The top U.S. diplomat’s latest trip – his eleventh to the region since Palestinian Hamas attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7 triggering the Gaza war – comes as the Israeli military has intensified its campaign against in the Palestinian enclave as well as in Lebanon against Hezbollah. Antony Blinken’s planned week-long trip, which will include […]
The talented illustrator and character designer was killed at her home. Mahasen’s final artwork, posted on social media just hours before her death, paid tribute to 19-year-old Shaban al-Dalu. Through her art, she humanized the struggles of Gaza’s residents, despite the immense challenges she faced. “The house was full of displaced people when Israel launched […]
Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA) said Israel’s strikes hit a residential building in South Beirut’s Haret Hreik area near a mosque and a hospital. The Israeli military claimed it hit the “command centre of Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters” and underground weapons facility in Beirut and that it killed three Hezbollah militants in other strikes. The […]
Netanyahu and his family were not in Caesarea at the time of the attack, the statement said, adding that there were no casualties. Two more drones that crossed into Israeli territory were intercepted, the military said. There were no casualties reported, according to the Israeli ambulance service and police said explosions had been heard in […]
“His loss is undoubtedly painful for the Axis of Resistance, but this front did not cease advancing with the martyrdom of prominent figures,” Khamenei said in a statement. “Hamas is alive and will remain alive.” Sinwar, the architect of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel that triggered the war in Gaza, was killed on […]
Agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal announced “33 deaths and dozens of wounded”. At the same time, a medical source at the Al-Awda hospital told AFP earlier that it had registered 22 dead and 70 wounded after the strike on the Tal al-Zaatar camp for Palestinian refugees. Asked for comment about overnight strikes in the area, an […]
Between 400 and 500 people attacked the Baghdad studios of Saudi broadcaster MBC after midnight. “They wrecked the electronic equipment, the computers, and set fire to a part of the building,” an interior ministry source told AFP on condition of anonymity. He said the fire had been extinguished and the crowd dispersed by police. “Security […]
This is up from the 133,000 people currently categorized as experiencing “catastrophic food insecurity”, according to a classification compiled by UN agencies and NGOs. A surge in humanitarian assistance this summer brought some relief to Gazans, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report said. But September saw the lowest volume of commercial and humanitarian […]
A military statement said five servicemen “fell during combat in southern Lebanon”, without elaborating on the circumstances of their deaths. The soldiers were named as company commander Maj. Ofek Bachar, 24, from Nes Ziona; team commander Capt. Elad Siman Tov, 23, from Tzofim; squad leader Staff Sgt. Elyashiv Eitan Wieder, 22, from Jerusalem; Staff Sgt. […]
The Israeli military said that after a lengthy hunt, troops had on Wednesday “eliminated Yahya Sinwar, in an operation in the southern Gaza Strip”. Hamas has not confirmed his death. Netanyahu, who vowed to crush Hamas at the start of the war, hailed Sinwar’s killing, saying: “While this is not the end of the war […]
