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Pope slams 'cruelty' of strike killing Gaza children

The pontiff made his remarks a day after the rescue agency in Gaza said an Israeli air strike had killed seven children from one family. In a statement, an Israeli foreign ministry spokesman described the pope's remarks as "particularly disappointing as they are disconnected from the true and factual context of Israel's fight against jihadist terrorism -- a multi-front war …

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Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 22 as Vatican envoy visits Christians for pre-Christmas Mass

LA Times

Palestinians pray Sunday over the bodies of the victims of an Israeli strike on a home in Deir al Balah. Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip overnight and into Sunday killed at least 22 people, including five children, Palestinian medical officials said, while Gaza’s small Christian community celebrated a pre-Christmas Mass. One of the latest Israeli strikes hit a school …

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1 week, 3 days ago

30 Palestinians killed as Israel hits Gaza post office used as shelter

India Today

An Israeli strike killed at least 30 Palestinians and wounded 50 others who were sheltering in a post office in central Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll on Thursday in the enclave to 66. Earlier on Thursday, two Israeli strikes in southern Gaza killed 13 Palestinians who Gaza medics and Hamas said were part of a force protecting humanitarian aid …

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1 week, 3 days ago

Biden administration makes final diplomatic push for stability across a turbulent Mideast

Associated Press

AQABA, Jordan — Top U.S. officials were in the Middle East on Thursday, pushing for stability in Syria and an end to Israel’s 14-month war in the Gaza Strip in a last-ditch diplomatic push by the outgoing Biden administration before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in a few weeks. He said Israel’s ceasefire with Hezbollah last month, ending more than …

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

‘Dismantled’, ‘Dead’: Why Israel’s ‘Spotify Wrapped’ joke is facing backlash

Firstpost

The Israel Defence Forces joined the Spotify Wrapped trend with a satirical take on their own version, boasting about their military actions against Hezbollah and Hamas. The post has been criticised by many for making fun of the devastating impact of the ongoing conflict The IDF joined the trend by posting a satirical take on their own “Spotify Wrapped”. To …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Middle East latest: An Israeli strike on a Gaza tent camp kills at least 21 people

Associated Press

An Israeli strike on a tent camp housing displaced people in southern Gaza killed at least 21 people and wounded 28 on Wednesday, said the director of Nasser Hospital, Atif al-Hout, in the nearby city of Khan Younis. Israeli strike on a Gaza tent camp kills at least 21 people, hospital says DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — A Palestinian health …

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3 weeks, 3 days ago

Netanyahu Can Leverage the Lebanon Cease-Fire for a Broader Deal

Bloomberg

There are at least two possible outcomes to the fragile Lebanon cease-fire that began this week. One, expressed by the country’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, is that it becomes the first step in turning “a new page” on the strife that’s exploded across the region since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has …

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What the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah could mean for the war in Gaza.

Slate

In what might be his final achievement as president, Joe Biden, his diplomats, and their French counterparts have brokered a ceasefire in the increasingly brutal yearlong war between Israel and Hezbollah’s Islamist militia in Lebanon. Until this week, Hezbollah’s leaders had said they would keep firing rockets into Israel until there was a ceasefire in Gaza. Compounding Hamas’ weakness, President-elect …

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International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Mohammed Deif

ABC

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former defence minister Yoav Gallant, as well as senior Hamas official Mohammed Deif. It said there are also reasonable grounds to believe he's responsible for "the war crimes of murder, cruel treatment, torture; taking hostages; outrages upon personal dignity; and rape and other form of …

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1 month ago

US vetoes Gaza ceasefire call at UN; Hamas accuses Washington of being 'directly responsible' for 'genocidal war'

New Indian Express

The United States on Wednesday vetoed a UN Security Council push to call for a ceasefire in Gaza accusing it to be an attempt to embolden Hamas. The resolution demanded "an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire" in Israel's war on Gaza along with "the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages." Israel's UN ambassador Danny Danon said "the resolution being …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

'You are not welcome here' Qatar tells Hamas to leave the country amid US pressure

Firstpost

In a major policy shift, Qatar told Hamas leaders to leave the country after pressure from the US which accuses the Palestinian group of stalling a Gaza ceasefire deal Amid the escalating tensions in West Asia, Qatar has told leaders of Hamas to leave the country as the gulf state faces pressure from Washington to facilitate a ceasefire deal. Senior …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

UN agency for Palestinian refugees urges world to save it from Israeli ban

Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS — The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees urged the world Wednesday to save it from an Israeli ban that would have “disastrous consequences” for millions of people caught up in the war in Gaza. Assembly President Philemon Yang told members at Wednesday’s informal meeting that Israel’s legislation “constitutes an intolerable affront to the authority of …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Israel fights a seemingly endless war in Gaza's most devastated region

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “It’s endless war,” said Michael Milshtein, a former Israeli …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

‘Oh God, it’s my mother’: Gazan medic breaks down as he recognises corpse

The Telegraph

A spokesman for the Israeli military did not immediately comment on the strike. Hamas supports a permanent end to the war, not a temporary one.” Mediators seeking to broker a Gaza ceasefire are expected to propose a truce of “less than a month” to Hamas, a source with knowledge of meetings between David Barnea, the head of Mossad, Bill Burns, …

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Egypt Proposes Two-Day Truce in Gaza, Aims for 'Complete Ceasefire'

Hindustan Times

Egypt proposes a two-day truce in Gaza aimed at securing a complete ceasefire after more than a year of war between Israel and Hamas. The proposal includes exchanging four Israeli hostages held in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, and would be followed by more negotiations within 10 days.

