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Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh Killed in a Strike in Tehran
Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh Killed in a Strike in Tehran

Hamas said Wednesday its political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in an Israeli strike in Iran, where he had been attending the inauguration of the country's new president. "Brother, leader, mujahid Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the movement, died in a Zionist strike on his headquarters in Tehran after he participated in the inauguration of the ...

Israel Says It Has 'Eliminated' Fouad Shokr
Israel Says It Has 'Eliminated' Fouad Shokr

Israel struck Hezbollah's stronghold in South Beirut on Tuesday in retaliation for rocket fire from Lebanon that killed 12 children over the weekend, saying it had killed the commander responsible for the attack. Israel's army said its jets had "eliminated" Fouad Shokr, a senior Hezbollah commander responsible for carrying out an attack on the ...

Gaza Official Says 300 Killed in Khan Younes as Israeli Army Ends Assault
Gaza Official Says 300 Killed in Khan Younes as Israeli Army Ends Assault

Gaza's civil defense agency said Tuesday that an Israeli operation in and around the territory's second city of Khan Younes killed about 300 people since it began last week, while the army said it had "eliminated 150 terrorists." "Since the beginning of the Israeli ground invasion of the eastern part of Khan Younes province, the civil defense and ...

South Lebanon: One Killed and Three Wounded in Israeli Strikes
South Lebanon: One Killed and Three Wounded in Israeli Strikes

Tensions remain high on the southern front as an Israeli raid targeted the Jebchit locality in the Nabatieh district early Tuesday afternoon, injuring three people. Ambulances were quickly dispatched to transport the wounded to nearby hospitals. Preliminary reports indicate that Hezbollah intercepted the Israeli planes using air defense systems. ...

Erdogan’s Threats Against Israel Are Meant to Serve Him Locally
Erdogan’s Threats Against Israel Are Meant to Serve Him Locally

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened intervention against Israel, on Sunday, in a speech at a party meeting in his hometown of Rize. He said: “We must be very strong so that Israel can't do these ridiculous things to Palestine. Just like we entered Karabakh, just like we entered Libya, we might do the same to them." Past ...

Druze Leaders Reject Israeli Threats to Retaliate for Rocket Strike
Druze Leaders Reject Israeli Threats to Retaliate for Rocket Strike

Druze leaders in the annexed Golan Heights have distanced themselves from Israeli threats to retaliate against Hezbollah for a deadly rocket strike on a Druze Arab town in the territory. Most of Majdal Shams's around 11,000 mainly Druze residents still identify as Syrian more than half a century after Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria ...

SOHR Says Israel Hits Air Defense Bases in Syria
SOHR Says Israel Hits Air Defense Bases in Syria

Israeli missiles struck two air defense bases in southern Syria overnight, a war monitor said Tuesday, as tensions surge on Israel's northern border after a deadly rocket strike on the annexed Golan Heights. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported no casualties in the overnight strikes in Daraa province, which abuts ...

Netanyahu Twists Facts, Stays Equidistant from US Presidential Rivals
Netanyahu Twists Facts, Stays Equidistant from US Presidential Rivals

Benjamin Netanyahu had not yet finished his official meetings in Washington when the situation escalated on the Lebanon front due to a “stray” shell hitting a playground in Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights, resulting in the deaths of some 12 children. International efforts intensified to contain the situation and prevent the southern ...

US 'Confident' of Avoiding Wider Israel-Hezbollah War
US 'Confident' of Avoiding Wider Israel-Hezbollah War

The United States is confident that a wider war between Israel and Hezbollah can be avoided, despite a deadly rocket attack in the annexed Golan Heights that killed 12 children, the White House said Monday. US and Israeli officials had conversations at "multiple levels" over the weekend following the attack, and the risk of a full-blown conflict ...

War Diary: Day 297
War Diary: Day 297

From Gaza to Lebanon, This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the war between Hamas and Israel and its repercussions on the region. Here are the main highlights for July 29, 2024.

Residents of Majdal Shams Oppose Netanyahu's Visit
Residents of Majdal Shams Oppose Netanyahu's Visit

As the funerals of the twelve young people killed in Majdal Shams on July 27 were taking place, the Israeli Prime Minister visited the site, provoking protests among the residents.

Rome Highlights Possibility of Ending Mideast 'Spiral of Violence'
Rome Highlights Possibility of Ending Mideast 'Spiral of Violence'

Italy's foreign minister told his Israeli and Lebanese counterparts Monday it was "possible to interrupt the spiral of violence" as he reiterated calls for a ceasefire, his office said. The Foreign Ministry said Antonio Tajani spoke with both Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz and Lebanon's Abdallah Bou Habib, two days after rocket fire from ...