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Israel’s advance into southern Gaza’s Rafah area in early May led to the closure of the Rafah crossing. Cairo: Israeli and Egyptian ceasefire negotiators are in talks about an electronic surveillance system along the border between Gaza and Egypt that could allow Israel to pull back its troops from the area if a ceasefire is…
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Israel said all three of those strikes had targeted militants hiding in the schools. Palestinian Territories: Palestinian sources said at least 29 people were killed Tuesday in a strike on a school being used to shelter displaced people in Gaza, the fourth such incident in four days, with Hamas blaming Israel for the deaths. Israel’s…
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New Delhi: The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) used the ‘Hannibal directive’ during the Hamas attack on October 7, Haaretz, a leading daily, has reported. This directive allows soldiers to use force to prevent kidnappings, even if it puts the lives of hostages at risk, it said. What is the Hannibal directive? The Hannibal Directive is a…
Israeli forces bombed and battled Hamas in Gaza City on Wednesday as tens of thousands of Palestinians scrambled for a safe haven after the army issued an evacuation order for a vast swathe of the territory’s south. Apache helicopters and Israeli quadcopter drones flew above Gaza City’s Shujaiya district as heavy gunfire echoed through the…
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Israeli tanks take position near the Israel-Gaza border, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict. | Photo Credit: Reuters The UN humanitarian coordinator for Gaza said Tuesday that 1.9 million people 80% of the territory’s population were now displaced, adding she was “deeply concerned” by reports of new evacuation orders for Khan Yunis. The United Nations has estimated…
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Israeli forces carried out deadly strikes on Tuesday on southern Gaza and battled militants after issuing an evacuation order which a UN agency said would impact 2,50,000 Palestinians. Witnesses reported intense bombing and shelling around Khan Younis, southern Gaza’s main city, from which Israeli troops withdrew in early April after a devastating months-long battle. A…
Successive Israeli raids have reduced large parts of Al-Shifa in Gaza to rubble Palestinian Territories: Israeli forces carried out deadly strikes Tuesday on southern Gaza after the army again ordered Palestinians to leave areas near the besieged territory’s border with Israel and Egypt. Witnesses reported intense bombing and shelling around Khan Yunis, southern Gaza’s main…
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On the Israeli side, at least 15 soldiers and 11 civilians have been killed, according to authorities. Beirut: Hezbollah said it fired “dozens” of rockets Thursday at a military base in northern Israel in retaliation for Israeli strikes on Lebanon, announcing four of its fighters had been killed. Fears of all-out war between Israel and…
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Ben Itzhak now protests on the streets against Netanyahu and his right-wing coalition government. Modiin, Israel: On a Tel Aviv overpass, former spy Gonen Ben Itzhak addresses a small gathering of flag-waving protesters worried about the future of Israel under longest-serving premier Benjamin Netanyahu. Motorists honk enthusiastically to the group from the road as they…
7-month-old Majd Salem is among the million of Gaza’s inhabitants who face the most extreme malnutrition. Nearly 166 million people worldwide are estimated to need urgent action against hunger, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a global partnership which measures food insecurity. That includes nearly everyone in the Gaza Strip, where the…
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