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After Palestinian militant group Hamas carried out the deadliest attack in Israeli history on October 7, 2023, Israel responded with a devastating military campaign in the Gaza Strip. The surprise cross-border attack one year ago — which caught Israelis unprepared on a major Jewish holiday — shook their faith in their leaders and their military,…
File photo of Pope Francis | Photo Credit: AFP Pope Francis on Monday (October 7, 2024) slammed the “shameful inability” of world powers to end the conflict in the Middle East, on the first anniversary of Hamas’s deadly October 7 attack on Israel. “A year ago, the fuse of hatred was lit; it did not…
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Israeli forces keep position during a military raid in Kafr Aqab east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on October 7, 2024. Violence in the Israeli occupied West Bank has surged alongside the war in Gaza which began after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7. | Photo Credit: AFP Palestinian militants in Gaza fired…
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A huge fireball lit up the night sky and plumes of smoke rose over south Beirut early Sunday (October 6, 2024) as Israel unleashed intense air strikes targeting Hezbollah, nearly a year since the Gaza war erupted. Israeli forces were on high alert ahead of Monday’s anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 attack, which sparked the…
A truck and ambulance burn after Israeli airstrikes hit a group of paramedics outside a hospital in Marjayoun, south Lebanon, Friday, October. 4, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Israel’s military struck outside the gates of a hospital in southern Lebanon without warning on Friday (October 4, 2024) killing seven paramedics and forcing the facility to…
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File photo of United Nations Secretary General António Guterres. | Photo Credit: AP The story so far: On October 2, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz announced that Israel had banned United Nations Secretary- General (UNSG) António Guterres from entering the country, accusing him of “backing” Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iran. Why did Israel ban…
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The 1979 Iranian revolution, which saw the fall of a thousands-of-years-old monarchy and spawned the birth of a theocratic republic, was one of the most consequential events of post-World War West Asia. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the last king of Iran, was a close ally of the U.S. and Israel. In 1953, the U.S. helped…
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File photo of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. | Photo Credit: PTI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday (October 5, 2024) slammed French President Emmanuel Macron for calling for a halt to arms supplies to Israel, which is fighting wars in Gaza and Lebanon. “As Israel fights the forces of barbarism led by Iran, all…
File photo of Hashem Safieddine. | Photo Credit: AFP A high-level Hezbollah source said on Saturday (October 5, 2024) that contact with Hashem Safieddine, widely touted as potentially the group’s next leader, had been lost following Israeli strikes this week. “Contact with Sayyed Safieddine has been lost since the violent strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs”…
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Smoke rises over Beirut’s southern suburbs, amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Sin El Fil, Lebanon on October 5, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel expanded its bombardment in Lebanon on Saturday (October 5, 2024), hitting Beirut’s southern suburbs with 12 airstrikes and striking a Palestinian refugee camp deep…