Itamar Ben-Gvir, key Netanyahu governing partner, submits his resignation in opposition to Gaza ceasefire deal
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Itamar Ben-Gvir, key Netanyahu governing partner, submits his resignation in opposition to Gaza ceasefire deal.
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Itamar Ben-Gvir, key Netanyahu governing partner, submits his resignation in opposition to Gaza ceasefire deal.
More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a United Nations spokesperson has said.
Israel says it has begun preparations for the departure of Palestinians from Gaza despite widespread international rejection of President Donald Trump’s plan to empty the war-devastated territory of its population. There were no immediate signs of such preparations on the ground Thursday.
North Korean soldiers had been missing from combat, fueling speculation they were pulled back after taking heavy losses.
One of the last things Oran Almog saw was broken glass, blood and bodies after a suicide bombing in Israel rendered him blind when he was just 10 years old and killed 21 people, including his brother, father and grandparents. The man who planned the attack - Islamic Jihad militant leader Sami Jaradat - was released from an Israeli jail last month as part of a ceasefire deal to bring back Israeli hostages from Gaza and stop the fighting there. Almog, now 32, and many Israelis are struggling to reach acceptance that the deal involves the release of Palestinians convicted for deadly attacks in decades of violence between Israelis and Palestinians.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and Hamas are in the midst of a six-week ceasefire during which Hamas is releasing dozens of the hostages captured in its Oct. 7, 2023, attack in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
On her first official visit to Lebanon, US Deputy Special Envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus on Friday said the US had drawn a red line against Hezbollah's inclusion in a future Lebanese government. Prime minister-designate Nawaf Salam has struggled to form a government amid political pressure from Hezbollah and its allies. The United States has set a "red line" that Shi'ite armed group Hezbollah should not be a member of Lebanon's next government after its military setbacks against Israel
Hamas named the next three Israeli hostages it plans to release this weekend as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal with Israel. It was a sign that the first phase of the truce was moving forward as planned -- even as many observers fear that U.S. and Israeli plans to remove all the Palestinians from Gaza have imperiled the deal.
Trump's plans are likely to heighten fears among Palestinians in Gaza, which had a pre-war population of around 2.3 million, of being driven out of the coastal strip, and stoke concern in Arab states that have long worried about the destabilising impact of any such exodus. Palestinians have long been haunted by what they call the "Nakba", or catastrophe, when 700,000 of them were dispossessed from their homes during the war that surrounded the creation of Israel in 1948. Israel disputes the account that they were forced out.
Satellite images in Beit Hanoun, a city on the northeast of the Gaza Strip, show the Star of David etched into the ground of what previously looked like vibrant green fields and farmland in the now war-torn territory.While it is unclear exactly when the symbol appeared, satellite images of it date as far back as November 2023, according to Google Earth — one month after the Hamas-led attack on Israel. Palestinian defence and security analyst Hamzé Attar said the sheer size of the symbol, which a
In the heart of Khan Younis, surrounded by the relative quiet of the Gaza Strip under a ceasefire, Shireen Talaba removes cinder blocks from around a grave. She stands back as men start to dig, her anxiety palpable. Eventually, she takes a shovel and begins to dig herself. Over the course of the fifteen month Israel-Hamas war, the 37 year old buried her brother, Khaled, and her two cousins, Khalil and Ibrahim, in this temporary plot of land amidst the rubble of the city. After the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, Shireen and her brother were displaced from their home in Gaza City and ended up in Khan Younis. She says Khaled insisted that if he was killed during the war, he wanted to be buried near their deceased mother in Gaza City. She vowed that when the war ended, she would take the three men and bury them near their home. "We came [south] eight people, but sadly we will return as five," she told CBC freelance videographer Mohamed El Saife. "They were the most precious things in my life. My brother and both my cousins." WATCH | Bitter dismissal of Trump's Gaza plan as Palestinians return home to bury their dead: According to the Gaza Health Ministry, more than 47,000 Palestinians have been killed during the war in the Gaza Strip. But, in a January study published in medical journal The Lancet, researchers found that for the period between Oct 7, 2023, to June 30, 2024, the number of dead in Gaza was estimated to be 41 per cent higher than what the ministry was reporting. Shireen is not alone in her efforts to move the bodies of her loved ones. As the ceasefire continues, many families are taking the opportunity to retrieve bodies buried in haste during the war and give them proper burials in preferred locations. Bringing them homeKhaled was shot by a quadcopter in Khan Younis in June 2024, Shireen says, and was rushed to the European hospital in central Gaza. A Russian delegation of doctors performed surgery on his leg, but he died of his injuries a few days later on June 26. Ibrahim was with friends in Khan Younis when the house they were in was bombed in July 2024, and Khalil was killed in mid October near the Kerem Shalom border crossing near Rafah in south Gaza where he was looking for a job, Shireen says. Both died instantly. All three were buried in the field in Khan Younis that was donated for use as a temporary burial ground. As she prepared to leave her tent in Khan Younis, Shireen says she stayed in the area until now, waiting for the war to end so her