Two dead as Israel strikes Lebanon after rocket fire
Israel conducted deadly strikes on Lebanon Saturday in response to a rocket attack from across the border, as militant group Hezbollah denied responsibility for the launch.
Israel conducted deadly strikes on Lebanon Saturday in response to a rocket attack from across the border, as militant group Hezbollah denied responsibility for the launch.
Protests against Israeli attacks on Palestine continued across the country on Friday as political parties and student groups demanded action against the violence.
Israel’s military on Thursday expanded ground operations across Gaza, after it reported missiles intercepted from Yemen and Hamas militants said they fired rockets towards Tel Aviv.
The Israeli army on Thursday warned residents of the southern Gaza town of Bani Suheila to evacuate their homes immediately ahead of a strike in their area.
Politicians, academics and professionals on Thursday at a protest rally in Dhaka called on the world community to be vocal to stop Israeli aggressions against Palestine...
ISRAELI forces have killed more than 400 people in Gaza over the past 24 hours, including more than 100 children, according to Palestinian officials...
Israel vowed on Tuesday to continue fighting in Gaza until all hostages are returned as it unleashed its most intense strikes since a ceasefire, with the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory reporting more than 400 people killed.
Israel must evacuate all settlers from the West Bank and make reparations for decades of illegal settlement, the UN rights chief said on Tuesday, describing the policy as ‘a war crime’.
Gaza’s civil defence agency said nine people, including journalists, were killed in Israeli strikes in the north Saturday, an attack Hamas denounced as a ‘blatant violation’ of the fragile ceasefire...
An Israeli strike targeting a vehicle killed one person in south Lebanon on Saturday, the Lebanese health ministry said, according to state media.
A United Nations investigation concluded Thursday that Israel carried out ‘genocidal’ acts in Gaza through the systematic destruction of sexual and reproductive healthcare facilities.
The Doctors Without Borders medical charity claimed Wednesday that Israel had ‘instrumentalised humanitarian needs’ in Gaza, with its decision to halt aid and cut electricity into the Palestinian territory...
An Israeli air strike hit Gaza City on Tuesday, with the civil defence agency reporting four men killed and the military saying it had targeted ‘terrorists’ posing a threat to troops.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan on Tuesday condemned Israel’s decision to cut electricity supply to the war-battered Gaza Strip, calling in separate statements for the international community to take action.
Israel carried out an air strike on activists in northern Gaza on Sunday, rattling an already fragile ceasefire as it prepared for fresh talks in Doha on the future of its truce with Hamas.
Palestinian officials denounced the partial burning of a historic mosque in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Friday, which they said had been carried out during a raid by Israeli armed forces.
More than 50 freed Israeli hostages urged prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fully implement the Gaza ceasefire deal and secure the release of those still held in the Palestinian territory.
A group of UN human rights experts said Thursday that Israel is again ‘weaponising starvation’ in Gaza by blocking humanitarian aid after the first phase of a ceasefire deal expired.
Hamas said on Thursday that Donald Trump’s threats would encourage Israel to disregard the fragile ceasefire, after the US president said that unless hostages are freed, the people of Gaza would be ‘DEAD’...
RECENTLY, the global geopolitical landscape has undergone rapid changes. The war in Ukraine, followed by the Israel-Palestine conflict and the rise of right-wing governments across various European nations, has significantly altered the world’s political dynamics. Additionally, the removal of Bashar al-Assad in Syria and Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh has introduced...
Israel said on Sunday that it was suspending the entry of supplies into Gaza, with deadly attacks reported in the territory after it and Hamas hit an impasse over how to proceed with their fragile ceasefire...
Palestinian group Hamas called on Friday for international pressure on Israel to enter the next phase of a ceasefire that has largely halted the war in Gaza, as negotiations were resuming in Cairo.
IT HAS the feeling of a ghastly ending, one pushed along by desperation and eagerness. First, levelling Gaza and turning it to an uninhabitable moonscape, with the promise of a territory free of Palestinians. Then, displacing and destroying the already precarious holdings of Palestinian residents in the West Bank, all the time subjecting them to curfews, arrests and...
Hamas will hand over the bodies of four Israeli hostages on Thursday in what it said would be an exchange for more than 600 Palestinian prisoners, capping the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire deal...
ISRAEL and the Palestinian movement Hamas reached a ceasefire agreement on January 15, bringing a pause to Israel’s ruthless 15-month onslaught on the enclave that killed more than 48,000 Palestinians. The agreement came ino force on January 19. On January 20, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th US president. On January 7, the president-elect Donald Trump...
Palestinian group Islamic Jihad on Monday accused Israel of wanting to ‘annex the West Bank by force’ after Israel deployed tanks into the occupied territory for the first time in decades.
Israel on Sunday said troops would stay in West Bank refugee camps for the coming year, announcing expanded military operations including tank deployments, after the displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said he would ensure ‘Hamas pays the full price’ for failing to hand over Israeli mother Shiri Bibas after the militant group released a body Israel said was not hers....
Hamas signalled on Wednesday that it was willing to free all remaining hostages held in Gaza in a single swap during the next phase of the on-going ceasefire agreement...
SINCE January 20, 2025, the world has closely watched the exchange of captives between Israel and Hamas. This ceasefire — despite its fragility and Israel’s repeated violations — took effect on January 19, 2025. It marks a critical moment that underscores the immense physical and psychological toll the genocide has inflicted on both sides. The first swap saw 3 Israelis...