Palestinian militants have said that they would halt attacks into Israel from the Gaza Strip after they fired the heaviest rocket salvoes across the border in months. The Islamic Jihad, one of the armed groups that operates in Gaza, said it fired the rockets in retaliation for Israel's killing ...
Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - The Israeli army accused the Syrian government and Iran on Saturday of ordering Palestinian militants in Gaza to fire dozens of rockets into southern Israel, and threatened to retaliate wherever it chose. The barrage of rockets, which began late Friday ...
Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - A barrage of rockets from Gaza hit Israel during the night, the army said Saturday, hours after five Palestinians were killed during clashes on the Israeli border, in a flareup that could jeopardise truce efforts. The largest projectile attacks in ...
A fireball rises over Gaza City following an Israeli air stike on October 27, 2018, one of around 90 carried out in response to the most extensive rocket fire against Israel in months (AFP Photo/MAHMUD HAMS)/ Jerusalem (AFP) - The Israeli army accused the Syrian government Saturday of ...
Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds./ An explosion lights the sky during an Israeli airstrike Saturday in Gaza City./ An Israeli military spokesman on Saturday accused Iran of orchestrating a rocket barrage from Gaza into Israel, saying Gaza ...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Latest on the Israel-Palestinians conflict (all times local): The Palestinian Islamic Jihad group says it has agreed to stop rocket fire toward Israel in response to Egyptian mediation efforts. Daoud Shehab, a spokesman for the Iranian-backed group, tells The ...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli aircraft struck several militant sites across the Gaza Strip early Saturday shortly after militants fired rockets into southern Israel, the Israeli military said. Israel's chief of staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot conducted situational assessment while the ...
Smoke rises from an explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Saturday. Israeli aircraft struck several militant sites across the Gaza Strip early Saturday shortly after militants fired rockets into southern Israel, the Israeli military said. (Hatem Moussa/AP)/ JERUSALEM – Israel ...
Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Five Palestinians were killed Friday as fresh clashes broke out with Israeli troops on Gaza's border with the Jewish state, despite Egyptian-brokered truce efforts, the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave said. The five men, aged between 22 and ...
Israeli forces shot and killed four Palestinians and wounded 232, 180 of them from live fire, during protests along the border with Gaza on Friday, Palestinian medical officials said. The Israeli military responded with air strikes at three positions belonging to Hamas, the Islamist group that ...
Palestinians burn tyres on the beach near the Gaza-Israel border on October 22, 2018, one of hundreds of such protests since March 30 that have drawn a deadly response from the Israeli army (AFP Photo/MAHMUD HAMS)/ Jerusalem (AFP) - Israeli warplanes hit Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip early on ...
for Israel’s current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has triggered a furious response from leading Israelis across the political spectrum. By contrast it has been welcomed by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and ordinary citizens in Gaza. Leading ...
Benjamin Netanyahu (L), Yoav Gallant (C) and Mohammed Deif (R)/ Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have issued arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and former defence minister, as well as the military commander of Hamas. A statement said a pre-trial chamber had rejected ...
At least 22 people were reportedly killed in a strike in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City/ Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in overnight Israeli air strikes in northern Gaza. Paramedics and Hamas-affiliated media said at least 66 were killed, including women and ...
The US has blocked a Gaza ceasefire draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council - the fourth time it has used its veto power during the conflict to shield its ally, Israel. Fourteen of the 15 Council members voted in favour of the draft, which demanded that the war in Gaza "must end ...
Israel’s military says its offensive in Beit Lahia and other areas of northern Gaza targets regrouping Hamas fighters/ Palestinians are "facing diminishing conditions for survival" in parts of northern Gaza under siege by Israeli forces because virtually no aid has been delivered in 40 days, the ...
based monitoring group posted a video that it said showed the aftermath of the strikes in Palmyria/ At least 36 people have been killed and 50 others injured in Israeli air strikes on residential buildings and an industrial area in the central Syrian town of Palmyra, Syrian state media report. ...
Hanan Abu Salameh, 59, was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier while she harvested olives/ On a Thursday afternoon towards the end of last month, a 59-year-old Palestinian woman set out to gather olives on her family’s land near the village of Faqqua, in the north of the occupied West Bank. It ...
A senior Palestinian official said Khalil al-Hayya (R) was likely to be in Turkey (file photo)/ The most senior Hamas leader outside Gaza and other key figures in its negotiating team are no longer in Doha, Qatar’s government and a senior Palestinian official have said. Qatar’s foreign ministry ...
A video showed the woman sitting in her underwear on steps at Islamic Azad University before walking down a nearby street/ An Iranian woman will not face charges after she stripped to her underwear in an apparent anti-hijab protest at a university in Tehran, Iranian authorities say. Earlier in ...
Axios reported last week that a “nuclear weapons research facility“ at Parchin was hit in late October/ Israel’s prime minister says it hit part of Iran’s nuclear programme last month, despite pleas from the US not to do so during the strikes it carried out in response to a missile attack. “It’s ...