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 ...
Thick murky clouds fill the sky, with freezing winds carrying snow faster than 100 miles per hour. With a frigid –30 degrees Fahrenheit temperature, life-threatening snowstorms and avalanches are frequent. And these are typical conditions on the world’s highest mountain: Mount Everest. The ...
The US state department has found five units of the Israeli military responsible for gross violations of human rights in individual incidents, but says they will continue to receive US military backing./ All the incidents involved took place outside of Gaza before the current war./ Israel took ...
Nika was just 16 years old when she disappeared during protests against Iran's strict dress code for women [Atash Shakarami]/ An Iranian teenager was sexually assaulted and killed by three men working for Iran's security forces, a leaked document understood to have been written by those forces ...
A popular metro Atlanta Waffle House abruptly shut its doors down for good on Monday, The Waffle House below Eddie’s Attic on Decatur Square closed Monday at 2 p.m. A sign on the door confirms the closure and suggests other nearby Waffle House stores./ Staffers told the publication that they ...
It may be spring, but it’s not too soon to look ahead to summer weather, especially when – is rapidly weakening and will all but vanish by the time the season kicks into gear. El Niño’s disappearing act doesn’t mean relief from the heat. Not when the world is heating up due to climate change. In ...
, the first and only Ukrainian-born member of Congress, emerged early on as a natural advocate for supporting her native country in its war with Russia. But when effort came up for a vote in the House recently, she voted against it. Instead she has called for better oversight of U.S. funds and ...
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Sam Attar reckons he left part of his soul in Gaza. It was the part of him that saw suffering and could not turn away. The part which now cannot forget./ You can be on the shores of Lake Michigan on an overcast spring day, the wind whipping up waves on the green water. And at the very same time ...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the US is the only country that can stop Israel from attacking Rafah, the southern Gaza city where more than a million people are taking refuge./ Mr Abbas, who runs parts of the occupied West Bank, said any attack could see Palestinians flee Gaza./ On ...
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