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Israel-Gaza war has been going on since October 7, 2023 (File) Jerusalem: The Israeli military announced on Saturday the deaths of three reserve soldiers killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip the previous day. The soldiers, two sergeants first class and a sergeant major, were killed in central Gaza, the military said. Two were killed…
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Israel-Hamas war has been going on since October 7 (File) Cairo, Egypt: Negotiators geared up for a crucial weekend of Gaza ceasefire talks Saturday, as Hamas said it was sending delegates to Cairo but would not participate in the discussions, and fighting raged in the Palestinian territory. The United States, Egypt and Qatar have spent…
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Israel said it had targeted two other Hezbollah fighters across the south (Representational) Beirut, Lebanon: Israeli airstrikes across southern Lebanon on Friday killed at least six fighters and one child, according to security sources, as armed group Hezbollah responded with artillery rounds and rockets across the border. The Israeli military has been trading fire with…
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Of the original 251 hostages taken on October 7, 116 have been released (File) More than 10 months after Hamas operatives attacked Israel and took 251 people hostage, 71 people believed to be alive are still being held in Gaza, according to an AFP database. A further 34 the Israeli military says are dead also…
Children under 5 are most at risk from polio In Gaza, a mother worries that her month-old son, Mohammed, could be infected with polio after the Palestinian health ministry confirmed the first case in the enclave on Friday, ending a 25 year period in which the Strip was polio-free. Just three days after his birth,…
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Sunday’s explosion in Tel Aviv came about an hour after Blinken arrived in Tel Aviv The armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility on Monday for a bomb blast near a synagogue in Tel Aviv that Israeli police and the Shin Bet intelligence agency described as a terrorist attack. A man who was…
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Hamas officials have on several occasions accused Netanyahu of obstructing an agreement. Gaza: Hamas on Sunday again accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of “obstructing an agreement” for a truce and hostage exchange in Gaza. The Palestinian group said in a statement following the latest round of talks in Qatar that Netanyahu was “fully responsible…
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Blinken is later set to travel on Tuesday to Cairo Tel Aviv, Israel: Israel’s prime minister, under pressure at home and from abroad to reach a ceasefire deal with Hamas, on Sunday accused the Hamas operatives of obstinance in Gaza truce talks as top US diplomat Antony Blinken landed in Israel. Making his ninth trip…
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Gaza: A senior Hamas official on Saturday dismissed optimistic talk by US President Joe Biden that a Gaza truce is nearer after negotiations in the Gulf emirate of Qatar. “To say that we are getting close to a deal is an illusion,” Hamas political bureau member Sami Abu Zuhri told AFP. “We are not facing…
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Gaza’s death count raised over 40,000 in more than 10 months of war (File) Undertakers are working like bricklayers in a Gaza cemetery, piling cinder blocks into tight rectangles, side by side, for freshly dug graves. More than 10 months into the Gaza war, so many bodies are arriving at the cemetery in Deir el-Balah…
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