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Israeli Army fire kills Palestinian teen in West Bank

admin — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:09:00 +0000

According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, the Israeli Army was carrying out “a wide-scale search operation targeting several homes”. File.
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Israeli forces killed a 17-year-old Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Thursday (April 16, 2026), according to Palestinian officials, as the Israeli military said its troops had “neutralised a terrorist”.

Mohammed Murad Mahmud Rayan was “killed by the (Israeli) occupation forces on Thursday morning in Beit Duqqu”, a village just north of Jerusalem, the Ramallah-based Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement.

Published – April 16, 2026 11:39 pm IST

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Israeli hit in Palestinian territory kills 4: Gaza civil defence agency

admin — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:59:00 +0000

Palestinians inspect the site of what medics said was an Israeli airstrike on a car near the entrance to Zawayda town in the central Gaza Strip, April 4, 2026.
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Gaza’s civil defence agency and a hospital reported that an Israeli strike in the Palestinian territory on Sunday (April 5, 2026) killed four people, while the military said it had struck a “terrorist cell”.

The attack took place before dawn in an eastern neighbourhood of Gaza City, the territory’s largest urban area, said the civil defence agency, which operates as a rescue force under Hamas.

“An Israeli airstrike before dawn killed four and wounded several,” it reported.

Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital confirmed the toll, saying the strike was carried out by an Israeli drone.

“Four martyrs and five wounded arrived at the hospital this morning after an Israeli drone fired two missiles at a group of civilians,” the hospital said in a statement.

Israel’s military said it had “identified a terrorist cell that operated adjacent to the troops, posing an immediate threat to them”.

“Following the identification, the IDF precisely struck and eliminated the terrorist cell in order to remove the threat,” the military said, without specifying how many people were killed.

Despite a ceasefire being in effect, Israel has continued to launch strikes across Gaza, killing at least 715 people since the truce took hold on October 10, according to a toll from the territory’s health ministry, which also operates under Hamas authority.

The United Nations considers the Ministry’s figures to be reliable. Israel says five of its soldiers have been killed since the start of the truce.

Media restrictions and limited access in Gaza have prevented AFP from independently verifying casualty figures or freely covering the fighting.

Published – April 05, 2026 11:29 pm IST

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Israel-Hamas war, Day 19 LIVE updates | Israeli drone strikes Palestinians during West Bank raid, military says

admin — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 01:25:01 +0000

Israel calls for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ resignation after his remarks angered Israel, accusing him of “tolerating and justifying” terrorism

October 25, 2023 06:55 am | Updated 06:55 am IST

A man helps a woman while another carries a girl as they arrive for treatment after Israeli bombardment at Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 24, 2023 amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas.
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Rapidly expanding Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip has killed more than 700 people in the past day as medical facilities across the territory were forced to close because of bombing damage and a lack of power, health officials said on Tuesday.

The soaring death toll from Israel’s escalating bombardment was unprecedented in the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It could signal an even greater loss of life in Gaza once Israeli ground forces backed by tanks and artillery launch an expected offensive into the territory aimed at crushing Hamas.

On Tuesday, Israel said it had launched 400 airstrikes over the past day, killing Hamas commanders, hitting militants as they were preparing to launch rockets into Israel and striking command centres and a Hamas tunnel shaft.

While the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues, Israel’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Eli Cohen, who participated in a Security Council ministerial meeting on the Israel-Gaza situation in United Nations, cancelled his meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and called for his resignation after his remarks angered Israel, accusing him of “tolerating and justifying” terrorism.

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Addressing the council, Mr. Guterres said the situation in the Middle East is growing more dire by the hour and the war in Gaza is raging and risks spiralling throughout the region. The U.N. chief said it is “important to also recognise the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation”.

Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been under increasing bombardment and running out of food, water and medicine since Israel sealed off the territory following the devastating October 7 attack by Hamas militants on towns in southern Israel.

Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry said the attacks killed at least 704 people over the past day, including 305 children and 173 women. More than 5,700 Palestinians have been killed in the war, including some 2,300 minors, the ministry said, without giving a detailed breakdown.

(With inputs from agencies)

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October 25, 2023 06:55

Israeli drone strikes Palestinians during West Bank raid, military says

Israeli forces on a raid in the occupied West Bank early on Wednesday came under fire by a group of Palestinians whom the military then targeted with a drone strike, the Israeli military said.

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