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Moscow: Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov may meet Hamas officials in Qatar next week and discuss a possible release of hostages seized by the group in its attack on Israel a week ago, Russian state news agency RIA reported on Saturday. Bogdanov told RIA he was heading to Qatar and usually met with Hamas…
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A journalist’s car burns after it was hit by Israeli shelling in the Alma al-Shaab border village with Israel, South Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. An Israeli shell landed in a gathering of international journalists covering clashes on the border in south Lebanon, killing one and leaving six others injured. | Photo Credit: AP A…
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Riyad H. Mansour, Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations, speaks to members of the media with members of the Arab Group prior to a U.N. Security Council meeting about the ongoing conflict in Gaza, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on October 13, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Palestinian United…
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Palestinians began a mass exodus from northern Gaza on October 13 after Israel’s military told some 1 million people to evacuate toward the southern part of the besieged territory, an unprecedented order ahead of an expected ground invasion against the ruling Hamas militant group. Follow Israel-Hamas war, day 7 LIVE updates here The U.N. warned…
Watch | What does the Hamas attack mean for Israel, Palestine and West Asia? The unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, which killed some 1,200 Israelis, has exposed chinks in Israel’s security model, brought the Palestine issue back to the fore of West Asia’s geopolitical cauldron and triggered a massive military response from…
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shake hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in Amman, Jordan, on October 13, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived, on October 13, at the Israeli city of Tel Aviv to meet with senior government leaders and see firsthand some of the U.S. weapons and…
Smoke billows following Israeli strikes amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas, in Gaza, on October 13, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel’s military on October 13 directed the evacuation of northern Gaza, a region that is home to 1.1 people — about half of the territory’s population — within 24 hours, a…
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Representational image of a Palestinian flag on a barricade protecting the Israeli embassy in Mexico | Photo Credit: AP France’s interior minister on Thursday ordered local authorities to ban all pro-Palestinian demonstrations amid a rise in antisemitic acts since Hamas attacked Israel over the weekend. President Emmanuel Macron urged French people not to allow the…
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Smoke plumes billow during Israeli air strikes in Gaza City on October 12, 2023 as raging battles between Israel and the Hamas movement continue for the sixth consecutive day. Washington urged Israel to show restraint in its response to Hamas’s surprise attack — the worst in the country’s 75-year history — which Israeli forces said…
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Palestinians evacuate a neighbourhood in Gaza City as raging battles between Israel and the Hamas movement continue, on October 11, 203.. | Photo Credit: AFP More than 338,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the Gaza Strip, the United Nations said, as heavy Israeli bombardments continue to hit the Palestinian enclave. “Mass…
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