Blinken and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Jerusalem for two-and-a-half hours, after which Israel repeated that the Rafah operation would go ahead despite the US position and a UN warning that it would lead to “tragedy”. “We cannot, will not support a major military operation in Rafah absent an effective plan to make […]
Air defence systems over several Iranian cities were activated, state media reported, after the country’s official broadcaster said explosions were heard near the city of Isfahan. A senior Iranian official told Reuters there is no plan for immediate retaliation, adding that there was no clarity yet on who was behind the incident. “The foreign source […]
Though a source briefed on the decision told there was presently no intention for construction there, Israel on Thursday acquired numerous tracts of land bordering a major Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank. According to a statement from Israel’s Defense Ministry’s Civil Administration, the tracts totaled 2,640 dunams, or 652 acres. According to the […]
Pakistan said on Friday that Israel’s occupation of Palestine is illegal and needs to end. Law Minister Ahmed Irfan Aslam remarked that Pakistan has come to “the conclusion that Israel’s occupation is unlawful and unlawfulness must have consequences” when speaking to the International Court of Justice. Israel is presently on trial before the International Court […]
The groups had argued that supplying the parts contributed to alleged violations of international law by Israel in its war with Hamas. “The court orders the State to cease all actual export and transit of F-35 parts with final destination Israel within seven days after service of this judgment,” said the ruling. The US-owned F-35 […]
Diplomatic efforts to achieve a truce accelerated as Israel readied itself to push its war on Gaza closer to the Egyptian border, having claimed to have decimated Hamas in Khan Younis. Over 27,000 Palestinian deaths have been confirmed, according to health officials in the besieged region, and many more are believed to be under the […]
It was anticipated that Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas, would visit Cairo on Thursday to discuss a planned ceasefire in Gaza, while Israel continued its offensive in the besieged Palestinian territory. After mediators convened in Paris, with international efforts toward a new pause in the horrific war gathering momentum, a source told AFP that […]
The Israeli army claimed that it had prevented a planned “terrorist attack” by eliminating a senior Palestinian militant in an airstrike in the occupied West Bank early on Wednesday. The army said that throughout the previous year, Ahmed Abdullah Abu Shalal was responsible for a “number of terrorist attacks,” one of which occurred in east […]
As Hamas readied itself to declare the “fate” of the three Israelis who were kidnapped by the Palestinian organization three months prior and featured in a video clip over the weekend, Israeli forces launched bombardments of targets throughout Gaza on Monday. Overnight, an Israeli bomb on a house in northern Gaza City resulted in the […]
With no end in sight, Israel continued to pound the Hamas authorities in the Gaza Strip on Saturday as its murderous conflict on them neared its 100th day. Ten persons were murdered in an Israeli airstrike on a home in the southern city of Rafah that was providing shelter to two displaced families, according to […]
