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Representational file image. | Photo Credit: AFP The Biden administration has informally notified the U.S. Congress of a proposed $8 billion arms sale to Israel that includes munitions for fighter jets and attack helicopters, Axios reported on Friday (January 4, 2025), citing two sources. The deal would need approval from House and Senate committees and…
Palestinians gather around a car hit in an Israeli strike, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in the central Gaza Strip on January 3, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters At least 30 people, including children, were killed in Gaza by Israeli strikes overnight and into Friday morning, hospital staff said, as sirens also sounded across Israel and…
Israeli troops stormed one of the last hospitals operating in northern Gaza on Friday (December 27, 2024), forcing many staff and patients outside to strip in winter weather, the territory’s health ministry said. The Army denied claims it had entered or set fire to the complex and accused Hamas of using the facility for cover….
Five people were killed and 20 wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood, the medics reported. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images At least 10 people were killed and more than a dozen wounded in Israeli strikes on Gaza early on Thursday (December 26, 2024), medics with the Gaza…
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A baby girl froze to death overnight in Gaza, while Israel and Hamas accused each other of complicating ceasefire efforts that could wind down the 14-month war. The 3-week old baby was the third to die from the cold in Gaza’s tent camps in recent days, said doctors. The deaths underscore the squalid conditions, with…
A man repairs bicycles at the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on December 21, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. | Photo Credit: AFP Hamas said Wednesday (December 25, 2024) that “new conditions” imposed by Israel had delayed the finalisation of a ceasefire agreement in Gaza,…
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Iranians follow a truck, center, carrying the coffins of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard during their funeral ceremony at Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) Sq. in Tehran, Iran, on August 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Israel’s Defense Minister has confirmed that Israel assassinated Hamas’ top leader last summer and is threatening to take similar…
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told lawmakers on Monday that “some progress” had been made in negotiations to secure the release of hostages held in Gaza, more than 14 months into the war. His comments in parliament come two days after Palestinian militant groups said in a rare joint statement that a deal for a…
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed to retaliate against Yemen’s Houthi rebels after they fired a missile at Tel Aviv, warning that Israel would target what he described as the last remaining arm of “Iran’s axis of evil”. The Houthis struck Israel’s commercial hub on Saturday with what they claimed was a ballistic…
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A Palestinian inspects the damage at the site of an Israeli strike. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Five people, including two children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza strip, medics told Reuters on Saturday. Meanwhile, Gaza’s Health Ministry said there was ongoing intense…
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