesterday to extend their cease-fire by another day, just minutes before it was set to expire. Any further renewal of the truce ... -
China, Iran, Arab nations condemn Israeli minister’s statement about dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza
China, Iran and a multitude of Arab nations condemned an Israeli minister’s statement that a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip was an option in the ... -
Blinken wraps up frantic Mideast tour with tepid, if any, support for pauses in Gaza fighting
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was wrapping up a grueling Middle East diplomatic tour yesterday in Turkey after only limited success in his furious efforts ... -
Blinken meets Palestinian leader in West Bank, stepping up Mideast diplomacy as Gaza war escalates
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken brought his frenetic Mideast diplomatic push on the Israel-Hamas war to the occupied West Ban yesterday, meeting with Palestinian President ... -
Gaza’s communications cut again for hours, as foreigners, wounded prepare to exit
Gaza was plunged into another communications blackout yesterday, with internet and phone service cut for several hours as Israeli troops battled Hamas militants. Meanwhile, dozens of ... -
Thousands break into UN aid warehouses in Gaza in a sign of growing desperation
Thousands of people broke into aid warehouses in Gaza to take food and “basic survival items,” a U.N. agency said yesterday, in a mark of growing ... -
Fearing airstrikes, Palestinians in Gaza defy Israeli evacuation orders
Mahmoud Shalabi did not evacuate his home in northern Gaza despite the frightful Israeli warnings of a looming, far more brutal assault to come as it ... -
War Israel increases strikes on Gaza, as two more hostages are freed
Israel escalated its bombardment of targets in the Gaza Strip, the military said yesterday, ahead of an expected ground invasion against Hamas militants that the U.S. ... -
Israel strikes Gaza, Syria and West Bank as war against Hamas threatens to ignite other fronts
Israeli warplanes struck targets across Gaza overnight and into Sunday, as well as two airports in Syria and a mosque in the occupied West Bank allegedly ... -
French intelligence points to Palestinian rocket, not Israeli airstrike, for Gaza hospital blast
An assessment by French military intelligence indicates the most likely cause of the deadly explosion at Gaza City’s al-Ahli hospital was a Palestinian rocket that carried ...
