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Palestinian officials say 51 killed in Israeli operation on southern Gaza

October 2, 2024 admin

Israel launched ground operations and carried out airstrikes in a hard-hit city in southern Gaza overnight, killing at least 51 people, including women and children, Palestinian medical officials said Wednesday (October 2, 2024). Israel has continued to strike what it says are militant targets across Gaza nearly a year after Hamas’ October 7 attack ignited…

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A Brief History Of Israel And Palestine

October 2, 2024 admin

Jerusalem: Israel and Hamas have been waging war since gunmen from the Palestinian militant group in the Gaza Strip stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 people and capturing 253 hostages, by Israeli tallies. Israel responded with a military offensive in Gaza in which more than 41,500 Palestinians have been killed, according to…

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How Israel took the war straight to Iran’s ‘axis of resistance’

October 1, 2024 admin

Smoke from an Israeli airstrikes rises above the city’s southern suburbs on October 1, 2024 in Beirut, Lebanon. | Photo Credit: Getty Images On April 1, 2024, when Israel bombed the Iranian embassy complex in Damascus killing Brig. Gen. Mohammed Reza Zahedi and other officers, Iran saw the war coming towards it. In December 2023,…

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Israel army orders residents of three areas in southern Beirut to evacuate

September 30, 2024 admin

The Israeli military Monday called on residents in three areas in southern Beirut to evacuate ahead of a likely strike on alleged Hezbollah targets in the group’s stronghold. “You are located near interests and facilities belonging to the terrorist Hezbollah group and therefore the IDF will act against them forcefully,” Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee…

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In border town, Israelis torn between relief and fear

September 29, 2024 admin

An Israeli police officer stands by as a firefighter as he puts out a fire after a rocket fired from Lebanon into Israel hit a residential house, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, in Rosh Pina, on September 26, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Out buying groceries in the northern town of Rosh Pina…

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Israel Hezbollah war LIVE updates: Israeli military says it killed Nabil Kaouk, another high-ranking Hezbollah official in airstrike

September 29, 2024 admin

People check the rubble of buildings which were levelled on September 27 by Israeli strikes that targeted and killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of Beirut’s southern suburbs, on September 29, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said on Sunday (September 29, 2024) that militant groups…

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No ceasefire yet, says Israeli envoy, defends Israel war a year after October 7 attacks

September 28, 2024 admin

Despite global calls for a ceasefire, Israel will not stop its airstrikes and operations in Gaza and Lebanon, said Israel’s newly-appointed Ambassador to India Reuven Azar. Speaking to The Hindu in an interview just ahead of the one year mark since the October 7 terror attacks, Ambassador Azar, who earlier served as Israel’s Deputy National…

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Watch: Israel attacks Lebanon: Has India’s position on West Asia shifted at all?

September 27, 2024 admin

Israel broadens the war in Gaza with an air attack on Lebanon, is the crisis in West Asia about to escalate? And as the one year mark since the October 7 terror attacks approaches, PM Modi meets the Palestinian President. Has India’s position shifted at all? This is High-Level week at the UN, and the…

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Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu warns Iran that Israel can strike anywhere

September 27, 2024 admin

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 79th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, on September 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran on Friday (September 27, 2024) that Israel will strike if it is hit first and warned that his country can reach any part…

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Israel has destroyed Gaza, made it unliveable, says Mahmoud Abbas

September 26, 2024 admin

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 79th United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York, U.S., on September 26, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters The head of the Palestinian Authority denounced Israel and its offensive in the Gaza Strip in front of world leaders Thursday (September 26, 2024), appealing to other nations…

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