Tag: ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR
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Iran Revolutionary Guard general died in Israeli strike that killed Hezbollah leader, reports say
A prominent general in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard died in an Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Iranian media reported Saturday. The killing of ... -
Top UN court will hold hearings in a case accusing Germany of facilitating Gaza conflict
Preliminary hearings open today at the United Nations’ top court in a case that seeks an end of German military and other aid to Israel, based ... -
Israeli strikes kill 13 in a southern Gaza town that could be the next target
Israeli airstrikes killed over a dozen people overnight and into yesterday in Rafah in the Gaza Strip, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected Hamas’ cease-fire ... -
Israel notes ‘significant gaps’ after cease-fire talks but says constructive
Israel said “significant gaps” remain after cease-fire talks yesterday [Macau time] with the United States, Qatar and Egypt but called them constructive and said they would ... -
UN chief calls on countries to resume funding Gaza aid agency after allegations of militant ties
The secretary-general of the United Nations yesterday called on countries to continue funding the main agency providing aid in Gaza after several of its employees were ... -
Palestinian death toll in Gaza surpasses 25,000 with no end in sight to war
The Palestinian death toll from the war between Israel and Hamas has soared past 25,000, the Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip said yesterday, while the ... -
UN humanitarian chief calls Gaza ‘uninhabitable’ 3 months into war
The U.N. humanitarian chief described Gaza on Friday as “uninhabitable” three months into Israel’s war with Hamas, warning that famine was looming and a public health ... -
UN appoints a former Dutch deputy premier and Mideast expert as its Gaza humanitarian coordinator
Sigrid Kaag, the Netherlands’ former deputy prime minister and a Mideast expert, was appointed the U.N. coordinator for humanitarian aid to war-torn Gaza, the United Nations ... -
US envoys work for new hostage release deal and a scale-down hostilities
The head of the CIA jetted to Europe for talks with Israeli and Qatari officials yesterday [Macau time], sounding out the potential for a deal on ... -
US defense secretary expected to press for a more targeted approach in Gaza
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was expected to press Israel to wind down major combat operations in Gaza on a visit today [Macau time], in the ... -
Israel vows to fight on despite deadly ambush, rising international pressure
Israel has vowed to keep fighting in Gaza until it crushes Hamas after one of the deadliest single battles of the war for its soldiers, even ... -
Heavy fighting across Gaza as Israel presses ahead with renewed US military and diplomatic support
Heavy fighting raged overnight and into Sunday across Gaza, including in the devastated north, as Israel pressed ahead with its offensive after the U.S. blocked the ... -
Israel widens evacuation orders as it shifts its offensive to southern Gaza
Israel’s military yesterday ordered more areas in and around Gaza’s second-largest city of Khan Younis to evacuate, as it shifted its offensive to the southern half ... -
Fake babies, real horror: Deepfakes from the Gaza war increase fears about AI’s power to mislead
Among images of the bombed out homes and ravaged streets of Gaza, some stood out for the utter horror: Bloodied, abandoned infants. -
Israel, Hamas extend their truce, but it seems a matter of time before war resumes
A truce between Israel and Hamas entered its fifth day yesterday, with the militant group promising to release more civilian hostages to delay the expected resumption of ... -
Gaza truce is back on track after hourslong delay in hostage-for-prisoner swap
The tense cease-fire between Israel and Hamas appeared to be back on track yesterday after the release of a second group of militant-held hostages and Palestinians ... -
Truce deal for hostage release hits last-minute snag, expected to start today
An agreement for a four-day cease-fire in Gaza and the release of dozens of Hamas-held hostages and Palestinians imprisoned by Israel appeared to have hit a ... -
Truce deal set to free hostages in swap, raising hopes of halting worst Mideast violence in decades
Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement for a four-day halt to the devastating war in Gaza, accompanied by the release of dozens of hostages held ... -
Timing for the Israel-Hamas pause in fighting to be announced in the next 24 hours
A cease-fire agreement between the Hamas militant group and Israel has been confirmed by both parties, along with Washington and Qatar, which helped broker the deal that ... -
Cease-fire: Hamas officials say hostage agreement could be reached soon
Senior Hamas officials said today (Tuesday) that an agreement could be reached soon in which the militant group would release hostages and Israel would free Palestinian ... -
Yemen’s Houthi rebels hijack Israeli-linked ship in the Red Sea, take 25 hostages
Yemen’s Houthi rebels seized an Israeli-linked cargo ship in a crucial Red Sea shipping route yesterday [Macau time] and took its 25 crew members hostage, officials ... -
Heavy fighting breaks out around another Gaza hospital as babies evacuated to Egypt
Heavy fighting erupted around a hospital in northern Gaza where thousands of patients and displaced people have been sheltering for weeks, as Israel pressed an offensive it says ... -
UN team says 32 babies are among scores of critically ill patients stranded in Gaza’s main hospital
A United Nations team said yesterday that 291 patients were left at Gaza’s largest hospital after Israeli troops had others evacuate. Those left included 32 babies ... -
Wider offensive possible in Gaza’s south, where hundreds of thousands have fled
Israeli forces dropped leaflets warning Palestinians to flee parts of southern Gaza, residents said yesterday, signaling a possible expansion of their offensive to areas where hundreds ... -
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 ... -
Israel-Hamas war crowds crisis-heavy agenda as foreign ministers meet in Japan
Fresh from a whirlwind tour of the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shifted his intense diplomacy on the Israel-Hamas war to Asia yesterday, ... -
Jewish man dies after confrontation during pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian rallies
A Jewish man in California has died after getting into a confrontation during dueling protests over the Israel-Hamas war, authorities said. Paul Kessler, 69, died at ... -
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 ...
