Israeli forces push into Gaza from north and south
Israeli forces pushed deep into the ruins of Gaza’s northern edge on Monday to recapture an area where they claimed to have dismantled Hamas months ago, while in the ...
Sir Stelios donates €750,000 to help malnourished Gaza children
The Stelios Philanthropic Foundation on Monday announced a donation of €750,000 to Unicef for humanitarian support of children in Gaza.
The organisation said the donation, under its “Food from the Heart” ...
Israeli forces step up attacks on Gaza’s Jabalia camp and Rafah
Israeli tanks, under cover of heavy fire from air and ground, pushed further into Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, residents and Hamas media said, while tanks and ...
Israel pushes back into northern Gaza, ups military pressure on Rafah
Israel sent tanks into eastern Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip early on Sunday, after a night of heavy aerial and ground bombardments, killing 19 people and wounding dozens of others, ...
Tunisian police arrest prominent lawyer critical of president
Tunisian police stormed the building of the Deanship of Lawyers on Saturday and arrested Sonia Dahmani, a lawyer known for her fierce criticism of President Kais Saied, according to three ...
Israel orders Palestinians to evacuate from more areas of Rafah
Israel called on Saturday for Palestinians in more areas of Gaza’s southern city of Rafah to evacuate and head to what it calls an expanded humanitarian area in Al-Mawasi, ...
Hamas says another Israeli hostage held in Gaza is dead
Palestinian Islamist group Hamas said on Saturday that another one of the hostages abducted during its October 7 attack on Israel has died.
Hamas released a video saying that Nadav Popplewell, ...
US says Israel may have breached international law using American weapons
The Biden administration said Israel‘s use of U.S.-supplied weapons may have violated international humanitarian law during its military operation in Gaza, in its strongest criticism to date ...
South Africa asks World Court to order Israel’s withdrawal from Rafah
South Africa has asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to order Israel to withdraw from Rafah as part of additional emergency measures over the war in Gaza, the U....
Israeli strike kills Lebanese technician fixing phone tower, security sources say
An Israeli strike on a village in south Lebanon killed a Lebanese technician contracted by a telecoms company to fix a phone tower, Lebanon’s telecoms minister told Reuters on ...
Spain, Ireland to recognise Palestinian state says EU’s foreign policy chief Borrell
Spain, Ireland and other European Union member countries plan to recognise a Palestinian state on May 21, the EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said late on Thursday ahead of ...
Israeli demonstrators torch part of UN compound in Jerusalem
The main United Nations aid agency for Palestinians closed its headquarters in East Jerusalem after local Israeli residents set fire to areas at the edge of the sprawling compound, the ...
UN General Assembly set to back Palestinian bid for membership
The United Nations General Assembly on Friday is set to back a Palestinian bid to become a full U.N. member by recognizing it as qualified to join and sending ...
Israel due to get billions of dollars more in US weapons despite Biden pause
Billions of dollars worth of U.S. weaponry remains in the pipeline for Israel, despite the delay of one shipment of bombs and a review of others by President Joe ...
Eurovision semi-final kicks off with focus on Israeli contestant
The second semi-final of the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest kicked off in Sweden late on Thursday, with much of the focus expected to be on Israel’s performance after thousands joined ...
‘Friends and enemies’ told Israel will achieve war aims
Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told Israel‘s “enemies and friends” on Wednesday that it would do whatever necessary to achieve its war aims in Gaza and the north, in an ...
Israel strikes Rafah as US warns assault could halt arms (Update)
Israeli forces bombarded areas of Rafah on Thursday, Palestinian residents said, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed U.S. President Joe Biden’s threat to withhold weapons from Israel if ...
US aid ship departs Cyprus for Gaza
The latest aid ship to depart Cyprus for Gaza left the Larnaca port on Thursday morning.
The ship, a United States container vessel called the Sagamore, is currently travelling southwards ...
US warns Israel that Rafah invasion will jeopardise weapons supply as assault continues
US President Joe Biden for the first time publicly vowed to withhold weapons from Israel if its forces make a major invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza while negotiations in ...
Israel, Hezbollah trade fire, Israeli minister warns of ‘hot summer’ at Lebanon border
Israel carried out heavy airstrikes in south Lebanon and Hezbollah said it had launched explosive drones and rockets at Israeli targets on Wednesday as Israel’s defence minister warned of ...
Battles rage around Rafah after US halts some weapons to Israel
Hamas battled Israeli troops on the outskirts of the Gaza Strip’s crowded southern city of Rafah on Wednesday and Washington said it had held up a shipment of powerful ...
US optimistic revised Hamas proposal may break Gaza ceasefire impasse
The United States believes the remaining differences between Israel and Hamas can be bridged in negotiations over the Palestinian militant group’s latest ceasefire proposal, as talks resume in Cairo ...
Israeli forces seize Gaza’s Rafah border crossing
Israeli forces seized control of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt on Tuesday and tanks pushed into the southern Gazan city of Rafah as international mediators struggled to ...
Gaza ceasefire uncertain, Israel vows to continue Rafah operation
Palestinian militant group Hamas agreed to a Gaza ceasefire proposal from mediators, but Israel said the terms did not meet its demands and pressed ahead with strikes in Rafah while ...