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“Now Is The Time” To End Gaza War, Says US Secretary Of State Antony Blinken

October 23, 2024 admin

Israel: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday “now is the time” to end the conflict in Gaza, and urged Israel to avoid further escalation with Iran. Israel is fighting Iran-backed Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and has pledged to hit back against Iran’s October 1 missile strike. In Lebanon, state…

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Gaza war, settler attacks ruin Palestinian olive harvest

October 21, 2024 admin

After a year of relentless war, Gaza’s olive harvest is set to suffer, while in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian farmers fear to tend their groves due to settler attacks. For generations, olive harvests have been central to Palestinian life and culture. “We are happy that the olive season has started but we are afraid…

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Israel-Hamas war: Freedom of expression threatened more seriously in Gaza than in any recent conflict, says UN expert

October 19, 2024 admin

Palestinians perform Friday prayers at the ruins of a mosque destroyed in the Israeli military offensive, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, October 18, 2024. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Freedom of expression has been threatened more seriously in Gaza than in…

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Iran’s cyber attacks against Israel surged since Gaza war: report

October 16, 2024 admin

Iran launched numerous social media operations to destabilise Israel, Microsoft said in a report. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Israel has become the top target of Iranian cyber attacks since the start of the Gaza war last year, while Tehran had focused primarily on the United States before the conflict, Microsoft said on Tuesday. “Following the…

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U.S. spent $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since last October 7: study

October 8, 2024 admin

U.S. spent .9 billion on military aid to Israel since last October 7: study

The United States has spent a record of at least $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since the war on Gaza began and led to escalating conflict around West Asia, according to a report for Brown University’s Costs of War project, released on Monday on the anniversary of Hamas’s attacks on Israel. An additional…

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‘Exhausted’ Gazans After 1 Year Of War

October 7, 2024 admin

Palestinian Territories: One year after Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel unleashed war in Gaza, the Palestinian territory is unrecognisable and its residents are exhausted by displacement and shortages, with no end in sight. “It felt like the first day of the war all over again”, said Khaled al-Hawajri, 46, as the Israeli forces bombarded his…

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U.S. spends a record $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since Gaza war

October 7, 2024 admin

U.S. spends a record .9 billion on military aid to Israel since Gaza war

Victoria stands in front a picture of her sister, Yulia Waxer Daunt, as she visits the site of the Nova music festival, where hundreds of revelers were killed and abducted by Hamas and taken into Gaza, on the one-year anniversary of the attack, near Kibbutz Reim, southern Israel on October 7, 2024. | Photo Credit:…

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Airstrikes In Beirut, Missiles Hit Israel City As Gaza War Completes A Year

October 7, 2024 admin

Israel and Hezbollah exchanged more fire ahead of the first anniversary of the Hamas attack, which triggered a war in Gaza and further escalated tensions in the Middle East. Here Are Top Points On Middle East Tensions: Israel continued air strikes in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sunday as part of its campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon,…

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Freed Hamas Hostage Recounts Nightmarish Captivity

October 5, 2024 admin

As the Gaza war nears its first anniversary, an Israeli man taken hostage by Hamas on Friday recalled his confinement, saying he heard beatings while in captivity. Shlomi Ziv, 41, was among the four Israeli hostages who were rescued alive from Hamas captivity in June. They were kidnapped from the Nova music festival, a trance…

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In Gaza, it is a battle for survival

October 4, 2024 admin

Palestinian girl Rahaf Sa’ad, who lost her legs in an Israeli strike, sits on a bed next to her mother Israa at Al-Bureij, in the central Gaza Strip on September 12, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters On February 10, 2024, Abdul was hoping to find food for his family amid the devastation in northern Gaza….

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