DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrike hits UN school in Gaza sheltering displaced families, killing at least 14 people, hospital says.
Israel has vowed to retaliate to a missile strike from Iran on its territory last week, despite the US urging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to exercise caution in a call between the two leaders on Wednesday.View on euronews
Ukrainian president calls on European countries to invest in weapons production in Ukraine
The Ukrainian military said on Thursday it had struck an ammunition depot overnight at an airfield in Russia's Adygeya region in the North Caucasus, about 450 km (280 miles) from the frontline in eastern Ukraine. Some 57 Russian combat and training aircraft and helicopters, including Su-34s, Su-35s and Mi-8s, were stationed at Khanskaya airfield during the drone attack, a source in Ukraine’s state security service (SBU) told Reuters. "Russia is using this airfield in Krasnodar Krai ... for refueling and missile and bomb attacks on the units of the Defence Forces and Ukrainian settlements," the source said.
A senior Labor minister has made a striking claim about Israel’s actions in Gaza, saying his community is asking for the killing to stop.
Israeli forces have acted illegally by shooting at positions used by U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon, Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said on Thursday, denouncing it as a possible war crime. The U.N. peacekeeping mission known as UNIFIL is stationed in southern Lebanon to monitor hostilities along the demarcation line with Israel -- an area that has seen serious clashes between Israeli troops and Iran-backed Hezbollah fighters.
President Joe Biden held a “direct,” 30-minute phone call with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, their first conversation in almost two months and a chance to confer over Israel’s planned response to an Iranian ballistic missile attack.
Unlike the Israeli response in April, this response will probably not be aimed at sending a message to Iranian leadership; rather, at removing it.
Muslim faith leaders and the union movement have spoken against the idea of limiting recurring protests that stretch police resources floated by a premier.
The Iran-backed militant group's acting leader insisted Hezbollah will not agree to a ceasefire unless Israel withdraws from Gaza, as IDF rolls more troops into Lebanon.View on euronews
A UN inquiry has accused Israel of carrying out a concerted policy to destroy Gaza's healthcare system in actions that amount to war crimes and "extermination". Navi Pillay, a former UN high commissioner for human rights who is chairing the inquiry, said Israel has carried out "relentless and deliberate attacks on medical personnel and facilities" in the past year.
The renewed war on Lebanon's well-trodden battlefront could escalate far beyond what we are witnessing now. Yet, even one decisive blow after another will not bridge the deep ideological chasm and decades of enmity that fuel this conflict, Brent Sadler writes.View on euronews
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Palestinian and Dutch organisations on Thursday filed a legal complaint against the state of the Netherlands over its alleged failure to prevent Israel from committing possible genocide in Gaza and other violations of international law. The case argues that the Netherlands has a legal obligation to do everything in its power to stop alleged violations of international law and the 1948 Genocide Convention by Israel.
The Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah confirmed the death of its longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh. Israel said it had killed Nasrallah during a 'precise' operation in the Lebanese capital. Nasrallah had led the Iran-backed group for more than 30 years, with second in command Hashem Safieddine rumoured to take Nasrallah's place following his death. Lebanon's cabinet has called an emergency session following the intensive bombardments in the last two days, as thousands of people struggle to flee to safety.
The U.S. State Department on Wednesday warned that it would be unacceptable for Israel's military incursion in southern Lebanon to evolve into a situation similar to its invasion of the Gaza Strip. "I'm making very clear that there should be no kind of military action in Lebanon that looks anything like Gaza and leaves a result anything like Gaza."
In the 1990s, Anat Saban joined a movement of mothers that rose up to protest against their sons being sent to fight in Israel's first war against Hezbollah in Lebanon. "We were accused of thinking from our womb," she told Sky News. Peaceful demonstrations by the so-called Four Mothers group helped to pressure the then government finally to withdraw Israeli troops from their northern neighbour in 2000.
Simon Harris urged that any firing at United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) positions ceases.
The air raid is the deadliest in over a year of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah
The UN today said Israel’s destruction of the Gaza health system amounts to the crime against humanity of “extermination”
NEW YORK — Police have released images of pro-Palestinian activists who attacked a man with an Israeli flag in Manhattan on the anniversary of Hamas’s brutal surprise attack on Israel, officials said Thursday. The four suspects, one sporting a cast on his arm, played a role in jumping Todd Richman as he showed his pride in Israel at Union Square Park on Monday as mass protests marking the ...
