Clashes erupted on Monday between pro-Palestinian university students and riot police outside the Egyptian embassy in Beirut. Dozens of university students gathered outside the embassy, holding Palestinian flags and calling on the Egyptian government to open the Rafah border crossing and allow humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip.
Russian troops are being used in head-on assaults on Ukrainian positions.
On Sunday evening, gunmen attacked two Orthodox churches and two synagogues in Russia's Dagestan region, killing around 20 people.
The Iran-backed rebels have seen a string of successful attacks this month, striking a number of commercial vessels and even sinking one of them.
Rescued Israeli hostage Noa Argamani has spoken out about her ordeal publicly for the first time since her rescue, saying in a video message that her biggest concern during captivity was for her parents.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on Saturday that Iran's message of an "obliterating war" made it worthy of destruction. "A regime that threatens destruction deserves to be destroyed," Katz said in a post on X. He also said Israel will act with full force against Iran-backed Hezbollah if it does not stop firing at Israel from Lebanon and move away from the border. Iran's UN mission said on Friday that if Israel embarks on a "full-scale military aggression" in Lebanon, "an obliterating war will ensue."
Stationed at the Nahal Oz IDF base, less than half a mile from Gaza, they were known as "the eyes of the military"-- monitoring hundreds of surveillance cameras overlooking the border, 24/7. "It felt like something out of the ordinary was about to happen," said Roni Lifshitz, an observation soldier who was part of Unit 414 but happened to be away at a training on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas launched a surprise terrorist attack on Israel. Lifshitz said she risks serious consequences in speaking to a news organization.
The Ukrainian president says more missiles and air defences are needed after a Russian strike kills seven.
A senior Palestinian official rejected on Friday a move by Israel's finance minister intended to promote new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, saying it was aimed at pursuing a "war of genocide" against Palestinians. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Thursday the Israeli government would also take punitive steps against the Palestinian Authority in response to Palestinian moves against Israel internationally.
The Biden administration has sent to Israel large numbers of munitions, including more than 10,000 highly destructive 2,000-pound bombs and thousands of Hellfire missiles, since the start of the war in Gaza, said two U.S. officials briefed on an updated list of weapons shipments. Between the war's start last October and recent days, the United States has transferred at least 14,000 of the MK-84 2,000-pound bombs, 6,500 500-pound bombs, 3,000 Hellfire precision-guided air-to-ground missiles, 1,000 bunker-buster bombs, 2,600 air-dropped small-diameter bombs, and other munitions, according to the officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly.
A police officer at the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade was shot in the neck with a crossbow in an attack on Saturday in a suspected terror attack, CNN affiliate N1 reported.
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — An attacker with a crossbow wounded a Serbian police officer guarding the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade on Saturday, Serbia’s Interior Ministry said. The officer responded by fatally shooting the assailant.
The United States has proposed new language to bridge gaps in discussions for a deal between Israel and Hamas, a senior US administration official said Friday.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Humanitarian workers have started moving tons of aid that piled up at a United States-built pier off the Gaza coast to warehouses in the besieged territory, the United Nations said Saturday, an important step as the U.S. considers whether to resume pier operations after yet another pause due to heavy seas.
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What happened to the violent jihadist group which was once one of the biggest threats in the world.
Thousands gathered in Tel Aviv on Saturday protesting against the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, demanding new elections and a deal to release the hostages still in captivity in Gaza. The protesters lit fires and flares as police tried to control the demonstration. (AP video shot by: Shlomo Mor)
Ibrahim Kamau was the first victim of recent protests in Kenya to be buried in a Muslim ceremony that was attended by hundreds. His parents said he died "fighting for the whole of Kenya.” Human rights groups have accused police of brutality and killings during the protests. (AP video/Jackson Njehia)
BAGHDAD (AP) — A decade after the Islamic State militant group declared its caliphate in large parts of Iraq and Syria, the extremists no longer control any land, have lost many prominent leaders and are mostly out of the world news headlines.
Three weeks after Israeli commandoes freed her and three other hostages, Noa Argamani breaks her silence begging the world not to forget the remaining hostages.
Israel on Saturday struck Hezbollah targets in Lebanon in response to the militant group's airstrikes along the Israeli-Lebanese border.
