Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds./ Twenty-six people, among them 17 militants and a seven-year-old boy, have been killed by since fighting began Tuesday morning, according to Palestinian health officials./ emphasized at a Cabinet meeting ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ The reported ceasefire follows two days of violence A ceasefire has come into effect after two days of fighting between Israel and militants in Gaza, Egyptian, UN and militant sources say. The violence began after an Israeli air strike ...
Islamic militants in the Gaza Strip sent a barrage of more than 200 rockets into Tuesday and vowed further revenge after the Israeli military carried out a pair of targeted airstrikes on senior Islamic Jihad commanders, killing one in/ , 42, and his wife as they slept in their home in eastern ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Palestinians gathered around a destroyed house in Khan Younis, where Israel said it had targeted a Palestinian Islamic Jihad headquarters Cross-border violence between Israel and militants in Gaza is continuing, a day after an Israeli air ...
Trey Yingst is caught in the crossfire in Gaza where attacks are escalating following the assassination of an Islamic jihad commander/ Militants in Gaza sent a barrage of at least 50 rockets over the border early Tuesday, vowing further revenge after the Israeli military carried out a pair of ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ These are external links and will open in a new window/ Watch a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip land on a highway in Israel Israel has carried out fresh strikes on targets in Gaza as militants there stepped up rocket attacks following ...
in Gaza after Israel killed a top Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) militant in an air strike. Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander Baha Abu al-Ata and his wife died after their flat was hit in the early hours of Tuesday. Militants in Gaza retaliated by firing more than 150 rockets into Israel. The ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Palestinian Islamic Jihad has vowed to avenge Baha Abu al-Ata's death Israel has killed one of the most senior commanders of a militant group in the Gaza Strip in an air strike. Baha Abu al-Ata, a leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), ...
31AM [Updated: Thu Nov 14, 2019 02:36AM ]/ Israeli armored vehicles are pictured stationed near the border with the Gaza Strip on November 13, 2019. (Photo by AFP)/ The Palestinian resistance group Islamic Jihad sets preconditions for accepting an Egypt-mediated truce with Israel, warning if the ...
A top Democratic senator has blamed a crackdown on independent journalism in Egypt on a decision by the Trump administration to waive human rights conditions on US military funding to the country. Chris Murphy, who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, accused the US government of ...
Many Syrians say their economic situation has worsened in the last two years amid a cost-of-living crisis/ Last month, protests erupted in squares and streets across Syria. People burned tyres, blocked roads and chanted slogans, angry at the government's decision to raise fuel prices again. It ...
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser./ Partial results from Israel's general election show veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marginally ahead of his rival, former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, but still short of a majority in parliament. With 99% of ballots ...
Neither Gadi Eisenkot (left) or Benjamin Netanyahu (right) are projected to win enough seats for a majority/ With 85% of votes counted after Tuesday's election, neither the incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition, nor the bloc of his key challenger Gadi Eisenkot look set to have ...
Between 150 and 200 people were in the church at the time of the shooting, according to one witness/ Seven people have been killed in an attack on a funeral in central Jordan, officials have said. At least 34 others were injured as gunmen opened fire on a church in Hmoud, in the Karak ...
At rush hour in Nazareth, the largest Arab-majority city in Israel, students are handing out leaflets by the roadside urging motorists to vote in next week's closely fought, general election. Polls indicate that Arab parties could be left holding a critical balance of power. Disaffection has ...
right minister Ben Gvir (left) has significant support among Israeli youth/ When Israel's far-right National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, reached voting age, he was rejected from Israel's army for being too politically extreme. His views have not changed much in the 30 years since then - ...
Photojournalist Heidi Levine was knocked to the ground by a group of settlers and kicked repeatedly/ Israeli police say they have arrested 10 suspects in the occupied West Bank after attacks by settlers on an American journalist and European diplomats last week. The unnamed suspects were ...
One of the main suppliers of food aid to the Gaza Strip, the World Food Programme (WFP), says that it is being forced to "drastically reduce lifesaving assistance" to the Palestinian territory due to funding shortages. Overall, the number of people helped by the UN agency will drop by about a ...
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser./ Watch: Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in West Bank during olive harvest/ Dozens of masked settlers have attacked Palestinians and set fire to cars and olive trees during the annual olive harvest in the occupied West Bank. A ...