people could go home to Gaza City. "We wanted to bring them home with us," she said. "Even if they're martyred and dead, they can be close to us if we want to visit." When the time came to move the three bodies from Khan Younis to Gaza City, Shireen, centre, asked for help removing them from their temporary burial site and transporting them on a small motorized cart so they could be buried in a proper cemetery. (Mohamed El Saife/CBC News)She helps place the bodies, now in new, white body bags, on the flatbed of the cart that will carry Khaled, Khalil and Ibrahim to their final resting place. She covers them with a brown blanket as the driver heads to Gaza City, which is about 25 kilometres north. Shireen says many told her that digging up the bodies didn't make sense because they had been dead for so long. But she was determined to fulfil Khaled's request and keep the boys close to their families. A final goodbyeAs the caravan arrives in Gaza City, a woman emerges from a building. She's here to say goodbye to her sons. Mona Talaba hadn't seen Khalil or Ibrahim in over a year — they went south during the war, but she stayed behind in Gaza City to wait it out in her home city.The 58-year-old matriarch lays a hand on the bodies as Shireen points out who is who. The mourning mother pats each body bag with her hand and says a prayer for the boys through tears. While her sons Khalil and Ibrahim were displaced to the south during the war, Mona Talaba decided to stay behind in Gaza City to wait out the fighting. She was there to greet their bodies when they were returned to her for burial. (Mohamed El Saife/CBC News)Other family members gather, and they make their way to the Sheikh Radwan cemetery in Gaza City. "We were on a mission that we waited almost the entire war to do," Shireen said of their plans to bring the bodies home. "I'm happy because I wanted them to be comfortable." Amid rubble and destroyed buildings, Shireen helps to carry three body bags to the grave. This is where their mother was buried and where the three men will be buried as well. They're laid to rest side by side as Shireen and her family look on in tears. After a moment, Shireen jumps in to help, adding water to the sand to make a paste that will close up the grave and shoveling some sand herself. Shireen Talaba and several family members help move the bodies of Khaled, Khalil and Ibrahim to their final resting place at Sheikh Radwan cemetery in Gaza City. All three were killed at different points in 2024 and buried at a temporary location in Khan Younis. (Mohamed El Saife/CBC News)When the job is done, she reflects on how things have turned out for her family and says she had hoped they would return to Gaza City the way they left — together. "But fate wouldn't have us return the same way," she said. "I felt at peace when I moved them to Gaza."
Volunteers from Bournemouth who working in Ukraine say Russian forces are targeting marked aid vehicles.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that North Korean soldiers "have been brought in again" to Russia's Kursk region after reports that the troops had been pulled from the front due to high casualties. Zelensky added that a "significant number" of opposing troops had been "destroyed". Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that North Korean troops were back on the front line in Russia's Kursk region, after reports Moscow had withdrawn them due to heavy losses.More than
Hamas identified three more Israeli hostages it plans to free as part of the fragile ceasefire agreement, a sign the deal was moving forward Friday even as U.S. and Israeli officials continued calls to relocate Gaza’s population after the war. The three men, captured by Hamas during its Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel, are set to be freed Saturday, in the fifth exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinians jailed in Israel.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's defence ministry said its troops repelled a Ukrainian counteroffensive in Russia's western Kursk region on Thursday. The Russian report came six months to the day since Ukraine's military pushed across the border into the Kursk region, the biggest foreign attack on Russia since World War Two. Russia's defence ministry said Ukrainian troops and armoured vehicles launched eight waves of attacks near the villages of Ulanok and Cherkasskaya Konopelka.
After Trump came the flood. Heavy wind and rainfall howled across the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Thursday, a winter storm flooding tents housing displaced families and ripping off the plastic sheeting that sealed homes. Yet residents said U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement of plans to seize the enclave and expel them had only made them more determined to stay.
Most of Gaza’s olive trees, citrus trees and greenhouses have been destroyed.
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Armed assailants in western Niger killed at least 10 soldiers in an ambush on a military unit that had been sent to hunt cattle rustlers in a border region near Burkina Faso, Niger’s ruling junta said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with influential members of Congress on Capitol Hill on Thursday to discuss proposals addressing the Gaza Strip as a cease-fire continues between Israel and Hamas.
An Israeli soldier who was found to have struck Palestinian detainees while they were restrained and blindfolded has been sentenced to seven months in jail by an Israeli military court. The Israeli military on Thursday announced the court had accepted a plea agreement with the soldier, a reservist who it said admitted to having "severely abused" Palestinian detainees at the Sde Teiman military detention centre near the border with the Gaza Strip. "The defendant was convicted of several incidents in which he struck detainees with his fists and his weapon while they were bound and blindfolded," the military said.
GOMA, Congo (AP) — The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured a major city in eastern Congo sought to reassure its residents on Thursday, holding a rally at the city stadium and promising safety and stability in Goma under the their administration.