Beirut, Lebanon — AFP Hezbollah launched more than 200 rockets at Israeli military positions on Thursday as Israel continued its attacks in Gaza. The Iran-backed resistance group said its latest attack, which followed the launch of over 100 small rockets the previous day, came in response to Israel’s killing of a senior Hezbollah c...
Palestinian Territories – AFP The Gaza civil defence agency said an Israeli air strike early on Tuesday killed 10 members of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh’s family, in an attack the Israeli military did not immediately confirm. The strike hit the Haniyeh family home in Al-Shati refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, said Mahmud Bas...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel is preparing to change the situation on its border with Lebanon but hopes there will be no need to do so, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said, referring to the army’s ongoing confrontations with the Lebanese Hezbollah group. Speaking to Israel’s Channel 14 about the possibility of a full-blown war with […]...
Palestinian Territories — AFP Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that “intense” fighting in the southern Gaza city of Rafah is nearly over, more than eight months into the devastating war on the occupied Gaza Strip. “The intense phase of the fighting against Hamas is about to end,” Netanyahu...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Hamas rejected a claim Friday about the ratio of civilian deaths to its fighters in the Gaza Strip made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling it a “lie and a contempt for global public opinion.” The Palestinian resistance group said Netanyahu seeks to “cover up the enormity of...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli military analyst Amos Harel says the army wants to withdraw from Gaza, but that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “has other ideas.” In an article in the Israeli daily Haaretz, Harel said Netanyahu “continues to declare that the all-out war against Hamas will continue for as long as it takes.” “HeR...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US should be withholding military aid to Israel in its ongoing war on Gaza, Senator Bernie Sanders has said. “The United States should be withholding all offensive military aid to Israel and using our leverage to demand an end to this war, the unfettered flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza, a […]
GAZA CITY / ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army on Monday burned down the departure hall on the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing, disconnecting Palestinians in the Gaza Strip from the outside world. The Israeli army also set fire to other facilities and buildings, according to an Anadolu correspondent. Several Palestinian social media a...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel continued its strike in Gaza on Monday and witnesses reported blasts in the besieged territory’s south. Witnesses told AFP they could hear blasts in the centre and west of the southernmost city of Rafah on Monday morning. Elsewhere in the Palestinian territory an AFP correspondent said strikes a...
Occupied Palestinian Territories- AFP Eight Israeli soldiers were killed in a blast in southern Gaza Saturday, the military said, in one of its heaviest losses of the war, as witnesses reported street battles between occupying troops and the Palestinian resistance. The military said the IDF soldiers were killed when the Namer armoured vehicle ...
