DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — 22 people have been killed after Israel targeted a school in the south of Gaza City, Gaza Health Ministry says.
Palestinians and aid groups suspect Israel is gradually adopting a new tactic known as the "Generals’ Plan", writes Jeremy Bowen.
BEIRUT (AP) — Since Israel launched its ground invasion of Lebanon, Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants have clashed along the border while the Lebanese army has largely stood on the sidelines.
The U.S. is sending a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery to Israel, along with US troops to operate it. The Pentagon made the announcement just hours after Iran warned the U.S. to keep its military forces out of Israel.
Martinique’s airport briefly shuts down as violent protesters overrun tarmac
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is examining a plan to seal off humanitarian aid to northern Gaza in an attempt to starve out Hamas militants, a plan that, if implemented, could trap without food or water hundreds of thousands of Palestinians unwilling or unable to leave their homes.
Ireland, France and Sri Lanka are among the other co-signatories to the statement.
For the first time in almost half a century, Israel is at war during the Jewish day of atonement, Yom Kippur. Religious observant Jews are at home. In Gaza, Israel has launched a ground offensive in recent days in the same place for the third time.
The reality on the ground indicates Israel may be preparing for the possibility of a much bigger war against Hezbollah in Lebanon. If so, the fight could get bloody.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli rescue services said almost 40 people were wounded in a drone strike in the central city of Binyamina on Sunday, three of them critically. The Hezbollah militant group was blamed for one of the most serious strikes to land in Israel in a year of war.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli strike on the central Gaza Strip has killed a family of eight, Palestinian medical officials said Sunday, as Israeli forces battled Palestinian militants and pushed for the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people from the territory's north.
The Israeli PM tells Unifil to get its troops "out of harm's way" after five were injured.
Kyiv's human rights ombudsman has written to the UN, after reports that Russia executed Ukrainian PoWs.
The UN said a peacekeeper in the city of Naquora was injured on Friday amid "military activity" nearby.
BEIRUT (AP) — The U.N. peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon said that Israeli tanks “forcibly entered” one of their positions early Sunday, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded they leave the area.
Taoiseach Simon Harris has described Israel’s attack on peacekeepers a breach of international law.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hundreds of passengers were stranded in the French Caribbean island of Martinique on Friday after its airport was briefly forced to close because protesters overran the tarmac and tried to break in, the airport and local authorities said.
The Israeli military on Saturday renewed its orders for Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip to leave their homes and shelters as troops continue a weeklong offensive against militants.
Forty nations that contribute to the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon said in a statement on Saturday that they “strongly condemn recent attacks” on the peacekeepers. “Such actions must stop immediately,” said the joint statement, posted on X. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said Saturday that gunfire from an unknown source a day earlier had hit one of its peacekeepers, the fifth wounded in south Lebanon in just two days. Read our blog on the day’s developments in the Middle
Upto forty nations that contribute to the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon have declared they "strongly condemn recent attacks" on peacekeepers by Israeli forces. In a joint statement released on social media platform X on Saturday, UNIFIL nations – including France – said: "Such actions must stop immediately and should be adequately investigated". The statement was posted by the Polish UN mission and signed by nations including leading contributors Indonesia, Italy and India.Other signatories i
Israel has been at war with the Gaza-based militant group Hamas since last October after it launched an attack on southern Israel that killed 1,200 people. More recently a new front has opened up in Lebanon where the IDF launched a ground operation on 30 September.View on euronews