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2 months ago

Pro-Palestinian Protesters Storm University of Minnesota Building, Demand Divestment from Israel

Associated Press

Pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested after occupying an administrative building at the University of Minnesota. The group, which named the building 'Halimy Hall' in remembrance of a Palestinian TikTok creator, occupied the building to protest the university's political neutrality agreement with Israel and the divestment of funds from the university from Israel.

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2 months ago

Democratic Governors Hit the Road to Press for Kamala Harris in Crucial States

Associated Press

Democratic governors embark on a bus tour across Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to press the urgency of the case for Vice President Kamala Harris in must-win states where some Democrats worry she's struggling. The governors acknowledge the enormity of the stakes but dismiss any suggestion that their effort reflects anything other than the need to have all hands engaged in …

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2 months ago

Yahya Sinwar: Hamas leader and mastermind of 7 October attack killed in Gaza, Israel says

The Independent

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2 months ago

Yahya Sinwar dead: Israel killed the Hamas leader in Gaza. Now what?

Slate

Yahya Sinwar, the long-pursued leader of the Hamas terrorist organization, is dead, killed in a gunfight by Israeli soldiers in southern Gaza. In his new book War, Bob Woodward quotes Brett McGurk, the Biden administration’s main Middle East envoy, as saying that, several times during the endless rounds of peace talks in these past several months, Hamas’ political spokesmen, who …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Netanyahu mulls plan to empty northern Gaza of civilians and cut off aid to those left inside

The Independent

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2 months, 1 week ago

Israeli strikes kill a family of 8 in Gaza and destroy a century-old market in Lebanon

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

ICRC visits the crew of hijacked ship for the 2nd time since being detained in Yemen

Associated Press

CAIRO — A team of the international Red Cross visited a 25-member crew on board of the Galaxy Leader vessel, which was hijacked last year by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels and is docked in the port city of Hodeidah— a Houthi stronghold. The International Committee of the Red Cross said the visit Wednesday was coordinated with local authorities, who reportedly …

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3 months ago

Israel says halting Hezbollah attacks is now a war goal as officials warn of a wider operation

LA Times

The Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept an attack from Lebanon over the Galilee region, near Kiryat Shmona, as seen from the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights on Tuesday. Israel said Tuesday that halting Hezbollah’s attacks in the country’s north to allow residents to return to their homes is now an official war goal, as it considers a wider …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Israel-Hamas war latest: Israel orders more evacuations in Gaza after militants fire rockets

Associated Press

The Israeli military has ordered another evacuation of some residential areas in northwest Gaza where it says Palestinian militants fired rockets on the nearby Israeli town of Ashkelon. Here’s the latest: Israel public broadcast station publishes a recording of conversation between father of a hostage and Netanyahu TEL AVIV — Israel’s public broadcast station Kan has published a recording in …

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Pope slams 'cruelty' of strike killing Gaza children

Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 22 as Vatican envoy visits Christians for pre-Christmas Mass

30 Palestinians killed as Israel hits Gaza post office used as shelter

Biden administration makes final diplomatic push for stability across a turbulent Mideast

‘Dismantled’, ‘Dead’: Why Israel’s ‘Spotify Wrapped’ joke is facing backlash

Middle East latest: An Israeli strike on a Gaza tent camp kills at least 21 people

Netanyahu Can Leverage the Lebanon Cease-Fire for a Broader Deal

What the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah could mean for the war in Gaza.

International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Mohammed Deif

US vetoes Gaza ceasefire call at UN; Hamas accuses Washington of being 'directly responsible' for 'genocidal war'

'You are not welcome here' Qatar tells Hamas to leave the country amid US pressure

UN agency for Palestinian refugees urges world to save it from Israeli ban

Israel fights a seemingly endless war in Gaza's most devastated region

‘Oh God, it’s my mother’: Gazan medic breaks down as he recognises corpse

Egypt Proposes Two-Day Truce in Gaza, Aims for 'Complete Ceasefire'

Pro-Palestinian Protesters Storm University of Minnesota Building, Demand Divestment from Israel

Democratic Governors Hit the Road to Press for Kamala Harris in Crucial States

Yahya Sinwar: Hamas leader and mastermind of 7 October attack killed in Gaza, Israel says

Yahya Sinwar dead: Israel killed the Hamas leader in Gaza. Now what?

Netanyahu mulls plan to empty northern Gaza of civilians and cut off aid to those left inside

Israeli strikes kill a family of 8 in Gaza and destroy a century-old market in Lebanon

ICRC visits the crew of hijacked ship for the 2nd time since being detained in Yemen

Israel says halting Hezbollah attacks is now a war goal as officials warn of a wider operation

Israel-Hamas war latest: Israel orders more evacuations in Gaza after militants fire rockets