Palestinian officials said the war in Gaza has killed more than 50,000 people after Israel ended the ceasefire last week in a wave of strikes that killed hundreds. Israel, which threatened Gaza with “complete destruction and devastation” if Hamas didn’t hand over the remaining hostages, has continued striking what it says are militant targets. It also … Read more
Unlike many families who blame Israel’s government for not getting their loved ones released from captivity in Gaza, Adi Alexander is hesitant to point fingers. Pragmatic and measured, the father of the last living American being held hostage by Hamas just wants his son to come home. “I don’t want to get into who came … Read more
Israel launched airstrikes on Saturday at sites in southern Lebanon that it said were linked to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, hours after rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel for the first time in months. The attacks were the latest example of how the renewed Israeli offensive in Gaza is rippling across the Middle … Read more
Israeli military said on Friday it killed the head of Hamas’ military intelligence in southern Gaza. Jerusalem: The Israeli military said on Friday it killed the head of Hamas’ military intelligence in southern Gaza on Thursday. In a statement, the military named the Hamas leader as Osama Tabash. It said he was also the head … Read more
The Israeli defense minister tried on Friday to turn up the pressure on Hamas to release more hostages, saying Israel was preparing to seize more territory in Gaza and intensify attacks by air, sea and land if the armed Palestinian group does not cooperate. The statement by the defense minister, Israel Katz, came days after … Read more
Gaza City: Hamas on Thursday called on Arab and Muslim nations to take urgent action to halt Israel’s renewed offensive on Gaza, saying they had a “direct moral and political responsibility” to “end the genocide”. Israel resumed its air campaign early Tuesday with a wave of deadly strikes, shattering a relative calm that had pervaded … Read more
Jerusalem: Israel’s military said on Thursday it had killed the head of Hamas’s internal security agency in an air strike on the Gaza Strip, the latest official targeted in recent days. Israel resumed its air campaign early Tuesday with a wave of deadly strikes, shattering a relative calm that had pervaded the war-ravaged Palestinian territory … Read more
Tel Aviv — Israel’s defense minister threatened earlier this week to open “the gates of hell” in Gaza if Hamas refuses to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s demands, and Israel has been delivering. At least 58 people were killed in a third consecutive night of airstrikes up and down the Palestinian territory, bringing the death toll … Read more
Hamas fired its first barrage of rockets in months into Israeli territory on Thursday as Israeli troops expanded their ground raids in northern Gaza in what looked increasingly like a slide back into full-scale war. There were no reports of casualties from the rockets, which were fired at Tel Aviv. The Israeli military said they … Read more
Badar Khan Suri, an Indian-origin postdoctoral associate at Georgetown University in the US, has been arrested and faces deportation. He has been teaching a class on “Majoritarianism and Minority Rights in South Asia.” According to a statement from the Georgetown University spokesperson, Mr Suri obtained a US visa “to continue his doctoral research on peacebuilding … Read more