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Many Killed In Strikes On Gaza, Lebanon As Israel Faces US’ Aid Deadline

November 10, 2024 admin

Jerusalem: Israeli air strikes killed dozens of people in Lebanon and Gaza Sunday, rescuers and authorities said, ahead of a US deadline for improved aid delivery to the Palestinian territory. Another strike south of the Syrian capital Damascus killed nine people including a Hezbollah commander, a war monitor said. Rescuers in the Gaza Strip said…

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Israelis Fear For Hostages As Qatar Halts Gaza Mediation

November 10, 2024 admin

Israeli protesters expressed concern for hostages in Gaza Saturday, after Qatar said it was pulling back as a key mediator for a ceasefire that would help bring the captives home. Thousands of people rallied in Tel Aviv holding signs reading “400”, the number of days since the hostages were taken when Hamas militants attacked southern…

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Several Children Among 40 Killed In Israeli Strikes, Says Lebanon

November 9, 2024 admin

Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon over the last day have killed at least 40 people including several children, Lebanese authorities said on Saturday, after heavy Israeli bombardment pounded the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut overnight. At least seven people were killed in the coastal city of Tyre late on Friday, Lebanon’s health ministry said. The…

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Israel ends agreement with UN agency providing aid in Gaza

November 4, 2024 admin

Israel said Monday that it has terminated the agreement facilitating the work of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, the main aid provider in Gaza, in what appeared to be a step to implement legislation passed last month that would sever ties with the agency and prevent it from operating in Israel. Israel says the…

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Over A Year Into Gaza War, Israel Struggles With Lack Of Soldiers

October 30, 2024 admin

Jerusalem: More than a year into the Gaza war, the Israeli army’s reservists are exhausted and it is struggling to recruit soldiers just as it opens a new front in Lebanon. Some 300,000 reservists have been called up since the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, according to the army, 18 percent of them men…

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US Voices Concern On Israel’s “Horrifying” Gaza Strikes That Killed Children

October 29, 2024 admin

Washington: The United States on Tuesday voiced concern about a “horrifying” Israeli strike in Gaza that killed a large number of children and said it was asking its ally for answers. “We are deeply concerned by the loss of civilian life in this incident. This was a horrifying incident with a horrifying result,” State Department…

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Israel passes two laws to restrict the work of UN agency’s operations in Gaza

October 28, 2024 admin

Israeli lawmakers passed two laws on Monday that could threaten the work of the main U.N. agency providing aid to people in Gaza by barring it from operating on Israeli soil, severing ties with it and deeming it a terror organization. The laws, which do not immediately go into effect, signal a new low for…

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How Biden Pushed Israel To Calibrate Its Strikes On Iran

October 28, 2024 admin

Hours after Iranian missiles rained down on Israel on October 1, President Joe Biden’s administration sent an urgent message to Israel: Take a breath. Israel, Washington argued, owned the clock and had time to decide on how to best respond to an Iranian strike that the United States assessed could have killed thousands if Israel,…

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Egypt Proposes 2-Day Truce In Gaza With Limited Hostage-Prisoner Exchange

October 27, 2024 admin

Egypt has proposed an initial two-day ceasefire in Gaza to exchange four Israeli hostages of Hamas for some Palestinian prisoners, Egypt’s president said on Sunday as Israeli military strikes killed 45 Palestinians across the enclave. Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi made the announcement as efforts to defuse the devastating, more than year-long war resumed in…

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Netanyahu Praises Israel’s Strikes, Iran Warns Against “Exaggeration”

October 27, 2024 admin

Israel’s airstrikes “hit hard” Iran’s defences and missile production, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, but Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the damage from Saturday’s attack should not be exaggerated. With warfare raging in Gaza and Lebanon, direct confrontation between Israel and Iran risks spiralling into a regional conflagration. But a day…

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