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Hezbollah’s escalating attacks on Israel risk “dragging Lebanon into a war”, Israel’s military said Sunday, after renewed cross-border exchanges of fire that have raised fears of a wider conflict. The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is allied with Hamas, which touched off the latest violence with a bloody October 7 rampage in Israel that killed at…
October 22, 2023 03:29 am | Updated 03:29 am IST – Rafah, Palestinian Territories The Israeli military announced it was stepping up its bombardment of Hamas-controlled Gaza Saturday just hours after the first aid trucks arrived from Egypt bringing desperately needed relief to civilians in the war-torn enclave. The military said it aimed to reduce…
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Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates stands for a photograph, during the Cairo Summit for Peace, with Charles Michel, President of the European Council, HE Nikos Christodoulides, President of Cyprus, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain, Abdel…
People take part in a ‘March For Palestine’, in London on October 21, 2023, to “demand an end to the war on Gaza”. | Photo Credit: AFP Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched in London and other cities on Saturday to demand Israel stop its bombardment of Gaza, as the Israel-Hamas war entered its…
At least 22 people, including four civilians, have been killed on the Lebanese side. Tyre, Lebanon: Shocked by images of dead children in Gaza, Mustafa al-Sayyid quickly whisked his family to the closest shelter when Israeli strikes began near his village in southern Lebanon this week. “What we are seeing on television — the massacres…
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Since Israel-Hamsa war began, Cyprus police have tightened security around Israeli embassy. (File) Nicosia, Cyprus: Four people were arrested after a pipe bomb exploded near the Israeli embassy in Cyprus early on Saturday, causing little damage and no injuries, police said. The incident occurred in the Cypriot capital Nicosia at 1:37 am (2237 GMT on…
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Antonio Guterres said “the grievances of the Palestinian people are legitimate and long” (File) Cairo, Egypt: UN chief Antonio Guterres pleaded Saturday for a “humanitarian ceasefire” in the war between Israel and Hamas militants that has devastated much of Gaza, demanding “action to end this godawful nightmare”. Addressing a Cairo summit as the conflict raged…
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The story so far: Over the past few days, thousands have fled south of the Gaza Strip after Israel ordered the evacuation of over one million civilians in the north — nearly half of the total population of the Palestinian enclave — ahead of an anticipated ground invasion by the Israeli military. The planned invasion was…
Cairo gathering is trying to find ways to head off a wider regional war. (File) Cairo: Arab leaders condemned Israel’s two-week-old bombardment of Gaza on Saturday and demanded renewed efforts to reach a Middle East peace settlement to end a decades-long cycle of violence between Israelis and Palestinians. Speaking at a hastily convened gathering dubbed…
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Rafah crossing was closed again after the trucks passed. Rafah, Palestinian Territories: The first aid trucks arrived in the war-torn Gaza Strip from Egypt on Saturday, AFP journalists said, bringing desperately needed humanitarian relief to the Hamas-controlled Palestinian enclave under Israeli siege. Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas after the group carried out the deadliest…
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