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Khan Younis: In the ruins of his two-storey home, 11-year-old Mohammed gathers chunks of the fallen roof into a broken pail and pounds them into gravel which his father will use to make gravestones for victims of the Gaza war. “We get the rubble not to build houses, no, but for tombstones and graves –…
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Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron called Saturday for a halt on arms deliveries to Israel for use in Gaza, provoking a sharp response from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Macron also criticised Netanyahu’s decision to send troops into ground operations in Lebanon. “I think that today, the priority is that we return to a political…
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United Nations: The UN secretary-general denounced Hamas and called for an immediate end to the “shocking violence and bloodshed” in Gaza and Lebanon in a statement Saturday ahead of the anniversary of the Palestinian group’s October 7 attack. Monday marks one year since the devastating assault on Israel that sparked the ongoing war in Gaza,…
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For over a year, a dedicated group of young women in Israel’s military has been on high alert, observing movements along the border with Lebanon. This female-only unit, known as field observers, has played a critical role in identifying threats from Hezbollah, diligently tracking the group’s activities from their posts. These soldiers, aged between 18…
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Israel hasn’t clarified its intention of targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities in retaliation for the Iranian ballistic missile strikes earlier this week on Tuesday. It is as ambiguous as it could be. It is “really hard to tell” if Israel will use the anniversary of Hamas’ October 7 attacks to retaliate, a top US State Department…
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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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Washington: A year of conflict between Israel and Hamas has resulted in a “devastating impact on the economy” in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, the IMF said Thursday, including a nearly 90 percent drop in Gaza’s GDP. “Preliminary official estimates indicate an 86 percent decline in GDP in the first half of 2024” in…
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By Nidal al: Palestinians fear the crisis in Lebanon is diverting the world’s attention from Gaza, where Israeli strikes killed dozens more people this week, and diminishing already dim prospects for a ceasefire a year into a war that has shattered the enclave. An escalation in the conflict between Israel and Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah…
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Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli strike in Lebanon on September 27 Beirut: Former Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to a ceasefire shortly before he was killed in an air strike in Beirut last week, Lebanon Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib said today. Speaking to an American…
American killed in Israel’s military campaign in Lebanon, family and US lawmaker say An American from Dearborn, Michigan, was killed in Lebanon in an Israeli airstrike, according to the man’s daughter, friend and the U.S. congresswoman representing his constituency. His daughter, Nadine Jawad, said in a statement that her father was killed in an Israeli…